“Happy birthday, Collette.” Aster smiled as she extended a gift to Collette. Collette stared at her for a long time, making no move to take the gift. There was something terribly odd about Aster and her presence today. “It's not poison, and I definitely do not intend to try to kill you again.” Aster assured, seeing Collette was hesitating. Collette nodded and reached out to take it. However, Adair beat her to it. He grabbed the nicely wrapped gift from Aster and glanced at Collette. “I'll be the one to take the birthday gifts.” Collette nodded numbly. As they stood together, Iris and Zane walked towards Adair. Zane signaled for Adair to come with his eyes. “I'll be right back, wife.” He told Collette. There was a conflicted look in his eyes for a moment before he leaned over and kissed her forehead. “Iris stay with Collette. Don't take your eyes off her even for a second.” Adair ordered Iris before he smiled apologetically at Collette and walked away with Zane. “I didn't expect
In a bar, a lonely figure sat by himself, drowning glass after glass of beer. Suddenly, someone else walked up to him and took the empty seat beside him. Trevor looks up with heavy eyelids and couldn't help smiling bitterly when he saw Adair. “You came to mock me, didn't you?” “I'm afraid I have better things to do with my time.” Adair retorted with a small smile. “Oh, that's true. How could I forget you're no longer the wretched Adair I knew? You're now the head of a conglomerate. While I, the one who often mocked you, fell right to rock bottom.” Trevor said drunkenly, illustrating the fall with his fingers in a drunken manner. He shook his head in pain and reached out to take his glass. However, Adair beat him to it, taking both the glass and the bottle of beer out of Trevor's reach. Trevor exhaled tiredly. “If you didn't come to mock me, then what do you want? Why are you here?” “Noah took over the Pitt family unlike whom the publicly expected— Trevor Pitt, the first grand
“Oh my God!” Collette exclaimed, both of her hands flying to her mouth in shock. She glanced at the spot where the minivan had fallen off and turned to Adair in panic, “Is he going to be okay?” Adair nodded his head sincerely. “He will.” He didn't say that to put Collette's mind at ease, as he knew they'd have been the one to fall off the bridge if he hadn't swerved in time. Instead, he said that because he knew Jordan, who was closely following them, would go after that driver to torture out the name of the one who sent him out of the driver's mouth. And for that to happen, the driver needed to be alive. “It's alright. We survived, and I'm sure he will as well.” Adair reassured her with a smile. “His brake probably malfunctioned. Poor soul.” Collette sighed, glancing at where the minivan had fallen from again. Adair started the car again and drove out. As soon as they were gone, someone dived into the water from the bridge and dragged out the driver, who had gone unconscious.
Martha's Penthouse “What do you intend to do when you meet with Adair?” Martha asked when Kelvin told her of what happened. Tucker grabbed his black leather jacket and put it on before turning to her. “Does it matter? You should stay home and hope that I'm successful in what I plan to do.” “What do you plan to do?” Martha still asked, stopping him by stepping in his way. The man exhaled heavily, feeling his anger rising, “I told you you don't have to worry about it. You should just stay as my accomplice and help me out when I need your help, okay?”“Tucker…" “If push comes to shove, Adair won't kill you. He won't dare kill you because you turned his sister into a vampire, and she'll die if you do. Now, I don't know if you did it on purpose. But for whatever reason you had in mind for doing it, you should have it in mind, Adair will make sure you stay alive for a pretty long time. As for me, I have to kill him when I have the opportunity, or he'd kill me.” Tucker uttered conclusiv
Crystal Palace Layla, Sarah, and Benjamin were both out of the house. Collette knew about Sarah and Layla's whereabouts as Layla had told her of where she was going. Sarah, who found out her daughter-in-law was off to play Go, forcibly tagged along despite Layla's words for her not to. Benjamin, on the other hand, had informed her he was leaving, but didn't state where he was leaving to. Collette, who had nowhere to go ever since Adair refused to let her return to the company, stayed up in her room all morning sketching something. Since Adair wouldn't let her work, she was going to become an anime artiste, producer, and manufacturer. Even though her husband was wealthy, she would rather not depend on him all the time. When it was noon, she decided to take a break and left her room for the kitchen for a drink. The chef greeted her as she reached into the fridge and took out the only remaining orange juice. “There's only one of these remaining.” She frowned slightly. Orange juice
The bottle suddenly got snatched from Benjamin. "I didn't know you wanted some. That's the last one in the fridge." Benjamin said when he saw Adair staring at the bottle strangely. Adair took the bottle to his nose and smelt it. He smelt the blood in it. In his other hand was the bottle he had taken from Collette. While he was upstairs, he heard the door open, then seconds later, he smelt the familiar smell of orange, but that smell wasn't coming from the bottle he held, it was coming from downstairs which meant whoever came in was drinking orange juice.Furthermore, he suddenly realized the bottle he took from Collette didn't have the smell of blood in it which meant this wasn't it. Adair glanced at Benjamin for a while before he parted his lips and said, "You just consumed vampire blood." "It doesn't kill, right?" Benjamin asked rather calmly. Crumbling the plastic bottle in his hand, Adair retorted, "No, it doesn't. But it does have the potential of turning you into a vampire
“Really? That's terrifying.” Olivia subconsciously. Just like Alice, she couldn't help recalling all that she had said and done to Adair. “Did Adair give you a job?” David asked with an embarrassed smile. As the one who should've provided for his son, he was feeling really ashamed that there was nothing he could do to help himself or his family. Trevor nodded, “Adair made me the stand-in president of Dame's Enterprises.” Alice, who was about to ask something else, had her lips parted, but no word came out of it as she stared at Trevor in surprise. Stand-in president in Dame's Enterprises? She clearly read the news that said the previous president couldn't continue leading the enterprise for some reason, so a stand-in president was going to be brought in. Who knew that person was no one besides her elder brother. “Adair gave you such a big position? He's surprisingly one not to hold grudges.” Alice murmured. However, Olivia, who was surprised and elated just a while ago, suddenly
“That doesn't still give you the authority to commit murder.” Alice exhaled in a rather tiny voice. What is this? Not only did Zane look extremely pleasing to her eyes, her body also reacted to him. Zane obviously heard the loud thumping of her heart, but he failed to see the reason she was so scared. He had a pretty face, and he did his best to restrain his aura around them. So why exactly was she so scared? He thought for a moment before signing. Forget it. Despite living for centuries and coming across millions of humans, he still couldn't figure out how they acted sometimes. Slipping out his phone, he turned to glance at the body behind him before dialing Adair's number. It rang twice before it was answered. “It's midnight and my wife is fast asleep. What could be so important that it couldn't wait until morning, Zane?” Adair asked in a hushed voice as soon as the call connected. Zane froze and slowly glanced at the time in his phone, ten minutes after 1. Adair was someone