“Excuse me?” Jessica quickly sent daggers onto Gerald. “You think I’m a property for you to add as part of your deal?”“Don’t get me wrong, Miss. There are two things in the world that one shouldn’t be afraid to show,” Gerald said. “Muscles and emotions. And I’m expressing my emotions because I like you.”“You don’t even know me, and you are older than my father,” Jessica seethed. “How can you shamelessly say that you like me?”“When I was young, I looked up at the sky and asked the moon thousands of times to come into my hands, but it didn’t,” Gerald explained. “The first girl I had a crush on in high school refused my love proposal, saying I was too poor. She threw the 100 dollar ring I gave her like it was nothing. After that incident, I went into a shell and missed the days of my youth, spending all my time and effort on coding.” He looked at Jessica and said without blinking, “Will you believe me if I tell you I’m a virgin?”Jessica blinked twice. “Huh?” Was it even possible to t

Jessica hesitantly asked Russell. “Can I stay here tonight?”“Sure,” he didn’t even wait to respond.“Thank you,” Jessica felt happy. She probably wouldn’t have asked him for this favor if Elora wasn’t living in the house. After all, Russell was a married man now. It wouldn’t be right for Jessica to stay in his house when no one else was present.“Why are you thanking me?” Russell angrily blurted. “You would have done the same if I was in your position. Let’s get inside.”“Yeah.”The first thing Jessica did after entering the house was to report the incident to Regan.Regan assured her he would deal with the stalker the next day and also told her to stay at a friend’s house for the night, just to be safe.Because the neighborhood Jessica lived in wasn’t a safe one, she had chosen to get down near the farmhouse where she knew Elora lived. She had no idea Russell was also here at the time, but that actually made it easy for her to make the stalker leave.Currently, Jessica was sitting d

Russell and Jessica together arrived at the Creed Tech company.Miley, the receptionist, saw Russell and remembered him from the last time, and so she didn’t stop him this time. In fact, she showered a friendly smile as he went past her desk.Russell was surprised by her expression. “Hey, that woman is treating me differently this time because I’m walking next to you. It seems, they fear not just the boss but also his PA?”“I rarely meet them, so it’s not like what you think,” Jessica answered as they entered the elevator.“You’re being too humble. I can see some fear in their body language.”“Say what you want, but I’m trying to keep a low profile in the company. I don’t want to get into unnecessary trouble,” Jessica expressed her fears. “There are many rich people working in this company who don’t like the fact that I’m Mr. Regan’s assistant. A couple of them even tried to threaten me indirectly.”“What?” Russell was slack-jawed. “That’s too much. You should complain to your boss.”“

After Russell left the Creed Tech company, he didn’t go to his farmhouse. He took a bus ticket and went to where Arnold and Jennifer lived.Along the way, he had thought a lot about what his mother had said.Why didn’t Elora tell him what Arnold had done all these years? Did Elora and Arnold talk about it before? Did they fight? Was that the reason for their divorce? From what he knew, it felt impossible to piece things together.Whatever might have happened, Russell was clear about one thing. It was that Arnold had betrayed his mother.And he couldn’t just forget about that as if nothing ever happened.Perhaps, the reason why Elora revealed this to him was because he no longer needed to live in Arnold’s house?At any rate, Russell wanted to dig deeper into this issue, which was why he had decided to spend some time with the Bennett family.When Russell was walking in the neighborhood, many people greeted him. Even those who never even bothered to spare a glance at him in the past was

Arnold wanted to put a piece of cake in his son’s mouth, but things totally didn’t go the way he expected they would.After Russell left, Jennifer came to his room and asked where Russell went. “Where’s your son? Why does the cake look like it hasn’t been touched?”“He knows about the past,” Arnold said, skipping Jennifer’s heart.“What? Y-You mean he knows about us?”“I don’t think he knows the full story, but he’s aware that I cheated on Elora,” Arnold’s jaw hardened. “I always had my doubts, but now I am sure that Elora knew it all along.”“That bitch…” Jennifer’s blood boiled pretty fast. “She waited all these years for an opportunity. Now that her son is married into a rich family, she spit out the truth! That cunning bitch! She has no gratitude that you let her stay in your house, Arnold. You should make her pay for this. We put a lot of hope in Russell. We can’t let that sick woman spoil our future.”Jennifer didn’t want Russell to ever know that it was actually Jennifer that A