Meanwhile, Rachel pinched Caleb's cheek as soon as they were outside Euphoria Smith. "Wow! You really are my brother!"Caleb slapped her hand away. "Who else could I be? Your dad?"Rachel glared at her older brother right away. "I'm going to tell dad that you talked about him like this!""You're a grown-up now, Rachel! Stop using dad as a threat!" Caleb tousled his younger sister's hair playfully. "You ate so much for nothing over the years. It seems that you're still a kid.""Shut up! Even if you weren't here tonight, I wouldn't have let her win! Besides, I have Vonnie by my side!" Rachel hooked her arm around Yvonne's while crowing proudly, "Vonnie would've definitely beaten her up to the point she can't walk!"Amused by his sister's antics, Caleb started chuckling softly. A hint of a smile appeared on his relaxed features. Rachel couldn't help but stare at him. She hadn't realized until now that her brother was actually handsome. Since both Caleb and Xavier drank a lot, they
A week later, Turner Tech announced that it would stop collaborating on the Techno Hotel project unilaterally.Marco Blackmore, Olivia's father, visited Caleb and asked him for the reason. All he received was a curt response from the man. "You can ask your beloved daughter what happened."After that, Marco found out about what had happened thanks to Stanley filling him in, prompting him to fly into a fit of rage on the spot. He wanted to force Olivia to leave the country, but Andrea stopped him. Still, he grounded Olivia on the spot and even froze her bank account.One day, Andrea sought Stanley out with the intention of asking him for help. She wanted him to plead with Caleb not to make things insanely difficult for the Blackmore family.At that time, Stanley happened to be going through the balance sheets. He didn't even bother to look at his mother as he retorted, "When Olivia was insulting Rachel in front of Caleb, she never once took her feelings into consideration.""Well, O
"Is this the so-called software you wanted to talk about?" Even though Caleb was mocking Yvonne, he still headed in Stanley's direction obediently.Yvonne just chuckled softly. "If I'd told you that you'd be meeting Stanley here, you'd have fled in that sports car of yours.""Correction. I would've run over him before fleeing from the scene." Caleb went along with the flow smoothly. He and Yvonne traded glances before smiling at each other.As Stanley watched their interaction, he had an inexplicable feeling that the atmosphere between them was starting to become amorous."Don't tell me you came here to plead on behalf of your cousin."Stanley quickly snapped out of his thoughts as soon as he heard Caleb's voice. He shook his head hastily while replying, "No. I'm here to apologize to you. I had a little too much to drink that night, so I wasn't able to stop Olivia in time. I—""Then you should be apologizing to Rachel instead. Why did you seek me out?" Caleb sat down and crossed
Yvonne drove home that evening. She saw Stephen, who was standing outside Miller Villa, from afar. She slowed down her car right away so she could grab her handbag, which was on the front passenger seat, and throw it to the back.After all, it had files on her prenatal case that she'd just created at the hospital earlier that afternoon, as well as a copy of the nuchal translucency report.Her baby was doing fine, not to mention she only had to go through the procedure of the nuchal translucency ultrasound once. It was a good thing that Yvonne didn't have to worry about her pregnancy.After parking her car next to Stephen, Yvonne wound down her car window as she looked at him. "You seem to have so much free time on your hands, Mr. Anderson."Stephen bent down while gripping the edge of the car window tightly. "Curtis is your subordinate, right?"Yvonne had already been prepared for the question, so she was able to plaster a genuinely confused expression on her face. "Who's that?"
Since it was an emergency, Yvonne quickly washed up before driving toward Miller Jewels immediately.On the way there, she looked through the shopping apps while waiting for the traffic light to turn green. As she scrolled down the search page, she discovered that there were at least a dozen shops selling her company's design drafts.Other than the official jewelry brands with chain outlets, there were countless independent workshops that managed online retail stores in the country. Those online stores took over a huge chunk of the market thanks to their beautiful and cheap designs. They tended to copy the designs of the official jewelry brands, but they used different materials to craft the jewelry so that they could sell it at a lower price.Even if Miller Jewels were to sue them for plagiarism, it wouldn't be effective against the online stores. At most, the shopping platforms would force the stores to stop selling the products.However, the damages and losses Miller Jewels suff
"Nope."Yvonne shook her head in response. "I was able to keep the others under control at the meeting just now, but I won't be able to stop them from gossiping about you. You'll have a hard time working here from now on, so you might as well take the time off and rest at home.""I'm not going home! I'm also responsible for the leak, so I need to stay here and help out with the investigation!" Nicole's eyes started to redden as she hung her head sadly. "I'm sorry, Ms. Miller. It was my fault for not keeping a close eye on the drafts. The company suffered a huge loss because of my mistake.""Traitors who are the closest to you are the hardest to defend against. If we do have a traitor in our midst, you wouldn't have been able to protect the drafts, no matter how hard you tried." Yvonne looked at Nicole at that moment. She had a feeling that there was more to the incident than met the eye. For some reason, a bad premonition kept clouding her heart."Don't think too much about it, Nic
Once Yvonne located Nicole's apartment, she rang the doorbell. However, no one came to open the door for her, even after she'd waited outside for a long time.A bad feeling washed over Yvonne immediately, prompting her to turn around and motion for Lloyd to do his thing. The latter stepped forward to work his magic. A few loud bangs later, he was able to bust the door down.The apartment was plunged into total darkness as the lights weren't turned on. Then again, Yvonne could see a faint outline lying in front of the doorway of the balcony.Alarmed, she bounded toward the figure immediately. Once she got close to the figure, Yvonne was able to smell traces of blood permeating the air, which made her heart skip a beat out of anxiety.Lloyd, who'd trailed in behind Yvonne, finally located the light switch. The moment he turned it on, the entire apartment was flooded with light right away.Nicole instinctively raised a hand to shield her eyes from the bright light due to the photosen
At first, Nicole didn't really want to open up, so she started by talking about the things that Yvonne had heard about in the past.Under Yvonne's guidance, Nicole gradually began to speak about her innermost feelings and thoughts."My parents have always thought of me as a waste of space. They think that women are supposed to marry into other families sooner or later, so there's no need for them to learn so much at school. Would you believe me if I told you that I was forced into a matchmaking session the moment I graduated from high school? They claimed that they'd be able to receive a nice sum of money from my husband's family once I got married. That way, my older brother could get married successfully."Nicole continued, "I didn't listen to them at all. Instead, I ran away from home one night and traveled to the city before finding a job there in order to earn tuition fees for my university classes. I didn't ask my family for even a penny; instead, I gave them a portion of my o