Since those strangers broke into Leighton Inc. during working hours in broad daylight, it was impossible not to notice them.However, all the company employees who saw them thought it was Jeanette's plan, so no one dared to speak up.Magnus was so angry that he started cursing, but the bodyguards treated him respectfully and politely “asked” him to leave the building."Jeanette, Mr. Leighton, and Miss Holden just got taken away!" Lucia quickly ran into Jeanette's office."Taken away? What's
“Why are you smiling?”“Well, you’ve been busy with work ever since your mother passed away that I wonder if you’ve turned into an emotionless robot. You were frigid even to your father… I had been worried that you might have gotten so obsessed by grief and pain that you’d never recover.”“I… Urgh, what’s this gotta do with Grace?”“It’s proof that your heart is still as kind as ever, Jeanette. You’re not as cold as you look… And not as strong as you desperately try to portray.”Jeanette fel
Felix sent a signal for help through a look at his father and murmured meekly, “Um, Dad?”Damon crossed the room and demanded stoically, “Why are you here?”“You’ve got skills, Mr. Godfrey. Sending your thugs to confine me within the hospital while murdering my son before he was even born?” he replied back in kind. “Remember what you’ve done. Because I will, and I’ll bring it back in the future.”“Good. You know it’s all me. No need to take your ire out on the innocent.”Magnus sneered. He h
Jeanette woke up to a shot of sharp, acute pain stinging the back of her head. She could sense a swollen lump through the ache.She snapped her eyes open to the looming face of a stranger. In panicked confusion, she screamed, “Who the hell are you!? Get the f*ck away from me!”Her stomach churned. Bouts of nausea washed over her while her bile threatened to escape.The man widened his mouth into a lopsided grin. “Mornin’, beautiful… You’re up early!” he exclaimed, drawing his stubble-covered
She lurched suddenly and tugged on his sleeves. “D-Don’t!”Jeanette’s shirt was already a disheveled mess, while the bathrobe was only good enough to cover her privacy. The act of extending her hand caused Elias’ coat to slip, and suddenly, her snow-fair shoulders and arms were bare.Elias turned red and looked away.“Don’t go to the hospital.” Jeanette breathed, almost begging. “I don’t want anyone to know.”“Fine, but you have to tell me what happened, okay?” Elias said. Feeling more and m
Just when Damon felt his last bastion of sanity was about to crumble, Jeanette finally returned. After a day and a night of being missing, Elias sent her back to the Godfrey mansion.She came back in a new set of clothes, fresh and washed-up. The only things that could give her traumatic experience away were the obvious blue-black marks on her arm and her forehead. She looked fine otherwise.“Mommy!” Felix cried out in tears, lurching and throwing his arms around her.Jeanette’s expression se
He reached out and patted her shoulder.She did not react.‘Asleep already, Jeanette?”“Mm.”That answer alone was enough. She was awake, but she was reluctant to talk.Damon let out a quiet—almost imperceptible—sigh and sat in silence at the edge of the bed.She had laid down there for the whole day. Felix was concerned, so he poked around their room to check in only to have his father shushed him away.Damon remembered how Jeanette had lied down like this without moving a muscle before—
Two days later, Jeanette returned to work in Leighton Inc. on time.Damon’s initial intuition was one of discouragement—he still saw a frazzled psyche behind her pretense of normalcy and was reluctant to let her tire herself at work. It did not stop Jeanette from ordering her driver to send to work when the early morning broke.Damon had no choice but to let her do what she liked. He convinced himself that maybe mundane work could keep her grounded.Either way, Damon found his mind still wres