Queenie gritted her teeth fiercely. "What? Am I supposed to report everything I give Grandpa?!”"No, I just want to know."Sally sneered at Queenie. "No, it’s just that Grandpa and Dad recently took me in as their own, so I just wanted to know what they like.""Since you’ve been with Dad and Grandpa for nineteen years, you should be very aware of their preferences."What’s wrong with that? I just wanted to learn. That’s nothing to be so secretive about."Well, tell me then. After all, we have to live together from now. It only makes sense that we give them some gifts from time to time!”The girl's words angered Queenie. "Sally, don't try and push my buttons!”Bennett frowned slightly. "Queenie, what buttons is she pushing by asking this?"Sal just wants to be a good daughter to our family. She just wants to know what Grandpa and I like."As her elder sister, you should tell her without hesitation. Why do you say that she’s annoying you?"Queenie gritted her teeth. "I—!""Oh,
Jameson smiled as he watched them. He grinned at Bennett and said, “I’ll leave you the medicine I prescribed for Old Master Tate.” “If there’s nothing else, I’ll be heading back to the clinic.” He did not stop to look at the expressions on Bennett and Sally’s faces before turning around to leave. Right after he stepped out of the Moses house, Jameson made a phone call to Elijah. “I finally know why your Sal is so dorky!” “She definitely inherited it from her father!” He had understood the hidden meaning in what Queenie had just said. She was insinuating that Bennett had no right to say she did not know how to behave because this was the result of the Tate family failing to teach her how to behave! However, Bennett had not seemed to find any fault in her statement, and had even asked Sally to mentor Queenie so he could have a load taken off of him! He would have lost it if he were Queenie! On the other end of the line, Elijah smiled as he said, “So it seems that their
“The Larson family!?” Jameson’s grip on his phone tightened as he gaped at the fleet of cars driving toward where he was parked.“Does this mean I’m going to have the honor of seeing the head of the Larson family in person?” “Probably not.” Elijah’s laughter rang out from the other end of the line. “I can give you the chance to meet the head of the Larson family though.” “Go over there and tell them that you’re Elijah Moses’ friend.” “Then tell the head of the Larson family that both Old Master Tate and the head of the Tate family are reuniting with Mrs. Moses in the Moses house.” Jameson frowned. “Wouldn’t they be able to meet if you just told the head of the Larson family that the Tate family is here?” “I can’t have them meeting so casually.” Elijah sighed. “It’s been almost twenty years since the last time they saw each other. They should reunite in a formal setting.“This form of meeting is too hasty.“Besides…“Sal just reunited with her dad and grandfather. Sh
That woman should be the head of the Larson family, right? Jameson shook his head. Of course, it would be difficult to know what that legendary woman looked like. All these years, people only knew that Nicole Larson was a ruthless woman. None of them knew what she looked like. Her appearance was a mystery.“The head of household thanks you.” Zane yawned and glanced at Jameson. “She wishes for you to express her thanks to Elijah too.” With that, he got back into the car. The mighty fleet of cars soon began turning around and leaving. ——————In the mansion, Sally was staring helplessly at her father. Bennett sat on the sofa and glanced lovingly at Sally. “Your sister does not know as much as you do. You must teach her all you know in the future.” He even looked expectantly at Queenie after that. “Pay attention to what Sal teaches you.“You can do it!” Queenie’s face had turned green. What the f*ck did he mean by “you can do it”? Had she always been inferior t
This discovery made Sally very excited. She soon forgot what Queenie and Bennett had been talking about. Her hands shook as she typed a reply to Zane. [Where are you now?][Was the picture taken just now?]Zane smiled. [Of course. It was just taken.][Old men aren’t my type. Why would I save pictures of him on my phone…]!!!If that photo had just been taken… Excited, Sally immediately bounded up from the couch and ran toward the door.Bennett frowned and asked, “Sal, where are you going?” “I’m going to look for my uncle!” She held her phone in her hand and shouted the reply to them before rushing toward the door. Bennett frowned as he watched her hurry off. Her uncle?Since when did she have an uncle? He was her father, and he did not have any brothers… The man’s head jerked upward. Did she mean her adoptive father when she talked about her uncle? Her adoptive father was with Nicole. If Sal was going to meet her adoptive father, that meant… The man als
She put on an obedient expression and batted her eyelashes as she gazed at Old Master Tate. Old Master Tate nearly choked on his spit. He coughed as he thumped himself on the chest and said, “Don’t do that. I’m not used to it.” Sally did like to look at people with an innocent gaze in her eyes, and she often unconsciously put on expressions that made her appear cute to others. However, this effect was limited only to Sally. Her personality had always been like this, and coupled with the fact that she had a cute face, it did not strike one as odd when she acted that way. Queenie was not like that. She had always been domineering, confident, and arrogant. Besides, she had always taken the seductive route. When Queenie tried to imitate Sally… It was unacceptable. Old Master Tate massaged his temples helplessly as he looked at her face, which still had the pretentious expression on it. “You don’t have to pretend to be someone else just to stay with the Tate family.“
By the time Sally ran from the Moses house to the sign where Zane had taken a picture of Shawn in her slippers, they had long disappeared. The only thing she could see was an impressive fleet of cars. The girl’s hands curled into fists when she watched the cars drive away. Her hands shook as she tried phoning Zane. The man on the other line disconnected the call as soon as it got put through. A second later, Zane sent her a message. “We’ll meet in due time. Don’t be impatient.” Sally gritted her teeth. How could she not be impatient! If Freya had not made Ol’ Joe hurt Elijah, she would have already arrived at the Larson’s house at Z City to look for her uncle! How could she not be impatient when her uncle had returned to A City! Besides, according to the position of the signboards in the photo Zane had just sent her… Her uncle had been looking in the direction of the Moses house! Her uncle had been standing near her house, looking in the direction where she was
Sally could not understand the meaning within his gaze, nor did she want to understand it. She pursed her lips and said, “They’ve gone.” “Yeah.” Bennett came back to his senses and raised a hand to ruffle Sally’s hair gently. “Probably because they know I’m here.” With Natalie’s personality, she would not come fishing for information with such fanfare. She must have come to reunite with Sally and Elijah if she had brought such a large crowd with her.And decided to leave the minute she arrived because he and Old Master Tate were here. The man let out a sigh as he felt his heartache.She still couldn’t let go of her grudge after all these years… However… he would never blame her for what had happened back then. His heart only ached for her. What rights did he have to blame or dislike her? How would she have suffered that sort of treatment if she had not married a reckless man who did not think about the consequences of his actions like him? The man lowered his head
————One year later. The wedding of Zoey Williams, president of Yoder Corporation, and Thomas Yoder, the young master of the Moses family, was held at A City’s grandest hotel. On the wedding day, Zoey wore a gorgeous wedding gown as she walked over to Thomas. She raised her head and smiled at him. “When I was a kid, Freya always said that I would have to marry her brother when I grew up.” “However, I realized that I did not like Elijah. I much preferred Sis Sally.” “Who would have thought that at the end of the day, I would still end up marrying Freya’s younger brother. As per her wishes, I’ll be taking care of her brother forever, and allowing her brother to care for me for the rest of my life.” Thomas smiled as he pulled her into his arms. “My beloved ZZ, I finally get to marry you.” Freya, carrying Frigg and sitting with the rest of the family, turned to exchange smiles with Bennett. The wedding was joyful and romantic. Everyone attending basked in the loving atmosp
“If you destroy everything I have, then I’ll destroy everything you have!” Queenie gritted her teeth, a hideous expression on her face as she glared at Sally and said, “If it weren’t for you, I would still be the high-and-mighty young lady of the Tate family!” “It’s all because of you that I became nearly a stand-in for you. I’ve enjoyed many years of lavish treatment at the lavish family, but I was discarded unceremoniously into the dust!” “Sally Summers, it’s all your fault! Everything is because of you!” “I won’t forgive you even if I become a ghost!” “Alright then, go be a ghost!” Elijah narrowed his eyes and raised a hand to grip Queenie’s chin. The hatred in his eyes caused Queenie to smile. “Elijah Moses, choke me to death if you have the guts to do so!” “If you can’t choke me to death, I have multiple ways to make life miserable for you!” “Your sister is just one part of my plan!” “You probably don’t know this yet.” Her lips curled upwards into a bloodthir
The woman lying in bed frowned and said in a weak, hoarse voice, “You are…” “I’m the woman who did it for a long time with your husband.” She sat down on a nearby chair and watched gleefully as the woman’s face turned increasingly paler. “You have a pretty bad memory, Mrs. Lucca.” “We just met the other day.” She shook her head as she spoke. “It makes sense, though. It’s only normal that a half-dead person would not have a great memory.” “Forgive me for being blunt, Mrs. Lucca. President Lucca told me that you don’t have many days left.” “When you’re gone, he’s going to leave his daughter and marry me.” The woman lying in bed turned pale as she shook her head and said, “Impossible… That’s impossible…” “Quincy, he…” “Nothing is impossible.” Queenie continued smiling a gleeful and flaunting smile. She threw her pregnancy test strip onto the woman’s face. “Look, I’m pregnant.” “How could I have gotten pregnant if we only did it one time? Such coincidences don’t exi
“In your dreams!” Quincy gritted his teeth together tightly. “I wouldn’t want you even if every other woman on the planet was dead!” The woman on the other end of the line laughed lightly. “You’re going to abandon your child because Freya Moses is dead?” “You planted your seed in my stomach.” Quincy gritted his teeth and was about to continue arguing when Elijah gave him a look. Quincy pursed his lips. “So, what do you want?” “Let’s meet up.” Queenie yawned. “Can you pick a place?” “There’s a cafe nearby the hospital.” Quincy sighed. “I don’t have much time for you, so don’t try talking nonsense after we meet.”“What a man you are, trying to ghost someone after you’ve slept with them.” The woman shrugged nonchalantly. “Alright. You can wait for me. I’ll be there soon.” She hung up. Quincy pursed his lips and looked up at Elijah. “Why do you want me to meet her?” “You’ve got to have some bait if you want to trap someone.” “This time, Quincy, you’re the bait.
The sharp end of the knife sank into Quincy’s skin. Intense pain came, but he did not seem to feel a thing as he continued pushing. Suddenly, a large, strong, and dry hand took hold of him. Quincy frowned as he tried to continue forcing the knife in, but he could not exert any more strength. Elijah’s cold voice rang beside his ear. “Do you feel like my sister will live on for much longer if you die before her eyes?” “Have you ever thought about how much she likes you and how important you are to her?” Stunned, Quincy turned instinctively to look at Freya. The woman was sobbing controllably. As she gazed tearfully at him, it seemed that she had multiple things she wanted to say but could not find the words. Tears flowed once more from Quincy’s eyes. Ignoring the blood flowing from his chest, he dashed over to Freya and held her tightly. “It’s my fault.” “It’s all my fault!” “Freya… I can’t live without you.” “I cannot… I…” Freya could not stop herself from wr
After Freya was hospitalized, Quincy canceled all his work plans and spent all his time in the hospital watching over her. Although she never let him in, and although he could only ever gaze at her through the window from afar. However, he insisted on not taking even a step away from her ward. He stood guard there stubbornly, and no one could talk any sense into him. Both Elijah and Thomas could not bring themselves to chide or drive Quincy away when he acted this way. And thus, Freya finally agreed to meet him on the seventh day. The woman’s face in the ward was pale, and she was considerably thinner than from before hospitalization. She looked extremely haggard. Tears welled in Quincy’s eyes when he saw what his beloved looked like from a close distance. It was all his fault. It was all his fault! He had caused her to end up this way! All because of him!“Is there anything you would like to say?” Freya leaned against her pillows. Eyes shut, she seemed to have
Sally’s lips pursed themselves together when Freya’s name was mentioned. She would admit that she had had a horrible first impression of Freya when they first met. The woman had stripped nearly twenty years of Zoey’s life away from her. Even now, Zoey still bore the scars she had inflicted upon her on her face. And she had even attacked Sally’s mother during her and Elijah’s wedding. However, times had changed, and five years had passed since then. Sally could not bring herself to be cruel toward Freya, who now showed complete remorse. Additionally, she had treated Sam and Little Sarah with genuine kindness lately. Sally had begun to think of her as family. Yet, now, something like this happened. She sighed. “Freya…” “Freya will not be in great condition when she regains consciousness. You need to prepare yourself mentally.” Freya’s illness was in her heart. The sort of illness she had made it so that she could not be made angry, excited, or frantic. If not, not e
Evonne and Sally were slurping instant noodles when Elijah and Thomas arrived at the doctor’s on-call room. They were starving and had virtually no energy left. The only thing in the room they could use to fill their stomachs was instant noodles. When the door opened, Elijah frowned slightly when he saw his petite wife steadily making her way through a pack of instant noodles. The man strode over and grabbed her bowl. “Unhealthy stuff.” Sally had been enjoying herself and raised her head angrily when her instant noodles were taken away. “I don’t care if it’s not nutritious! I’m hungry… Hubby?” The emotions in the woman’s eyes turned from anger to shock, and then to surprise! Reaching out her arms, she encircled Elijah’s neck and jumped into his arms. “You’re back!” “I missed you so much!” He had been on his ocean trip for more than half a month. They had never been separated for so long since getting back together. The signal on the sea was spotty, and she could never
When Sally finished suturing the last ruptured blood vessel in Freya’s heart, she was starving, exhausted, and had little to no energy left. Evonne, who was beside her, was not much better off. “It’s steady! The patient’s heartbeat is steady again!” The nurse staring at the electrocardiograph yelled out excitedly! Given the condition the patient was in, if it weren’t for these two doctors, they would never have been able to save her! “Dr. Summers and Dr. Turner are amazing!” “Of course.” A senior doctor standing nearby smiled as he stroked his beard and said, “How did you think Dr. Summers earned her title of genius surgeon?” The young nurse’s mouth widened in surprise. “In that case… why are Dr. Summers and Dr. Turner no longer working as doctors?” The senior doctor sighed. “I guess they have their reasons…” In another corner, Evonne leaned against the wall, exhausted as she turned to look at Sally. “Dr. Summers, do you still plan to stay on as a housewife?” Sa