Jenna held her cup to her lips and sipped her coffee. Propping her chin on her hands, she looked at Carina. “What about you and Jacob? You’ve been married for so many years. Do you guys have any children yet?”“Nope.” Carina shrugged and said nonchalantly, “We’re still too young. It’s not good to have children yet.”She smiled wickedly at Jenna. “Now that you’ve given me a godson and a goddaughter for free, I’m even less inclined to have children!”“Still young? Jacob’s thirty-two, isn’t he?”Carina said, “Is thirty-two very old? Look at your President Forester. If you hadn’t gotten pregnant, he would still be childless at thirty-seven!”Jenna was speechless.Carina took a glance at the time on her phone and got up. “I’m so hungry. Let’s go have lunch now so that we don’t have to line up later. Let’s chat more over lunch!”“Sure.” Jenna paid for the coffee and left together with Carina.As they ate lunch, Carina talked non-stop. She even talked about how Jenna’s departure made
Jenna strode over, pulling on Jacob’s arm. “Dr. Tennyson, who are you shopping with here?”Jacob was pulled around to face her.He had seen from the news that Jenna was back and was not surprised to see her, but was not expecting to see Carina with her.When he saw Carina, he inexplicably felt a little guilty. “This is my friend. I happened to bump into her here.”He had come to get something from one of the stores and had not expected to bump into her here.The appearance of Carina and Jenna attracted the girl’s attention.Her heart-shaped face was youthful and she looked not older than twenty.The girl leaned toward Jacob and asked somewhat shyly, “Jake, do you know them?”When Jenna saw the girl’s deliberate acting, she rolled her eyes hard.She laughed coldly and looked at Jacob. “Aren’t you going to introduce us, Dr. Tennyson?”Jacob rubbed the bridge of his nose and could only helplessly say, “This is my friend, Beth Jugson.”Then he introduced them to that girl named
Beth quickly walked forward, saying timidly, “I’m sorry, Jake. It’s all my fault for making Miss Carina angry. I’ll apologize to her.”Some loathing arose in his heart and Jacob was disgusted by her actions.However, at the thought that she was the only child of the Jugsons, he could not be angry with her and he rubbed a hand over his cheek that had gone numb.“There’s no need to apologize. It’s got nothing to do with you.”Jacob took out a card from his pocket and handed it to the girl. “You can buy whatever you want. I still have to go back to the hospital for a night shift.”“Okay.” The girl took the card and obediently nodded.After Carina helped Jenna out of the mall, it unexpectedly started raining outside.She asked worriedly as she held Jenna’s hand, “Are you okay, Jen?”“It’s fine. It’s just a fall.” Jenna felt that her hand did not hurt anymore. “You didn’t know that girl either?”Carina shrugged and said nonchalantly, “He’s got so many friends, so it’s not weird tha
“I don’t think the person you’re waiting for will be done so soon. So, you can just send Jen back and come back to pick your friend up,” Carina said.“Quinn, my Jacob is such good friends with you. Can’t you help take care of his wife’s best friend?”After a moment of silence, Quinn opened the car door and got out.Once Jenna got in with all her shopping bags, he closed the door and walked around the car to the driver’s seat, instructing Sam, “It’s not safe for Carina to head back alone, so call a cab and escort her back.”Sam knew Quinn was not truly concerned about Carina’s safety heading back alone. However, he could not say anything and silently got out of the car.After Quinn drove off with Jenna, Carina happened to get a call.“Sam, my friend’s waiting for me at the car park opposite, so I’ll go back with her. Bye!” Carina found an excuse and left in a hurry.Once she was away from Sam, Carina once again took out her handphone and called that number.“Well?”After the
Jenna nuzzled her face into Quinn’s shoulder, her voice lilting with the slightest hint of suggestiveness.Quinn could feel the place she nuzzled start to heat up and his breath hitched, but his gaze remained clear as he pulled Jenna away by the neck.Jenna unrelentingly leaned back in, kissing him.Then, she suddenly bit fiercely down on his lower lip with her teeth until she tasted blood. Only then did she back off.“You bit my lip last night and because of that, I couldn’t even apply lipstick today.” Jenna wiped away the blood on his lip. “So, I had to get back at you for that!”“Send one of your helpers my way tomorrow. Just tell me what you want, okay?”Quinn pushed away her wandering hands and said calmly, “If you can give me what I want, it’s a deal.”“Don’t worry, President Forester. I can give you whatever you want.” Jenna smiled faintly.She pushed open the door and got out, quickly taking out her loot from earlier that day from the backseat.When she saw the Tom For
Sam looked at Jenna and was silent for a long moment.Then, he put down his teacup and got up from the sofa. “I hope you’ll be able to do as you say. I’ll take my leave first.”Jenna got up to walk him out.After closing the door, Jenna’s expression crumbled, sighing to herself that if Quinn fell for someone and married them, she would not interfere.However, when that time came, that meant that she and Quinn were over.“Miss Radcliff.” Mrs. David was standing in the dining area and called out to Jenna, “Breakfast is ready. I’ll go clean the bedroom now.”Jenna came back to her senses and walked over to her quickly. “There’s no need to rush. I want to chat with you a little.”She sat down at the dining table and started eating her breakfast, praising Mrs. David’s cooking skills before asking, “Mrs. David, how many years have you worked at Sparrow Garden?”“Three years,” Mrs. David answered truthfully. Before coming here, President Forester told Mrs. David that from now on, Je
Jenna was wearing a gray suit. Her aura was strong and there was some coldness about her delicate brows. She was elegant and beautiful but incited fear in others.The receptionist quickly recognized her as their new CEO.“Good morning, President Radcliff.”Soon, a secretary arrived and after greeting Jenna, they brought her to a conference room on the floor above.The employees of the company had already received an internal email about the change in CEO.The secretarial department quickly set a meeting time.Jenna walked into the conference room. With the secretary’s introduction, she learned the names of the executives and greeted them briefly.After sitting down, she listened to their reports on the progress of all of the company’s projects.To control the entire production chain, the company had a production department that produced two television dramas and a movie every year.While the deputy head of the production department spoke, Jenna flipped through the information
After leaving the conference room, the deputy head assigned some projects and activities to Diana White, then called her manager and told her that if Diana White continued to defy the company, the contract would be terminated.Diana White had initially signed a contract for eight years and the termination fee was in the thousands. Even if she was doing relatively well now, she had no way of paying such a high fee.Thus, she could only obediently accept everything the company arranged.When the person in charge received the text from Diana White’s manager, they immediately sighed in relief, thinking to themselves that Jenna was impressive for managing to rein in someone like Diana White.Soon, trouble came.For one of the shows produced by Hibiscus Studios themselves, the male lead was a capable newcomer under their company, while the female lead was Diana White.However, the moment the official Twitter posted their makeup test shots, Diana White’s fans came out in droves to criti
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