The President's Secret Wife by Josephine

Chapter 006 Barret’s Beautiful Lie
“What did you say?”
Jenny couldn’t believe it and she was shuddering uncontrollably.
She suddenly felt extremely cold.
A chill was eating its way from the soles of her feet to her limbs and she couldn’t help shivering.
Back then, Grandpa asked her, “If Barret wants to be with you and marry you, Jenny, will you agree?”
“Grandpa, is he doing it of his own free will?”
She asked the question because she had known that he loved Laura then.
She told herself that if he was forced into it by Grandpa, she would never agree to it anyway, because she didn’t want to tie him
down with a marriage.
More than that, she didn’t want to get him in that way.
“Silly girl, Barret is so stubborn. If he isn’t, can Grandpa force him to do it?”
Later, she asked Barret the same question.
She asked him, “Are you marrying me of your own free will? I know that Grandpa cares for me and I don’t want you to marry me
because Grandpa ordered you to. What’s more, I don’t want to make things difficult for you.”
What did Barret say to her?
He said, “Yes, I am. Laura and I have broken up. Let’s make a deal. I’ll try to fall in love with you in three years, and if I can’t,
we’ll divorce peacefully. Do you agree?”
“Yes, I do!” She had a big smile on her face then.
Barret even asked her, “Why did you agree to marry me? Don’t you have someone you love? Are you willing to be tied down by
marriage? Don’t you want to pursue your love?”

She said, “Yes, I have. It’s been eight years.”
And then she shook her head. “I won’t pursue it anymore.”
She had married the man she loved and made a big leap in life by going straight from love to marriage.
But now Laura was telling her that it was all a lie.
If what Laura said was true, it meant that all of them had been lying to her from the beginning.
Three years?
Jenny pinched her fingers and suddenly wanted to laugh. So it was just a front, a blatant lie.
She had been moved to tears back then, thinking that Barret had really gotten over Laura and wanted to make a new start with
her.
But it turned out that she was the one who had been so stupid and fooled.
“Jenny, you really are naive and cute. How could Barret marry you of his own free will when he loves me? Do you know why he
asked for three years? It’s simply because you would ask for a divorce in three years, without any complaint or resentment, so
that he could go free and come back to marry me.”
“He knew that Grandpa would only agree if you ask for a divorce, and that Grandpa would never agree if he ask.”
“He’s put a lot of effort into being with me, and even... set up this beautiful trap.”
Laura’s words made Jenny feel like she was in an ice cellar.
A chill enveloped her tightly and she was freezing cold.
If all of it was a lie, had he been pretending for so many days and nights?
And on all those nights, he’d embraced, caressed and made love with her. Was it all part of the trap?
It was nothing but his trick?
Jenny was really upset. She suddenly felt like a joker, so stupid.

That was why Barret had tricked her into believing him.
“I won’t believe it unless you tell me how Grandpa has forced him.”
Jenny clenched her fists. She knew Barret all too well after spending so much time with him.
He was so stubborn that he wouldn’t give in even if a knife was put to his neck, so Grandpa might have threatened him with
something extremely important.
Laura laughed mockingly.
“Jenny, you are so obstinate. Since you want to know so much, I will tell you.”
“Grandpa threatened him. If he didn’t marry you, Grandpa would send me abroad so that he and I would never see each other
again for the rest of our lives. Although we couldn’t stay together back then, he compromised in order to see me again.”
Jenny bit her lip. She was having a hard time, so hard that she couldn’t say a word.
Laura, however, didn’t give her a break and continued her attack. “As for my legs, do you remember on the day when you got
married, Barret took a phone call and almost left the wedding?”
“Yeah.”
It was her wedding. Of course, Jenny would remember.
“That’s because I had a car accident on the way to your wedding and almost died. It took them a day to save my life, but my legs
are broken.”
No wonder he left in a hurry as soon as the wedding was over.
She asked him if something had happened to the company.
He said it was a friend who had been in a car accident. He wanted to go and take care of it, but Grandpa wouldn’t allow him to
go, so he asked her to help him cover it up.
She remembered that Grandpa called to ask her, “Jenny, is Barret at home with you?”
“Yes, Grandpa, he’s right here with me.”

She foolishly hid it for him.
And he stayed out on their wedding night.
It turned out that he was taking care of another woman on that night.
In the following days, he was also very tired from leaving early and returning late.
But he never told her that the friend he was talking about was “Laura”!
If she had known it...
Jenny smiled bitterly. Even if she had known, she would have helped him hide it.
She loved him so much that she couldn’t see him scolded by Grandpa!
“So what? Why are you telling me this now?”
Jenny looked at Laura. Suddenly, she was like a defiant hedgehog, putting up all her spikes to protect her soft body.
“Tell me, are you crippled because of me? Did I have anything to do with your legs?”
“Jenny, ask yourself, didn’t you?” Laura sounded edgy too.
“If it weren’t for you, Grandpa wouldn’t have forced Barret, Barret wouldn’t have married you unwillingly, and I wouldn’t have
gotten into the car accident on the way to your wedding because I was lost in thought and my legs wouldn’t have been broken.”
“If it weren’t for you, I’d have married Barret and we would have had a happy family with children.”
Jenny tried desperately to contain herself.
After a while, she looked up and replied calmly, “It’s not because of me. You’re just giving yourself a good excuse and blaming
me for your crippled legs.”
“I believe Grandpa. He loves me very much, but he must have his reasons for not allowing you to be with Barret. If you really
meet his criteria for a granddaughter-in-law, even a thousand or ten thousand Jennys can’t stop you from getting married to
Barret, let alone just one.”

“As you said, Grandpa has gone to so many lengths to keep you apart. It only means, Laura, that there is something wrong with
you.”
“I, Jenny, may not be from a rich family, but I’m not at your mercy, so don’t try to pin it on me.”
“No one invited you to the wedding, let alone asked you to drink and drive afterwards.”
Jenny spoke with such clarity that they ring true.
It was impossible to find a single slip-up.
Laura looked at Jenny incredulously.
It had been two years since she had seen Jenny, but she had never expected that the girl, who used to follow Barret cautiously,
blush easily and speak softly, would suddenly become so aggressive.
“The love of my life was getting married and you think I would be absent?”
“The love of your life?” Jenny sneered, “Laura, it doesn’t mean I don’t know those things just because Barret doesn’t know. Don’t
make me bring up all the nasty things you did back then.”
“You’re talking nonsense. I’m innocent. How can you accuse me so falsely?”
Laura stumbled in a flurry of emotions and fell abruptly out of her wheelchair.
At that moment, Barret came back.
He put down the thermos in his hand and gently helped Laura up. Then, he pinched the place between his eyebrows and asked
coldly, “Can anyone tell me what happened?”