The hot water rained down on her. She closed her eyes and let her thoughts wander… She had no idea how she was supposed to keep walking down this road anymore.It would be easy if she just gave up. Her father did not love her, her mother did not care for her. It would not be hard for her to just end all of it… Still, she did not want to give in like that!She had yet to repay her debt to Luka. That meant she had no reason to throw in the towel.As for that man… Jane was feeling somewhat frustrated. How long would she have to keep playing his games?No, she could not just sit and wait for death. At first she had been hoping that he would get tired of her soon, and then he would let her go without her having to risk offending him. As for the money she needed… First things first, she needed to think of a way to get out of his sight.She faced the mirror and looked at her reflection over and over again. After her bath, Jane had put on the clothes she had been wearing again, wasting as
When her gaze landed on that card, Jane’s shoulders shook uncontrollably… He had always known what she wanted to do!The hair on Sean’s forehead was dripping wet, the droplets of water flowing down his locks. He lifted his foot and walked toward Jane.She had nowhere to go. Jane instinctively gulped. Inside, she was insanely nervous.“I’m sorry, Mr. Stewart! I apologize!” A barely discernible light flashed through her eyes. As she spoke, she bent her knees, about to prostrate herself toward the man approaching her.A hand reached out diagonally toward her, getting a firm hold of her arm and propping her up. Jane raised her head and saw that face right next to hers, looking down on her with a half-smile. “Mr. Stewart… I… I apologize. I know I was wrong.”“Oh? You do?” The man’s head lowered, and his lips curved as he asked her, “Do you know what you did wrong?”What did he… Sean mean by that? Jane’s heart was suspended in her chest. “I shouldn’t have disobeyed your orders, Mr. Ste
Stewart TowerA black Bentley came to a gradual stop. The first to appear from the car was a long leg, followed by the rest of Sean’s elegant form. He walked around to the passenger’s seat and pulled the door open.Sean looked at the woman inside through narrowed eyes. She had not said a single word the entire way here. He did not try to hasten her, either; instead, he just waited quietly for the woman in the car to make her own decision.Until this moment, Jane still could not comprehend why she had compromised with him back then. Why had she put on the clothes he had prepared for her and obeyed his orders?A sense of self-loathing crawled into her heart— she hated how useless she was, she hated how she did not even dare to fight him!Once they got to the company, there were a lot more Stewart Industries employees around. Jane could not stand their stealthily curious gazes, so she had to force herself to get out of the car.Once she got out of the car, the people entering and le
“What on earth do you want?!” Jane’s hands were clenched into fists. What else did this man want from her? “Mr. Stewart, look! Look at me carefully! What else do I have that a prince like you would need to waste your time on?!“Tell me! Just tell me, and I’ll give it to you! All of it!” Why did he have to barge into her life again? What was he after? “Mr. Stewart! I’m no longer the Jane Dunn you once knew! Please know that!“I can’t tell, I really don’t know why someone as rich and respected as you would need to waste so much effort on me. What part of me do you want?”Everything started going to hell yesterday, and it somehow was not over yet even now. Susan Wilson had dragged her into the car and to that bullsh*t party, and then she met someone she should not have at that godforsaken house— Haydn Soros!Haydn had stabbed his dagger into her chest, and she had barely had the time to pull it out before her own blood-related brother added another stab to the mix!What about after t
“From now on, you’ll stay here.” Sean led Jane back to the 28th floor of East Emperor, adding, “I’ve already submitted your resignation letter for this place. Once you join Stewart Industries, you’ll just have to stick with me.”“I was doing fine with my job!” She glared at him. What right did he have to make that decision for her?“Oh, really? Do you really think a job selling your services to men is ‘fine’ by you? Jane, even if you wanted to keep working there, I don’t want you to.”Jane wanted to laugh… What about before? Who was the one who transferred her to the PR department in the first place?Seriously… How hilarious!“Mr. Stewart, that wasn’t what you said back then, was it? You were the one who put me in the PR department, remember?” Jane said through clenched teeth. “You were the one who put me to it back then, so why don’t you want me working there now?”Sean gave Jane a complicated look. “Do you really want to know?” Jane did not say anything, so Sean continued calml
“Did you just say that Miss Dunn called my name in her sleep?” If he understood that correctly, ‘Luca’ was supposed to refer to him, right? Zach had quite the peculiar expression on his face right now… Cough cough, could it be that he was truly that charming? Aside from the time Haydn brought Jane to their meet-up, he had really only met Jane that one time.“Stewart, did she really say ‘Luca’?” Zach continued to act dumb, out of curiosity more than anything else.Before he could finish that thought, the person on the other end hung up.“Hello? Hello? Stewart, you didn’t answer my question!”On the other end, Sean had ended the call without any hesitation.It was not his first time hearing that woman saying ‘Luca’ in her sleep. If she was not talking about Zach Lucas… Who could it be?He crooked his finger and tapped the conference table rhythmically. All of a sudden, he stopped and gave Uno a call. "Check if there's anyone by the name of 'Luca' in the prison."Evidently, while S
While Jane was still stupefied, Sean reached out his hand and rubbed her head. “Alright, I’ll go call for delivery.”Jane was still somewhat dazed when the food arrived… and she gave Sean, who was standing at the window, another careful glance— This was her first time seeing Sean Stewart compromise on anything.As they ate, Sean forced Jane to eat another half a bowl of rice.“Why aren’t you drinking the soup? Is it bad?”He had not seen her drink even a sip of the soup the entire time.Without waiting for an answer, he scooped her a bowl of soup and put it in front of her.Even so, the woman continued to hesitate, refusing to drink.He forced her some more, and she finally picked up the small bowl with extreme reluctance. With the spoon, she took a few tiny sips.However…Sean looked between her and the bowl she was holding. After some time, he figured it out so he grabbed the bowl and then the spoon from her. In no time at all, he had picked out the small pieces of floating
After she got out of jail, this was the first time she heard the term ‘Storge Trust’ from other people. Jane had purposely ignored this fact after she got out. “The Storge Trust has nothing to do with me anymore. My dad and the other Dunns will take good care of it.”After all, the Storge Trust did not really belong to her. It was her grandfather’s. It would not make sense if the other Dunns did not give a care about it.The man in front of her chuckled. “Jane, if I didn’t witness the Storge Trust becoming stronger and stronger when it was in your possession, I would have thought that you’re too naive. Jane, you’re romanticizing the Dunns.”When she heard that, Jane’s heart fell. A bad feeling crept into her heart. “What do you mean, Mr. Stewart?”“Strictly speaking, the party tonight is an auction, and the Dunns are the ones hosting it. The venue of the party is in the Dunn household.”The more Jane listened to this, the more wrong this felt. “Auctioning off… what?”No way…“