Trish blinked again in disbelief and stretched out her shaky fingers towards to touch the slapped cheek. She winced in pain and withdrew her hand, then she gritted her teeth and glared hard at Chloe. “Is this how you do it? You make men, even married men, fall for your good looks. Aren’t you ashamed of yourself, you darn little bit–“ Smack!The word was knocked out of her mouth as her husband raised his hand and slapped her hard across the cheek again. Then he shoved her away and turned to Levi and Chloe. He clenched his teeth tightly and dropped down to the floor on his knees. Then placed his hands on his thighs and balled them into a tight fist, his face lowered to the floor. “F-forgive my wife, sir, ma’am. She doesn’t know what she’s saying.” Despite being slapped twice, Trish still didn’t learn her lesson. She gritted her teeth and asked in confusion. “H-honey, what are you doing? Why do you apologize to these nobodies when you’re a bank manager? You can end their careers
Seconds after everyone got seated, Josiah Haworth climbed the podium, starting the exhibition with a small speech. “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a car exhibition which includes, not just one, but three of the world’s most luxurious and expensive cars.”“Earlier this year, everyone of you seated here must’ve heard of the mysterious multi-billionaire who came to Springdale.” “Many of you have speculated that he’s connected to me somehow, and I’ve come before you today after many months of keeping silent to tell you that you’re absolutely right.” “Not only is he connected to me, but he’s also the real owner of Astoria Corporation. He’s my boss. And today, he plans to propose to his wife a second time and give her three of these cars as wedding gifts.” Sensing the car covers were about to be taken off, Chloe whipped out her phone and opened the camera app to begin recording. However, Levi suddenly asked her to accompany him somewhere. She pressed her lips into a thin line and ga
Claire pressed her lips into a thin line and gently massaged the back of her neck without saying a word for more than ten seconds.“Chloe, for some reason, do you happen to be on the floor just above where the cars’ exhibition is going on?” Chloe lowered her eyes to the floor and stared at it for a second. Even though the people below could see those above, it was impossible to see past the matte black cover. So she raised her head again and hummed, “Yeah, why?” “Nothing. Forget I asked.” Claire hurriedly replied and ended the call. Then she rushed back to her seat, opened her camera app to record what was happening like the rest of the guests. Chloe dropped her hand to the side and squeezed her eyes shut, still unable to believe everything she had heard a few minutes ago was true. However, when she opened her eyes again a few seconds later, Ethan was still down on one knee with the box with the ring still stretched towards her. After being tongue-tied for more than a minute,
On the rooftop where Ethan proposed to Chloe, four men were now standing on it. “Ms. William got home safely with her sister.” Levi Cruz stood in front of Ethan with his face lowered to the floor and reported. Standing beside him was Josiah Haworth. Unlike Levi who was calm and collected, the man kept clenching and unclenching his jaw every one second. Ethan stood with his back turned to them while Kane leaned on the railing behind him with a tablet in hand. He scrolled for over twenty seconds, but the same video kept popping in front of him with different write-ups and edits. He smacked his lips together and raised his eyes to look at Josiah.“It’s bad, Chairman Haworth. Each of these videos keep gaining views by the second. It’s almost as if the netizens keep rewatching every clip.” “There are also countless edits of it. Why is there so many videos of it? Weren’t you supposed to take it down as soon as you noticed people were beginning to upload it?” Josiah sucked in a deep b
When they got to the main road, the woman pointed for Ethan to drop her off at a gas station. Before she got down, she grabbed the pen and paper she found in the car and wrote down her number. She first glanced at his fingers before she smiled brightly and dropped the paper on the dashboard.“Please call me, sir. I’d like to repay you for saving me today over a cup of coffee.” Ethan nodded absentmindedly and drove away as soon as she got down. Matilda was still watching her soap opera in the living room when she heard the door open again. She frowned slightly when she saw Ethan walk in. “What is it with you three returning so early in the day?” “Did you quit your jobs? I hope you didn’t because I need your pay checks way more than you do!” Ethan was about to walk past her when he reconsidered and walked to stand in front of her, blocking her view with his body. Matilda’s mind flashed back to what he had said to her a few days ago and she stuttered fearfully, “Wh-what are you d
After Ethan and Chloe made up, she felt tired by the day’s activity and proceeded to rest. It was still a few hours away before Honey’s school would close, so Ethan decided to stay with Chloe until then.However, three minutes into their quiet time, he felt his phone buzz in his pocket and quietly got off the bed to the balcony to answer the phone call. He had just pressed the phone against his ear when he looked down and saw Penelope Whitmore standing outside the house, her eyes raised towards Ethan. “Commander, I looked into the family Josiah Haworth mentioned earlier. The Caldwell family has always been in Springdale, but they’ve never been in anyone’s face, so not a lot of people know about them.” “They don’t mingle with just anyone, but numerous families tries to suck up to them because of how how much control and influence they have as owners of a television station and the biggest social media app in the country.” “Frankly speaking, there’s no family in the city who can go
Despite the dozen men circling around them threateningly, Charles still asked, “So let me get this straight, you’re dogs for the Wellington family and they made you remain in the shadows?” Tristan’s jaw ticked at the question and he glared at him. “You don’t know anything about us, do you?” Charles shrugged and turned his attention to the men in front of him. Even though they didn’t seem like much, he knew better than to underestimate them.After all, these men had been around the whole time and he barely felt their presence. The men from the Caldwell family divided themselves into two groups with six of them circling each of the men.Charles eyes followed the men’s every move as they maintained a calm composure. Then one of the men made the first move. He lunged towards Charles, his fist aimed for a knockout blow. But Charles was faster, sidestepping in a blur and slamming his elbow into the man’s temple with deadly accuracy. The attacker dropped before he could even comprehen
Kane clenched his jaw tightly and waited to feel the gut-wrenching pain from being shot, his eyes wide open the whole time. However, he suddenly realized he was no longer standing in front of Tristan Caldwell. Instead, he was standing behind a familiar back. “Did I say you could die?” Ethan asked without turning to look at him. Kane felt a drop in his stomach and a lump formed in his throat. “C-commander?” Charles heaved a silent sigh of relief from where he stood and turned his attention to Tristan again. Tristan Caldwell was startled when he didn’t see a corpse lying in front of him. He hurriedly got up from his seat when he raised his eyes and realized there were no longer two men in the room with him, but three. No one in the Caldwell family knew what Ethan looked like. All they had was an old picture of Ethan as a teenager which was taken from a bad angle with poor lighting. Simply put, it was really of no use in identifying what Ethan looked like then and even now. But