Seeing this, Daniel did not question further. He knew that Nicole must have her own reasons for her actions, so he did not want to bug her about it.Lawrence was casually chatting with everyone. He quickly got along with Nolan and Lana. He was happily playing with the wooden blocks with them. The whole scene seemed as if Lawrence had done this countless times."We have a visitor." All of a sudden, a cold voice sounded, and the atmosphere in the living room became heavy."Dad!" Lana happily ran toward Jared, opening her arms wide and falling into Jared's embrace.Jared lifted Lana into his arms and walked to the sofa. He glanced coldly at Lawrence."Mr. Jared here seems to be a busy man," Lawrence said, acting casual."I'm not as free as you," Jared responded in an unfriendly tone.'This guy had already brought Nicole out for dinner. And now, he has the guts to come into the house. Isn't he a little too free?'"I'm no match for you, but life like this ain't that bad. I get to ha
"You've been pretty busy with work. Did something happen at the company?" Nicole asked out of concern.Seeing that Jared had been working extra hours over the past few days, Nicole could not help but worry."We're preparing for a bidding and the timeline is pretty tight. So I had to work extra hours these days," Jared explained in a gentle tone. He engulfed Nicole in his embrace.Nicole relaxed. "I see. Luckily, there isn't any problem with the company.""If I could gain some care and attention from you, it wouldn't be a bad thing for the company to have some problems too." Jared smirked.Annoyed, Nicole rolled her eyes. "Hey, don't ask for it."'Who on Earth would think that a problem is a good thing?' she thought.Jared gently stroked Nicole's hair and said, "Alright, I'll listen. Nothing will happen."After that, Jared lowered his head and kissed Nicole on the lips.Meanwhile, after he left the Riddle's, Lawrence headed back to his villa.There, Ian gave him a report in a
"Yeah. Who would've thought the biological sisters would go against each other over greed. And a merciless fight, at that." Lulu's lips twitched, her face showing a disdainful look."Fill me in." Nicole leaned on her seat and smiled as she waited for Lulu to explain."It's unbelievable. Did you know? Snow betrayed DillCorp just to get married into the Ellison family. Snow secretly signed an agreement with Harvey, and she basically sold off the whole company to him. Thank God you arranged someone to secretly hint Raine about the matter. That was how Raine managed to save DillCorp at the very last minute. I'm telling you..."Nicole narrowed her eyes and spoke in a cold tone, "It's been so many years, and yet she's still this naive."'Did Snow really think that as long as she agrees to all of Harvey's requests, he would marry her?' Nicole thought.Lulu nodded in agreement. "I know, right? At least Raine has shown some improvement. Why is Snow acting so stupid?""Raine also did the s
Nicole looked over at the new visitor and asked in a soft voice, "About what happened in DillCorp?""Yeah." Steve opened the door and entered.Nicole nodded lightly. "I've gotten an idea of what happened. I'm just worried about Harvey and Everett.""Don't worry." Steve smiled and continued, "Uncle Dillon isn't that slow. Now that this matter has been exposed, he'll know what to do.""Is he capable?" Nicole frowned. She had always thought that Uncle Dillon's management skills were mediocre. However, he was good at cheating people. Would he be good enough to face someone as powerful as Harvey?"If he can't, then there's nothing much we can do. After all, there's no way out of this." From Steve's tone, he did not seem to be worried at all. In fact, he seemed to be enjoying the drama.Nicole bit her lip and thought, 'That's true. Uncle Dillon doesn't have a way out of this anymore. The only thing left is for him to fight with all his might.'To add on, James was still involved. He w
Steve noticed Nicole had no interest in Snow's affairs. "I'll leave now if there's nothing else.""Okay."Once after Steve had left, Nicole leaned into her seat, deep in thought.'The situation now in DillCorp is much more progressive than I anticipated. Things are still within my control. I'll ignore this for the time being.'Meanwhile at DillCorp, the atmosphere in Dillon's room was immensely tense."Dad. We still have to find a way to save this," Raine persuaded in a low voice."Do you think I'm not trying to?" Dillon gritted his teeth.'Our plan to takeover had really backfired. The initial plan to marry into the Ellison family went down the drain. Who knew that darn Harvey had tricks up his sleeve. We almost lost our entire company!'Snow, this damn moron! She really thought someone like her could marry someone like him! If she had realized his ulterior motives sooner, we wouldn't be in this situation!'"Dad, can we put this matter aside and solve what's important? Harvey
"Me?!" James' eyes bulged out. He had not seen this coming."Yes. Since you're not at the center of attention, leaving this job to you should be better. It'd be difficult for anyone to find out."It was there and then that Dillon realized the use of James in the family after Preston refused to join Dill Corp and with Snow being a complete idiot being head over heels with someone out of her league. Raine was Dillon's last and only hope to continue the company.'If James could help, it would be better than doing this alone.'Raine did not give James any time to consider. She quickly agreed on his behalf. "I think it's doable."Raine knew that if this matter were to be left in James' hands, it would be much better. After all, the future of the company would be in their hands.James gave a look of satisfaction to Raine. He could only nod along with Raine's decision, to move on without arousing suspicion."In that case, I'll leave this to you. DillCorp's future will be in your hands.
Nicole spoke up after a while of hesitation. "Why don't you give a call to his office and see what's going on?""Oh, right. I'll give them a call." Lulu immediately picked up her phone and dialed the number."Hello, is Spencer in?" Lulu questioned anxiously as soon as the call was connected."He went to the hospital," replied the person over the phone.Lulu's face immediately turned pale. "W-what? Which hospital is he at?""John—"Lulu hastily interrupted and hung up. "Okay, thanks.'She turned to look at Nicole and said, "They said Spencer is in the hospital. I think something might've happened. I'll go have a look."Nicole looked at Lulu who was frantically trying to flag down a taxi, but to no avail."It's not easy trying to flag down a taxi during peak hours. Here, take my car," said Nicole."Where's Jared?" Lulu asked instinctively."I told him not to come," said Nicole as she flicked out her phone to text Jared to inform him that the company's driver would be driving t
Lulu slowly nodded her head, not wanting to be the unsympathetic one in this situation. Nicole patted Lulu's shoulder to assure her to trust Spencer and not beat herself up too much from overthinking."Are you guys... alright?" Spencer looked at Nicole and Lulu, furrowing his eyebrows. He felt an eerie chill down his back as he stood between them two.Lulu turned to look at Spencer with a forced smile. "We're great! How's Icyln doing?""The doctor said she's got hypoglycemia. She's getting an IV drip. She's going to be fine," explained Spencer. He left when he saw her waking up, though she was weak at least, she was out of the woods."Oh. Are you going to leave or stay with her?" asked Lulu."I was about to call you to pick you up, but you're here..." Spencer thought that since he did not have to pick her up, he could bring her straight to dinner then send her home.Lulu looked at Spencer, waiting for his response.Suddenly, a nurse came and interrupted. "Excuse me, sir. Your gi