“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!”
There had been no contact between them for more than half a year, so what was he thanking her for?He took a step forward and forced her against the body of the car before replying in a low voice, “Thank you for giving me such a lovely and perfect daughter, and thank you for the wonderful marriage you gave me.”Silvia suddenly wanted to cry. She did not know what he had done in the past six months; she only knew that she was completely unable to resist him when he was like this. He could touch the depths of her heart simply by expressing his love. “Is this reason enough for you to accept my gift?” He leaned closer to her. Silvia recovered and calmed down, then raised her hand and pushed him away.“That's all in the past. Don’t bring it up again.”Ryan did not press on and simply left her alone. He saw the momentary emotion in her eyes just now.There was a moment of silence between the two before Silvia’s cell phone rang. Silvia took out her cell phone, and the name ‘Ethan G