Chapter 578: Chapter 573: Everyone Eating Melons_1
 

“You don’t know?” her female colleague asked in surprise, “This has been spreading everywhere, and you actually don’t know!”

“Know what?” Grace Harrison looked utterly confused.

“Mr. Thompson, our Mr. Thompson… has an illegitimate child.”

An illegitimate child?

When she heard Mr. Thompson, the first person Grace Harrison thought of was Daniel Thompson.

She didn’t have a good impression of Daniel Thompson, especially since he had been involved with one of her subordinates, but considering he was Damian Thompson’s father, Grace Harrison seriously retorted, “We shouldn’t spread rumors without evidence.”

After all, he was an elder, and Grace Harrison wouldn’t engage in discussing someone behind their back.

Her female colleague sighed and quickly showed her the photo on her cell phone, “Here, look. Mr. Thompson holding his baby. They say someone from inside the hospital even leaked out that the father section of the boy’s birth certificate has Damian Thompson’s name on it.”

Damian Thompson?!

A thunderous boom seemed to explode next to Grace Harrison’s ear.

Damian Thompson, it was Damian Thompson and not Daniel Thompson?!

She stared at the photo of Damian Thompson holding the baby, feeling completely stiff.

Shock, sadness, a tide of complex emotions washed over her, almost stopping her heart.

Damian Thompson had a baby? An illegitimate one?

Had he hidden this for so long, maybe to protect the baby’s mom?

Hadn’t he claimed to be single? How could he even have a child…

Grace Harrison stepped back twice, feeling a heat around her eyes and a growing soreness in her nose.

“Grace Harrison… what’s… what’s wrong with you?” her colleague asked with concern.

Touching her face in a daze, Grace Harrison realized that she had started to cry without knowing why.

She couldn’t believe she was crying in front of so many people.

Grace Harrison lowered her head in embarrassment and hurriedly left, only to crash into a wall as she turned around.

The air suddenly grew still.

Looking up, Grace Harrison met a pair of deep, profound eyes. Below the glasses, the man’s deep eyes were calm like still water, his face tranquil, and without the usual suave demeanor, he even seemed a bit colder.

“Mr. Thompson…” the female colleague gasped in surprise, covering her mouth, her eyes darting around before she quickly returned to her seat.

Damian Thompson lowered his gaze to look at the slightly panicked girl in front of him.

Her reddened eyes resembled those of a hurt, sad little rabbit.

It was the first time he had seen Grace Harrison like this. Compared to the joyful and lively girl he was used to, today’s her stirred something within him.

He didn’t like seeing her cry.

“What’s wrong?” he asked softly.

Grace Harrison gritted her teeth and shook her head.

Was she supposed to tell him that seeing he had an illegitimate child made her so upset she couldn’t help crying?

In front of all these colleagues, she might as well have thrown her face away today.

The surrounding people obviously sensed something unusual, especially the gossip-loving colleague from earlier. Seeing the two of them together, she quickly had an epiphany and hurriedly explained, “Mr. Thompson, Grace Harrison started crying all of a sudden when she saw the news about your illegitimate child.”

Grace Harrison: “…”

Damian Thompson raised an eyebrow, looking at her with interest, “Just because of that?”

Grace Harrison’s breath hitched, her heart pounding furiously.

The gossiping crowd around them, initially nervous, now eagerly followed the drama.

Something was happening, something was really happening!

Could it be that Mr. Thompson and Grace Harrison were in that kind of relationship?

No wonder Grace Harrison cried at the news.

Everything seemed to fall into place!

After finishing her words, the female colleague sat down as if she had made a noble sacrifice, covering her face and sneaking peeks.

She was really afraid Mr. Thompson might take her to task later, but the urge to gossip had reached its peak.

She couldn’t help it, she wanted to gossip!

Grace Harrison was both embarrassed and ashamed when her colleague pointed out that she had been crying.

“Come here,” Damian Thompson motioned towards his office as he walked.

Grace Harrison paused, thought for a moment, but in the end, she couldn’t resist following him.

Her obedient demeanor astounded everyone.

As she stepped into the office, Grace Harrison couldn’t resist asking, “Do you really have a love child?”

As soon as she spoke, Grace Harrison regretted it.

It was someone else’s private matter, and she was paying too much attention…

Damian Thompson was married and had a love child, what did it have to do with her, just an insignificant assistant?

“What do you think?”

Damian Thompson didn’t respond directly, but countered with a question.

Grace Harrison opened her mouth and said softly, “I think… it’s probably not possible.”

As she spoke, her heart pounded wildly.

After all, she still hoped it wasn’t true.

Damian Thompson, he shouldn’t be that kind of person.

However, the next second, Damian Thompson’s words plunged her into hell.

“The baby in the photo, that’s my child.”

Grace Harrison’s breathing hitched.

She hadn’t expected Damian Thompson to admit it.

Suddenly, Grace Harrison remembered what Carter Harrison had said about Damian Thompson having a fiancée.

So what Carter said was true, and Damian had never hidden it from her.

He was already taken…

“So, when my Dad said you have a fiancée and refuse to accept blind dates, is it because you already have a baby?” The moment the truth was revealed, Grace Harrison felt so heartbroken she couldn’t breathe.

Damian Thompson looked at her, remaining silent for a long time.

Silence was admission.

Grace Harrison raised her head and glared with wide eyes, as if that was the only way to stop the tears from flowing.

But the tears were too disobedient.

She was prone to crying, unable to control her emotions or her tears.

“Crying so hard… Assistant Tian, do you like me?”

The gentle question, laced with a magnetic quality, made Grace Harrison feel embarrassed and sad.

For the first time, she thought this man was so cruel.

She was already so upset, so heartbroken, and yet he still wanted to tear open her wound.

Everyone saw through her feelings; couldn’t he see without asking outright?

“Yes, I do like you, from the very first time I saw you,” Grace Harrison wiped her tears away and brazenly admitted, “But after today, I won’t like you anymore. Chastity is a man’s best dowry, and you have nothing left now.”

Grace Harrison took a deep breath and widened her eyes.

Damian Thompson suddenly smiled, and beneath his glasses, a pair of slender phoenix eyes brimmed with tender affection.

“If I still had my chastity, would you continue to like me?”

“Of course,” Grace Harrison said defiantly, lifting her chin and batting her big eyes, cute and sassy, “But you don’t anymore.”