After Reborn, I Become a Billionaire
Chapter 847 Hold Him Back

Chapter 847 Hold Him Back

"Susan, my life is on you." Said Hannah seriously.

Susan was rendered rather stressed. She couldn't afford to make any mistakes. If anything went wrong, Hannah would get killed. Though heavily burdened, she still nodded, "I'll do my best."

Susan would spare no endeavour. Hannah always trusted her.

"Okay, I am gonna take a shower. You gotta stay alone for a while."

"Okay." Susan nodded.

But still, she was rather distraught while wondering what she could do to keep Manuel from staying and prevent him from going anywhere else.

As soon as Hannah walked into the bathroom, the smile on her face faded away. It would be likely for them to separate from each other for a lifetime. She looked at herself in the mirror with her eyes fixed on her belly, murmuring, "Sweetheart, I am sorry. Mommy got no choice." If anything risky were to happen, she, together with the baby, would end up in death.

Meanwhile, the news about the wedding between Oscar, the Commander-in-chief of Northfield, and Lillian, the noble lady from the Collins, had been attracting tremendous attention from the public. Anything content about their wedding would hit the headline and trigger incredible clout from social media. Undoubtedly, it caught the eyes of all in this country.

Hannah simply kept on browsing the news about their wedding, the comments of which all consisted of compliments. However, perhaps only a few of them had ever remembered that back a few years ago, there used to be an amazing wedding between Oscar and another lady named Hannah. But fortunately, most people had forgotten about that, even including Hannah herself.

Just a day before the wedding, Oscar made a call to her, "I will be back the day after tomorrow."

He was telling her that he would be back to her as soon as the wedding finished. But Hannah found it hard to understand what he meant.

Was he trying to convey that she was more important to him? The wedding meant nothing but a formal procedure to go through. Or perhaps he was trying to convey that he would still keep her as a mistress aboveboard after he slept with Lillian at the wedding eve.

Hannah coldly replied, "No, just spend some time with Lillian. I bet no one would like to see her husband leaving her alone on the second day after they get married. Oscar, out of the manner of a gentleman, you should be responsible."

Oscar responded with silence while clenching his phone hard. Meanwhile, Hannah couldn't tell what he might be thinking. Perhaps Hannah was just confessing her true feelings. Unlike the situation before when she needed to avoid annoying him, now she deemed it unnecessary to cover up her feelings as she was about to leave. What was more, she had made up her mind-she would leave without hatred or any other feelings.

When she reached somewhere overseas, she might still be proud of him and applaud him whenever reading his achievements while he was leading the country.

"Be nice to Lillian. I will take care of myself." She made it the word goodbye to Oscar.

She hoped he could live with Lilian from now on. Even though being alone, Hannah believed that she could still live a good life. And she wanted no interference from Oscar.

"Good night." Oscar showed no straight answer.

Silent, Hannah hung up the call. Only she was aware that it would be the last call between her and Oscar.

Susan had been distraught for ten days ever since Hannah told her about the mission. Commonly speaking, Manuel would have to leave for the Capital tonight as the wedding would be arranged tomorrow morning. So Susan had tried all she could to hold him back. However, she had no better solution but to figure out some trifles to report to Manuel.

"Miss Phillips, are you trying to waste our time?" Manuel looked sulky.

He seemed to notice there was something wrong with Susan. While biting her lips, Susan had made up her mind to do all she could to hold him back.

"I gotta leave for the Capital and I have a flight to catch tonight. I got only an hour left before the plane takes off. And because of you, I have to rush to the airport with an empty stomach." Huffed Manuel with annoyance.

While listening to his complaint, Susan kept on telling herself that she had to hold him back for at least one more hour.

"Miss Phillips!" Manuel grew more sulk.

Susan hurried to collect herself, "I'll pay you the dinner!"

Manuel got speechless. Now he only wanted to end the conference and rush to the airport. He took a glance at her and stood up from his seat, "You may leave the rest to report to me the day after tomorrow when I return to Kensbury. Okay, now dismiss."

Upon saying that, he walked away.

Staring at his back, Susan felt like crying out.

As soon as Manuel walked out of the conference room, his phone started ringing. It was Theodore's calling.

"Hey, Theodore?"

"Manuel, what's wrong with you? Where the hell are you? Tomorrow will be Oscar's wedding date." Theodore shouted.

"I am on my way to the airport."

"What? Didn't you tell me that you had booked the flight setting off this morning?"

Indeed, Manuel had booked a flight ticket to set off this morning. However, because Susan had been insisting that she got something important to report, he had to reschedule the flight over and over again until it reached the latest one today.

"I got something tricky to deal with." Manuel fudged his response.

"Is that because of Susan?" Theodore soon noticed what was happening.

"No. It's about business. Alright, I gotta go to catch the flight." Manuel simply denied it.

"Hurry up. I am expecting you in the club to have a drink!"

"Okay." Manuel hung up the call and he had reached his own office.

Clara was following by his side. While Manuel was adjusting his tie, she hurried over, "Mr Johnson, let me do it for you."

Before Manuel could refuse, Clara started untying his tie.

But suddenly, the door was pushed open. Manuel turned to look at the door, noticing that it was Susan who was standing there in anxiety. Now she got to try all she could to make Manuel stay, even at the cost of seduction.

However, as soon as she saw what he was doing with Clara, she felt like her plan to seduce him would never work. Undoubtedly, Manuel had been extremely self-disciplined. She still remembered that even when he was drugged with love-philtre, he could still manage to compose himself and drive her away. Let alone when he stayed sober right now.

"Is there anything else?" asked Manuel while pushing off Clara's hands.

Whenever Susan came to him, he would always keep a distance from Clara.

However, Susan just seemed that he was just pretending so that no one else could see the other side of him-especially when he showed his tender version or got turned on by lust.

"Nothing serious...I just wanna know when you will be back the day after tomorrow. I would get prepared to report to you beforehand."