The Face-off“Are you sure you're telling me the whole truth? She asked.”Because if you are, what does Catherine mean by sending this to me?” She picked up her phone and showed him a message that Catherine had sent her.“Your husband really looked so cool when he was fighting. Turns out he's not that useless after all”, it said.” He defended you beautifully, Thank him for me”.She put down her cell phone and looked at him. “how did you defend me? Tell me honestly what happened” she demanded.“Because when I called Catherine to ask what she was talking about, she wouldn't give me a straight answer either”.Brian looked at her while he decided what to say. He knew that he couldn't tell her the truth. “Catherine is your best friend”, he said smoothly. “Of course, I'm going to defend both you and her. If you don't like it, I'll avoid her from now on”. Catherine opened her mouth to reply, but no words came out. If she said nothing, it implied that she condoned his fighting. But if she to

ACCUSATION“ Is he the best you could find?” The remarks were met with silence. The security guard nudged Lincoln forward and into the room. a burly man lying on a couch smoking a cigarette. Let's see Lincoln Ragnar, he said between puffs. “Welcome,” he said. But Lincoln said nothing.He stared at Duke with burning eyes full of vengeance. “I'm talking to you”, said Duke loudly. “Are you deaf?” The guards standing behind Lincoln shook his arm. “Answer the man”, he said curtly. Lincoln clenched his fists and then loosened them. “Long time no see Duke”. He replied.Brian and Stone had left the mall after the competition. “Let's go to the Industry’, he said“Aren't we going to wait for Lincoln?” Asked Stone, surprised that he seemed to have given up so easily. “You thought Lincoln would have needed our help?” Lincoln can look after himself, said Brian. And anyway, We won't be able to help. Later that day, an unfamiliar black car drove up to the front entrance of SAKA tosh tech company.

HUMILIATION“I need to show him where he can find these products”. She knew that most men were overwhelmed by cosmetic stores and needed all the help they could get.She took the list off him and pointed to the first set of shelves he needed to visit. “Where are you taking him?” Asked the first woman. “Are you talking to him because you're trying to get out of doing your job?” “No”. Said the nervous woman but the first one cut her off. “If you have anything now to do with this man, I'll take all your commissions for the month from you”. she shouted she appeared to enjoy throwing her weight around “Praise your figure that she must be the store manager, Mrs. Sinclair,” Said the timid assistant.“Surely it's my job to help customers” she added “Surely it's good for businesses to help them find the products they want to spend money on but i don't think he's asked for anything unreasonable” She looked as if she was about to start crying.Brian was starting to lose his temper he was a cu

THE UNEXPECTED“Watch it”, Brian muttered warningly. “Bite me”, Rory snapped back “Just look at how dumpy he looks, this is a high-end store and he's making the other customers uncomfortable and kick him out already”. Elizabeth took two steps up to Rory and slapped him across the face. The surrounding crowd gasped. The CEO had not only slapped an employee, but she slapped a customer as well. Rory stared at her with wide eyes. “But my father is one of her business partners”, he thought. “How could she do this? Doesn't she respect my family name?”“ Both of you need to apologize to this man immediately”, Elizabeth spoke angrily. “I don't know how much more I can say”, she thought.“Brian prefers to stay low-key, and that's his right. If I give away too much, he's going to be angry with me as well. She took another quick glance at Brian and saw that his expression had eased, and she breathed a sigh of relief. “Why Rory? he's not worth an apology, He's just some deadbeat we tried to

THE BAIT The following day, Brian got up to leave early It received a report that there was a new development regarding Duke..Brenda hustled out She didn't want him to be there when Nick showed up. Nick pulled up to their house and a brand new luxury sports car at eight o'clock.Brenda met him in the driveway and greeted him effusively. “It's so good to see you”, she gushed, It's been so long”.“Wow, I think you're taller and even more handsome than you used to be” Gary had followed her out. He grabbed Nick's hand and gave it a firm shake. “It's good to see you too ”, Nick replied. It was a little rush getting into town, so I hope you don't mind that I don't have time to pick up a real gift”. He handed an envelope to Gary. This card has $10,000 in it I hope that's OK Ohh, “we can't accept this”, Brenda said, flustered, but she took the envelope anyway. After all, she thought, to refuse a gift is to refuse hospitality and we wouldn't wanna hurt his feelings Gary was also in support “