After work, Serena didn't immediately head back to Pines Ridge. Instead, she found a nearby coffee shop.What did Matthew want to do...She needed to calm down.However, the coffee shop wasn't peaceful either. She saw Alex entering with a woman in his arms.The woman appeared innocent, but there was a touch of worldliness in her beauty."Alex, it's her. The one who rejected you last time and injured you."Pointed by the woman in Alex's embrace, a girl sitting in the corner instantly appeared in front of everyone.The girl looked ordinary, with a slight frown on her forehead.Serena was close to her, but a potted plant obstructed the girl's view, and she couldn't see Serena.There were three scars on the girl's wrist, indicating multiple suicide attempts.Alex noticed the girl, but he didn't see Serena, who was also present.He walked towards the corner with the woman in his arms.The girl showed no fear; she seemed soulless, merely a shell sitting there.As Alex approached, he kicked
Alex also felt uncomfortable.He did want to make trouble for Serena, but it had to be done subtly.If he openly offended someone, Serena could go back and gossip, and that would be the end of the Wilson Family.Although he didn't want to admit it, he currently didn't dare to provoke Serena.The people in the coffee shop, watching the drama, instantly understood. It seemed that this young lady had an even bigger background.The woman, enraged, turned red in the face. Alex could only comfort her, "She comes from a powerful background. We can't provoke her. If you want to vent, we can do it in private, okay? Sweetie, I'll buy you a bag and a necklace later as compensation."Hearing the first half of the sentence, the woman was initially angry, but the promise of buying a bag and a necklace made her eyes light up."Alex, I'm fine. You're still good to me."After saying this, she cast a proud glance at Serena and coldly sneered, "I won't bother with you. You, acting all high and mighty, n
Sophie poured the orange juice into the trash can, got into the car parked nearby after leaving the coffee shop.The driver, who had been waiting, spoke respectfully, "Miss Sophie, are we heading back?"The woman remained silent, absently touching the scar on her wrist.The driver dared not drive, and the car stayed parked for a while.After half an hour, he tentatively asked, "Miss? Are we going back?""What do you think of Serena?" The woman asked softly, seemingly not hearing his words.The driver tightened his grip on the steering wheel. "Mr. Jack would like her, proving she has exceptional qualities. Mr. Jack is about to return. Miss Sophie, you've worked hard for so many years, and he hasn't even looked at you. It's better to give up. Continuing like this will only bring you more pain."His tone was filled with reluctance.The lively and cute girl from the past had turned into someone with severe depression due to a youthful romance."Is that so? Do you also think I'm not as goo
FranceJack caressed the photo in front of him, his eyes red, and his hair disheveled.He had a nightmare, a very long one."Serena, we haven't talked for a long time. I just dreamed of you. They say dreaming of someone you haven't spoken to in a while means they are forgetting you. Is that true? I miss you so much..."As he spoke the last sentence, a hint of choking accompanied it, causing a twinge in Serena's heart.It felt like time had flown back to that summer when they were seventeen.The young man crossed everyone to be by her side.With just one glance, she became engraved in his bones and blood.She opened her mouth but found she couldn't produce any sound, as if the whole world had fallen into silence.Suddenly, a hand reached over from the opposite side and took the phone.Matthew's movements were elegant and indifferent.He hung up and tossed the phone into the trash bin.Serena didn't have time to stop him, and all her thoughts instantly returned.She was about to questio
Matthew felt an indescribable frustration in his heart and didn't even know where to go.He just didn't want to stay in the villa, didn't want to see her.Fortunately, Blair sent him a text, so he drove to the hotel.Upon entering the private room, he saw the same man he had a fight with a few days ago.Both of them still bore the marks of their recent brawl.Blair had a cigarette dangling from his mouth, and his open shirt revealed well-defined muscles, with a deep scar on his left chest, suggesting a once life-threatening injury."Recovered pretty quickly," Matthew remarked as he took a seat.Blair extinguished his cigarette in the ashtray."With your weak strength, I couldn't afford to lie down for a few days."Matthew remained silent. This guy always had this tone – tough and unyielding."Anything happened?" Blair asked, noticing the change in Matthew's expression."Is it because of a woman? I heard you got married. I really want to see what that woman looks like."Blair never exp
At this point, Matthew was in a semi-conscious state, completely paralyzed by the effects of the drug.He was barely holding on and couldn't hear what people around him were saying."Yes I am. Let me take care of him," Samantha reached out to help Matthew stand.Blair scrutinized her for a moment, puzzled.Was this really Serena?She didn't seem particularly outstanding, similar to any woman on the street.Would Matthew be attracted to such a woman?He quickly dismissed this speculation.It seemed that Matthew's bad mood tonight had nothing to do with a woman."There's a room upstairs. Here's the key to the room I often stay in. Take him there, and I'll call a doctor,"Blair said without suspicion. He was too confident, thinking no one would dare deceive him."Okay," Samantha replied straightforwardly, unable to conceal her excitement.Matthew's mind was like mush, and he was being led forward in a daze.He couldn't even recognize where he was.Samantha, supporting him, entered the el
Matthew got into the car, holding onto the last shred of rationality, and drove back to Pines Ridge.Upon entering the villa's living room, he didn't see Serena and had to go upstairs.Opening the door to his room, he found Serena sitting solemnly on his bed.Her hair was disheveled, her fair skin more enchanting under the lamp's glow, and her figure alluring.Serena, unaware that tonight's actions were akin to a lamb entering a tiger's den, was genuinely happy to see Matthew return. She smiled and quickly stood up to greet him, "You came back so quickly."She had initially intended to wait for him in the living room, but what they needed to discuss required privacy, so they had agreed to talk in their room.Approaching, Matthew instantly caught a whiff of the shower gel scent on her. She must have just taken a bath.The heat inside him surged again, slowly eroding his rationality.He felt like a hungry wolf, and Serena was a delicious piece of meat, and, crucially, this meat was cons
Matthew remained silent, hearing the door slam shut.He reached up to touch his face.The surging heat still rampaged through his body. What was in that medicine, so potent...He thought he would be angry, given the current situation wasn't what he intended.It was the medication inside him causing trouble, not his own intention.However, he was surprisingly calm. He calmly entered the bathroom, placing himself under the cold water. The chill cleared his mind.He looked at his reflection in the mirror, his eyes still carrying the lingering fierceness.A perfect lion, when encountering something it liked, would tear it into several pieces before savoring it slowly.He just had such feelings towards Serena. He wanted to claim her as his own, to hide her away, visible only to him.Infinity Realm was powerful, and his hands were not clean. Or perhaps, he himself was a fierce carnivore.The more dangerous the creature, the more it liked to present itself as untouched by the human world.Af
It was getting darker and darker, and Serena's mind had been restless ever since she heard that Matthew had to go out recently.When she went to bed at night, she habitually nestled into his arms, and just as she entered dreamland, she began to dream.Dreams of deep, bottomless oceans, dreams of the man holding her close and not wanting to let go, dreams of him chewing raw fish and feeding it mouth-to-mouth into her mouth.The ship's board was adrift in such an ocean, her life in danger at any moment.She was shivering with cold, unable to distinguish dream from reality.He called her "Serena" over and over again in her ear, his voice so gentle and loving that her eyes began to redden.Her body was held in his arms, and he kept her warm with his body heat, while he was submerged in the sea.The fish smelled so full of fish that she swallowed almost unconsciously, having no idea what she was going through.Serena's tears ran dow
"Sophie, why are you telling me about this now, I was almost victimized by that bitch!"Roger had a belly full of bitter water and was worried that he had no place to pour it out, just when Sophie called this number.And Sophie was still different from the others, at least the other party had been comforting him."Mr. Roger, so how are you now? Is everything okay?"Even though she already knew how Roger ended up, Sophie was still pretending to be confused at this moment.Hearing that she was concerned about herself, Roger suddenly felt a little guilty, guilty that before this, he actually suspected that Sophie was trying to brush herself off.It turns out that people are just not feeling well, and they are not receiving calls for the time being.Sophie's image in his heart instantly towered over him, and all of his resentment was transferred to Serena."Being dismissed by my uncle, all because of Serena, this bitch!"Rog
Serena raised her eyebrows, it turned out that contacting the bodyguard did not rely on the phone, this was something she really did not think about.When the old man saw her face, his eyebrows were even more smug, ''Do you think that there is nothing I can do if you block my men down there? I'm just willing to cooperate with you, I really think I'm charmed by you, now you don't want to pull Infinity Realm's Boss on me, no one can save you, if you're sensible, you can send this bodyguard out of the room, and stay here with me for a few days."Serena gauged the time and Matthew was almost there.She had the bodyguard hold the older man down while she herself broke the glass in the bathroom, picking up the shards and plunging them down his throat."Mr. Roy would be better off with a little less talk right now."Her tone was light, yet her strike was so vicious.Mr. Roy was so shocked that he almost screamed, luckily the glass shard stopped a few centimeters from his throat.His forehead
The old man was already dissatisfied with Roger's current attitude, and now that he heard Serena say this, he instantly understood.It turned out that Roger himself coveted Serena's beauty, and the gaze he looked at Roger with a thorn in his side, making Roger feel like a fool inside and out.Roger could only hastily apologize, "Mr. Roy, I definitely didn't mean that."After saying that, he looked at Serena, his eyes full of threats, "It's good that Madam can figure it out, following Mr. Roy does have a good life, don't you think of running away, or else ......"Serena laughed lowly and didn't bother.The old man could no longer stand Serena's clear-cut energy, and immediately spoke sharply, "Where does Madam want to go? Please."He made a "please" gesture, and Serena lifted her foot and left.Roger was in a hurry, but with Mr. Roy here, he couldn't really say anything.Serena went all the way out of Vitec Technologies, her heart suppressed a ball of fire, but now the crisis has not b
She kept whispering, but in this small space, the sound had a brief echo that disturbed her.She crouched in the corner, holding her head, her mind in turmoil.The people in the monitoring room saw her like this and were a little afraid that something was wrong, but with Roger's orders in front of them, no one dared to put Serena out.The child's voice was getting more and more shrill, like she was facing some great fear, and with it being in this dark, claustrophobic space, Serena felt like she was going crazy.She pounded on the wall, but no one paid any attention to her until the back of her hand was swollen.In the afternoon, Roger mercifully came over to take another look and found Serena had crouched motionless in the corner of the wall and looked quizzically at the crowd in the custody room."What's wrong with her? Shouldn't be scared to death?"His tone was full of mockery, the corners of his mouth curved up triumphantly, "I thought I had a hard-on, but it turned out to be jus
If she didn't see it with her own eyes, Serena couldn't believe it was Sophie.Sophie liked Jack to the point of paranoia, and didn't expect to go behind Jack's back and do something like this."Does Jack know when you're like this?"Her voice trailed off, holding her chest slightly as she looked Sophie over.Sophie raised an eyebrow, getting up and grabbing a bag off to the side, "Madam is this about meddling in her ex-boyfriend's family business?"She emphasized her ex-boyfriend, her words full of sarcasm.Serena raised her eyebrows and laughed out softly, "That's not true, before I heard that Winters Group had a big crisis, after seeing you I realized that the crisis has been so serious that the grand lady of Winters Group actually needs to come out to pick up customers, I'm just a little surprised."Sophie originally still had a cloudy face, when she heard her say that, her face instantly changed, slightly narrowing her eyes."Serena, if it wasn't for you, do you think I would be
All she needed to do was to plant a seed of doubt in Serena's heart, and with time, that seed would surely grow into a huge tree.Serena was staring at her cell phone in a daze, and when Lorraine reminded her of this, a cold sweat did break out on her back.She thought back carefully to the details of her re-encounter with Matthew, such as to Mr. Roger was touching her left index finger, the place where she wore her ring.Matthew never wore a ring, only Maxwell wore a ring, and only someone who wore a ring would react that way.She tossed her cell phone aside as a pain started to build in her head.After careful thought, she found the idea funny again, Lorraine still had something to hide from her, this person's words couldn't be trusted one hundred percent, maybe the other person was purposely trying to separate her and Matthew.Thinking of this, her heart settled down a bit, lying on the bed and fell asleep.Matthew returned not long after, he lifted a corner of the quilt and lay on
Matthew returned to Pines Ridge only to find that Serena hadn't gone to bed and had been waiting in the living room.He covered his shoulder and when he saw her, he quickly put his hand down.Serena noticed the bandage on his shoulder and stood up, "What happened to the shoulder?""It's a little bruised."Matthew's reply was light, and after sitting down on the couch, he hugged her to him, "Did you have a good day at work?"Serena unbuttoned him and took a serious look at the bandage, "Gunshot wound?"She was only guessing, her eyes staring him down without blinking.Matthew was helpless, rubbing his brow, "Well, gunshot wound, I was going to send you to the office to get back in shape, but the group came out of nowhere, so you won't be able to go out lately, Serena, I'll be at Pines Ridge with you."Serena was relieved that at least the man was willing to loosen up and stop hiding things from her."Is it for me?"Matthew wrapped her in a hug and kissed her on the cheek."I'm not sure
Scarlett didn't tell Serena any of this, though, so Serena didn't know.After a few days of working at Infinity Realm, she was completely back in the swing of things.During her lunch break, she was caught up in a story on the news.It was a missing persons story.The face was one she recognized, when she was in front of the hospital, the person said they wanted Matthew to stop pestering her.She didn't realize that in a short period of time, it had become a missing person, was there any connection?She carefully rummaged through it, yet there was no news other than missing, it was like disappearing into thin air.Her mind suddenly went to the Sin City, an existence that ordinary people didn't even know about.If she hadn't personally gone and experienced it, she wouldn't have known that there was actually a place like that in this world.Moreover, Lorraine had also mentioned the Harrington family headquarters before, and said something about the Elders, and all of these clues all add