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
The word was floating in Zane's mind, and he was just about to say it when he heard the elevator ding open. A serious-looking Jordan appeared in their train of sight. “What are you doing here?” Zane asked with a shrug. Jordan walked past him and stopped before the man who attacked Trevor and his family. He asked instead, “Have you gotten anything out of him?” “You didn't need to come. I was handling the situation perfectly.” Zane replied instead, a small frown caressing his face. “Jordan Hale. You're alive, and you still seem to be Adair Huxley's lackey.” The man on the ground spat out, his voice coated with hatred. His words and tone caught Zane by surprise as it sounded like this person knew Jordan. But how could this person know Jordan without Zane knowing who he was? So to satisfy his curiosity, Zane turned to Jordan, “He knows you. How does he know you?”Jordan tilted his head to the side and used his feet to kick the man on the floor a few times and glanced at Zane, “His f
Before Zane could get to Hannah, she already left. “Mrs. Huxley, have you met her before?” He asked once he returned to Collette's side. Collette, who was handing over her card at that moment, glanced at him briefly before asking, “Met who before?” “The lady who just introduced herself as Hannah Griffin.” He clarified. “Oh, she?” Collette shook her head, glancing towards the path Hannah had taken, “No, I haven't. This is my first time meeting her. She's beautiful and she seems nice. For someone who doesn't know me, I'm surprised she introduced herself, though.” Zane clenched his fist tightly as he stared at Collette. Who said Hannah doesn't know you? After Collette purchased the laptop, he drove her back to Crystal Palace, his eyes going to his side view mirror occasionally that Collette who sat in the back, couldn't help but notice. “Are we being followed by one of Adair's enemies?” Collette inquired, glancing behind them as well. Zane chuckled slightly and shook his head, “
The air in the conference room was extremely tense as the two men who sat at the two opposite heads of the table stared at each other intensely. Trevor was the first to take off his eyes as he picked up his pen and wrote down something on the opened document before him. Afterward, he dropped the pen and interlocked his fingers. “Dame's Enterprises won't go into a collaboration with the Celestial Cooperation because of its past record of losing money. I stand to be convinced.” He said aloud, his eyes going to his left side where the people from Celestial Cooperation, the company owned by the Pitt's family, sat. There was silence for a while before one of them got up and walked to the electronic board. “We're not proud of what happened months ago, but I'd like to bring your attention to the company's recent financial history, which states that we've made a decent amount of money, which has been used to settle the debts the company accrued during its dark moments. Celestial Cooperati