Please Don’t Say You Love Me

Sydney did not think too much about James’s sudden change in attitude as she immersed herself wholly in the bliss of the moment. After all, the only reason he had treated her well before this was because of the child in her belly. He had never allowed her to show off their relationship so openly. However, things were different now.

Seeing how favored she was, the same people who used to look down on her suddenly rushed to flatter her.

“Sydney, Mr. Hudson dotes on you so much, and you’re carrying his child. It looks like you becoming his wife is only a matter of time.”

“Exactly! Sydney, when you become Mrs. Hudson, don’t forget about us, your best friends!”

Under their constant praise, Sydney gradually grew more arrogant. She clung to James even more than before, almost obsessively, and it was because she followed him so closely that she finally noticed something strange.

Every night, after she fell asleep, he would quietly leave and drive to a suburban villa. Then, he would return early in the morning, his face dark and unreadable. In the past, James had also gone home at night, but he would return to the old family estate and not the villa in the suburbs.

Curiosity gnawed at her until she finally could not hold it in anymore.

“James,” she asked one day, “why do you go to the suburban villa every night?”

His expression instantly turned cold. “Don’t ask about things you shouldn’t ask.”

In James’s eyes, she was nothing more than a tool to carry a child in place of Remi, so she needed not know more than that. However, a woman’s intuition was sharp. The less he said, the more suspicious Sydney became.

If it were not for a woman, what else could possibly draw him there every night?

The thought that he might be keeping another woman in that villa made fury surge through her veins. She had successfully seduced James, and her methods were anything but simple. Now that she was about to become the envied Mrs. Hudson, no one could steal her position.

She was just about to storm over there when she suddenly paused. James might dote on her, but he had one clear boundary: she was not allowed to go anywhere he had not permitted.

Her friends, however, dismissed her hesitation.

“Sydney, you’re the future Mrs. Hudson. Where could possibly be off-limits to you?”

That was all it took. Encouraged by her friends, Sydney gathered a group of them and headed straight to the suburban villa.

At the villa, Remi was asleep, but she could already hear the noise outside.

“James comes here every single day. Today, I shall see what exactly he’s hiding in this villa!”

A bodyguard stood in front of the door, looking troubled. “Miss Parker, Mr. Hudson gave strict orders. No one except him is allowed inside.”

“What do you mean that no one is allowed?”

“Do you know who Sydney is? If Mr. Hudson finds out you stopped her, you’ll be fired!”

“Exactly! You blind idiot!” Sydney let out a cold snort.

At the last dinner party, someone had accidentally scratched her face, and James immediately destroyed that person financially. So, unless the bodyguard had a death wish, he would know better than to stand in her way.

After hesitating again and again, the bodyguard finally stepped aside. The moment the door opened, Sydney saw a face that looked almost identical to her own. She froze in her tracks.

“Oh my God, Sydney, she looks just like you!”

“What do you mean, identical? If you ask me, she probably had plastic surgery to look like you.”

“I think so too!”

Sydney’s eyes turned sharp with rage. Before Remi could even say a word, Sydney stepped forward and slapped her hard across the face.