With how big the Rachael’s incident became, the Franks family naturally was in another uproar.The news of Edward marrying Alexia as a cover had yet to subside. It hadn’t even been a full day before Rachael’s news broke out.This time, the family was really stuck right in the eye of the storm.More accurately, Edward was the center of it all. Veronica was right. The news that Rachael had hurt herself had gone public. Most people online were bashing Alexia, but that was just the start.Perhaps because Alexia had said in front of the reporters that there were too many messages that night, not to mention the fact that Alexia and Edward’s marriage had been chaotic from the start, but the discussion soon split into three factions.The first group was those who blamed Alexia for being so harsh. The second was that Rachael was playing the victim. Some believed that her actions were to ensure that Alexia and Edward would never have the chance to get back together again in the future. Hence, A
At night.Even after the dark-colored car drew to a halt, Edward did not get down immediately. He sighed several times and adjusted his tie and looked at the building he was about to enter.He opened the window and turned his head to look at the “remuneration” he had prepared for Alexia. After a while, he reached out to pick up the file, opened the door, and got out of the car.This was the third time after the divorce that he had come to see Alexia.When the doorbell rang, Alexia came out of the room after taking a shower. She was still drying her wet hair.Hearing the doorbell ringing, Veronica, who was playing a game, looked up at her and said, “It’s so late. Could it be Mr. Damon again? He really does love you, doesn’t he!”Alexia gave her a sidelong glance and opened the door.When she saw the person at the door, the smile on Alexia’s face suddenly faded. “What are you doing here?”Veronica stopped playing the game and stretched her neck. She, who was looking out, also saw Edward
They were both staring straight in each other’s eyes with coldness. Just when she was thinking that he wouldn’t answer her question, Edward looked at her. And asked, “Why?”Alexia wasn’t surprised that he actually asked, rather she stands upright with her hands crossed on her chest and said to him,“Because in the past four years, even if I fed a dog, it would know to lick my hand to show its gratitude. Edward Franks, it’s been four years of misery. Apart from lying to me and allowing Franks family to bully me, what else have you done?”Alexia lowers her eyes for a few seconds and she raised them again, she snorted. And said to him in a rather calm voice, “I am reluctant, it’s true. However, don’t forget that you owe me all this!”But the calmness disappeared the same way it had come, she reached for the file in his hand and threw it aside. “You think three million dollars is enough to buy four years of my time? You must be dreaming. Leave, right now. Don’t make me tell you twice.”Th
Veronica sees her friend in a deep thought, and she tried to at least speak to her,“Hey, what’s there to be sad about? You said so yourself. Even a dog knows how to wag its tail at you when you feed it. In those four years, Edward had never even shown you a nice smile. If you feel upset now, then they’ve gotten what they wanted… Uh. What are you typing, Alexia?”Veronica thought that Alexia was really upset. When she recalled her remark earlier, she couldn’t help but feel a little guilty. She sat over beside Alexia and wanted to comfort her, but when she looked down she realised Alexia was typing out a long post.“Facebook post.” After Alexia posted it, she shot a glance at veronica with a blank face. Then, she stood up and poured herself another glass of water. She downed the medicine on the table. “I’ve taken my medicine now. I’m going to head to bed.”After that, Alexia got up and went straight back to the room. Alexia was stunned. Veronica tried to say something to her, “But …”“
Because of Veronica’s source help in promoting the post, Alexia’s Facebook quickly shot up to the top 3 most searched accounts within half an hour.At the same time, Rachael, who was in the hospital, also came across it. She was looking through the hate comments said to Alexia and she was excited that her scheme was actually working. But then people started deleting their comments and suddenly it turned to her. People started insulting her for making up stories and trying to frame an innocent person. She got out of her page and searched for recent news about Alexia and right before her eyes she saw that she was done for.When she saw Alexia’s post, her face immediately turned pale. “Cecelia!”Cecelia, who was eating fruit, glanced at her and asked, “What’s wrong? Does your wound hurt?”Although she was acting, Rachael had really hurt herself. She had purposefully cut it in a different angle of course to prevent actual harm, but that did not mean that it didn’t hurt.But the pain was w
This time, Robert realised that he could not do anything about the trending searches because the source was coming from the was behind it all.After hesitating for a few seconds, Robert ultimately decided to still call Edward.When his phone rang, Edward frowned impatiently. "Speak.""Mr. Franks, I can't reign it in. The police are backing the post. It'll take at least twelve hours before I can take the post down." Robert said in an exasperated voice. He didn’t like reporting news of failure to his boss but it was out of his hands."Got it." Edward answered with a slight sigh. He was already feeling tired about everything but he also for the first time didn’t know how to solve a problem.With that, Edward hung up the phone.He looked at the cigarette in his hand, and Rachael's words kept echoing in his mind."Edward, do you like Alexia?""No." he responded with his eyebrows kneaded."Then why don't you marry me?" she asked with a slight smile playing on her cheek."Because I don't lik
The night before, Alexia had fallen asleep after posting her Facebook post. She knew that when she woke up the next day, it would be chaos.After a night's sleep, she felt much better when she woke up that day. She picked up her phone and there were two missed calls on her phone. One was from her mother, and the other was from Joanna.There was also a bunch of unread messages on her Whats App. When Alexia clicked on it, most of them were people asking her about the post. Mrs. Ferrero had sent a message at first, but an hour later, she probably saw the Facebook post and sent over another four or five voice messages.Alexia smiled helplessly. The night before, she had been really frustrated with Edward. Not to mention the fact that she had also been sick. Hence, her reaction had been slowed. She didn't think it through properly and posted that post in the heat of the moment. But as she sat there she wondered if she would have done the same thing if Edward hadn’t come to her with the rem
Coincidentally, Veronica happened to look over. Suddenly, she felt like she shouldn't be here. Instead, she should be under the table.His palm was hot. Pressed against her forehead, Alexia felt a little warm inside.Earlier, she had been completely focused on the breakfast in front of her. Hence, she wasn't expecting him to do something like that. By the time she reacted, he had already retracted his hand. With an eyebrow raised, he looked at her and said, "Your fever's gone I see."After Damon finished speaking, he sat down as well. And prepared himself to have breakfast with them. They weren’t friends neither were they in a relationship but Damon looked relaxed around her.Veronica sat down beside Alexia and couldn't help saying, "Mr. Damon, I see you're really at home here."Damon glanced at Veronica and didn't mind her teasing at all. He said to her in a raised eyebrow and a smirk playing on his lips, "Miss Veronica told me to make myself at home, didn't she?"She was utterly spe
Not only the guests, even Damon and Edward were shocked. The other man went to Veronica and slid the wedding ring on her hand, she looked at the host and took the male wedding ring and slid it on his as well.Alexia didn't expect that Damon would come on stage. Days prior, she had told him not to act impulsively on the wedding day, but she didn't expect that Damon would still rush up.This was between her and the Franks family. Alexia didn't want to get Damon involved.Seeing him on the stage, Alexia called out to him in the chaos. "Damon."Her voice wasn't loud. The wedding that day was grand, but Alexia was standing under the stage. Before she even said a word, Damon had already seen her.Alexia was wearing a plain long dress that day. Her hair was tied up and she wore a pair of sunglasses.It was no wonder that no one noticed that Alexia was under the stage. Dressed like this, most of the guests thought that she was some celebrity.Damon quickly came to his senses. He turned around
The groom got ready much faster than the bride. After Edward finished his makeup, he went out to welcome the guests with Master Franks.When the guests saw Edward, although his expression was still as cold as ice, when they looked at him, it was obvious that he was in a good mood this day.At half past six, the wedding began as scheduled.As the groom, Edward was already backstage.After the host gave the opening speech, Edward was invited to the stage to share his love story.But everyone knew that Mr. Bo had always been a quiet and indifferent person. At first, the host was a little worried that Edward wouldn't answer at all.It turned out that he had worried for nothing.Although Edward's answer was not very exciting, it was still an answer."Mr. Frank, before I welcome the bride, I want to ask you a few questions first. I believe that everyone here is as curious as I am."As we all know, you and the bride have been married once. What exactly is the purpose of your marriage this ti
......Edward really didn't want to care about this wedding, because he clearly knew that this wedding was just for show.Be it him or Alexia, they were all tools for Master Franks to boost his reputation in exchange for benefits.It just so happened that he liked Alexia and wanted to remarry him, so he didn't say much.However, Master Franks' words changed Edward's mind.Did Alexia really go back to her parents in person the previous day just to persuade Mr. Ferrero to agree to the wedding?He thought of what happened that night. She was cold towards him as ever, as if she didn't want to get married to him at all.Edward had been feeling conflicted over the past few days. He even wanted to ask Alexia to call off the wedding.However, every time he felt the urge to do so, he couldn't help but look at Alexia's old messages telling him how much she loved him.Edward felt as if he had been trapped in a ball played on the field. He couldn't escape, nor did he know how.But now, he no long
He was taken aback by Alexia's question. Then he smiled and said, "Why? Do you think you've seen me before?""When I was 15, I passed out in an alley filled with gangsters from other universities. Before I lost consciousness, I faintly felt that a boy picked me up and sent me to the hospital."At this point, Alexia paused for a moment. "After I woke up, I only saw my parents beside my bed. But the uniform that the boy covered me with when he sent me to the hospital was still on me. There was a school tag inside, which said 'Edward'. I thought that the person who saved me was Edward. Eventually, I fell in love with him.""I've always thought that Edward was actually a gentle person. He's just cold on the outside but soft on the inside. But ever since that incident, I've never seen his gentle side again.""In the past few months, being with you has given me a feeling that I mistook the boy for someone else. You saved me, didn't you?"She didn't fall in love with Edward at first sight. S
Damon handed a suitcase to me and said. I lowered her head and looked at it. I was a little confused. And so, I asked, "What's this?""It's a money gift."Then, he placed the suitcase in my hands.Damon then loosened his grip. I felt the weight, so I subconsciously held the suitcase tightly and said, "What money gift?''Why are you giving me this for no reason at all?"Halfway through the sentence, I came to her senses. My heart beat faster as I asked, "Did Edward tell you?"There was no smile on his face and only darkness in his eyes. "Hmm."He answered and turned to leave.He walked very slowly, as if he was struggling with every step, but also as if he was waiting for something.I watched and felt that my eyes were burning. Before I could react, I had already opened my mouth. I called out to him subconsciously, "Damon."Hearing my voice, the man who had already walked to the corner stopped.For the first time, he didn't look back at me. He just turned his back to me and said, "If y
We were about to go home when we encountered three thugs. We walked to the car and saw them smoking by it. Damon wanted to move it and so, he approached them and said to themDo you mind moving from the car?But then it seemed that they had met bad company, one of them stepped forward and said to him,Dare to make us leave? I want to lean on your car for a moment. Dare you make me angry and you will go home with your balls in your hands.I realized that Damon was getting irritated and he wasn’t the only one. And so, I moved closer to him and said to him,Let’s not cause any commotion and leave from here.The other two looked at me and whistled and then said,You’ve gotten the hottest harlot for the night, do you mind borrowing her to us? We will…Before he could finish his words, they heard a bone crack and they saw Damon’s fist on the speaker’s cheek.And that was how it all began, three to one, I just couldn’t stand by and so, I joined him.Thirty minutes later, the police arrived a
I was in my office after returning from the dinner when Joanna presented a file to me. She said it concerned Charlotte who I thought I was done with. I wondered what that information was and so I looked through it. When I was done, I chuckled and said, "No wonder."No wonder Joanna couldn't find out anything about Charlotte connected to the Franks. It turned out that Edward had sent someone to clean up her mess.In the past few months, Edward's men had been watching Joanna's men.However, a few days ago, I had told Joanna not to look into Charlotte anymore. Edward's men probably thought that they finally stopped investigating. They didn't expect that Joanna would come back and find out about them.In my opinion, no matter how bad Edward was, he would never do such a shameless thing.However, it turned out that I didn't really know him.I had been hesitating about the wedding, but after finding out about this, I was clear about her decision.It was all thanks to Joanna that I found out
I made sure to take my time in the office, in fact I wanted to finish the day’s work before seeing him. But I thought about it that he might be feeling sore over for sitting at one place for two hours. My worry wasn’t on that one, he could fake collapsing and I didn’t want people talking about company with the Franks name attached and so I had to see him.I walked in with a faint smile on her face.Master Franks glanced at me and sat up on the chair. He then said with a pretentious smile which was very obvious. "Miss Alexia, you've been busy."I pretended that I couldn't hear the dissatisfaction in his words. And replied to him,"You're too kind, Master Franks. I've just taken over a project in another city, and I have a lot of things to do."I realized that talking to me was only pissing him off, so Master Franks decided not to argue with her. "Miss Alexia, you've worked hard. Shall we talk over lunch?""Okay."I responded and then led him out.As soon as they arrived, the dishes wer
Damon’s conclusion wasn’t his only, I knew that could happen. Jane had been punished by her family and so, without their permission, she couldn’t have attempted to hurt me once again. That family was that corrupt that, they didn’t mind using the only daughter of the family to commit bad deeds.I had had it to my neck and I couldn’t take it anymore, I had to do something which would put the franks family back in its place, off my back.I didn’t know what that could be but I began thinking about it when he visited once again. Damon had left and I was indoors browsing through the news about my so called pregnancy when I heard my door bell. I stood up and went to open up and there he was. I looked at him and thought of the information online and then asked him,“Are you here to verify that I am pregnant? If so, you should know that even if I am, you are not the father right?”Edward sighed before he replied to me, “It isn’t the reason that I am here. And I am sure that that you are not pr