She glanced at Ryan, gestured for him to translate for her, then looked at Mr. Brown and said, “I heard that you especially dislike men who can’t run a family well, but sometimes, the failure of a marriage isn’t one person’s fault. I’m also at fault for the divorce, so why should you measure his ability at work by whether he is a successful man when it comes to running his family well? I hope that you can be objective in evaluating him as a person!”After Silvia was done speaking, Ryan refused to translate for her. He simply gazed at her deeply. Silvia urged him, “What are you doing? Hurry up and translate!” Ryan asked her, “Are you saying this to please Mr. Brown, or is this your true analysis of our marriage?”“Why do you care so much? Help me to translate for him!”Silvia was anxious, but Ryan stubbornly refused to translate for her.“No, I don’t think you’re at fault at all. You did a good job but it was all my fault. I was the one who did not know how to cherish you.”Silvi
Silvia glared at him. Who was his lover?!Didn’t they just have sex last night? But she did not promise him anything. In today’s society, having sex did not mean that one was bound for life.The group returned to Detroit after lunch. Silvia felt relieved after seeing the Browns off. She just wanted to return to her job immediately, but most importantly, she did not have to continue forcing herself to deal with a certain someone. Yes, it was awkward. It was really awkward for her. In fact, she was not ready to accept Ryan again, but she did not plan for what happened between them last night, so she felt embarrassed. Moreover, she felt even more embarrassed when she thought of how her original intention in agreeing to act as his wife at this time was to make him stop pestering her in the future, but they seemed to be even more entangled now. When she and Ryan left the airport to go to the parking lot, Ryan reached out to hold Silvia’s hand, but she instinctively retracted her h
Silvia walked around to the other side of the car, then got into the passenger seat. As soon as she got into the car and sat down, he said coldly, “Don’t you treat me as your friend with benefits? You dare to get into the car with your friend with benefits?”Silvia was speechless and glared at him. Ryan met her gaze, “It’s not impossible for us to be friends with benefits, but I think you should also know better after all these years. So, you’d better move back to Detroit for me!”Ryan said this through clenched teeth out of a moment of anger. He was furious when he thought of how she mentioned that they were just friends with benefits. What he said was vulgar and explicit, and it made Silvia angry and annoyed. “What’s wrong with you, Ryan Pierce? Who said that I wanted to continue being friends with benefits with you? I simply said that we can treat what happened last night as a hookup, and we’ll just pretend not to know each other in the future!”After saying that, Silvia aver
His proximity made Silvia instinctively resist his approach because of the experience last night. She did not want to make the same mistake a second time, so she pushed him away immediately. “I have to go to work tomorrow and I still have a lot of work to do. Please don’t give me a hard time anymore.”As Silvia spoke, she continued packing her suitcase. Ryan was a little forlorn as he lay on the bed in her bedroom and slowly overcame his reluctance as she packed her suitcase at the side. Indeed, she had a job now and she was such a serious person. It was also unrealistic for him to ask her to stay by his side in Detroit. If she could do anything for him at all costs in the past, then he must be ranked at the bottom of her priority list now. He was certain that he was not even as important as her job now.He was too eager. He thought that they could get together again because of what happened last night, but he forgot to take their current situations into consideration. She was
After returning home and resting, Silvia went to the company early the next day and returned to work.However, Silvia found that Christina’s seat was empty after she entered the office. After Miss Cullen arrived at the office, Silvia hurriedly asked Miss Cullen, “Miss Cullen, where’s Christina?”Miss Cullen answered her indifferently, “Oh, the director fired her yesterday because of her work attitude.”Silvia was somewhat surprised. “What? He fired her?”Miss Cullen sighed helplessly and said, “Don’t mention her anymore. She couldn’t understand the letter of credit. You taught her about it before, but she made a lot of mistakes when you were on leave. Mr. Snow fired her in a fit of rage.”Miss Cullen was also filled with dissatisfaction when she mentioned Christina. “When Mr. Snow and I noticed her lively and outgoing personality at the beginning, we felt that it would not be an issue for her to go out and talk to the clients when the time came. Unexpectedly, she does not thin
Ryan called her at least a dozen times, but he could not reach her at all.He panicked. This feeling of being unable to get a hold of her and losing contact with her completely made him feel extremely restless. He instantly thought of many bad things, worrying if something had happened to her. If something had happened to her, how would he deal with his daughter?After a while, he finally called Silvia’s father in desperation. He knew that her father would not react kindly to him, but he did not care too much. He simply wanted to know how she was doing now.Mr. Alberich rejected the call directly when he saw that it was a phone call from Ryan. Mrs. Alberich felt that it was strange for him to reject a call several times, so she asked him who was calling. Mr. Alberich did not want to answer her at first, but Mrs. Alberich took the cell phone from him and saw that it was Ryan who had been calling the whole time.Mrs. Alberich felt that there must be an emergency if Ryan was calling
“Didn’t we agree that we would not get involved anymore in the future?”They had nothing to do with each other now, so there was no need for her to report her whereabouts to him, right? She’d also made it clear to him that day that the incident between them that night was just a hookup between a man and a woman who needed to satisfy their needs.Ryan was furious. “Silvia, what do you take me for? Do you think I’m someone that you can have sex with and simply kick aside when you’re done?”Silvia was speechless. He was clearly the one who had initiated sex with her, so why did it seem as if he was suffering when she was not even feeling aggrieved? Ryan hung up the phone angrily before she could say anything else. Silvia was confused.It was then that her suitcase appeared on the baggage carousel, so she grabbed it, then went out of the airport with Miss Cullen and Mr. Snow before they took a taxi to the hotel.After Ryan hung up the call, his secretary happened to knock on t
Coincidentally, this client was also from Detroit and was known as Mr. Sage. He was in his early forties and operated a large-scale trading company that exported clothing, textiles, shoes, and leather products, such as leather bags, wallets, belts, and so forth. He came to the trade fair because he was looking to collaborate with another factory; the clothing factory he had previously been working with in the past went bankrupt. He’d happened to meet Silvia and the others at the trade fair.After a day of comparison and selection of various clothing manufacturers at the trade fair, he finally decided on Silvia because he felt that Silvia had a serious work attitude and was meticulous. Silvia’s factory also had certain production conditions so he finally made a decision to collaborate with this factory as their new manufacturer. Mr. Snow was very happy to hear this and had insisted on hosting a dinner to invite Mr. Sage and his party to dinner tonight. In fact, they were both in th