Sydney was a little surprised at Zach's appearance and was even more shocked when she heard him tell her to get in the car.She glanced toward the back seat window. She could not see anyone inside because it was tinted, so she did not agree immediately. "Was that your call?""It was President Flint who told me to ask you to get in the car." Zach had to answer honestly.Sydney's eyes instantly cooled. "I'll pass."In the back seat of the Maybach, Julien's expression darkened when he heard her refusal.He rolled down the car window, exposing his cold and handsome face to the air. "Get in!"His tone left no room for argument.Sydney met his gaze calmly. "I said no, President Flint. Did you not understand that?"What was wrong with this man?It was very normal for her to refuse to get into his car. After all, she had nothing to do with him. What was he getting angry for? It was so inexplicable.Julien heard the annoyance in her tone and frowned. He wanted to tell Zach to simply d
"I'm fine now," the Old Madam replied with a smile.Sydney nodded. "That's good."Then, the Old Madam suddenly remembered something and pointed to the bedside. "Syd, Felicia's son came to see her yesterday and brought her a lot of hawthorns he grew at home. Don't you like to eat hawthorn cake? Take these hawthorns back with you."Sydney looked at the hawthorns in the basket. They were big and red, making them very appetizing to look at.Just as she was about to nod and agree, Julien said, "No!"The Old Madam frowned.The smile on Sydney's face also faded slowly.The Old Madam looked at Julien with dissatisfaction. "Why not? I'm giving this to Syd. Why do we need your permission?"She never knew that this grandson of hers was so stingy.He was not even willing to give Sydney some hawthorn!Sydney did not say anything, nor did she get angry.It was just some hawthorn. If he did not want to give it to her, so be it.There was no need to get angry over something so trivial.Lo
He had heard a long time ago from Sydney that she did not love him anymore, but he never took it to heart, thinking that it was just words she said out of anger. She was angry for protecting Lyra, so she deliberately said those words. After all, he was not unaware of her feelings for him these years.However, now, she was able to calmly tell Grandma that she did not love him anymore. It made him realize that she did not say those words out of anger, but that she really did not love him anymore.At that moment, Julien clearly felt something in his heart. It felt vaguely aching and somewhat empty as if someone had dug away something very important. It caused his expression to fall.The Old Madam glanced at his appearance and shook her head with a slight sigh. "I was thinking if you still had feelings for Julien, I’d do everything to get you back together with him, but now... Sigh, maybe it's better this way."In the past, it was Julien who did not love Sydney which was why the relati
So, that was what happened.Julien pursed his thin lips.He knew that Harry Raines kidnapped Clarice, but he did not think that it was Brandon who forced him to do so.It seemed like some things could not be investigated only in part but in their entirety. Otherwise, they were likely to be blinded by false appearances and lose sight of the truth.When Julien thought of Brandon's hatred when he mentioned Harry, he found it absurd now.What was even more ridiculous was that he believed Brandon's rhetoric that it was Harry who let down the Madden family.At that thought, Julien looked at Sydney with guilt and shame in his eyes.He was ashamed that he only listened to one side of the story and thought that her father was not a good man.Sydney did not have time to pay attention to Julien. She bowed her head and clutched the necklace. "That's why this necklace appeared in the Raines residence."It must have been taken from Clarice's neck when her father kidnapped Clarice."Yes." T
"Really?" the Old Madam asked with a vague smile.Julien's voice was cold and hard. "Of course! I said before that I’ll never regret it. Not now, not ever.""Is that so? Alright, then." The Old Madam nodded and stopped talking.'Not now, not ever? Really?'The Old Madam laughed.'I hope you don't eat your words in the future.'"By the way, I hope you won't tell anyone about our conversation today, especially Lyra and the Madden family. Do you understand?" The Old Madam gave Julien a warning look, implying that she would never let him off if he told them.Julien raised his chin. "I know, I won't say anything. I promised Sydney that I won't help the Madden family, so I naturally won't tell them about this.""Good, then you can also..." Before she could finish speaking, she suddenly saw the hawthorn on the bed and slapped the quilt. "Syd forgot about the hawthorn."Julien's eyes flashed shrewdly.He knew from the beginning that Sydney had forgotten to take away the hawthorn, but
Sydney frowned. "Grandma told you to send me back?"Julien's eyes flashed slightly. "Yeah.""But in the ward, she didn’t insist on it when I refused you for sending me back. Why would she suddenly tell you to send me back now? Julien Flint, are you lying to me?" Sydney examined him.Julien pulled open the car door. "No, Grandma said that it's getting dark and she's worried if you go back alone, so she decided to let me go after you and send you back. Alright, just get in the car. You don't want Grandma to worry, right?"Sydney fell silent and finally sighed. "Fine."At those words, she bent down and got in the car.Julien's brows relaxed imperceptibly when he saw this.It seemed like she believed him.Then, Julien closed the door of the backseat, walked around to the front, and got in the driver's seat. "Back to Shallow Bay?"Sydney looked out the window and hummed softly.Julien pursed his lips and started the car.Along the way, Sydney did not say a single word to him. She
Otherwise, Hunter would have dealt with it directly and would not have made this trip here at all.Sydney did not respond to the latter part of his sentence and frowned at him suspiciously. "You'll handle it?""Yep." Hunter nodded.Sydney smiled. "But this is my business, right? I'm very thankful to you for helping me discover the truth and find evidence, but I'm very curious. Why do you want to handle it? This has nothing to do with you, doesn't it?""Let me clear something up first. I'm not doing this for you. I'm doing it for myself." Hunter held up a hand as if afraid that she would misunderstand.Sydney rolled her eyes at him. "Tell me. I want to know the reason.""It's nothing much. As you know, the Cohen family and the Madden family had a falling out. This time, the Cohen family lost to the Wright family and we didn't win the position of mayor." Hunter's eyes narrowed dangerously.Sydney was stunned. "What? You didn't win the position? Last time, I heard Luke say that the
Hunter could not help but raise his hand and place it under his nose, where he smelled a faint fragrance.He knew that it was the scent of Sydney's perfume that remained on his hand when she shook hands with him.The fragrance was fresh and elegant like Sydney's temperament, making him want to smell it even more.Thus, that was what Hunter did. He lowered his head and smelled the fragrance on his hand, and an image of him hugging Sydney and burying his head in the cross of her neck, sniffing the perfume on her body came to mind.For a while, Hunter's ears grew redder and redder, and his heart started to race.At that moment, the elevator in front of him dinged open.Luke came out from inside carrying a thermos bucket and almost bumped into Hunter because he did not expect anyone to be in front.Fortunately, he stopped in time which prevented that from happening."It's you?" Luke saw that it was Hunter in front of him and asked suspiciously, "What are you doing here?"The tende