Jacob watched as Carina sang. Now and again, she would dance seductively in front of everyone when she was feeling herself. This made him quite upset, and he decided to call some girls into the room. “If any of you can sing or dance better than her, I will pay you ten thousand a song!” The moment they heard this, they all rushed forward to select their songs. After Jacob pulled an antic like this, Carina immediately lost interest in singing. She went back to join them on the couch, jabbing a kick at Jacob before taking a seat. Then, she noticed the playing cards on the table and decided they would play truth or dare. She ordered the girls, “Just put on some folk songs and turn down the volume. I need to hear them.” “Carina, I invited them to join us,” Jacob stated. “Yeah, I know. You also said you would pay ten thousand a song, didn’t you?” Carina gestured and said innocently, “I’m an audience as well. Don’t I get to pick songs?” Jacob could not refute her logic.
Quinn groaned, “Shoot.” Shawn asked him keenly, “Did you have a baby with Diana?” Jenna had always assumed it was just the media making up nonsense and such a thing would never happen. Despite that, she found herself reacting when Shawn presented the question. She clenched the glass tighter as she waited expectantly for Quinn's answer. There were five glasses of whiskey set on the table. The rules of the game were that if the player did not wish to answer a question, the player would have to finish all five glasses as punishment. Quinn remained silent for a few seconds. Then, he suddenly picked up a glass of whiskey on the table. Then came the second cup... It was a very simple question, but he refused to answer it. He might as well have admitted to it. Jenna could feel her heart sinking. Then, Carina suddenly realized Jack had been sneakily glancing at Jenna the entire time. She patted him on the shoulder. “Dr. Newman, I’ve noticed since we were drinking out
After suddenly slipping out for some reason, Jenna did not return even after some time had passed. The same went for Jack. Meanwhile, the two men inside the room seemed perfectly content by themselves. One silently drank while the other smoked. After all the brandy on the table was finished, Quinn was drunk. When he got up from the couch, he was wobbling on his feet. Shawn picked up the coat Jenna left behind and stepped outside with Quinn. After stepping out of the still lively bar and walking down the staircase leading to the exit, Shawn noticed a car approaching. It soon stopped along the side of the road. Upon noticing the car, he slowed down his pace so he would fall behind Quinn. Soon, a young woman got out of the back seat of the car. She was wearing a green knitted skirt that accentuated her slender figure. A gentle breeze blew past, caressing her long, curly hair. There was a bewitching look underneath her shapely and beautiful eyebrows. Upon meeting
Quinn swiped a glance at her pale-white complexion and stated plainly, “I know all about the little games you play. I just couldn’t be bothered to have someone deal with it.” “Are you sure it’s just because you can’t be bothered?” Diana could not stay silent anymore. “You were hoping to get Jenna’s attention, weren’t you?” The grip around her chin suddenly tightened. She drew a deep breath to suppress the pain. She knew she had stung Quinn right where it hurt. After that, she fell silent because she was intimidated by the cold and menacing aura radiating from his body. “Don't you wear anything green again, and don’t fashion your eyebrow to look like hers. Most importantly, this perfume of yours…” Quinn said as he grabbed a tissue paper from the bar counter to wipe his hand. His voice was filled with disdain. “Smells disgusting when used on you. “If you want to maintain your current standards of life, I’d suggest you continue along as you always did.” He threw the
The next morning, several keywords began trending in the entertainment section of social media. They were reporting on the news of the President of Elysian Group spending the night in a hotel with a certain famous actress. Quinn helped Diana from behind the scenes and erased the majority of the controversial news she was involved in. Carina entertained herself with online discussions first thing in the morning. After Jenna showed up at the office, she went to her with her phone in hand, “What is President Forester’s problem? You just lectured Diana a few days ago, and now her name is trending again. “Is he trying to help her clear her name? “Hey!” Upon noticing Jenna flipping through sheets of documents and ignoring her, Carina knocked on the table to get her attention. “Did you hear what I said?” “I heard you,” Jenna said without turning up to face her. “I may have lectured her, but she is still a celebrity signed to Hibiscus Studios. She needs to rake in income for my co
“Do you ever think about how bizarre your life is?” Carina stated while holding back a smile. “You married three men, all of them from money. One is a cousin, another is a sibling… “I feel like I’ve seen something like this in the autobiography of some famous person.” Jenna was speechless. She was talking about serious matters, yet Carina still managed to spin it into something playful. “I never married Xavier!” Carina was shocked to hear this. “I thought you two went to the city council together?” “Last time we went, his documents were not sorted out properly. So, the city council did not proceed with the engagement procedures.” Jenna said as she rubbed her eyebrows, “After we got to Dresark, I would intentionally throw away important documents every time we had to sort out the engagement procedures.” This was how even after four years, she still had not married Xavier. Even if she had not pulled these little antics, the Herts would not have approved her marriage with
The Maybach was pushed forward half a meter, and the rear bumper fell off. Carina was launched forward by the momentum before the seatbelt jerked her back. She cussed out loud, “What the hell! I’m not the one who upset you. Go take it up to Diana if you’re mad! “If I happened to be putting on my lipstick, you would have ruined my makeup!” She continued mouthing off until she realized Jenna was not paying attention to her. She followed her line of sight and stared outside. Upon recognizing the license plate number of the car they hit, she turned to Jenna and said with amusement, “You sure have done it this time, Jen!” After Jenna saw Sam stepping out of the Maybach, she slowly opened the door as well. Sam inspected the car and then glanced at Jenna. He seemed to be considering something. “I thought the license plate number looked familiar. I wasn’t expecting it to be President Forester's car…” Jenna said apologetically, “My bad, I didn’t hit the brakes in time.”
"Jenna?” When Mr. Lerman recognized Jenna, he greeted her with a pleasant smile. “I thought you settled down in Dresark? When did you come back?” “A while ago,” Jenna smiled in return. “I also attended the charity auction night organized by Elysian Group and Spring Charity Foundation when I got back.” She was not expecting President Norman's guest to be the largest shareholder of Elysian Group. “That explains why I don’t know about you being here.” Mr. Lerman explained, “I happened to be on a business trip at the time.” When he noticed Jenna was about to leave, he requested her to wait for him. “I’ll just have a quick talk with President Norman in his office. Let’s go for lunch together later.” Jenna was slightly confused by the sudden invitation for lunch. It was certainly true that Mr. Lerman had done a favor for her last time at an Elysian Group shareholders meeting. However, that was a long time ago. The two had only met twice in total and were hardly close with e
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