Following Damian's invitation yesterday, Sebastian came to Damian's dojo to accept his challenge. Sebastian had actually been reluctant to be here because he had to go back to settle his business with Catherine, but he didn't want to be labeled weak by Damian so he had to waste a little time to visit this place.
In the courtyard of the Clair mansion, Damian welcomed Sebastian happily and all of Damian's men bowed respectfully to him. Sebastian arrived escorted by several of his men and of course also Luigi who was always loyal at his side, some of them carrying full weapons just in case they didn't get missed again like three years ago. "Welcome Sebastian, my old friend." Damian greeted as he spread his arms. Sebastian took off his glasses, looking around Damian's mansion which looked more like a military camp than a conglomerate's mansion. "Do you want us to have tea before the match? I have a special tea for you," he put his arm around Sebastian's shoulders. "No need, just get to the point because I'm very busy. Besides, I can't wait to see you lose, like always," Sebastian let go of Damian's hand and walked towards the dojo with Luigi. Damian snorted in annoyance, Damian had spent years training hard to beat Sebastian and now it was time for Damian to silence his arrogance. Damian threw a Gi for Sebastian to wear, when the suit was replaced with judo clothes Sebastian's aura changed completely. "I think we should make a bet, to make this match more exciting." Damian said as he put on his belt. "Agreed." "Shares in Cavill's company, 5% for me if I win." "10% shares in Monroe's company, if I win." Sebastian's bid was bigger, he didn't want to bet for pennies. "You take too much, your greedy nature never changes." Damian laughed sarcastically. "My time and energy are precious, 10% is still too little." "Alright, I'll beat you this time Sebastian." They took their places, then bowed to each other before starting the match. As usual, when Damian faced Sebastian he was consumed by the desire to defeat without a strategy. The match had only just begun, but Sebastian had already managed to get one point ahead of Damian. Damian did not want to accept his defeat, during the match Damian always tried to attack Sebastian's body area which is prohibited in judo. But again Damian lost due to a lack of strategy, he only focused on immobilizing Sebastian without reading Sebastian's movements. Because of Damian's foolish play, two of Sebastian's fingers were injured and his back was sore. One more attack technique, Sebastian slashed Damian's back leg and showed Damian his best osoto gari attack technique, in a matter of Sebastian managed to defeat him again and now Damian couldn't even stand up because he ran out of energy. "As per our agreement, 10% of the shares in Monroe's company for me, Charlotte will come to your company to take over the shares." Sebastian said as he wiped the sweat from his face. "I want a rematch," Damian pleaded. "I don't have time to deal with you anymore, your cheating sucks anyway." Sebastian left Damian in the judo area to change his clothes, Damian clenched his fists tightly as he lost to Sebastian yet again. He could have fought with focus and shown the results of his hard work over the past few years, but he had been rushed by lust and all he could think about was getting Sebastian down worse than he had been three years ago. Little did Damian know, for almost two years Sebastian had been living on the road as Andrew with its challenges and hardships. Sebastian was no longer learning techniques, but in direct combat with thugs who possessed various strengths and martial arts techniques. After receiving a call from someone, Luigi returned to the dressing room to approach Sebastian who was changing. "Young master, Catherine and her family no longer live in that house." Sebastian's movements halted, "What happened to them?" “They were kicked out by the house owner because they couldn't pay the rent and Zack, he went somewhere." "Order everyone to find Catherine's whereabouts, we're going back now." Sebastian ordered. Sebastian just remembered that yesterday was the due date for payment of Catherine's house rent. They had just lost everything, obviously they wouldn't be able to pay the rent on the house anymore. ******* In the small house they rented from Catherine's savings, Catherine is now preparing to apply for a job at a cosmetics company that just opened two months ago. Her face, which looks pale because Catherine is starting to get morning sickness, she polishes with light makeup to make her look neat and beautiful. Isabelle, who was previously the princess in the Foster family, now has to work hard to earn money. Isabelle was accepted at a coffeshop owned by her friend in college, although the salary is not large but it is enough to increase the income for the needs of the house. As for Emily, she still has to struggle to get a loan from the bank to reopen the florist. Because Emily has no collateral, it is quite difficult for her to get a loan and even her friends disappear suddenly when she is in a difficult condition. Just like yesterday, Emily could now only serve bread spread with cream cheese for them without any accompaniment, not even milk because Emily didn't have the money to buy it. Isabelle didn't make any comments and ate the bread in silence, while Catherine who had no appetite for eat, only drank water and a few pickled olives to relieve her nausea. Catherine took a small envelope from her bag and handed it to Emily. "Take this money mom, it's not much but I think it's enough to open a small florist. I think it's a good idea if we start our business from scratch," "No Cathy, let me try to start our business again with my own efforts. After all, you need this money for your living expenses with your baby later," Emily refused, handing the money back to Catherine. Catherine continued to force Emily to accept the money but Emily still refused, Catherine was forced to take the money back and leave feeling sad because Emily refused her help. Throughout the trip, Catherine just stared pensively at the streets that looked jammed and busy until she almost passed her destination stop. Catherine staggered until she accidentally bumped into a man passing in front of her, she fell into a sitting position due to unbearable dizziness. The man helped Catherine up so she could sit in a more comfortable seat, he also gave her a bottle of water to drink before leaving. Catherine was about to thank him, but he had already disappeared from her sight. "She lives in the Hustley area with her mom and sister, it looks like she will be applying for a job at the Rosewood family's cosmetics company this morning." he said while watching Catherine from a distance.After almost a day of taking the interview test, Catherine finally passed with the highest score of all test participants. Catherine was immediately placed in the finance department which was indeed short of employees in the payroll staff section, besides that Catherine also got a fairly large salary from this job. Catherine was able to help Emily open a bigger florist, as well as rebuild her family's economy which was in a slump. Catherine returned home feeling so happy, she couldn't wait to share this happy news but it seemed Catherine had to delay her return. Catherine really wanted to eat sorbet ice cream near her old office, Catherine was willing to travel a considerable distance alone just to fulfill her cravings. "Do you like strawberry flavor, my little baby? Mom really likes strawberry but Dad prefers chocolate." said Catherine as if she was chatting with the baby in her womb. Catherine looked around, some people looked intimate with their partners or their small families
"Good morning," Catherine greeted all her co-workers. Some people turned to greet her, but some did not respond to her greeting and instead looked at her sarcastically. Catherine didn't want to care, at least she had tried to be nice as a co-worker. Catherine also bought them coffee, as a sign of introduction. She also brought Emily's homemade cookies for everyone to eat, she hoped her work here would go well even though she knew there were some people who didn't like her much. Catherine was very active at work, she always tried to help anyone who needed her help and completed her own work quickly and accurately. It was soon payroll day, tax payments and the calculation of company profits so some of the finance staff were busier than usual. "Catherine, can you help me for a moment?" Adelle asked. "What do I have to do?" "Please copy this financial report and then sign it in this section, I have to go to the tax office now." "Alright." Catherine happily accepted the data. Cather
"She just came out of the obstetricians, looks like she really did it." Luigi reported after following Catherine. Not long after, Catherine passed right in front of Sebastian's car. But she didn't notice and just kept walking with tears welling up in her eyes, she looked lethargic and clutched her stomach. This was just the first game Sebastian played for Catherine, there were still more things that would make Catherine even more desperate. Catherine should have stopped insulting him at the hospital, but she would rather choose her own death and face a demon like Sebastian. After receiving a call from someone, Luigi immediately drove the car to a club where Sebastian's colleagues were waiting for him. There was no special escort as all of Andreas Sebastian's men were focused on guarding Andreas, accompanied only by Luigi and his personal secretary Sebastian met his colleague in a room rented just for him. "Welcome young master Bellucci," Marco greeted, taking a seat on the sette
Evelyn came in the morning and made a fuss when Catherine had just closed her eyes, carrying a paper leaflet she had gotten from her roommate who had just returned from out of town. This is not an ordinary paper leaflet, Evelyn believes Catherine will be happy to accept the paper. Catherine was trying to gather her consciousness as Evelyn babbled nonstop right in front of her face, she took the paper in Evelyn's hand so that this girl could stop nagging. "Thank you Eve! this is what I need!" Catherine cried immediately rushed to take a bath and dress up as beautiful as possible. "Cathy, wait! take this," Evelyn gave a pair of beautiful shoes for Catherine to wear, it just so happened that Catherine's shoes were not so comfortable to wear. "Oh, thank you Evelyn! You are indeed my best friend." Catherine hugged Evelyn tightly until she was out of breath, after being satisfied with pranking Evelyn, Catherine immediately left to pursue her luck. Catherine arrived at the place that
Sebastian smoked the cigarette in his hand with many questions filling his head about Catherine's condition, until now doctor still hadn't given him any news about her which made him nervous to death. Don't know how many cigarettes he had finished, but none of them had come out until Sebastian finally lost his patience. "No, young master! wait here for a moment, she will be fine." Luigi tried to calm him down before he made a scene in the emergency room. "What are they doing in there! Why are they so slow!" he grumbled as he continued to strike his lighter with trembling hands. This was already the sixth cigarette that Sebastian smoked, Sebastian always smoked quickly when he felt anxious. But what was strange to Luigi was that didn't Sebastian want Catherine to suffer? then why was he so worried and anxious when Caherine was injured? he was even willing to get his favorite suit stained with Catherine's blood and he was the one who looked most worried about Catherine's conditi
Evelyn came after hearing the news that Catherine had an incident at work, she had no idea that Catherine would be treated badly there because all she knew was that Catherine was only accepted as a waitress. With tears in her eyes, Evelyn continued to apologize because Catherine almost lost her baby. If Evelyn hadn't given her the flyer, Catherine probably wouldn't have experienced this."Eve, it's okay. My baby and I are fine, it's not your fault anyway." Catherine tried to calm her down as Evelyn continued to cry."Cathy, I also have a bad news for you. William, he died last night. He took his own life in prison,"Catherine was stunned to hear the news of William's death, she had never been able to see William before and now she got the news that William was dead. Now she had to face the fact that she had to raise a child without a husband, she couldn't even see William for the last time because they had buried him in his dad's hometown.Catherine wiped her tears and tried to be str
"Hello Catherine Foster, we meet again." he greeted, making Catherine even sick of hearing his voice. He opened his suit and threw it towards Catherine, he looked at Catherine's body which was only wrapped in sexy clothes from head to toe. The man laughed contentedly as if he was mocking her, after not seeing him for so long and in the past Catherine had been thrown away like trash by him, now they were reunited in Catherine's condition who was dropping her pride in a brothel house like this. "So this is how my ex-lover made money after I left? How disgusting," he insulted. "This is much better than selling my pride to a bastard who takes advantage of a girl's innocence, they respect me much more than that jerk." Catherine replied coldly. Damian moved closer to Catherine, he gripped Catherine's jaw and looked closely at every corner of her face. Damian was about to kiss her lips, when suddenly the door to the room opened after someone broke the lock. He grabbed Damian and punc
Catherine's loud scream echoed from the second floor balcony, she tried to escape from this place but unfortunately her foot slipped while trying to escape. Now she is hanging on the balcony railing in a quite dangerous position, her grip was no longer strong enough to hold on any longer and one by one her fingers began to ache. Sebastian ran to the balcony without seeing the broken glass scattered on the floor, he quickly grabbed Catherine's hand and pulled her back to the balcony. Catherine fell right onto Sebastian's body, their eyes locked for a moment until Luigi shouted that Sebastian was bleeding from his feet. Sebastian only glanced at his feet, then got up and carried Catherine into the room. "Isn't she the girl who insulted you at the hospital?" Andreas asked. Instead of answering Andreas' questions, Sebastian takes Catherine to another room that is safer and doesn't have many windows so that Catherine doesn't try to escape again. After locking Catherine up in another
"I'm so disappointed in you, Sebastian. If you've decided to marry Irish, you shouldn't have to have anything to do with Catherine." Amelia said with a deep sense of disappointment, she knew all too well how Irish hurt because she had been there too. "No need to lecture me, you don't know anything about me even though you're my mom." Elliott looked furious at Sebastian's insolent words to Amelia, he realised he too hadn't been a good son but he never dared to be rude to his mother even if it was just from words. Amelia was reluctant to argue with Sebastian's words because she didn't want a scene, she also held Elliott back from challenging Sebastian because this wasn't the right time to fight. When Amelia first saw Catherine at the Bellucci mansion, she was not too sure if Catherine was the girl who had been the 'auction girl' at her nightclub, Catherine also looked different because of her pregnancy. But after seeing the photo of Catherine before pregnancy that Isabelle brought t
From the funeral until they finally returned to the Bellucci mansion, Sebastian looked so gloomy and sad as if he had lost something he loved very much in his life. Even when Irish asks, Sebastian seems reluctant to respond and gets annoyed when asked why he is so sad about Catherine's death. Irish doesn't understand whether Sebastian is upset with her because of last night's matter or because of Catherine's death. Irish went over to Suzzane who was drinking tea alone in the living room, she needed a friend to vent her frustration. "What's wrong?" Suzzane asked when she saw Irish's very upset expression. "Suzzane, why does Sebastian seem so devastated by Catherine's death? What was the relationship between Sebastian and Catherine in the past? Was Sebastian really just indebted to her or is there something else I don't know about?" she peppered Suzzane with incessant questions. Suzzane looked flustered, she was at a loss as to how to answer Irish's questions. If she didn't answer i
In a bar in the city of Piana, Sebastian sat alone with several empty bottles of alcohol in front of him. A few women try to flirt with him, but he ignores them and they get scathing remarks from him when they try to touch him. The last bottle he drank was now gone, but Sebastian still wasn't satisfied and he went to the bartender to order another drink. Sebastian drank the beer slowly while paying attention to the crowded surroundings, until his gaze finally stopped on a girl who was dancing while enjoying the music in the middle of the crowd. Sebastian sharpened his vision and slowly walked towards the girl, when the distance was so close Sebastian immediately pulled the girl and embraced her into his arms with one arm around her hips. "Cathy?" Sebastian murmured, he was about to kiss the girl but a slap landed on his cheek. "Let go of me, you innocent man!" she tried to let go but Sebastian tightened his embrace.His gaze was so sharp and intense that it scared the girl in fron
The shareholder meeting was suddenly held before everyone withdrew their shares from his company, even though this was a new company that Sebastian was trying to develop and had not had any impact on Bellucci's main company, but he didn't accept that the company would just go bankrupt because of one useless person. Not many came even though Sebastian had persuaded them all and assured them that everything would be fine, Sebastian sighed heavily with his muddled thoughts. Some of them seemed to believe and hope that Sebastian could handle this mess, some doubted him because of the rumours that had been circulating.The hour-plus of debate between Sebastian and the shareholders, as well as their stubbornness, made Sebastian a little annoyed even though he had already shown strong evidence that what was being spread was fake news."I'm sorry Sebastian, but you should focus on defusing this issue first instead of trying to build a business in the middle of a storm. Really, what you're doi
"What brings you here?" Sebastian asked when he saw Amelia and Elliott in the flower garden behind the mansion.Elliott glanced at Sebastian with a smile and Amelia did the same, she was also holding a daisy in her hand which was none other than Amelia's favourite flower. Sebastian gave Amelia an annoyed look because Amelia had dared to pick flowers in this house without his permission, Sebastian took the flower and threw it in the trash."What are you trying to do here!" Sebastian asked rudely.Amelia stared at the daisy that Sebastian had thrown away, "Why did you throw it away, at least let me have one.""Why should you have something you don't like? Don't you hate that flower?"Amelia's brow furrowed, "Sebastian, have you forgotten that the daisy is my favourite flower? ever since you were a baby I've always put a daisy in your room,""It was Rosalie's favourite flower, she always put it in my room. Not you,"Amelia was saddened by how hard Rosalie had worked to replace her as Mrs
"Surprise!" Irish shouted as Sebastian switched on the light. Irish immediately got out of bed and hugged Sebastian, the smell of wine was so strong from his body and Irish didn't like it. Sebastian looked frustrated, Irish who had wanted to tease him finally abandoned her intention because she thought this wasn't the right time to test Sebastian's patience. "You'd better take a shower hubby, you're so messy." she said while unbuttoning Sebastian's shirt. As Irish unbuttoned Sebastian's shirt one by one, Sebastian suddenly grabbed Irish's hand and looked at her with a look that Irish couldn't understand. Sebastian suddenly hugged her, then said the word sorry repeatedly. Was Sebastian apologising for what happened in the back garden? But Irish didn't see anything strange there, all she saw was Sebastian and Catherine chatting although Irish was quite curious about what they were talking about. Since the beginning of Catherine coming to this mansion, Sebastian has always defended
"Isaac, you're my sister's son. But she died when she gave birth to you."Isaac lost his hope in an instant, it turned out that the person he was looking for could no longer be seen. The fact is in the past Mrs. Webster had wanted to take custody of Isaac, but Lauren who at that time was the biggest donor at her orphanage, wanted Isaac. Lauren threatened to cut off her donation if Mrs. Webster didn't give Isaac to her, so she gave Isaac up reluctantly and a few years after adopting Isaac they suddenly cut off the donation unilaterally for no reason. Mrs. Webster was never allowed to see him, they even moved out of the country to avoid her. She couldn't do anything else to see Isaac because Lauren held the legal adoption rights, all her life she felt so guilty for giving Isaac up to her."What's my mom's name?" Isaac asked with frustration on his face."Annabeth Webster, by the way just call me Aunt Grace because you're my nephew. Alice, please get Aunt Anna's box from the cupboard." s
Today they have fully recovered and have been allowed to leave the hospital, Isaac was assigned by Luigi to pick them up because Isaac was also ready to devote himself to the Bellucci family. But there seems to be no time for Irish to relax because she has to go to Greece now, her company is having a bit of trouble and she has to step in but unfortunately Sebastian can't accompany him. Finally on the way, they decide to split up because Irish has to go back to her parents' house to pick up some of her personal documents, while Sebastian returns to the Bellucci mansion along with Luigi and Isaac. When Sebastian's car arrived at the mansion's courtyard, Suzzane immediately ran to welcome them but somehow when he saw Suzzane Sebastian felt he couldn't look at his sister. Sebastian didn't hate Suzanne, it was just that he felt disappointed in his stepmother and it seemed he needed a little time to calm down. "Luigi, what's wrong with my brother? Is he angry that I didn't take care o
Upon Sebastian's return from the nursing home, he was mostly silent and seemed confused after hearing the story about his mother from Esther. Everything Esther had told him contrasted with what Andreas had told him, and the problem was that now he didn't know who to believe. Rosalie and Andreas were dead and Sebastian couldn't ask them for an explanation of Esther's story, should he trust Amelia? Sebastian was really confused. "Not everything we see is the truth young sir, sometimes eyes can also deceive us." he said while patting Sebastian's shoulder. "Then do you think Mrs. Esther's story is the most true?" "I'm not saying that, I think just listen to your heart, which one do you want to believe the most. By the way, do you still want to sue Mrs. Amelia’s in court?” "Hold off on that until I'm absolutely sure," "Okay, young master." Luigi left after a little chat with Sebastian, because Sebastian also had to go back and take care of his problems in France so he decided t