With that, Jenna left the banquet hall.As Shawn watched her slender figure as she left, a crack finally appeared in his gentle expression.Ten minutes ago, this woman was running to the bathroom in disgrace. After returning, she had once again become the glamorous Miss Radcliff she had been in the past.Perhaps due to Jenna’s words said with absolute certainty, some guests in the hall had begun to suspect the authenticity of the video earlier. Some had even come over to ask Shawn about it tentatively, embarrassing him somewhat.After shaking off those bigwigs with difficulty, Shawn walked to a corner to place a call. “Make sure all the copies of that video on the internet are removed…”He then paused for a moment before saying darkly, “And get someone to tail Jenna Radcliff around the clock these next few days!”He wanted to find out who was helping Jenna.After teaching that scumbag and harlot a lesson in front of the various business tycoons of Hevedburgh, Jenna felt she had managed
While Seabright could not be said to be very famous, it was still one of the top 100 listed companies within the country of Contrata. There were other companies that wanted to acquire it but could not afford it. Now, Quinn Forester said he could take back Seabright for her within half a year.With Jenna in dire need of a backer, Quinn was undoubtedly the best choice she had. She dearly wanted to agree to his request immediately.However, she calmed down and recalled the rumors about Quinn Forester. Her hand clenched slightly.She heard Quinn Forester had been married twice, and both times, the bride died suddenly a day before the wedding. On the surface, Nobody talked about it, but privately, everyone gossiped about how Quinn was cursed.After a long moment, she could not resist asking, “Why me?”Even if both Quinn Forester’s marriages were unsuccessful, as an incredibly wealthy family, marrying into the Foresters would mean infinite prestige and countless riches.So, many women had t
Jenna did not know what to say in reply and just hummed in acknowledgment before lowering her head to continue to eat.Sam was very efficient in getting things done, and with just a call, a cultured-looking lawyer in a suit arrived at the villa about twenty minutes later.Quinn pushed the contract toward Jenna. “Take a look and see if anything needs changing.”Jenna took the contract and read through it once. Everything she had asked for was written down without any omissions.She picked up the pen and was about to sign on the last page of the contract when she paused for a few seconds, then quickly signed her name neatly.Once the lawyer had taken his leave, Quinn looked at his watch. “Do you have your identification documents with you?”“All my important items are with my former helper who took care of me, Aunt Lily.” Jenna picked up her jacket hanging on the rack. “My ID is with her too. I’ll have to swing by to grab it first.”Quinn hummed in acknowledgment, and the two went out to
“Dr. Tennyson.” Sam helped Aunt Lily over to sit on the hospital bed. “This lady has twisted her waist. Please take a look at her.”“Hey, hey. I’m a neurosurgeon, not an orthopedic specialist. Why are you just the same as your boss…?” Jacob Tennyson grumbled but quickly hung up the phone. “And whose relative is it this time?”“She’s an employee of Miss Radcliff’s family.”Sam pointed at Jenna standing to the side. He quickly walked over to Jacob and whispered something into his ear.The next moment, Jacob raised his head to look at Jenna, his face full of shock.Dr. Tennyson’s gaze made Jenna’s skin prickle with apprehension. She rubbed her arms and said politely, “Dr. Tennyson, I’ll have to trouble you to take a look at my family’s helper.”“Sure! Since the beauty has spoken, how can I not help?” Jacob Tennyson replied, smiling. He retracted his probing gaze and put on medical gloves to check Aunt Lily over.He lightly pressed the area at the back of Aunt Lily’s waist a few tim
The little boy looked sickly and seemed uncomfortable. After the nurse pricked his finger with the blood sampling needle, he burst into tears. Yvonne’s heart ached to no end as she hugged him, trying to comfort him.She cared about her son so much, which showed how much she loved Shawn Sadler.Seeing Yvonne take off her mask, Jenna immediately suppressed the emotions in her heart. She took out her phone and started filming, the camera aimed right at Yvonne.Yvonne was so completely focused on her child that she did not notice Jenna, and left once she received the report.Soon after, Jacob Tennyson returned as well.He looked through a printed copy of Jenna’s report before passing it to her. “Except for your slightly low platelet count, everything else looks normal.”“Thank you,” Jenna thanked him politely.When she took the report, she unintentionally glimpsed the stack of duplicate copies of the other patients’ report through the window. At the top was one with the patient’s na
Jenna noticed something on the marriage certificate that seemed to make her entire person sober up. She turned to look at Quinn Forester. “Mr. Forester, y-you’re older than me…”“Mm. By nine years.” Quinn completed her sentence, his expression cold.Jenna was at a loss for words.As she looked at the man’s age on the marriage certificate and remembered that night at the hotel half a month ago, seven words suddenly appeared in her mind: an old man who had no self-respect!Was that not the truth?He was already so old. Even if he had been schemed against that night too, he had not appeared drunk. So could he not have pushed her away?Quinn could tell from Jenna’s expression that something was wrong and raised his eyebrows. “Why? You have something to say about it?”“No, I’m just very surprised.” Jenna immediately dismissed that little bit of gloominess in her heart. It was not like Quinn and her were really husband and wife, so naturally there was no need to care about the age dif
It was at this time that the manager of the public relations department called, exclaiming in a frenzied manner, “Mr. Sadler, a video of Miss Nelson carrying a little boy and taking him to see the doctor at the hospital suddenly went viral on the internet, and the video from the previous banquet was reposted. It’s already trending with quite a few hashtags!”“Do I still have to teach you how to handle this kind of news?” Shawn tugged at his necktie in annoyance, saying coldly, “If you can’t handle this well, you can stop working!”After hanging up, the anger in his heart intensified. A few seconds later, he called Yvonne Nelson.“Shawn…”“If Luke’s unwell, just get the family doctor to come or ask the helper to bring him to the hospital. Did you bring him out to flaunt his existence because you don’t think I have enough on my plate?” Shawn said venomously. “Now the video of you with the child is all over the internet!”Hearing that, Yvonne, on the other side of the call, panicked.
Quinn looked up at Jenna, his thin lips slightly curled. “You’re pretty smart. This time you knew to use your phone to take that interesting video. I’ve instructed my employees. That video will be trending on major social media platforms for a week. Shawn Sadler won’t be able to take it down no matter how much money he spends.”“So it was you who helped?” Jenna said in surprise. “I was just thinking about how that video from the banquet disappeared so quickly and why this video was spreading so quickly on the internet…?”She even thought that Seabright’s public relations department was not doing their job, but it turned out that Quinn had had a hand in it.Quinn did not seem to think anything of it and hummed in acknowledgment. “You can consider this as my wedding gift to you. What you do next is up to you, Mrs. Forester.”Upon hearing him call her “Mrs. Forester”, Jenna’s heart thumped especially hard. She nodded. “Alright.”With the opportunity walking itself right up to the doo
While eating, Carina asked Jenna, “You went on a business trip with Quinn, didn’t you? Where is he?” “Daddy is busy making money so he can buy me a castle!” Duo chirped joyfully. Upon hearing Duo, Carina thought to herself, ‘Oh, dear, forget about a castle, your father could buy you a small nation if you wanted to. Besides, even your uncle is rich enough to buy you a castle made of diamond!’ She soon noticed the dark look in Jenna’s eyes and quickly caught on to something. With that, she stopped probing and switched to another topic. While they were busy eating, the housemaid stepped into the house with a large haul of shopping bags. She then proceeded to the dining table to inform Carina, “Madam, these are the clothes and toys that Mr. Tennyson bought for the young miss…” "Throw them out!” Carina harshly cut off the housemaid’s sentence. The servant obliged and took everything away. Jenna pointed out. “Haven’t Triss explained the situation to you? She was just dru
Shawn assumed that Quinn would only be gone for a while to take care of some of the matters that came up during the period of his false death. He certainly did not expect Quinn to completely vanish without telling anyone. Shawn may be a smart man, but there were no clues whatsoever that he could follow to trace Quinn and what he was up to. Jenna seemed disappointed to hear this. After a while, she suddenly brought up. “What if Agnes asked to see him and set up a trap…” “No.” Shawn could tell that Jenna was already thinking about the worst-case scenario and quickly assured her. “Quinn is far more capable than you think he is.” From the moment Quinn faked his own death and upon learning about Quinn’s close dealings with the Faulkners, Shawn realized that intelligence was not the only remarkable trait Quinn possessed. He was also very calculative, there were not many people who could match him in this regard. After that, he took Jenna to Carina's house to see the children.
The bodyguard finally snapped back to his senses and quickly went to make the appropriate arrangements. Despite Xavier’s claims, Jenna understood just the sort of person he was. He was stubborn and vicious, he would not simply let her go that easily. She dialed up her alertness and continued holding the knife to his neck. After a while, she caught a scent of the pungent, iron smell of blood. The blood trickling down Xavier’s stomach had dyed his shirt red. The blood dripped onto the ground and formed a small puddle. She started to panic and wanted to instruct the other bodyguard to get some bandages and attend to Xavier. However, she noticed how composed the bodyguard seemed and deemed that he was waiting for an opening to seize the knife from her. With that, she discarded the thought of attending to Xavier’s wound. The helicopter arrived very shortly after that. Jenna led Xavier out of the villa and approached the helipad. At last, she removed the knife from his n
Around half past seven in the evening, Xavier returned to the villa in a rather good mood. He took a serving of delicious dinner from the housemaid and went upstairs to bring it to Jenna. “Sir.” The bodyguard greeted Xavier upon noting his return. Then, they proceeded to unlock the door with the key. Xavier did not seem to be in any particular rush to open the door. Instead, he turned to the bodyguards and sent them away in an unusually gentle voice. “You two, get something to eat. I’m fine by myself.” They nodded and went downstairs. They were aware that Jenna had not eaten much lately so she was physically weak. Besides, the boss was more than capable of subduing her by himself, so they were not worried about her running off. Xavier opened the door. To his surprise, the room was engulfed in darkness. Before he could react, he heard a rush of footsteps quickly approaching him. It was then when he felt a jab of pain around his abdomen, then he was tackled. He d
Xavier leaned over to get a closer look at Jenna, then murmured, “You are right, I have lost my mind in trying to claim you for myself. I’m going to lock you inside this room forever. I’ll never be lonely again with you by my side.” “You're insane!” Jenna lashed out. She ran toward the door while Xavier was distracted. She twisted the door handle as hard as she could but failed to open it still. Xavier sat at the table with his legs nonchalantly folded. He eyed her coyly and offered casually. “Come on and eat, otherwise you won't even have enough strength to run to the door tomorrow.” Jenna approached the table, then she grabbed the plate, and threw it at him. “Scram!” The sauce of the spaghetti soaked through his shirt and strands of noodles grossly clung to his skin. Despite his humiliated state, he did not seem the slightest bit bothered. “If you waste the food, you’re going to have to starve until tomorrow morning.” “Scram!” Jenna howled at him again. Xavier ha
Jenna hung up and approached the French windows prudently. She noticed that even the sliding doors were locked shut. The French windows were bulletproof and there was no way she could break them even if she had a gun. She was going to slip away when the housemaid opened the door to bring her breakfast. Unexpectedly, it was not only the housemaid who showed up to bring her breakfast. Two large bodyguards came as well. They were the same ones who were assigned to her in Hevedburgh and they had cut off her path of freedom. The housemaid set the breakfast on the table and bowed politely at Jenna. “Miss Jenna, please use the landline to call me if you need anything.” Jenna grimaced faintly and only chuckled wryly in response. There were no phones or computers in the room, and her contact with the outside world was completely cut off. The landline phone only allowed her to call downstairs. She wondered if Quinn knew that Xavier had brought her to Dresark… She had a nagg
Jenna looked on without much sympathy as Diana died in Connor's arms. She had already heard about Diana's past from Xavier. She grew up in a slum, dirt poor, and without anyone to support her. The circumstances of her birth made her grow into someone who would resort to anything if it meant she could climb her way up. It was certainly pitiful, but she had no sympathy for Diana at all. If Diana had not done what she did to Carina and did not kill Millie, perhaps Jenna would simply let it slide. Shawn no longer paid attention to those two on the floor. He pushed the chair away and got up. “I’ll ask Sam to take Percival and Duo out later, we’re going to Golden Elegance to eat something. I don’t have anything planned this evening so we can bring them out for some playtime after that.” Jenna nodded, then she grabbed her bag and left the cafe with Shawn. As soon as the two of them reached the roadside, a Ghost suddenly screeched to a stop in front of them. The rear door
“I love her.” Connor spoke with a determined look in his eyes, “She made a lot of mistakes in the past and even killed people, I’m not going to excuse that. However, I am willing to bear the consequences with her.” Jenna was floored to hear this. Diana must be unbelievably lucky to meet someone who would still love her so deeply after all the things she had done. She spoke without sympathy, “I’ll give you the antidote if you can tell her to bring Millie back to life. Also, she nearly sent my friend into a lifelong coma and I haven’t settled the score with her yet.” How could the dead ever be resurrected? Connor was aware that Jenna would never give him the antidote. He turned to Shawn with a solemn look and pleaded again. “I will pay for Millie’s life with my own. Please give Diana a chance.” Connor was not a fool, he had a vague impression that Diana had been using him. However, there was nothing he could do about it at this point as he had fallen in love with her.
Connor realized that it was the drug taking effect again. He quickly pried Diana’s fingers away and hurried outside to find a doctor. After the doctor attended to Diana, he heaved a sigh of relief. “Please give her an anesthetic to put her to sleep.” Connor requested. He was worried that Diana would think of him again when she woke up and experience another severe attack that would kill her. The only solution was to put her to sleep. After that, he hired a caregiver to look after Diana. He did not know where Jenna was. With that, he asked for Jacob's phone number from the doctor and called Jacob first, “Hey Jacob, this is Connor. I am General Hale’s grandson.” “Oh, do you need something from me?” Jacob asked impatiently. “I know that East Mill Pharmaceutical must have developed a suitable antidote for the effects of Curb.emotion.” Connor gulped, his Adam’s apple bobbing up and down. “Please sell me one of those antidotes.” Since he was aware of the drug and its ass