2024-11-25 19:00:09As Emilia watched, she grew green with jealousy. Was Ezekiele such a gem? If he was, then she couldn’t possibly let him go like that. She had to find a way to turn the tables around.
“Ezekiele, dear.” In front of everyone, Emilia rushed to Ezekiele, wrapping her hands around him in a tender embrace. “If I had known you were like this, I would never have let you go. Can’t you forgive my mother this once? Instead of this nobody, why don’t you make her the hospital director?”
Lucy felt her heart pierce as she watched the two of them, but Ezekiele remained unfazed. Prying Emilia away from his body, he moved so that he was standing next to Lucia, showing ownership.
“Did you forget that I’m married to Lucia?” Ezekiele asked in a voice so cold, it put shivers in the hearts of everyone who heard it.
Not one to back down easily, Emilia forced on a fake smile.
“Back at the wedding hall, I might have said a few things that I regret, but you did the same. You can have me back, all you need to do is push that thing,” Emilia sent a scorching look Lucia’s way, “away. I’m the one you love. Your feelings for me are still there…I know it!”
Hearing Emilia’s words, Lucia knew how things were going to go down. Afterall, Ezekiele was originally meant to marry Emilia. If he decided he wanted her back, she would be pushed to the curb. What would that leave her with then? The engagement with Giacomo was over. No man would want her ever again.
Inching away from Ezekiele, she prepared to be rejected by him, but his next words sent shock through her.
“You must be crazy, Emilia, if you think I’m going to take you back. Today, before a hundred people, I was legally in marriage with Lucia, and I plan for it to remain that way until I die.”
After saying this, Ezekiele regarded Lucia with soft eyes before closing the distance between them. “Don’t ever move away from me.”
Having to watch this scene unfold before her eyes, Emilia couldn’t restrain her anger. Inside her, everything felt hot, like she was going to combust at any moment. Ezekiele acting sweet with Lucia made her want to scream.
“Ezekiele, you bastard! You think you’re all that, huh? Don’t forget who was invited to the Great Marshal’s Comeback Ceremony. Me!” Emilia screamed. “Just wait until I rise up in ranks. I’ll ruin all of you! Starting with this wench who disguises herself as a saint!”
At that moment, Emilia lunged at Lucia, wanting to slap her, but this time, Ezekiele immediately jumped in front of his wife and caught Emilia’s swinging arm.
“Didn’t I warn you never to try that again?” Ezekiele shoved Emilia, making her fall to the floor.
With mascara stained tears trickling down her face, Emilia pointed a warning finger at Lucia. “Just you wait and see, Lucia! That business you love so dearly, I’ll make sure it’s ruined!”
Upon hearing this, Lucia’s parents, Anna and Daniele, exchanged a look of concern. The business was a source of income for their family, and Emilia’s threats put fear into their hearts.
Anna ran to her daughter and wanted to drag her away from Ezekiele, but Lucia didn’t move. She remembered Ezekiele’s words for her not to move away from him.
“Reject him now, Lucia,” Anna begged. Her husband, Daniele, also looked terrified. “Didn’t you hear her say she’s going to ruin your business?”
“She can’t do anything. I’ll make you a VIP at the Great Marshal’s Comeback Ceremony.” Ezekiele refuted her words.
Since none of them knew about Ezekiele’s true identity as the Great Marshal, they all listened in disbelief at his cocky words. How could this nobody possibly get Lucia a VIP invitation to the Comeback Ceremony? Impossible!
“Lucia, don’t listen to his crazy words any longer. Think for yourself, my daughter.”
“Mother, Father, I’ve decided to stay with Ezekiele. I’ll be taking him home with me.”
Ignoring her parents’ cry of protest, Lucia left the hospital with Ezekiele. When they got into the car, the two didn’t say anything.
“Where would you like to go?” Ezekiele asked.
“Can you drive me to the steel mill? I have to check on how the work is coming along.”
The scene they met there was surprising. Instead of the workers to be hard at work, Ezekiele and Lucia found them lounging around. Some of them had even started to leave. Taken aback, Lucia ran to the office to find the mill supervisor. She was shocked to find him packing up his things, about to leave.
“Lucia, you’re finally here. I sent you a million messages. Why didn’t you respond to any of them?”
Given that she had had an eventful day, what with having gotten married and her father being rushed to the hospital, there had been no time for Lucia to check her phone.
“Can you explain what’s going on? Nobody is working as they should be.” Lucia asked the mill supervisor. With a long, drawn-out sigh, the mill supervisor sat in his chair and explained everything.
“A representative from Hamilton Construction called to say that they were withdrawing all their business dealings. It looks like the news spread quickly because not long later, two other clients also did the same.” After the mill supervisor explained all of this, he didn’t wait around again.
Alone with Ezekiele, Lucia turned away from him, too ashamed to look him in the eye. In the blink of an eye, she’d lost her biggest client. This would have an obvious negative impact on her steel mill.
“Lucia, how much do you trust me?” Ezekiele didn’t seem to want an answer because he continued. “I know you feel like your business is ruined, but that’s not the case. I can help you secure the biggest order of your business by tomorrow.”
Lucia’s skepticism was clear through her expression. She didn’t believe Ezekiele had that kind of power, but she didn’t want it to seem like she was undermining him.
Sighing, she asked, “In that case, how would you like to be the mill supervisor?”
Later, as they drove away from the steel mill to Lucia’s home, Ezekiele received a message from a number that hadn’t contacted him in years. It read: “When do you plan on taking over the Schneider family’s assets?”
The message was from Enrico Schneider, the richest man in Oakheart City.
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