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 while she was alone here. Catherine missed William very much, Catherine had never been able to see William since he was detained. Catherine didn't realize that someone had been watching her from a distance, a look of hate, love and pity mixed in his eyes when looking at Catherine. "Have you made a deal with Riel Rosewood?" he asked without taking his eyes off Catherine. "I have young master, Mr. Riel is ready to cooperate with you and do as you ask." Sebastian hung up the phone call, "The game for you will begin in a moment, Catherine." Catherine went home after finishing all the ice cream sorbet, when she got home she immediately told the good news about her job to her mother and sister. They were so touched that Catherine could finally get through her difficult time, Emily no longer had to worry about how Catherine would live with her baby in the future. ******** "Why did you leave home without telling me first, Sebastian?" Andreas asked, who looked annoyed with him. "I was in a hurry." Andreas sighed irritably, "Forget about that girl, you should go back to France to take care of our family business and continue your engagement with Irish." Yet again, Andreas is talking about his engagement to Irish. Sebastian had rejected that girl many times, did they still not understand? He should publicly humiliate the Wright family so that they would stop bothering him. Sebastian had no more appetite for wine, so he went back into the room and left Andreas to continue rambling and lecturing him. But when he opened the door, a girl had greeted him on the bed with her flirtatious behavior. As usual, she always tried to tease him when she was in his presence, she immediately ran to Sebastian and hugged him tightly. "Honey, I missed you." she murmured in Sebastian's arms. Sebastian tried to break Irish's embrace and pulled Irish away from him, "Can you stop acting like a whore like this?" Irish raised one eyebrow, then touched Sebastian's broad chest. "I can't, after all I'm only being naughty like this to you, my future husband." Sebastian was reluctant to respond anymore to Irish's words, after all he was also exhausted after a flight of several hours and immediately went to find Catherine's whereabouts. Sebastian pulled Irish out of the room and threw Irish's sweater on the floor, then locked the room so that girl could no longer enter. There was no sound of her grumbling as Sebastian locked her at outside, only the sound of her heels moving away from Sebastian's room. Sebastian was just about to rest when suddenly he heard a gunshot from outside his room, followed by Irish's cries for help. Sebastian came out of his room with his gun, but unfortunately he couldn't find who had fired the bullets into his house and all he found was Andreas who was lying with a bullet wound in his shoulder. Irish was crying while trying to cover the wound on Andreas' shoulder with her sweater, she looked shocked after seeing the shooting that happened so quickly in front of her eyes until her hands shook violently. Sebastian felt very sorry, he should not have left his dad immediately and this kind of incident would never happen. Throughout the ambulance ride, Irish looks more silent with her blank gaze while looking at Andreas who is now being treated by the medical team. Luckily, the hospital still had blood bags available for him, so Andreas could be saved even though he was still very weak. "Young master, I found this bullet." Luigi showed the bullet he found in the house, "It looks like this bullet didn't succeed in hitting Master Andreas." Sebastian took the bullet from Luigi's hand, without needing to look at it longer Sebastian knew who the owner of this bullet was. Sebastian put the bullet in his shirt pocket, he really hoped that he could return this bullet to the owner as soon as possible, right in the head. "How is Miss Irish conditions, young master?" Luigi asked because he hadn't seen Irish anywhere. Sebastian had just remembered that he was with Irish in the ambulance, but he was more focused on Andreas' condition. "She's fine and is being treated by the doctor in the emergency room, maybe. After all she's an adult, she can take care of herself." "Really? As far as I know, Miss Irish is very afraid of blood and she helped Master Andreas earlier, she even covered Master Andreas wound with her own hands." Sebastian was silent for a moment, he really didn't know anything about Irish even when Irish was in a state of shock he preferred to ignore her. Sebastian thought Irish was just shocked because of the shooting, but maybe she was also shocked because she had to see blood and even had to hold that much blood. Sebastian went to the emergency room to see how she was doing, but Irish was now asleep after being sedated by the doctor. Sebastian stood next to her, staring at the girl who always annoyed him but turned out to have a good heart. Irish's eyelids slowly opened when Sebastian was about to leave, she grasped Sebastian's hand in the hope that the man would not leave her here alone like before. "Why didn't you tell me you were afraid of blood?" Sebastian chided in an annoyed tone. "Your dad is in critical condition, how could I keep quiet." Sebastian sighed softly, he called Luigi and asked Luigi to arrange Irish's return to France after her condition improved. "I don't want to go home," Irish refused. "You should go home, I don't have time to take care of anyone especially you." Irish's eyes glazed over, a moment later tears began to roll down her cheeks but Sebastian didn't feel the slightest bit sorry for her and instead felt annoyed. Women always use their tears to make men pity and helpless, but Sebastian hates it when he sees women crying. The more Irish tears flowed, the more reluctant Sebastian was to linger here. "Don't go, I'm scared." she sobbed while holding one of Sebastian's hands. "No one will hurt you, so don't overreact." Irish looked down and let go of Sebastian's hand slowly, she didn't say anything else and chose to hide under her blanket. Sebastian could see the vibration of the blanket, he knew that Irish was crying silently under the blanket. Sebastian finally pulled out a chair and sat next to Irish, a few minutes with her Sebastian felt it was enough to repay Irish's kindness for helping his dad. Irish opened the blanket slowly, she turned to look at Sebastian intensely with her eyelids already looking puffy. "Sebastian, I'm afraid of blood. I was so scared that I felt like fainting," she said but Sebastian did not respond to her words and was instead busy on his cell phone. "I'm scared of blood because Anthony bled to death in an car accident, and his blood soaked my favorite party dress." she continued, her story catching Sebastian's attention, Anthony was Irish's eldest brother and they were very close but Anthony died when he was eleven years old. "He shouldn't have helped me back then, so my dad wouldn't be mad at me now." she cried again. "Your dad didn't hate you, he spoiled you a lot." Sebastian said, still with his indifference. "I was spoiled, but only with money and luxuries. Actually, my dad hates me, he's only nice to me when he's in front of people." Irish got up from his bed and took a seat opposite Sebastian. "You can go," Sebastian didn't hesitate to leave Irish alone, he didn't even thank Irish for helping his dad. Irish could only smile slightly, she already knew how Sebastian was so she wasn't too disappointed."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
Sebastian dived into the pool to save Catherine who was about to sink to the bottom, the maids and bodyguards who had only helped Irish now also tried to help Catherine but it was too late because Catherine was already unconscious. Sebastian pressed on Catherine's chest to pump the water out of her lungs, also giving her artificial breath repeatedly to the annoyance of Irish. Catherine's face was already pale, plus there was no breath coming out of her nose. "Just take her to the hospital, why do you have to bother giving her help even to the point of giving her artificial breath." she grumbled while shivering from the cold. Sebastian ignored her, he kept helping Catherine to breathe again until finally his efforts were not in vain. Catherine woke up while coughing and releasing the water lodged in her lungs, Sebastian could finally breathe a sigh of relief because he could finally see Catherine alive again. But instead of the gratitude Sebastian received, Catherine beat him like an
"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