His voice was almost a whisper.However, Ivanka still caught the underlying sarcasm in his words. She was about to open her mouth and drive him out, but the presence of Thomas made her hesitate. If she said it, Michael’s dignity would suffer a blow. He might cause trouble for her later. She did not desire that.After a pause, she said softly, “I’m afraid I can’t agree to cooperate with you. Besides, given our relationship, we should avoid arousing gossip.”Michael frowned silently.Sensing Ivanka’s gaze on him, Thomas understood immediately. “Mr. Barkworth, Iv, I rushed here today when I heard about what happened. Seeing that you’re okay now, I feel relieved. Take care of yourself. I’ll come by to see you again tomorrow.”Ivanka shook her head and smiled. “There’s no need to trouble yourself, Mr. Thomas. I’m perfectly fine. I’ll be back at the company in no time.”Thomas sighed but knew it was not the time to stay any longer. He nodded and smiled. “Then, I’ll take my leave. I’ll
Ivanka looked at him strangely. “What exactly are you getting at?”Unable to break free from his grip, Ivanka gave up struggling.Michael took a deep breath as he tried to control his emotions.However, his silence exasperated Ivanka.What was he up to?After a moment of silence, he spoke in a deep voice, “I won’t get engaged to her.”Ivanka’s eyes widened in surprise. “You’re not getting engaged anymore?”That piqued her interest. Anything that did not bode well for Chiara intrigued her.Michael pursed his lips. “If everything you’ve said is true, I will give you the result you deserve.”Ivanka chuckled. She looked at him and said with ease, “So, you no longer think I’m a vain and purposeful person?”Michael furrowed his brows. There seemed to be a hint of mixed emotions on his cold face.After a pause, he spoke in a deep voice, “I hope you’re not that kind of person.”“Tsk.” Ivanka chuckled. It seemed like he still believed she was that kind of person.Michael’s expres
Ivanka answered the phone with slightly narrowed eyes.“What’s the matter?”Belle immediately responded. “Ms. Ivanka, she’s making moves again!”Ivanka pursed her lips silently. She waited for Belle to elaborate.Belle took a deep breath and hurriedly continued. “Today, I overheard her talking on the phone with Madam Lyla. She said she refuses to accept failure and wants to take further action. I know that you’re hospitalized, so I suspect they’re planning to target you again!”Over the past few days, with Ivanka hospitalized, Chiara had visited along with Theodore and his wife. They had all been very caring. They seemed like her own parents and showed genuine care for her.“Do you know what they’re planning to do?” Ivanka’s voice remained calm.Admiration flashed in Belle’s eyes. Ivanka always remained composed in times of crisis, a quality she possessed in abundance compared to Chiara.In the past, when she was working with Chiara, Chiara always portrayed herself as a compose
Suki paled instantly and quickly turned around.When she spotted Sandy, she heaved a sigh of relief.Sandy was a little surprised. “Hey, Suki, you’re here!”After all, Ivanka had told her not to tell Suki anything.Suki nodded. “You’d still keep me in the dark if I hadn’t come over.”Sandy chuckled. “Don’t be angry, Suki. You can’t blame me for this. Iv didn’t want you to get worried, so she told me to keep this a secret.”Suki sighed helplessly. “What am I going to do with you lot?”Ivanka simply smiled wordlessly.Since Sandy was here, Suki stopped discussing how they were going to take down Chiara.Similarly, because of Suki’s presence, Sandy did not talk about Michael with Ivanka.Because of that, Ivanka felt rather relaxed.They chatted merrily for a while before Ivanka grew visibly tired.Suki immediately got up. “Alright, I’ll visit tomorrow. Get proper rest tonight.”Ivanka nodded and smiled. “Okay.”Sandy quickly said, “Suki, I’ll walk you to the hospital entranc
“Iv, I found something regarding your father.”Ivanka’s face expressed shock and disbelief. She blurted out without even thinking, “What did you find?”“It isn’t convenient to talk about it over the phone. It’s not particularly important, but I think it may be useful to you. When I’m back, I’ll come over and discuss this with you, alright?”A strange emotion flickered in Ivanka’s eyes. She said nothing, but she did not want to hang up the phone either.Perhaps people around her did not know how much any piece of information about her father meant to her. But Jonah had been watching her all this while. He must have known what she wanted.Besides, she had to put everything in perspective. If Jonah had to be in person, this was no small matter.Now, Ivanka needed to get her hands on every piece of evidence.After a pause, Ivanka said in a low voice. “Did someone call you? Or did you find any documents? Can you send them over?”There was a pleading tone in her voice.Jonah gave
“Then get some rest. I’ll get confirmation on this matter as soon as possible and contact you.”“Alright, thanks.”Jonah frowned. “I don’t like hearing that from you. From now on, if you want to thank me, you can say, ‘Jonah, I like you.’”Ivanka frowned silently.But Jonah added with a smile, “That way, I’ll know that you are thanking me. Rest assured. I won’t get the wrong idea.”Ivanka was speechless.“Alright, I’ll stop teasing you. Go to bed.” Jonah’s voice was gentle as always, but he hid his bitter sorrow well.“Um.”That was all Ivanka said in response. Without another word, the two of them hung up.Ivanka tightened her grip on her phone. She had not been sleepy to begin with. Now, she definitely did not feel like going to bed at all.“Iv, why aren’t you asleep? It’s late!”Sandy’s voice rang from the bedroom door. Ivanka quickly said in reply, “I’m going to sleep soon.”She had not fully recovered from her injuries and still needed someone to look after her. Theref
Chiara was dumbfounded.She gaped at Lyla with disbelief. “Mom… at this point, do you seriously still think we can get engaged?”“Chiara, why are you overthinking?” Theodore frowned. “I’ve already told you. If they really want to call off the engagement, they wouldn’t make a last-minute decision. This is not how they handle things.”Chiara furrowed her brows tightly. “Y-you’re not listening to me! But it’s exactly what I’ve felt!”Sometimes, one’s sixth sense was highly accurate!More accurate than any presumption!There was really something off with Michael!He was up to something! Lyla frowned slightly. “In that case, I’ll pay Mindy a visit. I’ll talk to her and see if there’s anything strange going on.”Chiara quickly nodded. “Yes, mom. Go over and look, or else I won’t rest easy. Lately, whenever I call him, his assistant would answer the phone instead. He was busy every time I reached out. I didn’t even have the chance to speak to him. If this goes on, then the two of us
Lyla frowned. “How could this be? She’s probably preoccupied. Maybe she is using the bathroom or something?”Chiara paled a little. “Call her again!”Lyla said wearily, “She’ll surely call me back when she sees my missed call. It’s rude to keep calling. What did I tell you last night? Be calm!”Chiara was speechless.At this juncture, there was no point in keeping calm anymore!She was totally helpless. All she could do was sit on the couch anxiously.Frustrated, she scrolled through her Twitter feed. But after fifteen minutes passed, Mindy still had not called them back.“Why don’t you call her again?” said Chiara.“Wait a bit longer.” Lyla’s expression darkened slightly. She sensed that something was off.But she thought that Mindy might really be busy with something, so she decided to wait for a while.However, after waiting for an hour, she had not received any call from Mindy. Lyla could not wait any longer.“Mom, call her again!”Lyla furrowed her brows tightly and to
In the face of Laura’s meltdown, Ivanka’s words seemed a bit smug.She was doing it on purpose.“You! Ivanka, how can you be so shameless as to say such things? Are you still a woman?” Laura’s hand, which was pointing at her angrily, trembled uncontrollably.Laura’s tears fell like a snapped pearl necklace. Ivanka laughed in a low voice. “Of course I am, otherwise how did I become the one Jonah wakes up to every day? Laura, since things have come to this, you’d better hurry home and stop embarrassing yourself here.”“What’s the point of chasing after someone who doesn’t like you like this?”She acknowledged Laura’s persistence toward Jonah. But insisting too much would turn into clinginess. Jonah’s dislike and disdain for Laura was clear. He never once gave Laura a chance. Even so, Laura refused to give up.Sometimes she did not think thoroughly before doing things. “Whether there’s a point to it is not for you to say!”Laura was still persistent.But the next second, Iva
It would not have been nice for Ivanka to be present during Jonah’s conversation with his mother. The Sadler family’s house was large. She went directly to the grass field outside.Margaret had a Golden Retriever. When Ivanka saw the maid bring it out to play, she immediately squatted in front of the Golden Retriever. The Golden Retriever was very gentle and did not bite. Margaret saw the Golden Retriever wagging its tail at Ivanka. The gesture was clearly a sign of fondness and affection for Ivanka.Even the dog liked Ivanka, and she still did not like her. Could she really be the problem?Margaret began to contemplate and reflect on herself. As she was trying to approach Ivanka, someone had already walked up to Ivanka first.This person was no other than Laura, who she had once hated.When Laura saw the cozy scene of a person and a dog. She instantly rushed to Ivanka. “Ivanka, you’re so despicable. You won’t even spare a dog. Are you planning to drug it too?!”Ivanka kept
However, Jonah seemed to have heard some hilarious joke. “Do you really mean well? Do you mean well by trampling on my feelings?“You said everything started because of Ivanka. Why don’t you say it all started because of you?”Jonah let out another rhetorical question.He was extremely emotional.Margaret could not bear to watch him like this. She roared, “Enough, don’t think that I’ll compromise and stop interfering with you guys if you are like this!”Jonah laughed slowly. “Then what you said before was nonsense. Since I can’t get what I want, what else is left if I cure these legs?“You really don’t get it. You think that I’m driving you to your grave when it’s the opposite. Then what kind of mother-son bond is there between us to speak of?”At the end of Jonah’s speech, the mockery at the corner of his was extraordinarily obvious. His eyes even seemed determined.Margaret sensed it.“Are you going to cut ties with me for Ivanka?” Margaret found it incredulous. When she ask
She said to Ivanka in dissatisfaction, “Ms. Ivanka, please go out. I have something to say to Jonah alone right now.”Ivanka did not respond. However, the way she moved out already said everything.Jonah did not make a statement but silently agreed.He also did not want Ivanka to be present to see his embarrassment.“You’re being an ingrate. You never raised me like that! Since you’ve already spoken such, why are you still holding it against Iv? Is being a divorcee her sin?” Jonah’s expression was as dark as the storm clouds. Those eyes were locked on his mother. He felt that Ivanka had been deeply wronged.However, Margaret replied blandly, “Have you seen anyone wealthy choosing to marry divorcees? Are there really no other women out there?”“You are a woman too.” Jonah frowned.However, Margaret brought up a very realistic question. “I am indeed a woman. But no parent in the world would ever settle for anything less than the best option.”Those words infuriated Jonah.“Mom,
At Margaret’s rebuke, Ivanka was annoyed. “If you say so.”Whatever Margaret wanted to think was her own business. She would not interfere.Margaret immediately choked out in response, “You!”“You don’t have to target me. You know very well that I won’t get together with your son. I’m only here to administer treatment for your son.”Ivanka gave Margaret a bland look. Even her tone was bland.Margaret burst out laughing coldly. “It’s what you should do!”“I didn’t say that I shouldn’t,” Ivanka shot back indifferently. She no longer bantered with Margaret. She kept looking at her cell phone.In Margaret’s eyes, Ivanka was playing with her cell phone, and was playing intently too!There was a parasol over her head as she was leaning on a rattan chair. Most importantly, there were also refreshments on the round table to Ivanka’s left.Sheesh!“Ivanka, are you here to treat Jonah’s leg, or are you here to enjoy yourself?” Margaret chided Ivanka in dissatisfaction.When someone di
Jonah was concerned about Ivanka. But before he could finish speaking, he automatically lowered his voice.He was not the same as before.Call for him. With his weak legs, what could he do for her?Ivanka heard his tone but did not expose or console him. She only followed suit and said, “Rest well. I know my place.”“Alright.”Jonah answered half-heartedly. Ivanka turned around and left her back to him.On the terrace, there was a parasol and a rattan chair.She had only laid down on top of the rattan chairs for a few minutes when she heard footsteps from behind her. As the footsteps drew closer step by step, she subconsciously turned around.She only saw the servant who had just helped her carry a tray of food and walked towards her slowly.“Ms. Ivanka, the young master asked me to prepare some refreshments for you.”Ivanka nodded wordlessly.She was here to treat Jonah’s legs, not to enjoy the sunshine and eat. She did not eat anything. Her gaze was on the phone screen.S
As he said that, Jonah turned his wheelchair and moved closer to Ivanka.The delight on his face was hard to hide. Margaret did not see it. She was still in the hospital. It would have been better if she did not see her, but Ivanka also understood very clearly what Margaret meant by this. If she really wanted to have a long-lasting relationship with Jonah, they would have become a couple already. Why wait until that moment? As long as she agreed, it was not impossible, and that was what Jonah thought: he thought she would say yes.Ivanka gently laughed and shook her head. “Jonah, why are you still lying to yourself and others?”Even she understood it, so how could Jonah not know about it?However, Jonah was not willing to dwell on the matter. In the next second, he changed the topic. “It’s better to go to my room. The second floor has plenty of fresh air.”Ivanka saw that he was not willing to talk about it, so she did not say anything more. She nodded. Then a servant came
“If it’s my fault, you can always vent out your anger on me.” Michael made himself clear. It was not his fault, so he refused to accept being treated unfairly. Ivanka sneered, “It seems like you’ve forgotten that you were the cause of everything. If not for the fact that you refused to give up on me, I wouldn’t have invited Jonah for a roleplay. I don’t want to get into the details with you.” In the face of Ivanka’s mockery, for a moment, Michael felt as if something had stuck in his throat, and he did not know what else to say. Ivanka was utterly furious. It was pointless to speak any further to her. But he refused to become a punching bag on Jonah’s behalf for free. “You need to calm down. No one can get in the way of your choices. But I’ll never give up,” said Michael in a low voice. “I see. Since you refuse to give up, are you planning to steal the bride at her wedding as well?” Ivanka raised one of eyebrows. She felt amused. Michael blurted out a single word with
“Michael, I just didn’t want to upset Grandma. If you want to keep her posted on our progress, you might as well find someone else and get married so that there’s no more possibility between us. She will also stop thinking about me and you.” Ivanka had blurted it out without hesitation. Her tone was serious. She really meant it. Michael did not expect Ivanka to say this to him. Rosie had told Michael that Ivanka agreed to let him be her bodyguard because of her. At that time, Michael was over the moon thinking that Rosie had caused another miracle. But based on the situation, it looked like Ivanka did not plan to take other people’s concerns into account anymore. Michael’s mood turned foul. He could not say anything about Ivanka’s decision. “Iv, I refuse to accept this.” After a moment of silence, Michael said that to Ivanka. At that moment, he looked serious. Even though Ivanka could not see his expression, she could imagine his demeanor through his tone. “I know y