“The top floor?!” Carissa asked, panicked that they were going to the executive’s floor. “Won’t we get into trouble for going there?” “No, we’ll be fine.” Stephen said as he turned around to check on the woman. “She’s not injured.” Natalia told Stephen. “I checked her, she has a few scratches and her make up and hair are ruined, but nothing permanent.” Stephen nodded as Michael Ho handed the girl his handkerchief to clean up her makeup. “Wh- why are you being so kind to me?” The woman stuttered. “You’ll get fired for helping me, Miss Ye doesn’t forget and she has so much influence it’s almost impossible to go against her.” “Don’t worry about us.” Stephen said as he smiled at the woman, trying to give her comfort. “So tell me, what’s your name and what happened.” “Isabelle.” The woman responded as she kept looking down. “What Miss Ye said was true, I somehow managed to get Vice President Cho’s attention, but I don’t want it. I have a boyfriend and I love him and I don’t want to
“Father.” Vincent Cho said in a low voice as he entered the room. Mr. Kai had already cleaned up any evidence of the Chairman having had guests and Eldrich Cho had returned to his throne-like place behind his desk.“Well this is a surprise, you’re actually visiting me.” Eldrich Cho’s words were dripping with sarcasm. It was no secret that after Vincent Cho had disinherited his son and divorced his wife, Eldrich Cho became cold towards him.“You know, I’m not fully to blame for our situation.” Vincent Cho said as he stood before his father.“Then who do you want to blame? Your dead son?” Eldrich Cho was clearly mad. “Why did you come here? The last time you came to me was to complain about an employee that showed me the truth, now what will you complain about.”Vincent Cho hesitated, what he had come for was clearly not a business matter.“There is a woman I want fired-” Vincent Cho began to say before he was cut off mid sentence by his father. “A woman your mistress wants you to f
“You can step out now.” Eldich Cho called out to Stephen and his companions.Stephen’s team looked at him nervously. They had never expected to witness something like this in their life.They had just uncovered a secret that the Chairman and Vice President were hiding.“Let’s go.” Stephen nodded as he led them out of the lounge back into the office.“Please, sit.” The Chairman gestured as Stephen led the group to sit back down on the couch. When everyone was settled, Mr. Kai came in with medicines for the chairman as well as refreshments for Stephen and his team.“I’m sorry you had to hear that.” Eldrich Cho said with a frown as he looked at the employees seated in front of him.“Will you have to kill us now? I promise we won’t tell anyone, please don’t kill us or hurt our families.” Carissa said, practically sobbing.“What?” Eldrich Cho asked, confused about their reactions.“Grandfather, they think you will hurt them because of what they heard.” Stephen whispered to Eldrich Cho as
“Relax, he just wants to meet my fiance and see how things are going.” Stephen gave the first excuse that crossed his mind.It wasn’t even a lie. Eldrich Cho wanted to meet his future granddaughter in law and to catch up with his grandson, Stephen just omitted the fact that he was the chairman’s grandchild. “We haven’t even met your fiance yet.” Carissa complained.“Yeah, whoever managed to nab you must be a beauty.” Natalia commented, making everyone look at her in shock and laugh. “I never pegged you as the kind of person to make a comment like that, Natalia.” Stephen said as he grinned and they met Mr. Kai in the hallway.“Good afternoon Mr. Kai.” Stephen and his team greeted.“Sir, we’ve arranged for Miss Isabelle’s transfer to your team, her things have also been transferred.” Mr. Kai reported. “Thank you Mr. Kai.” Stephen said with a nod. Mr. Kai hesitated for a moment, as if there was something he wanted to say.“Have a good day, Mr. Kai.” Stephen told the man as they walk
“Hey, love.” Stephen said as he drove through the city after picking Vanessa up.“Yeah?” Vanessa asked as she looked at him, worried that he would be upset about what had happened at the restaurant.“I need to meet up with the guys tonight.” Stephen told her. He knew that she would understand what he meant by the guys. She had met them on multiple occasions and had preferred to stay away from that side of Stephen’s life. “Alright. Just be careful.” She told Stephen as the continued to drive home.There was an awkward silence in the car, making Stephen worry.“Is something wrong?” Stephen asked Vanessa.“Are you mad about what happened at the restaurant with Mr. Ling and my friend Ginny?” Vanessa finally asked. She knew that keeping worries and secrets like these were not good for a relationship.“No. Is that what was bothering you?” Stephen chuckled. “Yes.” Vanessa confessed. “I thought you’d be mad that people keep trying to insist that I should date someone better than you.”Steph
“The results come out today.” Vanessa reminded Stephen as he drove them to work with a fleet of very discrete bodyguards following them.“The fertility one?” Stephen frowned, not wanting to know the results of Vanessa’s test. He didn’t want her to think that he was marrying her because she could give him an heir. “I’ll tell you what it says so you could tell your grandpa. I know how important it is to you guys-” Vanessa wasn’t able to complete what she was saying when Stephen swerved and stopped the car on the side of the road.He closed his eyes and took a deep breath as Vanessa looked at him with worry.Around them, several cars also stopped, clearly cars of their bodyguards that were carefully eyeing Stephen’s car.Stephen opened his window and signaled to them that he was fine.He didn’t need the bodyguards alerting emergency services and his grandfather. It would blow their cover.“I don’t want to know the results.” Stephe told Vanessa as he kept his eyes forward, not wanting t
When Stephen and Vanessa arrived at Empire Hotel, a valet quickly took their car and the manager came out to guide them to their table.“When Mr. Kai made the reservation, we were surprised. Mr. Kai rarely calls to make a reservation.” The manager informed Stephen.“So how does the Chariman get his table?” Stephen asked, acting naive to how the world worked.The manager shook his head and sighed.He couldn’t help but think that such an opportunity was wasted on such a stupid man. It added insult to injury that the manager couldn’t take his eyes off of Vanessa.She wasn’t the model or actress kind of beauty, bu
“I’m sorry about my parents.” Vanessa said as she hugged Stephen. “I didn’t think they would do something as bold as this. It’s disrespectful to us.”“Vanessa, it’s fine, you don’t need to apologize.” Stephen pulled her into his arms and gently stroked her hair. “It’s them, not you.”“I wish I could just disown them.” Vanessa confessed.“You don’t mean that. We both know that despite their shortcomings you love them and don’t actually want to burn that bridge.” Stephen told his fiance.Vanessa stayed in his arms, breathing slowly as she calmed herself.“Stephen?” Andrew Wong called out as he walked towards the couple.“Andrew, I thought you had a date?” Stephen asked as he had noticed that Andrew had just said goodbye to an older man.“That was my dad.” Andrew said with an embarrassed smile. “I had to ditch Isabelle because dad said he was getting threats from Vincent Cho, again.”“Again?” Stephen asked. He actually expected that Vincent Cho would have gotten rid of Cookie Ye’s ex hus