The footsteps at the entrance were very light. Jane felt her heart thumping, feeling terrified. In the end, she simply covered herself in the blanket.“Where is she?”Suddenly, there was a woman’s voice.Jane was somewhat suspicious while she stayed under the blanket. In the end, she couldn’t help popping her head out of the blanket. The woman that came in was standing right at the bedside, staring at her without much expression on her face.“Melanie Jones?!”Jane said in shock.“You know me?” Melanie asked with her eyebrow raised.Jane realized that she had misspoke, quickly sitting up as she tidied her hair and said without being forced, “I drank a little wine just now and wasn’t feeling well, so I came up here to rest.”“I didn’t ask why you’re here.”Melanie walked around calmly and looked at her judgingly with a smile. “Who are you?”“I’m Jane Kelley.”“Ah, I remember you. You’re that staff from Morgan Group that’s in the gossip with Mr. Morgan, right?” Melanie confiden
Melanie and Leo had just reached the staircase on the second floor when they saw Jeffrey coming up. The three of them glanced at each other for a few seconds before Leo asked, “You’re coming up here to get some rest as well?”Jeffrey cared little for his tone and immediately replied, “I heard that Miss Melanie isn’t feeling well, so I’m coming up to check on her.”“Looks like you care about Melanie a lot.” Leo’s voice was very cold.Jeffrey didn’t change his expression. His eyes stayed on Melanie’s face as he said, “Miss Melanie is my partner for the night. How can I not care about her?”Leo wanted to say something else, but a servant came up to him. It seemed like there was something urgent. He quickly said his goodbye before leaving, and only Melanie and Jeffrey were left on the staircase.“How did things go?” Jeffrey asked as he took another step forward.The two of them were at the same height as they were separated by one step. “We’re right.” Melanie nodded.Ten minutes a
Nathan’s cruel voice came from the other end of the line. He said to Jane in a holier-than-thou tone, “Do you remember what I taught you last?”“...I do.”Jane replied with a trembling voice.“You better memorize everything you need to say to Melanie later! This is your last chance! If you mess it up again, your family’s life will be ten times worse than now!” Nathan threatened her before hanging up.Jane held the phone, the nervousness in her heart suddenly mixed with anger. Was how her family was living not bad enough? Ten times worse? There was no difference than dying anymore!She hated this life where she needed to be threatened by someone when all she wanted was to be clothed and well-fed!All she needed to do was reveal the entire truth to Melanie, right?What was there to be afraid of?With those thoughts in her mind, Jane burst out of the door and ran barefooted, and she then saw Melanie at the staircase as she went up to the third floor.“Miss Melanie!” She was somew
“You’re smart. You must have already figured out who I’m talking about, right? That’s right! You’re that high school student, Miss Melanie!”When Jane finished everything she memorized from her script, even she got furious from it.“You said you don’t believe in coincidence, but the heart you have belonged to Mr. Morgan’s ex-girlfriend. Isn’t that a coincidence? Are you going to deny that coincidences exist in this world?”Jane let it all out as if she wanted to have her revenge. “Maybe I can’t get anything from him, but don’t worry, because he has never truly loved you either! Because the only person he ever loved was the woman who’s already dead!“That’s not exactly right. It’s not right to say that he had never loved you, because he did love that heart of yours... That heart that never belonged to you in the first place!”Melanie swallowed, stunned.Her reasoning skills and her courtesy helped her to stand in place, but only she knew that her legs were shaking.“You’re done?”
Melanie had just entered the car and wanted to calm down, but her emotions made it difficult.She instinctively held the left side of her chest, feeling her irregular heartbeat with a cold smile on her face.Was she that bad at judging men?She thought that it was because she was too naive and didn’t know love. That was why she met with the cheating Bryan West. Then, after getting her lesson, she accidentally married Jeffrey. From the beginning she was extremely wary of him, only seeing the wisdom, decisiveness and justice in him after experiencing so much together. She had finally seen the kindness that he had hidden, and the respect he had for her. She had only started to let her guard down, feeling that they could finally know each other better and love one another...She didn’t expect that, not realizing it despite her sensitivity, that what he looked up to and respected wasn’t her, but something inside of her that didn’t belong to her in the first place...She didn’t want to
“Master Stephen, please don’t use rubbish plotlines from dramas like that to scare my boss.” William couldn’t take it anymore and said to him as he stood up.The madam was simply shocked... She wouldn’t be so surprised that she would kill herself!After a while, William reported back the information he received. “Boss, the madam has finished checking on her heart and is now on her way back to the city.”“Drive home.”Jeffrey said coldly and the car started to move, leaving Stephen behind in the night, weak and helpless.-However, when Jeffrey reached their home at Marina Heights, Melanie was nowhere to be seen. Only after a while did he receive news that her car was headed for North Street.“North Street isn’t the direction heading to the Jones...”William mumbled when he heard Jeffrey order, “Go and check where Annie Snow’s residence and company are located!”Three minutes later, William quickly said, “Found it, Boss! Annie’s company is in the same direction as North Street
“I’m tired. I’ll borrow your bed to sleep for the night.”Melanie didn’t say anything else and simply jumped into the bed in Annie’s office and got under her blanket.Annie didn’t want to see her being on her own and got up as well, hugging her. “Let me accompany you.”“Don’t worry about me. Get back to work.”“Forget about work. None of my plans are usable tomorrow!” Annie said angrily.-The next day, Melanie was sneezing and had a fever. Annie was very nervous because she knew that Melanie caught a cold from the rain last night.But she couldn’t find any medicine despite searching high and low. “Wait for me. I’ll get you some medicine.”“Don’t worry about it. I want to sleep a little more. Go to work,” Melanie said sleepily.Looking at the time, Morgan Group’s tendering had already started. But looking at Melanie’s pale face, Annie decided she was going to show Jeffrey what she was made of using this chance!“Alright. Wait for me. I’ll get some medicine for you when I get
All Annie did was start some chaos and she didn’t say anything about partnering up, and his boss was... going to sign a contract with the Snows directly? William looked at Jeffrey with wide eyes as he didn’t understand.His boss had always been someone that was very impartial, even when it came to Master Stephen. Even when Madam Morgan asked for him to take care of her friends, he would still oversee the process strictly and showed little leniency...“Do you not understand what I said?” Jeffrey asked unhappily.“I understand.”William didn’t dare to say anything else. He quickly ordered his people to prepare the contract and accompanied his boss who personally went to Snow Group.-After Annie got it all out of her system, she immediately headed back to her company from Morgan Group. She didn’t forget to get some cold medicine for Melanie from the pharmacy on her way back.When she got back, Melanie had just woken up.Annie gave her the medicine that she had just finished prepa