“I promise.” He said with a big smile.
He just meant that he would do nothing to her if she is unwilling, but he would be happy to cooperate if she wanted.
“Nanny Carter likes you very much. If you are unwilling to live with me, she will scold me.” There was a bit of sadness in his eyes.
“Okay...” she consented to it.
His eyes flickered, and he moved slightly toward her.
She got very nervous in an instant.
Did Joshua want to kiss her again? The driver was still there, though!
Suddenly, his cell phone rang, and she pushed him away with a sigh of relief. “That is for you!”
“What did you do?” Joshua asked softly.“I...” Kenny was about to say something when there was a knock at the door. He sighed helplessly and got up to open the door.“He thought you were joking with us when you said you were bringing your girlfriend,” Isaac gloated as he whispered, “so he asked VanessaYoung to come here.”“Why didn’t you stop him?” Joshua asked calmly.“Why should I stop him?” Isaac looked as if he expected the worst.Hazel felt overwhelmed.Their words clearly said that the relationship between Vanessa, who was about to arrive, and Joshua was not simple.
Hazel’s eyelids twitched.Vanessa didn’t want to seize the opportunity to embarrass her, did she?Hazel was worried that she wouldn’t have the opportunity to ask Joshua what he wanted for a gift, and if they played “Truth or Dare,” she might have the opportunity to ask.“Great idea!” Kenny agreed. “We don't know her very well yet, so we can take advantage of the game to get to know each other.”The others all agreed.Joshua looked at Hazel, who itched to have a go, and nodded.The group got together to come up with a lot of ideas to give the others a hard time.Prepared
Joshua had warned them before they asked.“Hazel, how old are you?” Isaac asked, clearly cheating.“Twenty,” Hazel replied.They all looked at Joshua in unison, with a look of conviction.“Shame on you!”Isaac said, looking at Joshua. “You’re robbing the cradle!”“Oh,” said Joshua, with a calm air, “you can’t do it.”In an instant, Isaac stared at him with a sad, angry face.“Go ahead, go ahead.” Hazel reminded them with embarrassment.“What part of Joshua do you admire most, sister-in-law?&
Vanessa was infuriated.She had really understated Hazel Crowe. She had intended to kiss Joshua, but Hazel not only sabotaged her plan but even showed off to provoke her!“No, you misunderstood, I don’t mean anything else.” Hazel felt embarrassed. She hurried to explain, “We’re both women…”“Don’t bother!” Vanessa interrupted with a cold face.Her target was Joshua, but now the one she had to kiss was Hazel. How could she insist on the kiss?“Forget it,” Kenny echoed to her words. “Let’s start over…”“Why can’t we continue?” Isaac interrupted with a sneer. “If
“Don’t mention her then,” she said in a low voice.Even being inexperienced as she was, she could sense Vanessa’s hostility to her. Joshua suddenly mentioning her made her somewhat unhappy.Joshua raised his eyebrows in surprise.The reason why he suddenly mentioned Vanessa was that she suddenly mentioned he had promised her something when they played “Truth or Dare.”Vanessa was the daughter of a director of Denmark Group. Her father came to Joshua and asked him to help arrange a job for her at DenmarkGroup.Joshua had always refused directors to place their children in the company. But Vanessa’s parents were so close to his parents that he could not refuse them.
Just as they were about to leave, Nanny Carter came out and asked, “Is it, Miss Young?”“Yes.” Joshua nodded.“Mr. Denmark, you should personally take her home,” Nanny Carter advised. “Her family has helped the Denmark family. If anything happens to her, it would be hard for you to explain it.”“I see.” Joshua agreed and also got into the car.As soon as the car reached Vanessa’s apartment, Joshua and the driver helped her upstairs quickly to avoid suspicion.After finding the key in her bag, Joshua opened the apartment door, and the driver helped Vanessa walk into the bedroom.No sooner had she been put in her bedr
Hazel needed to go to the supermarket for the ingredients to make the chocolates, but just as she was leaving the dormitory, she saw Ivan waiting for her.She couldn’t resist frowning. Ivan still hadn’t called her since returning home after the incident in the mountains.“Hazel.” Ivan walked toward Hazel hesitantly.“What’s the matter, Ivan?” she asked politely.“Nothing, I just wanted to visit you.” He looked to be in a gloomy mood. “Are you going out? Let me be your driver.”“Don’t bother.” She smiled, distant. “I’m just going to the nearest supermarket, not that far.”“Th
“I am sorry, Ivan, I do not understand,” she came to her senses and interrupted calmly.Looking at his face, she took a deep breath. She did not know how Ivan felt before, but she knew it now, so naturally, they had to talk it over.“Ivan, your affection to me should not be love,” she spoke quietly. “I always think that to love someone is to be nice to that person. It’s the first time I’ve heard that the one you love must be persecuted first even if she did nothing wrong.”“I...” he wanted to explain something, but she interrupted him.“As a friend, I can understand your helplessness but cannot accept it as an excuse. Besides, since you feel that your helplessness is more important than my injustice, doesn
“Joshua…” She called his name with somewhat impatience.We can’t let Simon go. She felt that something would happen if they let him go. It was very strange; she seemed to be on the verge of figuring out something important, but now she still could not figure it out.“Hazel, what are you thinking about?” Even on such a tense occasion, Simon was rarely amused by her. He couldn’t help speaking, “You actually expect Joshua to risk your life just to keep me? Joshua, will you do that?”“What do you think?” Joshua spoke coldly.The people around Simon were scattering, which was his answer.“That’s right!&rdq
“Even if you were to tell me, why did you insist on my coming to you?” she whispered. “Let’s wait until Joshua comes….”“It involves my mother, and I don’t want anyone to know about it, especially Joshua,” he said in a deep tone. “Hazel, I’m just trying to convince you one last time. Even if I lied to you before, do you suspect I’d hurt you?”Looking at his wounded face, she could not help freezing a little. Indeed, Simon had done some outrageous things before, but at least he had never intended to hurt her. She was really a little ruthless by being so wary of him.“Good.” she opened her mouth. “If you can’t convince me, stay.”His eyes flashed, and he finally nod
“Hazel, are you kidding me?!” He looked at her in shock. “They say a pregnant woman is always stupid. You’re not so stupid as to fall into this trap by yourself, are you?”“You’re stupid! Your whole family is stupid!” She was furious.“You are my sister-in-law, and my whole family includes you.” He pointed it out without mercy, but he scolded himself immediately after he had said this. He was really quite used to the identity of being Joshua’s younger brother. When he said these words, he was not thinking at all.Ignoring his words, Hazel said with a solemn expression, “For some reason, I think this is very weird. I didn’t mean only myself when I said I wanted to go with you. We’ll take all the men.
His words couldn’t comfort Hazel at all.She frowned. Ian Flores hated Joshua very much, so if Ian knew that Joshua was alive, Ian would make a desperate attempt to avenge himself on Joshua. What was more, Joshua deliberately wanted to be reunited with the Sloane family, which would make Ian have more hatred of Joshua.But Ian would only risk everything when he was very sure that he could win.Just as Ian used Stacy to threaten Joshua last time, even if Ian did go to Joshua this time, Ian would be fully prepared.Worse still... Hazel felt a little flustered for no reason. She had a feeling that things were not going so well this time somehow and that there was something they did not know.“Simon, we have to be car
“...” Simon was extremely angry with him. Finally, he snapped, gritting his teeth, “Whose side do you take?”Joshua’s eyes went dark. “I’m giving you a chance to prove yourself.”“What?” Simon looked at him with a puzzle.“Our plan failed last time because something went wrong because of you,” Joshua said, picking up the wine glass and playing with it gently. “That’s why things end up like this today.”In an instant, Simon looked a little gloomy. He had been kicking himself over it. Even if he knew Joshua was safe now, he would not say frankly that it was not his fault.“What exactly are you trying to say?” Simon said irritab
“Please go home, both of you,” Chester said apologetically. “Master Simon hasn’t been in a good mood lately….”“Besides, if he sees us, he’ll be more unhappy, won’t he?” Hazel looked at Joshua and couldn’t help speaking.Helplessly, Joshua pinched her hand. How could Hazel undermine Simon like that?“What?” Chester looked at her blankly.“Nothing, nothing.” She hurried to smile and played dumb.Joshua gave Chester a quiet look. “Did he ask you to come out and drive us away?”“... Yes,” Chester replied with resignation. In fact, Chester wasn’t straightforward. Ho
He had a good knowledge of Ted’s tricks, so he would never put Hazel in danger!Hazel distressed herself about this. After losing his memory, Joshua seemed to become stubborn. In this case, it would be even more difficult for her to convince him.She thought for a bit and finally said, “But you’re here. You’ll protect me, won’t you? Besides, I’m pregnant, and I’m sure he won’t be hard on me.”His face was still pale, and he insisted, “No. Even if he isn’t hard on you, he’ll certainly try to make us misunderstand each other and break us up.”“Then, do you have no confidence in our relationship?” She sat directly in his arms, with her arms putting around his neck, and asked seductivel
She tugged anxiously at his sleeve. Joshua knew what she was worried about. He opened his mouth silently. “Trust me.”In an instant, Hazel was relieved.It seemed that Joshua didn’t really plan to go to war with Ted. It should only be a means of negotiation.After figuring it out, Hazel quieted down.Joshua’s eyes were filled with tenderness. Hazel actually trusted him so deeply?Ted was so shocked that he couldn’t speak.When he learned that Joshua and Simon had conspired to kill him at Stacy Island, Ted had a sinking feeling; that was also why he faked his own death.But he did not expect things would be
It was Ted. Joshua’s face darkened instantly.But the next moment, he calmly answered, “Mr. King.”Hazel stiffened slightly.“I’ve considered what you said before,” Ted said in a deep tone. “If you can improve the relationship between Simon and me, and that woman is really pregnant with your child, I can accept… that child.”With a chill in his eyes, Joshua coolly said, “Mr. King, I didn’t expect you would daydream.”Ted was exasperated. “Joshua, this is what I can only do!”“Then we don’t need to have any further discussion on this matter,” Joshua said, his chill deepening. &ldq