“Papa told me to ask you…”Silvia was a little speechless. She knew that the little girl couldn’t possibly ask whether she had already reached home on her own accord. It must be Ryan who had estimated the time and asked her to make the phone call.Just as Silvia was about to say something to change the subject, she heard the little girl shouting on the other end of the line, “Papa, Mama said that she’s home.”Silvia was speechless.After the little girl was done speaking, she spoke up happily again. “Mama, Papa said that I don’t have to go to the kindergarten anymore starting tomorrow. Come and pick me up when you have time, okay?”“Why are you suddenly not going to the kindergarten anymore? It’s not time for the holiday yet, is it?”Silvia was a little puzzled. Logically speaking, kindergartens were closed on statutory holidays. The annual holidays should only start on December 27th and 28th—today was only December 20th.The little girl answered, “I don’t know either. Why don’t
“Silvia, I'll cut to the chase. Mr. Sage has approached me several times and said that he wants to poach you over to their company. What do you think about this?”Silvia did not expect Mr. Sage to mention the matter of poaching her directly to Mr. Snow. She was startled for a moment and hurriedly said, “Mr. Snow, you don’t have to worry. I won’t go. I’ve turned down Mr. Sage’s offer.”Mr. Sage had appreciated her greatly since their first collaboration on an order. He felt that she was meticulous and serious in her work; she could coordinate well with the factory department and was also amicable. After working together for half a year, Mr. Sage expressed his interest to recruit her to Detroit, saying that she deserved more space to grow rather than being confined to this small factory.Silvia refused at the time. She felt that she could not be ungrateful. The current factory had cultivated her and made her who she was, so how could she just leave after a few successes? That would
Mr. Snow asked her this question, and Silvia was enlightened when she heard his suggestion.If the clients she would deal with in Mr. Sage’s company continued placing the orders at the factory, the factory might get a little less profit distribution, but if she had a greater development in Mr. Sage’s company, she could get more clients just to make up for these, so there would not really be any losses for the factory.On the contrary, this was a proposal where she, Mr. Sage, and the factory would not suffer any losses, so of course she was agreeable to it. “This is actually a great idea.” Silvia had been wavering on whether she should jump ship to Mr. Sage’s company, but now that Mr. Snow had come up with such a good idea to give her a nudge, she had no choice but to accept his proposal. “Thank you, Mr. Snow.”Silvia thanked Mr. Snow sincerely, then assured him, “Please rest assured. You gave me this job opportunity when I had nothing and made me who I am today, so I will defi
They wanted Silvia to sacrifice for her daughter, just like how they had sacrificed for her. When Silvia told Rosaline about her job-hopping to Detroit after the new year, the first thing Rosaline said was, “You can come and live in my former house; otherwise, you’ll have to rent a place when you come.”Since Rosaline got together with William, he bought a bigger house of about a hundred and fifty square feet, saying that it would be more comfortable to live in with the children in the future. Since they had a boy and a girl, they would certainly need their own rooms, so Rosaline’s original house was vacated. William had been running around all these years and had been busy managing his business after he got divorced, so he had never bought a house in the city to settle down although he had the financial strength to do so.There was no city or woman that had made him want to settle down. He was an adult, but there was no need for him to buy a house for himself. If he had a house,
“Come on in. Autumn isn’t up yet. I’ll go and wake her up.”Ophelia invited Silvia into the house, then she turned around and went into the guest bedroom. Autumn had slept with Ryan last night.Silvia had no choice but to walk in and close the door behind her. Ophelia said that Autumn hadn’t woken up yet, so she might not be ready soon as she would have to wash up, eat breakfast, and get dressed.Silvia thought about talking to Ophelia later to let her daughter have breakfast first so she could go to Rosaline’s place to get the house key from her; that way, she could avoid having to be in the same house as Ryan. Just as she was cooking up her escape plan, she heard the little girl calling out to her from the bedroom.“Mama, Mama…"Silvia responded, “What’s wrong?”“Mama, come and help me get dressed…" the little girl said coquettishly. Silvia remembered that Ryan was also in the bedroom, so she could only coax her daughter gently, “Autumn, you’re a big girl now, and you’ll be
Silvia felt sweat beading up on her forehead. Before she could say anything, she heard the person leaning against the bedframe chuckle and say, “Why are you so nervous?”He then sat up and raised his hand to help his daughter take off the dress and put it back on again.Silvia was also fixing the clothes for her daughter, so as soon as he reached out his hand, it covered hers. Silvia pulled her hand away abruptly and glared angrily at him. He casually apologized. “I’m sorry. I grabbed the wrong hand by accident.”Silvia really could not stand his cunning expression. He had been calm and unhurried since the last time they met in the parking lot. It would’ve been fine if he was as shameless as he was before because she could simply refuse him then.But he did not mention love at all now and was instead flirting with her. This made her feel as if her heart was about to explode. Silvia did not know how she helped her daughter get dressed. She only knew that once her daughter had pu
These words left Silvia speechless, and she was out of excuses.That’s right—since the two of them fell out, the three of them had never spent time together until today. Their daughter had never been able to hang out with both her parents. Silvia felt that Ryan was really quite ruthless at times by saying such things to hurt her. In the end, she gave in and decided to go to the mall with Ryan to buy clothes for their daughter. The three of them headed to the shopping mall in Silvia’s car, which Ryan insisted on taking. Silvia did not know what was wrong with him; his car was obviously much more spacious compared to hers and had better performance. Meanwhile, her car was suited for ladies to drive, so it would definitely be uncomfortable for someone of his height.However, Silvia was thinking that she could just take her daughter away directly after shopping if she drove her car, so she agreed. After getting into the car, Silvia drove as Autumn sat in the child safety seat at
Ryan ignored the angry look in her eyes and stepped forward to pick Autumn up.“We’ll take this dress. Let's go look at the other ones.”They then took their daughter to look around and chose a down jacket and coat for her, as well as some hats and boots. In short, they bought a lot of clothes for Autumn.When it was time to pay, the two of them got into an argument again. Silvia insisted on paying for her daughter’s down jacket and dress as those were the items that she wanted to buy for her daughter, but Ryan insisted on paying for everything. Silvia was furious. ‘What is this? Didn’t we agree that we would each buy our own items for Autumn? When we were at his house earlier, he said that I would buy my share, and he would buy his.’However, the shop assistants were watching them, so Silvia could only compromise and let Ryan swipe his credit card, but the first thing Silvia did after coming out was to take money out of her wallet and stuff it into Ryan’s hand.“Here you go!”
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