Tracey looked at Arthur, her eyes shifty. It had been more than a few days since Arthur returned from Yanea. He had been busy the moment he got back, so it was the first time they were alone with each other. She went over and said hello with a smile, “Long time no see, Arthur.” “Yeah, long time no see.” Arthur nodded and said nothing more. Tracey looked at Arthur’s straight face, feeling frustrated. “Have you been well in Yanea in the last six months?” “I’m fine.” Tracey stared at the man of his dreams. There were so many times she wanted to visit him in Yanea. However, the thought of his aloof face stopped her. “How long do you plan to stay in Richworth?” “I’m not too sure. It would depend on Master Blair.” Arthur’s response was curt and indifferent, limited to when she asked as if he was talking to an irrelevant stranger. “Are you free tonight? How about dinner together?” Tracey invited him with a smile. “I don’t have time tonight.” The smile on Tracey’s f
Solomon was not pleased with Blair for changing the subject, but he took the document for a look anyway. He was dumbstruck, “Huh? Isn’t this our ongoing project in Yanea? What is this? This is X’s last resource. If you bring it out to Dorland’s market, we won’t have anything to fall back on.” Blair nodded and looked deep into his eyes. “X doesn’t have anything to fall back on now.” “No, we still have the northern suburb project. We can take another gamble—” Before Solomon could finish talking, Blair cut him off and replied, “I returned the project to Jefferson Enterprise.” “Huh?” Solomon was dumbfounded. “You returned it to Jefferson Enterprise?” “Jefferson Enterprise won the project, to begin with.” Solomon was not having it. “We put a lot of time, effort, and money into the initial development and construction. That would be all for nothing.” “I know.” “If you know that, why did you—” Blair interrupted him, “Don’t worry. I will bear all the losses myself.” So
The car window wound down, revealing Anthony’s ill-intentioned face. “What a coincidence, Mable. We meet again.” Mable furrowed her brows. Talk about bad luck. Anthony’s gaze fell on the child next to her. He raised his brow in curiosity. “What a cute child. He’s—” Spike held his mother’s hand tightly and stared warily at the man. He was not a good man. “It’s none of your business.” Mable did not plan to stick around. She took Spike’s hand to leave. Anthony got out of the car and put his hand out to stop Mable. “If you’re not busy, I want to take you out for dinner.” Mable gave him the side eye. “We’re not close enough to have dinner together, Anthony.” Anthony shrugged. “Don’t say that. I gave you a ride yesterday, didn’t I?” Mable scoffed and pulled out two hundred-dollar bills from her bag and tucked them in his pocket. “Here’s the payment. Keep the change.” Anthony was stunned. “You…” What did the damn woman take him for? Smirking in rage, Anthony pull
Anthony turned around and got into his car. Mable stared at Anthony’s back. Struck by a thought, she called him, “Anthony.” Anthony turned around with a cheeky smile. “What? Did you change your mind?” Mable said, “So you want to have dinner with me? I don’t have time today. I’ll let you know when I’m free.” It was time to settle old scores. Tracey looked at Mable anxiously. “You can’t trust Anthony, Mabes—” Anthony looked askance at Tracey, interrupting her, “Tracey, we have the same father. Can’t you say anything nice about me?” He then turned to Mable and waved his arm with a smile. “Alright. I’ll wait for your call.” As Anthony rode away in his car, Tracey told Mable. “Anthony must have an ulterior motive to approach you, Mabes. Don’t be fooled by him.” Tracey knew what was going through Anthony’s mind. He was trying to get his revenge on Blair through Mable. Growing up, Anthony would steal anything and everything Blair loved and cared about. Mable gave a rel
Tracey bought a lot of ingredients. Worried that Spike was a picky eater, she prepared various food.In addition to food, she also bought gifts for Spike. She did not know what children his age liked to play with, so she bought a bunch for him to choose from.Spike was introverted and could not speak, so he mostly ignored anyone except those he was familiar with. Tracey put in a lot of effort to give him gifts and tell him jokes to win him over before he did not reject her as much.In fact, what Tracey did not know was that the reason why Spike did not reject her was because he felt she had a good relationship with his mother.Tracey watched Spike focus on solving the puzzle she gave him. The more she looked, the more she felt he resembled her brother.While Mable went to the kitchen to grab something, she asked Spike, “Spike, can you tell me who your daddy is?”Spike was in the middle of solving the puzzle Tracey had given him when he heard her question. He picked up his phone a
“By the way, how’s Olivia doing?” Mable suddenly thought of Olivia and asked casually.“Amos told me at noon that she’s been moved out of the ICU and is no longer in critical condition.”Mable was stunned. “Her condition has improved?”Tracey did not like Olivia, so she said in an annoyed tone, “How could she not improve after she got two hundred milliliters of your blood?”Mable frowned. Her blood no longer had the medicinal effect of the Ice Jade Flower. How could it have saved Olivia?Tracey saw her concerned look and asked, “What’s wrong, Mabes?”Mable laughed coldly and said in a mysterious tone, “Nothing. I was just wondering. Olivia was in critical condition because of the poison, right? My blood no longer contains the medicinal effect of the Ice Jade Flower, though. How could it have saved her?”That was unless Olivia was not really poisoned and was just pretending!Tracey looked at Mable in surprise. “If that’s the case, why did you give her your blood? You’d need at l
Tracey stared at Mable in bewilderment. “How could that be? Blair loves you so much.”He was willing to stand before the enemy as a live target to get the Ice Jade Flower for her and detoxify her.He knew she had a bomb attached to her during the bank robbery. Yet, he rushed forward to save her, disregarding his own life...Tracey had never seen him treat someone so selflessly.Mable was the exception.As they say, bystanders can see clearer than those directly involved.As a bystander, Tracey saw very well how Blair felt about Mable.Tracey’s words made Mable smile, but it carried a hint of desolation.“From the beginning, the only person Blair loved was Olivia Page. I’m just a pawn in his eyes.”A pawn?Tracey did not understand. “Mabes, there must be a misunderstanding...”“There’s no misunderstanding, Tracey. I heard it with my own ears. He was willing to use my life to get information about Olivia. When we were both kidnapped, he chose to save Olivia without hesitation.
Since she was with Solomon, Tracey was naturally polite. She went up and held out a hand. “Hello, Ms. Matthams. I’m Tracey Fowler.”Ines nodded with a smile and shook Tracey’s hand, saying in a soft and gentle tone, “Hello. Just Ines is fine.”After exchanging greetings, Tracey sat beside Blair and asked, “Why is your phone off?”Blair held a glass of beer in his hand, and his deep eyes were gloomy. “It ran out of battery.”Solomon laughed and said, “Yeah, right. He deliberately turned it off.”Tracey looked at Solomon in confusion. “Why?”Solomon explained in a low voice, “Olivia woke up and kept calling Master Blair. He found it annoying, so he turned off his phone.”At the mention of Olivia, Tracey immediately thought of something important.“That’s right, I came to find you to talk about Olivia’s condition. There’s something fishy about her illness!”Blair’s eyes flickered, and he stared at her with a frown. “What do you mean?”Solomon also became interested and waited fo