“Yeah, thank you for always keeping my parent’s tombstone clean.”Olivia took out a small envelope and placed it on the table. “Just a small token of appreciation.”The grave keeper glanced at her and smiled. “You don’t have to do this. I know you’re a girl with filial piety.”Olivia pursed her lips, and thought about it for a while before she spoke, “Oh yea, sir, could you show me the security footage for today please?”“What happened? You lost something?”“No, I found a bouquet in front of my mom’s tombstone, I’d like to know who…”The grave keeper smiled mysteriously. “You don’t have to look at the footage, Miss Larson, because you won’t find anything.”“What did you mean by me not finding anything?”“That person isn’t in the security footage, also, since two years ago, that person would drop by every year, but they would not let me tell you about it, so I can’t.”Olivia felt erratically nervous. “Is it a man or a woman?”The grave keeper placed the water bottle he held in
“Let go of me!”Olivia Larson fought hard in an attempt to escape the grasp of that man, but since her body was weakened, she could not fight back at all.That man proceeded to blow around her ear and said, “You are still trying to fight back? The daughter of the Larsons is something that everyone here wants a piece of. You’re stuck here, Mrs. Freeman.”Right after that, that man threw her onto the sofa, leaned in, and was about to press down into her before people around him stopped him.“Hey, shouldn’t we make it more fun?”“How so?”“This is the belle of Ocean City, the wife of Mr. Freeman right here! It’s not every day we get an opportunity like this, so of course, let’s start with dancing!”That man glanced at Olivia and said, “That works too. We can do that in the meantime as we wait for the drug to kick in.”So, that man yanked the dizzy, strengthless Olivia up and smiled perversely. “Mrs. Larson, please perform a strip dance for all of us!”Olivia’s stomach was in knot
“Yeah! Hurry up, show us what we want to see! Stop dilly-dallying!”“Hah, if you want the money, stop pretending!”Olivia Larson gritted her teeth and took off her entire t-shirt. Now, she only had a tank top on her upper body. Both her arms were already completely exposed.Even if it was under a dimmed light, the fairness of her skin was still eye-catching.Olivia stood under the scrutinization of everyone else, so much so her nails started to dig into her flesh, but she still had a smile on her face.Mr. Coal saw that she had stopped and walked towards her till he was beside her. He touched her waist and said, “Why did you stop striping? Do you need my help?”Olivia gritted her teeth and took a step back while she refused stoically. “No need.”“Why are you pretending to be reserved? Didn’t you start with so much incentives just now? Besides that, how clean could a woman who had the ability to cheat two years ago be?”Mr. Coal reached out to toy with Olivia’s hair, but it was
Olivia only needed two minutes to figure out who the person behind the scenes was.No one else other than Dorothy Ellis!She looked at John and there was a little hope gleaming in her eyes. If Johnny knew all these were upon Dorothy’s orders, what would he do?After John had beaten Mr. Coal to the ground, he took a towel from Wes and wiped his hands. Then, he threw the towel onto Mr. Coal’s face and walked towards Olivia.He bent down, scooped her up in his arms, and carried her to the door. He stopped abruptly and turned to look at everyone else who was gobsmacked.“People that have seen what they’re not supposed to—gouge out their eyes!”Wes nodded. He turned and saw a blinking light. “Sir, someone was recording this.”“Smash it!”“Yes sir! I’ll also get to the bottom of this.”John did not respond. He carried Olivia and walked out. He placed her on the passenger seat and went over to the driver’s seat.Throughout the entire process, John did not speak another word, but the
“Yeah, Johnny, If I knew the consequences I had to bear, I would definitely not have saved Dorothy Ellis all those years ago.”Olivia tried to suppress the fire from within her, but as time went by, her stand was weakening.Her cheeks were flushed red, she was frowning as she reached out to remove John’s coat from her and lifted her hands to remove her tank top.“You look even more lowly now, Olivia Larson!”Her heart still ached, but her consciousness was fading, and her limbs would not respond…John looked coldly at her, carried her upstairs, and threw her into the bathtub. He faced the shower head towards Olivia and turned the cold water on.As cold water soaked her body, the heat from within her got instantly reduced. As she snapped back to her senses from all the haze, she lifted her head to see John’s malicious eyes.“Don’t go out if you have nothing better to do!”Olivia stared back at him longingly and said, “It’s mom’s death anniversary today.”John was taken aback. “
“I got beaten up.”“By who?”Olivia felt a trace of pain in her heart when she saw his shocked expression, she snorted. “You.”John looked at her coldly without saying anything, but his look seemed to have exposed his thoughts. ‘That’s a lie, have I ever beaten you before?’She endured the pain in the bottom of her heart and said, “Johnny, it’s not the first or second time you beat me up… Among these wounds, some were from you whereas the rest were from the people that you ordered to assault me.”Olivia did not know what to feel at that moment.Was it pain, despair, or resentment?It seemed to be all of them combined at the same time not.Ever since the miscarriage two years ago, she had been in a complicated state until now.He was the man who loved her more than himself for 17 years, the man who saved her life, and it was impossible for her to just let go of him as if it was nothing. Maybe she was indeed pathetic just like what he called her.John lifted her chin slightly a
“Nope, he was nice to me.”The person on the other side of the phone sighed. “Liv, if you really want the Larson’s Residence back, I can help you. 70 million is still affordable for The Quinton Group.” “It’s fine, Mr. Quinton…”Olivia licked her dry lips. “Anyone that comes near me will get bad luck, my parents, Uncle Wallace, your car crash, and even the nurse that defended me got fired.”“I know.”“You do? Were you the one who hired the nurse?”“Yeah, but I am afraid that this may burden you so I didn’t tell you.”There was a warm current coursing in Olivia’s heart, she assumed that no one in this world would care about her but to her surprise, there was still someone willing to help her. “Thank you.”“Liv, don’t thank me, I do share a part of the responsibility about your relationship with Johnny. If I was there two years ago, things wouldn’t have turned out this way, so I want to repay my debt.”‘Debt repayment?’Olivia chuckled upon hearing Zac’s reasoning.Even a vi
“Olivia Larson!”John yelled her name angrily.Probably because this had happened numerous times so she did not react much but looked at the two indifferently. “You want me to take care of her? Don’t even think about it.”“Don’t you want the Larson’s Residence?”Olivia snorted. “With this vicious mistress here, even if I kneel down and lick her toes, she will not give me the house.”That being said, she smiled at Dorothy. “Right, Dorothy?”Dorothy leaned in John’s arms and spoke weakly with her delicate voice, “Johnny, don’t be mad. It’s not Liv’s fault to hold prejudice against me, besides, I am invading someone else’s territory in the eyes of the people…”“Wow Dorothy, since when have you learned literature? I didn’t expect you to use such eloquent language.”“Olivia Larson!” Don’t be too much!” John finished yelling at Olivia and then spoke to Dorothy gently, “This is your home, no one can say anything about it!”Olivia’s heart was instantly torn apart upon hearing these