Miya could not help but complain about Wendy. “Wendy, if you were not married to Caleb, I would have wondered if you have a crush on Ethan.”Wendy smiled and joked, “Yes, you’re right, I have a crush on him, but he’s only interested in Silvia. Therefore, I have no choice but to settle for the second best and choose Caleb instead.”Miya replied, “Bullshit! If you really love someone, how can you settle for the second best and choose someone else?”Jane said, “I agree with Miya’s words. You’re not only being irresponsible to yourself by choosing the second best option, but you’re also being disrespectful toward the person you chose.”Silvia replied, “I agree with Miya and Jane.” Silvia had a deep understanding of what Miya and Jane said. This was indeed the case. If it was true love, how could one settle for the second best, then? This was a kind of mentality where one would vow to wait forever if one could not get their beloved, and never settle for the second best and choose
She did not explain any more as she believed that they would see that she had really gotten over it in the future. She sent her new cell phone number in the group chat.“This is my new phone number. I’m no longer using the previous one, so you can just delete it. I should also get home, so you should also do what you should do.”Wendy asked worriedly, “Silvia, you didn’t tell Ryan about your new phone number, did you?” Miya expressed serious contempt for Wendy’s intelligence. “Seems that pregnancy really makes one forgetful and a little silly. If Silvia didn’t want to avoid Ryan, why would she change her phone number?”Wendy was also speechless at her own intelligence, and replied to Silvia with relief, “Well done!”Silvia smiled, then put her cell phone away and went to the bus station to wait for the bus to go home.As soon as she got home, she received an invitation for a video call from Nora. She accepted the video call and her daughters little pink face appeared in front
The little girl shook her head sincerely. “No, I already had a video call with her just now so I don’t miss her now.”Ryan was speechless.He could already guess it without asking. They must have used Nora’s cell phone to have a video call with Silvia just now. No wonder the two of them hid in the room and did not come out for a long time.Ryan was very annoyed, but the little girl was still adding fuel to the flames. “Aunt said that we should video call Mama secretly when you’re not around. Otherwise, Mama will be angry if she finds out.”The little girl did not understand the meaning of Nora’s words so she relayed the words generally, but Ryan was still extremely angry when he heard them. The father and daughter duo needed to take a bath before going to bed at night. This was Ryan’s first time bathing his daughter. When Silvia did not come home at night the last time, the little girl was already asleep when he came home, so he did not give her a bath.Ryan felt that he defin
However, he could not refuse.That’s right, he could not refuse. When he was faced with this little girl who had half of his blood flowing within her, he could not say no at all.He once thought that he had no feelings for this child. In the past, he’d never looked forward to having a child either. In addition, this was not a child that he had with the woman he loved, so he had been deliberately ignoring her the whole time.But as he interacted with and spent more time with her during this period of time, he found that he could not control his love for Autumn at all.He did not know whether it was the blood relationship they shared that was manipulating all this, or whether it was simply because Autumn was very lovable. But he loved her innocence, her ignorance, her cuteness, her beauty, her quirkiness, and her temper when she was being stubborn. He loved it all.In short, he felt that he could not do without Autumn. She had become an indispensable part of his life.Therefore, wh
He was glad that his daughter was free and easy, and was not as stubborn as Silvia was. He later thought about how his daughter was only three years old now. This was probably just her concept when she was three or four years old and she might not be as free and easy anymore when she was twenty-three years old. Ryan could not imagine what it would be like if his daughter were to fall in love with a man one day but the man did not love her in return. His daughter would then pester the man stubbornly and insist on being together with the man. If that happened, Ryan would tear that man into pieces with his own two hands, take his daughter away from that man, then use all his power to prevent his daughter from being together with that man.As Ryan thought about this, he suddenly understood why Silvia’s father had been treating him so coldly all these years.No father would be willing to see his daughter live such a life. What made it hard for Ryan to bear was that if Silvia had b
Breakfast was finally resolved smoothly. It was fortunate that Autumn would be having lunch at school, or he would have a real headache. As for dinner, he had not figured it out yet.After a busy morning, when he thought of dinner, his first thought was to take Autumn to his mother’s place to have dinner there. However, when he thought of how he brought his daughter back with him in a fit of anger, he gave up the idea of going there for dinner. The more he thought about it, the more he had a headache. He finally decided to simply take Autumn out to eat at night. That would save him time and effort—he was already exhausted from preparing just one breakfast, and he thought that he would collapse if he had to prepare dinner. Going out to eat would be the wisest decision.In order to prevent himself from getting tired after arriving at work after getting up at five o’clock in the morning, Ryan drank two cups of coffee in the morning.He made the coffee himself. It was not as bad as
Didn’t she once go to Ryan’s house to learn how to make coffee for Ryan from Silvia? They simply spent a short morning together, but as a female secretary, she could already see Silvia’s virtuousness. The secretary used to feel jealous and enviable of this mysterious Mrs. Pierce, just like all the other women in Detroit. They thought that she must have done a lot of great deeds in her previous life to have been able to marry Ryan.The reason why Mrs. Pierce was mysterious was that she disappeared from everyone’s sight after she got married. Everyone thought that she would show off all day long because she had married into such a wealthy family, but in the end, she surprised everyone by concentrating on taking care of her husband and children at home instead. Mrs. Pierce’s reputation in public was not very good in the beginning. It was rumored that she’d used tricks to climb into Ryan’s bed, then got pregnant successfully, thus forcing Ryan to have no choice but to marry her.Late
“What?”Julian thought that Ryan must be muddle-headed. “The pictures are so intimate, and you spent the night at her place. Do you think people will believe it?”Ryan snorted coldly, “It’s up to them whether they want to believe it or not.”Julian was so angry that he walked around the office with his hands on his hips, then turned around and continued to argue with him. “What the hell is going on in your mind? You and Silvia are already divorced, so why are you still refusing to disclose it? Besides, aren’t you afraid of stimulating Mariah to go into her rabid state if you publicly state that the both of you are just friends?” Ryan glared at Julian fiercely as soon as he mentioned rabies. “Sorry, sorry, it's a mental illness.”Julian also misspoke out of anger. After saying that, he walked away to calm himself down. Ryan had naturally considered what Julian said about stimulating Mariah. Her attending doctor had told him that Mariah could not be simulated now and that it
Evelyn was worried about this, but Rowan did not take it seriously as he said, “This small amount of snow is nothing.”Evelyn was extremely worried. The temperature was so low now, so the road must be icy. The snow was too heavy and would block his sight. Evelyn did not want him to be in any danger, so she suggested in a low voice, “It’s better if you don’t go back.”Rowan looked at her in surprise and smiled as he asked, “Where will I stay if I don’t go back? Do you want me to stay in the car all night?”Evelyn shook her head and said, “Y-You can go home with me.”She had just taken the initiative to invite a man to spend the night at her home. It was truly embarrassing for a shy girl like Evelyn to say these words, but she was willing to do so for his safety.“My mother should be asleep now, and she wakes up later in the morning. We can just leave before she wakes up in the morning.”She explained with a red face, “Don’t misunderstand me. I just don’t want you to be in danger o
She held her cell phone and said hurriedly, “I’ll go down right now.”She ended the call and hurriedly put on her down jacket. She was wearing warm and soft polar fleece home clothes. She did not have time to change, so she simply put on a down jacket and went out. She opened the door and walked out stealthily, out of fear that she would wake Helena up, and Helena would find out that she was going down to meet Rowan in the middle of the night. Helena would surely think that this kind of behavior was inappropriate. When passing by the living room, Evelyn glanced in the direction of Helena’s bedroom. The lights had been turned off, so she was probably asleep. Helena’s physical condition was not as good as it was before the surgery. After all, she was getting older and had undergone craniotomy, which was a major surgery, so she could not keep up mentally and physically. She would go to bed very early at night and wake up late in the morning.After Evelyn left the house quietly, sh
Cassie’s expression turned ugly when she heard Helena’s words. She was shocked and humiliated as she asked in disbelief, “Is it Rowan Pierce?”Cassie knew that it was the Pierces and Matons who were maliciously targeting the Sullivans. Julian and Nora had just gotten married, and it was said that Julian loved Nora very much, so it could not be Julian.As the person in charge of the Pierces, Ryan was a married man as well, and the couple usually kept a low profile and rarely displayed their affection. However, Cassie heard that Ryan’s wife had just given birth to a son, and it was widely known that Ryan was a family man now.Rowan was the only single man, so could it be Rowan?Cassie recalled the scene when she saw Rowan shopping with them in the mall that day. At the time, she wondered why Rowan would be willing to go shopping with them, but now, it seemed that he was there for Evelyn’s sake. Cassie was so stunned when she thought of this that she felt like she would choke on a m
In the end, Natalie was pushed to a dead end and had no choice but to hold a press conference in a hurry. During the press conference, she cried and apologized for the plagiarism and the fact that she had looked for someone to draw a design for her, and announced that she would be quitting the design world.However, few people accepted her apology or showed sympathy for her even though she apologized and admitted her mistakes. The general public opinion was still scolding her in various ways, so Barry simply drove Natalie home and asked her to stay at home to avoid the limelight. One night after Natalie’s incident, Evelyn was accompanying Helena on a stroll in the neighborhood when they ran into Cassie.Natalie’s life had been completely gloomy and dark in the past few days, but Evelyn’s life was stable and practical.Rowan insisted on picked her up from work every morning. If Rowan was at the company at noon, the two would have lunch together. Considering that Helena would be at
Natalie never expected that Rowan would play these dirty tricks behind her back. She did not know that Rowan was best at these tricks. She had cried and begged Barry to plead for mercy on her behalf, but when Barry came back, he told her that there was no room for redemption. She was desperate and was filled with hatred and resentment. Over the years, she had tried every means possible to trample all over Evelyn, but in the end, she was the one who suffered the most and could not turn her life around. Natalie clenched her teeth angrily in hatred as she dug her nails into her palms and tried to calm her emotions. So what if her career in design was ruined? She never truly liked this industry anyway. She had only learned it at the beginning in order to crush Evelyn. She could still do other things even if she did not do design, right? There were so many different industries in this world, so she did not have to make a living in jewelry design. Besides, she was a Stewart, so s
She laughed loudly when she was happy, shed tears when she was sad, never hid her true self, and was a frank and sincere person. Why wouldn’t men like such a girl?Rowan laughed. He did not mean to slander Selena; he was simply analyzing Selena’s current situation from his perspective as a man. Selena might indeed be a good girl in Evelyn’s eyes. After all, Evelyn was a woman who only cared about Selena’s personality, but men paid more attention to a woman’s temperament and charm sometimes. Everyone naturally had their own preferences. For example, Rowan preferred someone simple like Evelyn, whereas some men might prefer someone with a stronger personality like Selena. Evelyn had to call Charles after she could not reach Selena. “Charles, is Selena home? I can’t seem to reach her on her cell phone.”Charles frowned when he heard Evelyn’s words. “She’s not back yet. You can’t reach her on her cell phone?”“I can’t. I tried calling her several times, but her cell phone is switch
He was wrong. He was really wrong. He treated the person he wanted to protect so coldly and harshly. It seemed that he had not been in a relationship for too long that he had forgotten how to love. Fortunately, it only took him this once to understand the crux of his problem. Therefore, he stroked her cheek gently and reassured her in a deep voice, “It won’t happen again.”Evelyn chose to smile slightly in relief in response to his apology and assurance.When two people are together, they need to understand and accommodate each other in terms of personality, temperament, and living habits. Since they had only officially been together for a day, this was even more essential for them. As he said, he was an ordinary man, and she was an ordinary woman. Their relationship was that of an ordinary couple, so it was normal for them to quarrel, have disagreements, and lose their temper. Evelyn felt that there was nothing that could not be solved as long as it did not involve principles
“Getting dinner!” Rowan announced angrily, then he placed her in the passenger seat, got into the car, and drove away. Evelyn had no other objections since they were going to eat. Anyway, she had already called Helena earlier to tell her that she would not be going back for dinner tonight as she would be having dinner with Selena. Not long after the two had gotten into the car and driven out, Selena called and asked Evelyn worriedly, “Evelyn, how did it go? Did you manage to coax him yet?”As Rowan was sitting next to her, Evelyn could not answer whether she had managed to coax him. Therefore, she hesitated without saying anything.When Selena heard this, she knew that they must not have reconciled yet, so she gave her advice on the other end of the line. “It’s fine. There’s no man that can’t be coaxed. Just one kiss will do. If he still can’t be coaxed, give him two kisses. If that doesn’t work, just kiss him all over until he’s no longer angry!”Selena’s voice was loud enough,
Selena’s tone was full of annoyance as she said, “I initially thought of giving Evelyn a surprise, but it turned out to be a shock!”Selena had good intentions as well; she just wanted to introduce the most handsome, stylish, and reliable man that she knew to Evelyn, but it turned out to be self-defeating. As for Shane, who was to be introduced to Evelyn, he simply stood there leisurely the whole time, looking at the three of them as if he was watching a good show. He watched as they got jealous, explained themselves, and felt depressed. Even though both Evelyn and Selena had explained the whole story entirely, Rowan still felt angry and annoyed.After glaring angrily at Evelyn, he simply turned around and walked away.Evelyn and Selena could only exchange glances as they were at a loss for what to do.In the end, Evelyn said to Selena helplessly, “I’ll go and see how he’s doing. You two can enjoy dinner together. I’m sorry.”Evelyn chose to pay attention to Rowan this time an