Blimey, My Kid's the Heir to the Billionaire Boss!
Chapter 1207 A Plot within a Plot (4)

"Why's he calling you so late?" Joe pushed.

"Ask him yourself. How would I know?" Sadie was done with the convo and nudged him to leave. "Alright, you should go. We'll talk tomorrow."

Joe wasn't having it and grabbed the phone to answer.

"You..." Sadie started, but Micah's voice cut her off. "Hello!"

Sadie shot Joe a look. "What's up?"

"Tonight, I..." Micah began, then paused. "Your voice sounds off. What's wrong?"

"If there's nothing else, I'm hanging up," Sadie said, ready to end the call, but Joe stopped her and snapped, "Why the rush? Afraid he'll know you're with me?" "Joe..." Sadie was shocked he said that.

Micah's voice came through. "Joe?"

"Yeah, it's me." Joe glared at Sadie and said into the phone, "Micah, she's my fiancée now. Back off!"

He hung up.

"Joe, do you even know what you're doing?" Sadie was furious. "Even if he called, it was about the kids. Was that necessary?"

"If it's about the kids, why not talk during the day? Why now?" Joe shot back. "Why do you act so cold toward me when you know he's coming?"

"You've had too much to drink. I can't talk to you right now." Sadie was done and said coldly, "Please leave!"

Joe felt hurt by her coldness, but a weird impulse took over, making him super agitated.

"Why are you so eager to kick me out?" Joe grabbed Sadie's shoulders, asking painfully, "I love you so much. Can't you feel it?"

"Joe..." Sadie started, but Joe leaned in to kiss her.

Sadie was shocked and tried to push him away, but Joe was strong and wouldn't let go. In desperation, Sadie slapped him.

Joe stood there, stunned.

"Get out..." Sadie yelled. She was furious and wanted to kick him out but stopped when she saw Joe's nose bleeding, staining his white suit red.

"Sadie, I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me. Maybe I drank too much," Joe mumbled.

The slap sobered Joe up a bit. He hung his head in shame and was about to leave when footsteps were heard outside, and a maid was coming upstairs.

Joe stood there, covering his bleeding nose, not knowing what to do.

"Go to the bathroom and take care of it first," Sadie said quickly. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." She didn't think she had hit him that hard and didn't know how she had caused Joe's nose to bleed. "Oh, okay." Joe said and hurried to the bathroom.

Sadie, feeling troubled, held her forehead and sat on the sofa, her mood extremely agitated.

At first, she had always thought she would never love again. For the sake of the James family and Tristan and to avoid Micah, she agreed to this marriage.

But now she realized that some things simply couldn't be forced. Even if she could deceive the whole world, she couldn't deceive herself.

She couldn't pretend to like Joe, couldn't get close to him, and couldn't even pretend to be enthusiastic about him.

She couldn't do it at all.

Feeling depressed and thirsty, Sadie picked up the glass of water on the table and drank. After finishing, she poured herself another glass.

After drinking three glasses of water, Sadie was no longer thirsty but felt tired. Overwhelmed by fatigue, she leaned on the sofa and gradually fell asleep.