"Oh, you are back," The old man looked up from the armchair he was sitting on and tipped his glass. He glanced at the wall clock."It's so late and you are just returning. Did you work overtime again?"Brooklyn knew if she admitted it, she was going to get an earful of words but she needed to find Levi first so she just ignored his questions and used his own words against him."It's already so late yet you are still awake and even reading. Grandfather, why aren't you asleep yet?"Diego was speechless. He shook his grey coloured hair and pointed at her, "You brat...""Have you seen Levi?" Brooklyn appeared impatient."He did come here but he rushed out a while ago.""Did he say where he was going?""No," Diego shook his head as he put away the book he was reading. "You should call him."Brooklyn nodded and then turned to leave. But as she opened the door, she said, "Grandfather, you should go to bed. It's already so late."As she walked back to her bedroom, she tried calling Levi but t
There was silence over the phone for some minutes and the technician glanced around uneasily before calling out again,"Sir?""Who is it?" A deep baritone voice questioned from the other side."I do not know but the family involved doesn't seem so simple. It was a guard that dropped off the drugs.""Are you certain it's from my company? There are many counterfeits and similar drugs like ours out there nowadays. You could be mistaken.""It's yours sir. I can't be mistaken about this," Perhaps because the technician felt his voice was too loud, his fingers wrapped around the mobile phone tightly and he whispered,"Sir, don't forget. I also partook in the testing during the manufacture of those drugs."The line went silent again and the technician wiped the sweat that had started to form on his forehead."Is the result out?""No sir.""Good," The deep, baritone voice sounded relieved. "Confiscate the real result. Don't let it get out.""Sir..." The technician was anxious."Listen to me.
Brooklyn rested against the metallic walls of the elevator and released a breath. That was when Madison Rockefeller noticed."Oh my God, you are injured. I'm so sorry."Brooklyn smiled again, "It's nothing, aunty. The wound is already dressed so it doesn't hurt that much."But it did hurt when she was rushed like that earlier. However, she wasn't going to say this because although she has a problem with Larry, she does not hate his mother.Infact, she thinks Madison is one of the kindest women she's ever met.Ding!"That's our cue. Let's go," Madison held her gently and led her out slowly this time."Larry will be so happy," she was muttering when Brooklyn suddenly eased out of her hold."Huh, what's wrong dear?""Aunt, I think you must have misunderstood me. I'm not here for Larry."Madison Rockefeller was surprised. "What are you—""I don't think Larry told you. But there is nothing between us. There has never been," Brooklyn spoke seriously.Madison was speechless for a minute. And
"There is nothing wrong with the drugs sent for testing," The doctor read out exactly what the result said.Levi's brows furrowed because he could also see the words written in the result."Doc, didn't you say there must have been something wrong with the drugs he took?""I did," The doctor removed his reading glasses. He was also confused.But the laboratory the test was taken in is the best in the city and is directly affiliated to this hospital so he must have made a wrong judgment."Well, I might have made the wrong speculation. It might also have been caused by an overdose but do not worry Mr Lloyd, your father will be under our inspection so he'll recover soon enough.""Okay," Levi's doubts were dismissed and he passed the test results back to the guard."Hello Brooklyn. How do you do?"Levi noted the doctor seemed to be very familiar with Brooklyn because she smiled and nodded, "I'm fine. You've gotten older since we last met.""Tch," The young doctor laughed. His eyes fell on
"Well, I must thank you for this opportunity, boss," Levi bowed slightly, even shaking Will's hand with a charming smile."You...!" Before Will could utter any other word, he already left the office."Levi!"This loud shout caused everyone's attention to turn to Levi who had just gotten out of the office.He smiled apologetically and they turned back to their work seeing who it was.He could have sworn he heard someone say, "At this rate, this bastard might cause our superior to have a rise in BP."Levi chuckled softly as he returned to his desk. Fucking women without control didn't give that old pervert a rise in BP so how could he possibly break the record?"Good morning," Sam passed by just as he got to his desk."Hey, wait up.""Oh no," Sam stifled a yawn as a paper was plastered against his face. "Another assignment?"Levi nodded, "You should study the file as soon as possible cause we have to leave."Sam grumbled. "Can't he give us a break? We have had two or three assignments j
Levi's smile had barely formed when a staff member passed by. He cast his cold eyes at them."What are you two doing chattering around? We are quite short handed right now so you two should hurry along.""Yes sir," Levi and Sam lowered their heads. They made eye contact with each other and Levi gave a short nod before they turned away and helped each other.The day passed by without any unusual activity. Levi wanted to walk around and tour the hotel but he didn't have the chance to do so because for some reason, the staff were quite insufficient to guests arriving.Perhaps, that was why they put up more vacancies to hire more people. But why are the staff few?Levi and Sam got a chance to meet later when the latter helped an middle-aged guest who had just arrived from another country and booked the hotel.From his accent, one could tell he was a French man. "Merci," Seeing how friendly and jovial Sam was, he even added out a couple of notes as tips.As Sam pushed his luggages to his s
"What makes you think I'll do that? Besides, I didn't ask for your help or tell you I needed a ride," Levi scoffed and turned to Sam, to tell him they should just leave this delusional woman and head to the subway on time."I'm just trying to help. At this point, you can't even afford a taxi yet you are still acting high and mighty. Also, I saw your friend dressed as a bellhop earlier, don't tell me you also work there? Hahaha!"Her voice and laugh was so loud it caught the attention of passersby. The unwanted attention caused Sam to flush even more in embarrassment.He has never felt more humiliated in his life.Levi took a step forward. His cold gaze startled Jasmine. Even the man behind her was a bit stunned."I don't raise my hands on women," His eyes darted to Jasmine's new boyfriend. "But if your girlfriend keeps running off her mouth, I'll give her a befitting slap."Jasmine and her boyfriend were only taken aback for a minute but then regained their composure.The man pulled h
Levi nodded and sat beside her. He literally took up space on the small sofa and she could smell the faint manly cologne from his body.Brooklyn turned her attention to the files immediately and cleared her throat."Have you had dinner yet?" Levi didn't notice the effect he was having on her and even leaned in to peek at the files she was holding.She immediately sat back with a start, unintentionally keeping the files from his sight."Oh sorry, I didn't mean to peek on something confidential," He clearly misunderstood her actions."What? No..." Brooklyn's eyes widened and she wanted to explain but the door opened and a guard walked in with takeouts."I already ordered dinner before you came," She seized the opportunity to avert the awkward situation."Thank you," Levi didn't question her anymore and faced the meal she had ordered.He was quite hungry as he was wolfing down the food while checking out his phone.He didn't notice Brooklyn stealing glances at him. Normally, upper class p