Buzz, buzz— The phone on the nightstand vibrated, and Kevin immediately picked it up to check. There was a notification for a new email. He quickly opened the email application and checked the latest email. There were a few photos attached. There were a series of still photographs, but when put together, it looked like a running scene. It recorded the process of Herbert Ken's murder. The photographs were extremely violent. Kevin felt like he could feel the strength the murderer used as he cut Herbert with the knife. Looking at the photos on his phone, Kevin narrowed his eyes and clenched his fists. These sick sadists better hoped that he never finds them. Just as he was done looking through the email, Nick Black's phone call came in. Kevin glanced at Karen and Little Karen quickly and made sure they were sleeping tight, then he rolled out of bed and went to the balcony to answer the call, "Go ahead." Nick started speaking: "Di
Since George Ken was unwilling to say anything, Karen Daly could only leave the room. Just as she left, she received a call from Hector Cheng. She emailed Hector her resignation letter just before coming to George's room, so the call must be related to her resignation. Karen picked up, "Director Cheng?" "Karen, you were doing just fine. Why did you suddenly resign?" Hector was quite young, but he sure sounded old, he spoke to her like an elder advising his disciple. Karen had already thought of a reason for her resignation, "Director, it's because my health is not doing so well. I hope you can understand." "Karen, it's not that I don't want to approve your resignation, but we're short of designers now. Spring is coming soon, and we can't just find a suitable designer at the last minute." Hector heaved a long sigh and added, "If we can't deliver the "Romance of the Wind" collection in time, I'm afraid I can't keep my paycheck." Karen did not ans
In the photo, Kevin wore the pair of gold-rimmed glasses that he often wore and also his signature white shirt. He looked classy as usual. Although there was still HDR toxin in his body then and he couldn't see anything at that time, he looked normal and no one would have noticed it. Little Karen was tugging on the necklace her Brother Lionel had given to her, and had a cute smile. Of course Karen was also there. Because she was worried about Kevin's sight, her gaze didn't leave him the whole day. Naturally, in the photo, she was looking at Kevin. When they first saw the photo, Mia Kyle had jokingly said, "If anyone didn't know better, they would think that my sister-in-law has a crush on my cold brother." At that time, Karen wanted to hide the photo because of the joke, but Kevin snatched it away. Eventually it ended up in his office desk. Hmph! Kevin seemed to be a warm person beneath his cold front. Karen couldn't stop poking Kevin's f
Karen hoped that Kevin would tell her, "Karen, it's not what you think." But he didn't. Kevin looked at her intently. His eyes were shimmering with waves of emotion, as if he had a million words to say to her, but he didn't know which one to pick. After a long time, he came to her side, and hugged her with all his might. He buried his head in her neck and said in a low and coarse voice, "Karen, you're pregnant. You must not get agitated. You must not be too worked up... okay?" Karen suddenly smiled helplessly and sadly. "The child is ours. I will protect him... However, Kevin, I am an independent individual. I have my own abilities and my own thoughts. I have the right to know the truth. You have no right to make a decision for me." Indeed! She should know the truth, but he was worried that she would lose control of her emotions and harm herself and the child once she knows the truth. Did she understand his concern?
Although she said she was fine, how could someone be absolutely fine knowing their father got murdered? Fortunately, Karen had Kevin with her. When she was sad, Kevin stayed by her side, being the strong man she could fall back to. Karen was sad, but she managed to stay rational. Because she knew that Kevin would worry about her if she was sad. Her father in heaven wouldn't want to see her sad too, so she told herself to stay strong. On the way home, Karen cried in Kevin's arms until she fell asleep. She did not sleep well, and her body twitched from time to time. Kevin could tell that the revelation shocked her so much that it affected her subconsciously too. Kevin patted on her back gently, trying to comfort her like a child. He tried his best to hide it from her, but he didn't expect that she would hear the news from himself. She had never visited his office to wait for him to get off work before, so he did not expect her t
Just as Karen was feeling upset again, a firm and warm hand hugged her waist, pulling her into his embrace, "Just cry your heart out if you want to." Karen didn't want to hold it in as well, so she cried out into Kevin's chest. She wanted to cry for this once, and then get over it. Kevin obviously underestimated how much a woman can cry. He never knew his woman could cry that much. She cried for at least half an hour without moving. While Karen cried all her sadness out, she wouldn't listen to anything, so Kevin just looked at her cry silently. After crying enough, Karen wiped her tears on Kevin's shirt, raised her eyes and looked at him embarrassed with her red and swollen eyes. 'If I caught our father's murderer, what would you do?" Just when she was about to say something to Kevin, George interrupted her. She turned her head slightly to see his gloomy expression. "Of course I must avenge my father." It was perfectly justified for someone to
"Why would Kevin ask you for the recording? If you have clues about father's murderer, shouldn't you hand it over already?" Karen couldn't understand what George was thinking. George majored in psychology, so he was good at analyzing people's thoughts. In the past, no matter how much he hated the person he was facing, he could always put up a smile. To "e what he said, "No one would hate a smiling face." Smiling more wouldn't cost anything, and it would bring so much benefit, his principle was to face everyone with a smile. However, in the past few days, Karen could obviously feel George's hostility towards Kevin. When they went to bury their father, George didn't even want to let Kevin follow them, and only gave in when Karen insisted. George looked out the window, "I don't have the recording you're talking about." "Brother, what are you hiding?" Karen pulled George over and scolded him, "I am your sister. Your father is my father as well. Why
As he heard that voice, George Ken was slightly stunned. He quickly figured out who it was and responded, "So it's you. I haven't seen you for so many years. What are you doing now?" The person on the other end of the phone replied, "I just returned from the States last week. I heard from our classmates that you were also in Chatterton Town, so I called to check on you, do you want to come out for some drinks?" "You are in Chatterton Town?" George was very surprised. "Is it that strange that I'm in Chatterton Town? Come out then, we'll meet at Bar Street." "That's great!" George agreed immediately. He needed to avoid Karen's questioning anyway, and he also needed to think about what to do next carefully. Alcohol was useful sometimes. It could numb feelings and make people forget any terrible things temporarily. "Stop the car." He asked the driver to let him out. "Where are you going?" Karen had not received the recording yet, so she did n
...... Eight months later. Adrienne had given birth to a daughter, gathering the entire Yard family in Chatterton Town. Everyone was in high spirits but Jefferson had a sour expression on, as if that was the worst day of his life. Sierra found a moment and went over to Jefferson. "Hey, Jeff. Adrienne just gave birth but why do you have such a long face on? Did you want a son instead or something?" Jefferson responded rudely, "It doesn't matter to me whether it's a boy or a girl. That little girl is our daughter, and I'll love her no matter what." Sierra continued, "Why do you look so upset then?" "Must I have a reason for that?" Well, he was angry at himself. Adrienne had almost lost her life in the labor room earlier, but he hadn't been able to offer any help. Throughout Adrienne's pregnancy, Jefferson had done an enormous amount of research and found out that a C-section birth was relatively safer. Hence, he'd insisted that Adrienne und
...... Johan was still clamming up. Maxtor was so anxious that he couldn't stand still. "Johan, what happened between you and Sierra? Can't you at least explain the situation to me?" After a long silence, Johan looked up and out of the window. "There have been so many fights and misunderstandings between us in the past years and it seems that the past was a time that we can never go back to." Upon hearing this, Maxtor seemed to have put his finger on the crux of the problem. "Did Miranda make Sierra misunderstand you?" Maxtor said earnestly, "Johan, I've told you before that woman has a twisted psyche and you need to stay away from her. You pitied her for being an orphan, but look at what she has been up to." "It has nothing to do with Miranda. It's me. If I..." If he had explained everything to Sierra back then, she wouldn't have felt that insecure about their relationship. He knew everything, but he still got mad at her. Maxtor continued, "He
...... On the first day of school, Miranda was once again met with an unpredicted truth. She found out that Sierra was the top scorer in the entrance exam. She was the overachiever that every university was dying to recruit. Not only did Sierra come from a good family, but she was smart and beautiful to boot. Sierra possessed everything she could have in life. Miranda couldn't figure out why she had to take Johan away from her when she already had so much. What made Miranda even more disappointed was not her inferiority but Johan. On the first day of school, she was over the moon to see that Johan was at the gate to receive her. However, when Johan took her luggage from her and she was wallowing in her excitement to see him, He said to her, "Miranda, that is the girl I like, Sierra. She will be your sister-in-law in the future. You should get on well with her." She didn't want to be nice to her. Instead, she hated her. Mirand
...... Johan's words frightened Miranda so much that her face turned pale. "Johan, Mrs. Silas adopted me. I would have died a long time ago if it weren't for her. How could I have nothing to do with the Silas family?" Johan's face was somber, and his voice chilled Miranda to her bones. "You know that my mother was the one who took you in, but look at what you've been up to all these years?" "Johan, what-what did I do?" Miranda said, trembling with fear. Miranda was an expert at feigning a pitiful appearance and reaping sympathy from others. She even managed to tear up and gazed heart-wrenchingly at Johan at that very moment. However, Johan did not buy into her ploy at all. Not only did his eyes demonstrate her no pity, there was also a trace of disdain that Miranda had never seen before. He loathed her. Upon realizing that, Miranda's heart was broken. Johan had been her dream for those past years. She had worked so hard to do so many things in
...... Sierra wasn't able to refute because what Miranda said was the truth. It was indeed true that many could never compare with her background. However, although she was born privileged, that didn't spare her from putting in effort for her own future. Prestigious universities wanted her because she was the top scorer in the entrance exam but not because of her family background and connections. All of a sudden, Miranda smirked sinisterly. "I know you like Johan, and you want to be with him. Sierra, I like him too, and I want to be with him. You have everything so why do you still want to take my man away from me?" "Excuse me? Who took your man?" Displeased, Sierra said, "Miranda, you were the one who told me that you two were siblings, and that there was nothing going on between you guys. And mind you, you were also the one who encouraged me to go after him." Miranda shouted in a low voice, "Sierra, if I hadn't told you that, would you have remained fri
...... Averting her gaze, Sierra turned around with difficulty. However, just as she had taken a step forward, Miranda's voice sounded from behind. "Sierra, I didn't expect you to come to the airport to pick me up. Imagine my delight to be able to see you on the first day of my return." "You've misunderstood, Miss Attwood. I'm not here to pick you up." Sierra did not conceal her hatred for Miranda as she could not even be bothered to dole out the niceties at her. Miranda chuckled. "I haven't seen you for so many years, but you're still so adorable." It seemed that Miranda couldn't sense the despise Sierra had for her. She approached Sierra with a smile and wanted to give her a hug. Sierra stared at Miranda's outstretched arms and quickly dodged her. A single glance at Miranda and her eyes would be sullied. Sierra thought that she would even throw up should her body come into contact with Miranda's. Miranda was never good at reading between the
...... Stopping her car, Sierra quickly got off to check the situation. No sooner had her feet been on the ground that four men got off from the car in front of her and surrounded her. One of them pointed at her and barked, "Don't you f*cking know how to drive? If you don't, then don't drive. Say it, how much are you going to pay for the damage!" Sierra was driving in accordance to normalcy, but the other party had, so suddenly, cut into her lane without a signal. As hard as she had stepped on her brake, she still collided with the car. They were supposed to be the ones held accountable for the collision. However, they got out of the car and shouted at her, extorting compensation. Sierra suspected that these men had done so deliberately to scam her. She took out her mobile phone and was ready to call the police. However, before she could even unlock her phone, one of the men had already wrenched the phone away from her. "We have something important t
...... In the middle of cleaning the table, Rosie said, "He doesn't only come here to have meals, but he would also get one to go every time. No jalapenos on the one to go. He says that you can't take spices because your stomach doesn't handle it well." Sierra did have a stomach problem, but it wasn't till the point that she couldn't take spicy food at all. Moreover, Johan had never brought any tacos back for her. Sierra figured that he was probably getting it for someone else so she asked, "What did he say to you when he asked you to pack it?" Rosie smiled and said, "He said that he was going to bring it for his girlfriend. He's obviously talking about you, isn't he?" "Oh, his girlfriend." Smiling, Sierra did not put forth any more questions as she knew that Johan had never regarded her as his girlfriend. For him, she was nothing more like a leech that he couldn't shake off. Rosie looked at Sierra and said earnestly, "I know you two fought tod
...... "My ability to act coy?" Sierra said inwardly. She had no idea from where did his temper sneak in again. However, she knew that somehow everything she had done seemed to piss him off. If he didn't like her, then why did he come looking for her? Did he have nothing else better to do? She smiled and said, "Mr. Silas, since you don't like being around me, then let's not meet anymore in the future, nor have any meals together. I'm afraid your appetite will take a nosedive when you see me." "You shouldn't say that, Sierra." Rosie handed one of the plates to Sierra and said, "Every couple gets into fights, but you must know your boundaries. Some words are too hurtful, and you shouldn't just say everything that comes to your mind." Sierra didn't make a sound. She wasn't a fan of others poking their noses in her affairs. Besides, she was not close to Rosie either so she found her rather meddlesome. Rosie didn't seem to register in her mind that Sierra was d