"I know," said Tyler calmly. "Don't worry. I'll handle it."When Vicky noticed that he did not regret his action at all, she gritted her teeth in frustration. "You know that I only made that request so that you'd give up. Tyler, we've broken up. Don't cling onto me again."He paled and grabbed her by the wrist. "Why are you breaking up with me all of a sudden? We were doing great—"She interrupted him. "Were we? Are you sure?"He narrowed his eyes and realized that Vicky had been depressed recently, but whenever he would ask her about it, she would refuse to talk."If it's because I mistook you for Gloria at the beginning, I told you...that's not a problem."She remained quiet for a moment. "That was just an excuse.""Why is it that you insist on breaking up, Vicky?""I told you that I don't love you anymore.""I don't believe you." He stared into her eyes and said, "You still respond to my kisses. This can't be because you don't love me anymore."She smiled mockingly. "There
Tyler had shown more restraint from that day onward and stopped taking Vicky away from her dates with Noah, but he would follow them wherever they went.His glare was so piercing that Noah felt chills down his spine.He had been interested in Vicky and planned to pursue her when she succeeded in breaking up with Tyler, but he gave up after realizing how difficult Tyler was.It was not that Noah feared Tyler because he was beaten before but because his instinct warned him that Tyler was a monster deep down despite his cool demeanor.At this very moment, Tyler was standing in the distance and staring at them.Vicky noticed Tyler as well. The man stood out no matter what he wore given his tall, muscular build and handsome looks.It was no wonder that Tyler had the confidence to question how Noah was better than him.While Noah was a handsome man, he could hardly hold a candle to Tyler in terms of appearance and demeanor.Noah's blood ran cold under Tyler's watchful eyes while he d
Vicky and Noah sat across from each other, so the chair next to Vicky was unoccupied. Tyler went ahead to sit next to her. "I'm sorry. I misunderstood your relationship and injured your hand."Noah glanced at Tyler pointedly and thought, 'What a great apology. Misunderstood our relationship, huh? He's saying that I'm not involved with Vicky to begin with.'Vicky scowled. "What are you going on about here?"'Has he forgotten about our promise already?' she thought."I'm here to...apologize," said Tyler calmly and turned to Noah. "Mister Canyer, I'm sorry."The more Noah looked at Tyler, the more certain he was that Tyler was a sociopath. He could feel chills down his spine as he thought, 'Have I crossed a psychopath? If he is mentally sick, he won't even need to go to jail if he kills me.'"Ahem!" Noah cleared his throat. "Forget about it.""Mister Canyer was injured because of my mistake and now he struggles to even eat, so I intend on coming over to make up for my mistakes," Ty
Noah immediately turned on his heels and ran.Vicky turned to stare at Tyler sharply, who then said to her, "I'm just here to apologize and make up for my mistake.""Are you making up for your mistake, or causing a misunderstanding?""What kind of a misunderstanding?"Vicky was rendered speechless and gritted out, "That the two of you are seeing each other.""Oh," he said carelessly. "Let's just eat."Furious, she shouted, "Tyler Hart!"He shot her a look. "Even if there's a misunderstanding, they're judging me, not you, so why are you all riled up?""..."He served food to her plate. "Noah left you behind, so it's not against the rules for me to stay with you."Vicky felt defeated as Tyler always seemed capable of finding a way to get what he wanted....Tyler had kept his promise and did not interfere with their dates after that, but he continued to watch them from afar every time.What confused Vicky further was that Noah would often make up an excuse to leave as soon a
"You are still in love with him, and you can't bring yourself to be cruel toward him. Besides, he isn't the kind of man you can just get rid of simply because you want to..." Noah studied Vicky sympathetically.Despite Tyler's cold demeanor, he was an obsessive man and only death could tear them apart for as long as he loved Vicky.'It's a good thing she loves him, too,' Noah thought. 'If she doesn't, he's going to be her worst nightmare.'"If there's some kind of misunderstanding, you two should sit and talk it out. If he cares this much about you, he's surely willing to make compromises."Vicky hesitated.Knowing that she was wavering, he said, "It's not that I don't want to help you, but if you can't bring yourself to be merciless, there are things you won't be able to do... Vicky, just think this through. If you have really made up your mind to get rid of him no matter the cost, come find me again."...For a long time after that, Noah did not see Vicky again, and just as he
By the time Vicky woke up again, two days had passed."Vicky!" Cece called out hastily. "Vicky, are you okay?"Vicky studied the face before her and said hoarsely, "Cece? Why are you here?""Mister Hart said that you fell ill and was admitted to the hospital, so I came to see you."Vicky paled. "How long have I been unconscious?""Two days."Vicky struggled to sit up. "You..."Cece stopped Vicky and said, "Don't worry, Vicky. The situation has been resolved.""Resolved?"Cece nodded. "Mister Hart helped." She observed the look on Vicky's face. "Selene has issued a public statement to apologize to our studio."Vicky glanced around and Cece said, "Mister Hart has gone to work and will probably drop by later after work... He has come here every day or the past two days."Vicky did not react much to the information.Seeing how Vicky seemed exhausted, Cece said, "Vicky, rest for a while longer. I will get the doctor here."Vicky nodded weakly....At night, Tyler arrived as p
Selene remained still, and after some time, her anger began to escalate. Just as she was about to say something, Gloria said, "Vicky, if you want some kind of compensation, name anything. We will do our best to fulfill your wish."Vicky glanced at her. "A casual apology from Miss Rathborne and a simple promise of compensation is supposed to cancel out all the damage done to our studio and Cece's reputation?"Gloria paused. "I will compensate twice the loss to the studio, and I will make a public statement on social media about the truth. My dresses for any concert in the following year will be ordered from your studio, and after each performance, I will include your studio's name in my social media as well. Is that okay?"Gloria was proposing to be the spokesperson for Vicky's studio.As a world-famous pianist, Gloria never had to worry about money despite the downfall of her family. She never accepted any roles in commercials and rejected offers that paid over eight digits in the
As Tyler had claimed, Selene's plan would have never worked if Vicky did not give her the chance, so both Vicky and Tyler had their fair share of responsibility to bear for what happened.A few moments later, Vicky said, "Can you let Alex and Jennifer go?""I don't have them."She scowled. "You didn't capture them?"He stared at her with his cold, dark eyes. "First of all, why would I release Alex only to capture him again? Secondly, if I want to kidnap Jennifer to threaten you, I wouldn't hand her over to her fiance."Realization dawned on Vicky that Tyler was right.On the day Tyler said that he wanted a divorce, he agreed to let Alex go. If he was concerned that Vicky might not agree to the divorce, he could have refused to let Alex go entirely.She was misled to think that Tyler was behind everything because Adam destroyed her studio.'I did think that it's unlike Tyler to resort to such barbaric acts... Who knew?' She thought with a conflicted look on her face. "... Where