The sound of cars sounded behind them. Uno, Dos, and the gang were taking six cars in total. They formed themselves in a row and stopped in front of the entrance of the party.The man strode over and stopped in front of Uno. Suddenly...Smack! A slap landed on his face.“Where is she?” the cold voice asked.Uno was confused. “Boss, who?”“Jane. I asked you to watch her. Where is she?” His cold gaze landed on Uno. When Uno heard Jane’s name, his heart sank. His face turned pale. “Boss, I…”“You didn’t carry out my orders well enough. You treat Jane as if she is nothing. You didn’t ask the underlings to keep an eye on her, did you? Yes or no?”“Boss…” Uno broke out in cold sweat. It was true that he did not care about that woman. What was so good about that woman anyway? She killed Rosaline, and she insulted the person she killed.Sean’s handsome face was cold. He pointed at Uno’s nose. “I don’t have time to deal with you now.” After he said that, he ordered Dos, “Maneuver the
Jane hated the word ‘punished’.“Mr. Stewart is always punishing me. What if I don’t want to listen to you today? How are you going to punish me then, Mr. Stewart?” Had he not punished her enough already?‘If he wants to punish me, then he should just do it!’ the woman thought as she sat on the passenger seat. “If you want to punish me, Mr. Stewart, just do it.” She gave up. He should just punish her. She did not care anymore.On the driver’s seat, the man’s eyes glinted. Then, they darkened. He turned his head and said in his deep voice, “Alright, if you want to know, I’ll let you know.” After he said that, he hooked his long arms around Jane’s neck and pulled her toward him. Then, he used another hand to rub Jane’s lips furiously. His deep voice sounded in the quiet car.“I hate that your lips have been polluted by other people, do you know that?” The pad of his thumb caressed Jane’s lips repeatedly. Suddenly, he bent down and bit down on Jane’s lips.Yes, he bit her.“Ugh!” Ja
“We’re the same! We’re both proud and so arrogant.“We lived our entire lives in the spotlight, Sean Stewart! How could men as haughty as you and I stand having such a woman, a woman held in hatred and contempt by all, unacceptable even by our own standards, as the first woman we’ve ever truly fallen for?!“You love Jane Dunn, Stewart, don’t deny it. You know who you are. If you haven’t fallen for her, you would usually be colder than the Arctic. Would you run here to me in the middle of the night and beat me up like this?“Sean Stewart, you have clearly fallen for her!“But can you accept it, Stewart? Do you dare to admit that you love her in your own words?“You don’t. You can’t!”Haydn roared with laughter again, sneering at the man not far away from him, “You can’t even do it yourself, Stewart, so what right do you have to make me do it?“I’m the heir of the Soros empire!“I can get any girl I want with a crook of my finger!“I don’t love her. I will never admit that I’ve
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
Amidst the rain, a woman walked out of the East Emperor building and out into the storm. She had found the umbrella from the storage closet. No matter how horrible that man was, there was one thing he got right.She was a deserter. A coward. How could she let that slide?She walked to the curb and saw that there was already a black Bentley waiting there.It only took her a glance to recognize the owner of that car. Who could it be but that arrogant Sean Stewart?She walked over, and the car window rolled down, revealing the driver’s face.“Please get in, Miss Dunn.” Dos got out of the car and walked around to the back seat, opening the car door.She stepped into the car, and Dos returned to the driver’s seat.“Did he tell you to come?”Dos heard the voice from the back seat and raised his head to look at the rearview mirror, at the woman in the back. She was extremely quiet, her face turned to the side as she silently looked outside the window. He did not understand this wo
The man stood in front of the closet, wordlessly looking at the woman who was crying her eyes out inside. His throat bobbed with all of the words he should say but could not. Suddenly, he bent his tall body and reached out his arms for her.“Don’t touch me!” she roared abruptly and loudly in her hoarse voice. He saw the deep hatred in her eyes, and the sharp pain in his heart spread all through his body. After he gave her another look, though, he continued to reach out to her.“I told you not to touch me!” Jane looked at him like he was her greatest enemy. Whenever he tried reaching out to her, she would react like a porcupine, aiming her prickles at both him and herself.Sean continued to reach out to her without a word. The next second, he felt a piercing pain between his thumb and forefinger. He frowned slightly, looking at the woman who was biting his hand viciously with her sharp teeth. The man had spent his life hurting people, but no one had ever hurt him before. Now, he wa
“Are you here… to laugh at me?” Jane raised her head and forced a tragic smile at the man in front of her. “You must be ecstatic to see me like this, right? Mr. Stewart. The worse off I am, the happier you are, right?”Haha, the worse off she was, the more he would feel like he had avenged his dearly departed Rosaline, right?“Mr. Stewart… You really don’t have to do all this. The things you were doing before don’t even feel like you anymore. I had been wondering why you suddenly changed your tack toward me… I see. So this is why.”Sean’s pitch-black pupils dilated and his breathing caught in his throat. He lowered his eyelids and looked at the woman curled up in a ball in the closet, his eyes filled with pain and affection.He suddenly asked in his low voice, “What do you see? What do you mean, why?”His voice was low, but every word reached the woman’s ears. She tightened her arms around herself, her heart pounding with emotion… How could he still ask that with a straight face?
For some days after that, Jane seemed to have changed into a completely different person. She became even more quiet and stoic, but at the same time she seemed to be more obedient… to Sean, at least.She never went against anything he said.However, her obedience was hiding a heart desperate to escape!She hastily handled everything about Storge at breakneck speed, leading the way through all the reforms. She did to the Dunns exactly what they did to her after she went to prison, decisively using Vivienne and the others to render the higher-ups powerless. Like a whale swallowing a worm, she aggressively shut down all of the internal conflicts in as short a timeframe as possible.She had Vivienne and the others to handle the company’s inner workings now. All she had to do was trust them completely and give them her full support.Jane’s real job here was to visit each of Storge’s old business partners, reigniting their initial deals.Of course, this was not going to be an easy task
Firing the receptionist would prove to be the easiest part. After a day of cleaning up the mess there, Jane was bone-tired, but she did not dare to show even a hint of weariness.Only heaven knew how she had nearly fled in fear the second she stepped into the chairperson’s office.However, she told herself, ‘No. I can’t.’That was right, she could not run. That was why she had to face everything and conquer everything. It did not matter what she experienced during those three years in jail. It did not matter if her personality had warped during those three years, and it did not matter if those three years had cost her the dignity to stand with her head held high in front of everyone else. Starting from today, she had to straighten her back and overcome her fear until she could make it up to her grandfather’s hopes and her own heart.What Jane did not know was that the man, so cruel and cold-blooded in her eyes, had driven the car away from the building only to make a detour and tur
Jane did not feel better when Sean did that.On the other hand, she was almost driven crazy by this man’s unusual behavior.She was like a trapped animal. She was slowly being forced to the corner by him. He left her with no room to run.She did not know what he wanted to do to her, but she could not stand him being like this. She would rather this man treat her like how he did before. She did not want this man’s sudden warmth.It was so scary.It was even scarier than him sending her to prison. Jane was horrified. “Mr. Stewart, why?” Finally, she could not stand it anymore. She closed her eyes, and when she opened them once again, she asked him.Why was he so gentle toward her all of a sudden? Did Sean know how to be gentle?Yes!However, he had never been gentle to her.The man placed the hairdryer down and pushed her hair behind her ear. He did not answer her question. Instead, he merely said, “Have a good rest.”He turned around, and Jane wanted to pull the edge of his
At the same time on the 28th floor of East Emperor.In the ensuite bathroom of the room, the woman took a bath and stood in front of the mirror. She looked lost. She was even more lost when she thought about the future. She did not expect to take back Storge Trust. That had not been in her plan. It messed everything up.However, she did not regret it.Even if her grandfather was biased, he had doted on her a lot when he was still alive. Jane understood that there was concern in her grandfather’s fake strictness. Otherwise, there would be no Storge Trust. If Grandpa was really only concerned about whether she would be a threat to the Dunns, he could have just followed the unspoken rule of the rich and famous. He could have just set her up for an arranged marriage. Before he passed away, her grandfather even held her hand and told her to take good care of Storge Trust.Now, Storge Trust was once again in her possession. In a flash, the dark clouds above her head were gone. She wa
Sean had already taken Jane away. In a corner away from the crowded party in the Dunn household, Zach touched her chin while ruminating. His low voice uttered, “Jane Dunn?”Today, Jane had given him a whole new outlook on her. Zach’s eyes lit up as he became interested. He pursed his lips together. He felt free and unconstrained. He placed his hands into the pockets of his pants and left the Dunn household.“Guess who I saw today.” He called Haydn while he was walking to his car. “You won’t be able to guess it.”“Since I won’t be able to, then I won’t ask.” Rumbling noises came from the other end of the phone. Haydn’s voice sounded absent-minded. “Zach, do you want to come to play? I’m at Magnificent View. The new ladies here are fun.”Zach listened to Haydn’s absent-minded voice. He did not want to pay attention to him. He said, “Jane. I met Jane at the Dunn household.”There was a brief silence on the other end of the phone. Then, the sound of the man chuckling sounded. “I was
“Boris Hoffman, what do you think?” The man’s black eyes turned to look at Old Master Hoffman. The old man’s shame had turned into anger. However, he needed to hide it.Everyone could tell that it was good that Old Master Hoffman did not get a stroke from Sean’s ability to anger people. Boris gripped his cane tightly and pushed it against the floor. He was trembling uncontrollably. In the end, he did not say anything.There was a hint of surprise in Jane’s eyes. She lifted her head to look at the man next to him. ‘What does he mean?’Sean lowered his gaze and scanned Jane’s face. He curled his lips. “Jane, what do you want to do?”What did she want to do?Jane knew Sean would not be so kind all of a sudden. When Sean asked her this question, the crowd around them was shocked. They were whispering amongst themselves, “Is Mr. Stewart standing up for her?” However, Jane knew that if this man standing next to her was a good man, she would not have ended up like this.Jane closed her