Melody Thorne responded faintly and lowered her head to continue watching Timmy.

"Young Master, you haven’t had dinner yet, have you?" the butler spoke up.

"No, both my cousin and I haven’t eaten yet. Could you please bring the food out?" Wendy Lynch spoke first.

She always looked at Jared Quinn with starry eyes, and as soon as she sat down, she started speaking in an admiring tone about how impressive Jared Quinn was at the company today.

Melody Thorne glanced up and saw a woman sitting next to Jared Quinn. Even though she was just a cousin, jealousy surged through her.

"Timmy, let’s go back to the room to study. It’s too noisy here," Melody Thorne stood up and headed upstairs.

"Okay."

In the hall, Wendy Lynch glanced back and stuck out her tongue. "Cousin, your wife seems a bit upset."

Jared Quinn put down his chopsticks and went upstairs. Inside his bedroom, as expected, he saw Melody Thorne packing up her things, taking out all her clothes and getting ready to leave the house.

"Are you mad?" Jared Quinn walked over slowly, not saying much, but sat on the clothes she had laid on the bed.

"Get off, I don’t need you to interfere," Melody Thorne tried to push him, but no matter what, he stood immovable like a mountain.

"Jared Quinn, I told you to move, didn’t you hear?" Melody Thorne ground her foot on his shoe.

"I just said a couple of words to a woman and you’re mad? What about when you let Hans Montrose kiss you, did you not think about my feelings then?" Besides, the woman next to him was just his cousin; he couldn’t always keep a cold face.

Melody Thorne didn’t even know why she was angry, she just was. "Who told you Hans kissed me? He clearly didn’t. It was just a problem of perspective; you and Leon Rivers need to get your eyes checked."

"He didn’t kiss you?" Jared Quinn felt a sudden relief in his chest. "Even if he didn’t kiss you, you stood there and let him."

That’s what really bothered him.

"That’s because I knew he wouldn’t actually kiss me," Melody Thorne denied. "I wanted to know what illness he had; he was deliberately trying to scare me."

Even though this explanation was pretty useless, it was better than no explanation at all.

"In your heart, who’s more important, him or me?" Jared Quinn was very concerned about this question, his large hand reaching out to touch her.

Though it touched her, it felt as though he was touching her heart, so earnest.

"You, you, you—you’re more important than him," Melody Thorne chuckled, both annoyed and amused.

Jared Quinn, at last, found peace in his jealousy, wrapping his long arms around her waist and pulling her onto his lap, lifting her skirt, breathing heavy.

"Jared Quinn," Melody Thorne’s ears turned red. "I found something out when I went to the hospital today."

"What is it?" Jared Quinn’s hands were restless.

"I found out that Kiki Sutton likes Hans Montrose."

That name again, Jared Quinn’s expression darkened as he slipped her clothes off. "Can’t you stop ruining the mood?"

Melody Thorne snorted with laughter. "If you want me to stop ruining the mood, you just have to agree to it. If you agree, I won’t mention it again." 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

A deep hue flashed in Jared Quinn’s dark eyes. "Instead of worrying about Hans Montrose, you might want to worry about your good friend Kiki Sutton."

"What do you mean?" Melody Thorne’s hands hung around Jared Quinn’s neck.

Jared Quinn didn’t answer.

"Hmm?"