When Ava returned home, she saw Mr. Colby sitting on the couch with his brows furrowed in a frown. When he saw Ava enter, he didn’t relax at all.“Dad, aren’t you busy today? Why are you home and waiting for me?” Ava asked, pretending to be relaxed. She sat down beside Mr Colby. “I’m fine. I just got involved in a troublesome matter, so I asked Zion to help me out.”With a furious expression, Mr Colby sneered. “Of course, I know what happened. You just wanted to chase Xander away.”Only then did she realize that her father had learned of everything that had just happened at the restaurant.She pursed her lips and leaned back on the couch. “Dad, since you already know, I won’t beat around the bush with you. Xander is a good-for-nothing who sponges off his family. I won’t marry such a person! Dad, just go to the Vans and break off our engagement before it’s too late!”“Outrageous!” Mr. Colby flew into a rage and rebuked, “You and Xander have been engaged for more than ten years, and we
Derek was furious when he heard this.It was no secret that Clarine had now become the deputy general manager of the Emerald Group and was in charge of handling the duties of the general manager.He reckoned that Aiden must have scurried over to pester her to try and get back together with her after hearing about it.But Derek also felt that there was something amiss.If Aiden merely wanted to continue pestering Clarine, he should have countless methods to do so since he was experienced . Why would he resort to such an extreme method of holding Clarine hostage, forcing her to the rooftop, and threatening to kill her if she didn’t compromise?It didn’t seem like something that a suitor would do!But now was not the time for him to stand here and figure out what was going on. Regardless of whether someone had instigated Aiden or not, Clarine was in an extremely dangerous situation now. She had a chance of falling off the roof or getting slit by the sharp dagger in his hand!Even thoug
As soon as Aiden saw Derek appear, intense hatred appeared in his maniacal gaze.Although he had been lashing out at Clarine and cursing at her, he was full of hatred toward Derek!He had heard about Derek, he heard Derek was someone who pokenosed into external affairs. Plus he has overheard Clarine's parents mentioning the fact that Clarine seemed to make her decision revolve around Brenda and Derek.If Derek was the reason Clarine rejected him, he would be the cause of everything!“Hah, Derek . I hadn’t gone to look for you, but you came looking for me yourself!” Aiden hollered through gritted teeth. Deep down, he felt extremely gloomy and resentful.Clarine was surprised and overjoyed the moment she saw Derek. But she soon became worried and nervous after seeing the hatred in Aiden’s eyes when he glared at Derek.Aiden was now close to losing his mind. And in this situation, he was capable of doing anything!Derek narrowed his eyes and sized up the environment around them. Aiden
Clarine watched as Derek vanished from the edge of the roof and screamed at the top of her lungs uncontrollably, “Derek!”Two streams of tears rolled down her cheeks, and she started bawling loudly, feeling as if her heart was being stabbed by daggers.In contrast, Aiden laughed out loud in great excitement. “Hahaha! What a dimwit. I managed to kill him so easily! I’m going to get rich again soon. Hahaha!”The police on the rooftop of the building couldn’t stop Derek in time and could only watch as he jumped off the building. They all shouted in horror and regret.At the same time, the crowd of onlookers on the ground also shrieked loudly in amazement.When Aiden heard the commotion at the bottom of the building, he guffawed hysterically with great smugness. Then he grabbed Clarine by the collar and looked at the ground to admire the scene of Derek’s badly mangled flesh after he fell off the building.Suddenly, there was a major change!A pair of hands suddenly reached over from the
In fact, Derek could have chosen not to catch Aiden and let him fall to his death just now, as he ought to reap what he sowed.But the words Aiden said earlier made Derek suspect that someone was instigating him. So Derek caught him and allowed him to stay alive to interrogate him and find out more from him.But the matter of Aiden taking Clarinet hostage and trying to jump off the building with her had alarmed almost all the police systems in the city. Many reporters had also hurried over with their cameras and equipment to get the first hand news scoop.In such a situation, Derek naturally couldn’t interrogate Aiden personally. He simply handed Aiden over to the special police officers for them to investigate.The chief special police officer nodded and instructed his subordinates to send Aiden to the hospital. After Aiden came to, they would bring him in for interrogation immediately.Of course, as the parties involved in the incident, Derek and Clarine had to make a mandatory trip
Derek was still trying to figure out who it was, but then he scurried away quickly. But after covering only a short distance, he discovered that a tall and phantom-like figure had appeared in front of him to block him from leaving.“Still trying to run, huh?”The young man was flabbergasted because the person in front of him was the same person he had been secretly snapping photos of!A few seconds ago, this person was clearly more than meters behind him, yet he was standing in front of him in the blink of an eye. How did he do it?!Having been discovered and even stopped by the person he was secretly snapping photos of, the young man got a little nervous and gritted his teeth. He then barked in a menacing voice, “Why are you stopping me? Get lost!”Derek sneered and pointed at the camera the young man was holding. He asked indifferently, “You’ve been tailing me all afternoon, so you must have taken a lot of pictures, right? Did you think no one could discover you when you’re so clums
Derek couldn't tell who it was yet, but he knew he would find out.With a sharp and cold gaze in his eyes, Derek raised his head and looked distantly in the direction of the DC. “Hmph, I don’t care who you really are. As long as you dare to reach your hand here, I don’t mind chopping it off!”When Derek reached the amusement park entrance, he saw Clarine waiting here for him worriedly.“Derek, did you get what you went for? Did you find everything?” she asked curiously.Derek raised his arm with two paper bags and said with a faint smile, “I got them. Fortunately, there was no queue.Clarine grinned and teased, “It turns out you really are caring.”Derek smiled. He merely nodded and said, “Yeah, so you have to be like me as well. In the meantime, it's getting late, let's go home.”Clarine nodded happily. Soon, the two of them got into Lucas’s car and sped off.…At this moment, in a luxurious villa in Dominican.A young man in his twenties was reclining on a soft leather sofa with a s
Derek frowned.He didn’t expect Aiden to die despite being in police custody.But there were definitely potential loopholes everywhere. If it was really the doing of the force that Derek guessed, the police would likely be defenceless and unable to guard against their actions.But Aiden’s death was not in vain. At the very least, Derek was now certain that the mastermind who instigated Aiden was more likely than not same person who sent the photographer.Otherwise, Aiden wouldn’t have died so easily.“Okay, I know.”Derek was about to hang up the phone when he noticed in the rearview mirror that there were several inconspicuous cars tailing his car. Their intentions were unclear, but he knew that they had to be up to no good.He frowned. They’re really everywhere. How annoying!He wondered who sent these people to tail him.With a trace of murderous intent in his eyes, Derek hung up the phone and quickly made another call. “Come to Clarine's apartment, I will send you an address.”Der