Joseph was taken aback for a moment. He was about to say something, but paused when he realized Grant Wyatt was being serious. Furthermore, every other person behind the stage and in the auditorium had their eyes pinned on him. The last thing he wanted was to insist on signing the contract only to end up embarrassing himself in public. He smacked his lips together and laughed awkwardly to make the situation he was in less embarrassing before passing the contract back to Grant. “Forgive me, Chairman Wyatt. I just thought I’d be a more suitable candidate to sign the contract since I’m a senior executive. My bad.”The staff behind Grant snatched the contract away from him and stretched it towards Aria directly. Grant looked away from Joseph without responding. He then flashed Aria a small smile and continued, “Like i said earlier, you’re free to take it back with you to Wentworth.” “Go through it with your lawyer and if you there’s anything you’re not comfortable with in the contrac
James Keal went speechless immediately and subconsciously spaced back to that day. Only to shut his eyes and massage his forehead in exasperation. He had done it to so many women he couldn’t remember which one of them was this man’s wife. However, he always had his eyes on them the entire time he spoke to them to make sure they weren’t recording the conversation, so he was very convinced this man was bluffing. Confirming that he had nothing to fear, he pointed a shaky finger at the man and trembled all over in rage like though he was being wrongfully accused. “Watch what you say, will you? I’m a family man and everyone knows this. It doesn’t matter if you apologize after this, a lot of people will never see me the same again!” “So, I swear that if you don’t stop saying this now and it ruins my reputation, expect a lawsuit from me and I won’t stop until your family has nothing left to their name!” No one t to thought much about it, but hearing his threat, the man’s body trembled
After Grant watched the video, his face grew solemn. Then he handed the phone back to Elliot with the words, “Connect it to the screens so everyone can see what I just watched.” Elliot nodded and walked to the back of the stage. Not knowing what the video was about was killing James. So when Elliot walked away, he hurried over to Grant’s side and laughed nervously. “Chairman Wyatt, you do know my family, right?” Grant kept his eyes on ahead of him as he retorted, “The Keal family of Pinevale, who doesn’t know them?” James grinned broadly. “Exactly. I hear Kings Technology Group is plannong to expand to Pinevale in six months time. Imagine how rest assured you’d be to have a familiar face looking after the branch there.” Grant resisted the urge to sneer realizing where the conversation was going. Instead, he turned to him and said flatly, “If you’re offering to look after the branch there for the company, I’d be grateful to you, Mr. Keal.” James hurriedly waved him aside like i
Ryan clenched his jaw tightly and glared at Dean hostilely. Mia forced on a smile and chided him, “Why bring up something like that now, Dean?” Dean glanced at her, pretending to be clueless as he asked, “What do you mean, Mia? I thought I heard Ryan tell my sister to prepare her resignation letter earlier. I’m just confirming if I heard right. Is that wrong?” Mia pressed her lips tightly together as she couldn’t think of anything wrong with what he said, but at the same time, there was everything wrong with it. She just couldn’t wrap her finger around it. Joseph was also about to say something when he realized he had nothing to say. Emma was grinning from ear to ear seeing how Joseph and his children were unable to criticize her family. As an awkward silence seeped in, she sighed softly, “Aria’s proposal was so good the president whom no one knew existed created a new position just for it.” “Dean, what was that thing he said about proposals that will only be given the title of
However, instead of hitting Aria’s face, her palm landed on Leon’s back. He had walked in with Aria, so when he saw Stella raise her hand to hit Aria, he turned and hugged her tightly to himself, shielding her from receiving the slap. When Stella saw this, she boiled with rage, “What is this? Is this how you kept disobeying your uncle in South Ville?” “M-mother-in-law, what are you talking about?” Emma stuttered in disbelief, finding the situation confusing. Stella shifted her attention from Aria to her and instantly lashed out at her. “You call me your mother-in-law, but you do the opposite of everything I tell you to do.” Before Emma could find her tongue to retort, Anthony stepped forward and knitted his brows into a tight frown. “What is this about, mother? Aria got the investment like you wanted her to. Why hit her instead of praising her for a job well done?” Stella clenched her jaw tightly snorted angrily, “Your brother called me on his way back to Wentworth and he told
“No! No! No!” Those were the words Leon heard as he walked back to their room in the morning with a glass of milk. He increased his pace and got to their room to find Aria scrambling out of bed in panic. He walked closer to her and mumbled worriedly, “Did anything happen, Aria?” “No. I mean, yes. It’s 8am already. I should’ve been at the company an hour ago, but I overslept. Why didn’t you wake me? You should’ve woken me, Leon!” Aria hurriedly said as she made the bed. Leon hid the mischievous smile tugging the corners of his lips as he lowered his face to the floor and said softly, “I-you were sleeping so comfortably I didn’t want to disturb you. I’m sorry.” Hearing him, Aria paused what she was doing and glanced at him to see him lowering his eyes to the floor like he had done something wrong.She scratched her forehead gently and sighed softly. “You didn’t do anything wrong. Thank you for the milk.” Then she ran into the bathroom to take her bathe. As soon as she was inside
The second bulky man refused to believe his comrade was out cold and called out to him like he usually did. “Hey, man, what are you still doing on the floor? Get up, we need to leave.” Ten seconds went by without him getting a response. That was when he realized Leon had really knocked his comrade out. He tossed aside the two children he was holding and cracked his fingers in rage.The third man grabbed the children roughly and probed the bulky man anxiously, “I don’t know what’s going on here, but hurry up and take care of them, the clients are waiting for us already!”“Like you need to tell me.” The bulky man scoffed and continued advancing towards Leon. After seeing Leon take care of the first man, Anthony no longer worried about him. So he got into the car again and watched from inside. Leon suddenly frowned as the bulky man got closer and took a step backward. “Don’t come any closer, that face of your is hideous.” The bulky man snorted and continued advancing towards him. T
Thanks to the tempered glass, Robert Weathers could see the people inside the restaurant. His eyes flickered across the place for a moment before he turned to the van again and dragged out a severely bartered woman. Her eyes and cheeks were swollen and her lips were bled from all sides. The state of her face almost made it impossible for Anthony and Leon to recognize her. After a few seconds, Leon recognized her to be the mother of the boy they had rescued from Robert and taken back to the rescue home. .His eyes dimmed slightly and he pointed it out to Anthony, “Father-in-law, it’s the woman from the rescue home.” When Anthony recognized her, he panicked and shot out of his seat. He was about to stroll towards the door of the restaurant when he saw a dozen thugs holding axes and daggers climb out of the van to stand behind Robert. Robert pulled the woman by the hair and barked something into her face. Unfortunately, they were outside and far from Leon and Anthony. Hence, they