Secretly Married: Don't Mess With The CEO's Wife novel Chapter 296

“Ouch.” Anna snapped out of it with Oliver’s reminder and blushed instantly. Once she talked to Jacob, she forgot about everyone else.

Oliver was rather surprised by Anna’s girlish mannerism. Looking at how she was acting, it was obvious that she was smitten. He could not help scrutinizing Jacob.

Then, Oliver realized that he recognized the man.

“You’re the developer of the SL System?” Oliver asked with interest.

“Yes,” Jacob answered.

“Hahaha!” Oliver looked both approving and admiring. “Good job! The system is our Canadian pride. And Joseph Shaw that fool, his sh*t-eating self was hilarious.”

Oliver could not help cackling when he recalled the video.

What he watched was obviously an internal circulated uncensored video, so he managed to catch a clear sight of Joseph’s embarrassment.

“Oliver, Jacob’s amazing,” Anna said with a grin like she was sharing his pride.

Oliver looked at Anna before looking at Jacob and made several nods. “Mm, not bad, quite the match.”

“What are you saying…” Anna blushed harder.

“You, girlie, I was going to fight for justice for you, but now it seems that you don’t need my help at all?” Oliver felt amused.

“Ah, I have nothing for you to fight about. It was a small misunderstanding previously. It’s all been cleared up now. Besides, I wasn’t exactly treated badly,” Anna said and ran to Susan. “Oliver, let me introduce you to Susan, aka Mrs. Shaw. It’s odd, but the first time I saw Mrs. Shaw, I felt like I'd known her for a long time. Mrs. Shaw feels the same way towards me, right?”

Anna looked up at Susan with the latter nodding with a beam.

Oliver took a casual glance at the said girl before his eyes widened.

Her eyes… How similar!

It would have been fine if he did not notice it, but now that he did, Oliver could not shift his gaze away from Susan’s face.

He stared at her as time ticked by, putting a frown on Julian as he blocked the former’s gaze.

“General Wright,” Julian called him out directly, “Is it not a little improper to be staring at somebody’s wife?”

“My apologies.” Oliver tore his gaze away, still looking a little dazed.

She looked really similar. Could there be such a coincidence in this world?

No, it was impossible.

“Oliver, are you coming to take me back? But I don’t want to go back yet,” Anna said in a huff, not noticing Oliver’s oddity.

Her brother could not even leave the military, so it meant a lot when he came to look for her personally. He was definitely taking her back now that he found her.

For some reason, however, she could not bear to part with that stupid man…

Anna stole a peek at Jacob, feeling mounting frustration. He still owed her a favor.

“Don’t want to go back? Then we won’t for the time being,” Oliver stated straightforwardly.

“Huh?” Anna looked at her brother in confusion, deeply doubting that her ears had failed her.

“It’s okay. I understand,” Anna sighed.

Oliver glared at her without malice before dragging her over by her collars.

“Mr. Shaw, don’t misunderstand.” Oliver said, “I don’t mean anything by staring at Mrs. Shaw. I just think that her eyes are really similar to my mother’s.”

“Mom’s?” Anna was stunned before she looked carefully. After some time, she asked in doubt, “But… no?”

Oliver sighed. “That’s because you’ve never seen what Mom used to look like. Since Rosalie was lost, Mom cried every day. She no longer looks like what she did before. Her eyes only have sadness in them now. Of course, they don’t look similar. But take a look at this photo.”

Oliver retrieved a photo from his wallet. It was a young couple with a boy around five to six years of age.

Anna stared at her mother in the photo and looked at Susan before gasping, “They really look alike!”

Oliver took the photo and passed it to Julian. “Mr. Shaw, you guys have a look too.”

Both Julian and Susan were quite astonished when they saw the photo. The woman in the photo looked demure and gentle. Her eyes were at least eighty percent like Susan’s currently.

With the misunderstanding resolved, Oliver continued. “Mr. Shaw, can we sit down and talk about it now?”

His gaze still drifted to Susan, but no one took it wrongly this time.

Julian gave it a thought and agreed. “It’s quite cramped here. Let’s go to my house.”

At the Shaw Mansion, the handful of them had just sat down when Oliver spoke up impatiently, “Sorry for my direct question but… Mrs. Shaw and Mr. Shelby, are both of you… biological siblings?”