"Oh." Sabrina flushed and went back to being silent. She was certain that Sebastian was going to have full power over the arrangement of such an important occasion, she simply needed to make an appearance. Sabrina prided herself over being someone who knew her place and what was required of her, she would remain quiet like the trophy wife everyone expected her to be.She set her cutleries down after finishing her meal and said to Sebastian, "If you don't have anything else to attend to, spend some time with Aino. She hadn't had the chance to play with her father for days. You have been so successful in spoiling her that she doesn't even want to play simple games with me anymore. She apparently prefers spending time on brain teasers with you. I'm going to get some work done while you play with her. There are quite a few blueprints that I need to draw up."Sebastian set his fork down as well and asked curiously, "Do you like your job?""Of course I do!" she responded."To what extent?""
Until he settled everything? Was he trying to say that he was going with her...to the remote rural area where she once called home?"Didn't you say you are going to work on your blueprints?" he asked."Oh...right," she responded dazedly, before wandering off to her bedroom.That night, she burnt the midnight oil working on the blueprints till she had fallen asleep. When she opened her eyes, she was already nestled in Sebastian's arms. She struggled to get up, only to be stopped by Sebastian's chilling voice."If you don't want to tire yourself out at night and intend on getting some rest, I suggest you stay still. Move again and I can't guarantee that I won't punish you like I did yesterday."Sabrina immediately settled down, knowing that the man meant what he said.She slept in the safety of his strong arms all the way until morning, and found that the man had left the bed. She reached over to the side table to grab his watch and realized that it was six in the morning. What w
"Dig deeper!" Sebastian's voice reduced to a vicious rumble."Yes, Master Sebastian!""I want results as soon as possible! Everything else can wait!""Yes, Master Sebastian!"Sebastian stood thoughtfully on the top floor after ending the call, before finally heading down to the bedroom to find that Sabrina was already awake.She took advantage of waking up early in the morning and took time to go through a more comprehensive skin-care routine. The mark on her cheek from Linda's assault had faded and was barely noticeable. She applied a thin layer of the ointment Ruth had given her, and was surprised as to how effective the scentless ointment was. She then went ahead and applied a small amount of foundation and her face brightened up in an instant. She stepped out of the bathroom and saw Sebastian in his bathrobes. Though the makeup on her face was so faint that it was hardly even there, Sebastian immediately noticed the difference. This went to show how plain she looked most of the tim
Was it too tight? She considered absent-mindedly and for a moment, she was overwhelmed by the atmosphere and how their current interaction resembled that of an old married couple. An attractive pink climbed up her cheeks at the thought without any warning."Why are you blushing?" Sebastian studied her, puzzled. He refrained from doing anything to her for the entire day since yesterday. What could she possibly think of that could cause her to blush?"No-nothing!" she denied frantically and stuttered, "it’s the ventilation of the room. I can't breathe that well so I...I'm just going to go out now."Sabrina dashed off as soon as the last word was spoken, leaving Sebastian behind."When will she stop blushing at the most insignificant detail?" he murmured, "I guess she still couldn't get used to me. Who knows? Maybe she could become the most shameless person if I expose her to more experience of the sort."After a brief session of reflection on Sabrina's tendency to blush, Sebastian did no
Ruth startled and jerked forward. Both Sabrina and Yvonne turned around to find a woman in her fifties running towards Ruth.Ruth immediately hid behind Yvonne, her voice trembling as she was on the edge of a breakdown. "Mom, what are you doing here? It's already been two days. How can you still be angry at me? I came close to starving to death and Yvonne took me in. The Human Resources decided to forgive me and notified me to come back to work. I have my job back now and I really know how wrong I had been, can't you just let it go?""You incompetent idiot!" the woman cursed.Ruth froze at the foul language that was used against her. "What did you just call me, mom?""I called you an incompetent idiot! A shameless idiot! Give me those skin-care products!" the woman barked furiously.Despite her reluctance, Ruth extended her hands along with the bag in her hands towards the woman, trembling as she did. "Mom, are you going to give these to my cousin? I don't get it, why do you treat my c
Meanwhile, Sabrina had returned to stand beside Ruth with the skin-care products. "Here.""Thank you, Mrs. Ford.""Let's head up. Your eyes are swollen from all that crying. Go to the washroom later and wash your face with this and put some of this product on. That should ease the redness and swelling," Sabrina reminded gently. She did not ask about what had happened between Ruth and her mother. Sabrina wasn't a nosy person to begin with, so she didn't think that she had the right to ask about the conflict in someone else's family. Each family had their own struggle to deal with, after all.The three went into the elevator together and as soon as the door to the elevator closed, a dozen of employees appeared out of the blue. They had all arrived earlier on, but did not have the nerves to be in the same elevator with Sabrina and decided to hide. It wasn't until they saw with their own eyes that Sabrina went up with Yvonne and Ruth before they dared to step out of hiding."I personally t
Footsteps echoed through the corridor as Sabrina spoke. Puzzled, she immediately put the tasks in hand aside and went out to the entrance of the Design Department office. The operation vice-director, the administration manager, the sales manager and all other members of the high management were gathering hurriedly towards them."What's going on?" Madeline, the woman who attempted to give Green Mountain Coffee to Sabrina as a gift, gazed out curiously and was instantly stunned by the appearance of the man standing by the door.Sabrina was already standing in front of the man by then. She peeped around before whispering, "What...what are you doing here? Why are you here in my office? You-""Is this your company?" Sebastian interrupted calmly with an emotionless voice."...No.""Well, then, why can't I be here?" he asked, "there are plenty of reasons I have to be here. The Ford Group is the client of this architectural design firm. As your client, it's completely normal for me to be here
Multiple injuries on Jade's body had already been infected, and were covered with thick layers of ointment."Mom!" Selene cried out in tears. "Did my dad do all these? How can he be so cruel? How can he do this to his own wife?"Jade shook her head and said, "I didn't exactly go easy on him either.""What?! Where's dad?""In the guest bedroom."Selene dashed her way to the guest bedroom and found her father in bed with bandages wrapped around his head."Dad...? Mom did this?""It's that abomination who drove a wedge between your mother and I," Lincoln gritted out maliciously."Sabrina, damn her! I'm going to skin her alive!" Selene cursed. Despite arriving home merely minutes ago, she grabbed her bag before heading out once again.Selene had earned credit for taking care of the old Master Shaw for the past month, and with the old Master Shaw showing her off to the elite society in Kidon City throughout his trip, countless people from wealthy and powerful backgrounds were eager to form
In a blink of an eye, Aino was already 18.She was already going to college.Her husband, Mister Ford, already had gray hairs on his sideburns and was already a man who was pushing 50.Both Sebastian and her had gone through thick and thin together for almost twenty years.That was so fast."Old man," Sabrina called out.Sebastian turned her head to the side and looked at Sabrina. "What did you just call me?"Sabrina smiled. "Isn't that right? You're going to be fifty next year, and I'm only in my early forties. I'm not an old lady, but you are a proper old man! Let me ask you something. Your sideburns have turned gray, are you going to dye your hair on our wedding day?""I'm not going to! I simply want others to say that an old man like me is marrying a young wife! Listen to me. You'd better stop dressing up and putting on makeup in the future!" Sebastian said to his wife, who looked ten years younger than him.How unreasonable!This old lady simply has not aged a day since
Yvonne hugged her children and lifted her head to look at her mother. At that moment, she was incredibly excited. She was both excited and aggrieved, which made her cry inconsolably. She rushed into her mother's arms. Immediately after, her father also hugged both her and her mother. The family of three was finally reunited. No, it should be a family of five at that moment. It would be a family of six with Marcus included. The family of six hugged each other and cried so much that the people at the side could not help but cry as well. Even the nurse also teared up.It was after a long while that Yvonne's parents let go of her."Alright, my child, let's go home. Let's go home."Helena raised her head and looked at Yvonne. Her child did not have her original face anymore, but she was truly her child. After her child went missing for five years, she finally got her child back. During that time, Yvonne got a rare condition that was hard to cure in any part of the world, but she was cure
After everything, all of it, was handled, Marcus suddenly burst out in tears."What's the matter, my son?" Missus Shaw has lost three sons and he was the only son left by her side. When she saw her son crying like that, it was only natural that she felt very saddened."Mom…I just feel that karma really is a funny thing. It's really making a fool of all of us! It turned out that everything was already destined. Everything was destined!" Marcus was covered in tears.Missus Shaw was confused. "What's the matter, my child?"Marcus cried and then he smiled. "Mom, I've finally understood why God let Yvonne go through this disaster that lasted for five years. It turned out that God had given her the biggest hardship which seemed so inhumane, but God had given her the best reward. Otherwise, the person who truly died would've been my Yvonne, wouldn't it? I would've been my Yvonne."Hearing him saying that, Missus Shaw said extremely emotionally as well, "That's right. At the end of it all
The fake Yvonne was still conscious the second before she died. She watched herself fall over with her eyes widened. She never would have expected it. After she had plotted everything, she was only one step away from the wedding, and then she could have replaced the real Yvonne and truly be a part of the high society of South City and be the wife of a rich man. However, she was fatally shot. Who was it?There was no time for her to look into it in detail before she fell to the ground. All of her regrets were forever sealed in her body. Without even a cry or shouting, she fell to the ground. She was feeling so reluctant to accept defeat that her heart had already stopped beating but her eyes were still wide open.Marcus was also stunned. He did intend to have Bonnie's entire gang arrested in one go, and he had already done it. The police were simply there that day to have this group of people surrounded. However, never in a million years would Marcus expect that someone would kill Bon
Two female attendants wheeled out a completely sealed glass cart. The ring that was carefully kept inside the glass cart was truly colorful and dazzling. Every side of the gem was radiating in different colors as the light shone upon it through the glass chart. The fake Yvonne was stunned silly when she saw it. Another person who was also stunned silly was the tan and fat man holding a pair of binoculars while sitting in a car across from the jewelry store.The tan and fat man muttered, "Gosh! This man must love her so much. He actually is willing to spend so much on her! This woman really deserves to die! She deserves to die too much!"Inside the jewelry store, Marcus looked at the fake Yvonne gently. "Do you like the ring I'm giving you?"The fake Yvonne was so excited that tears streamed down her face. "I like it. I love it too much! I truly love it so much!""I should've given you this ring four years ago. It was such a pity that at that time…""It's fine, hubby, it's fine. Is
All thirty people in the banquet hall were stunned. At that moment, they still have not made sense of what the hell has happened. How come a group of police came in once Yvonne left? Did they arrest the wrong people?"No, officer, we're…friends of Master Marcus of the Shaw family in South City. We've saved his wife. Master Marcus even said he is going to give me two apartments as gifts. Did you…have the wrong place?" Bella boldly asked the police at that moment.Nobody answered Bella. A few police officers came up and confiscated all of their phones. Not a single one was left behind.Bella could not hold herself back anymore and said while trembling, "We're Marcus' friends. He is not an ordinary person in South City. If Marcus knew that you've arrested us, when the time comes…"A police officer sneered. "The people we're arresting are all of you, the group of Marcus' friends!""Huh? Why?" Bella did not understand. Actually, she was not too familiar with the law. She just knew tha
"A billion dollars! Isn't he just insulting us, the three Shaw brothers? Marcus loves this bitch so much! When I see her looking so happy, I just want to kill her immediately! I have to have her killed!"At this end of the call, the tan and fat man asked Marcus' eldest brother very respectfully, "Sir, as long as you give an order. Just tell me, how do you want to get this woman killed? Why don't I kill her now?""No!" Marcus' brother stopped him and said. "It's not the best time now. There are too many people in there, so it's not going to be easy for you to escape. I only have a loyal servant like you. I can't let you die. You have to find a place outside that you can easily run away after getting the deed done. Now is not the right time!"The tan and fat man instantly said, "Alright, Sir, whatever you say. I'll find an even messier place and have this woman killed! I'll be hanging up now, sir!"After he hung up the call, the tan and fat man continued watching everything inside th
When Bella heard Marcus saying that, she immediately said shyly, "Gosh, how can I trouble Master Marcus in everything? No…there's nothing else.""Come on, Bella, whatever difficulties you have, just say it. My husband is the second most powerful person in South City anyway. There's really nothing he can't do." The fake Yvonne lifted her head and looked at Marcus coquettishly. "Am I right, hubby?"Marcus looked at the fake Yvonne very dotingly. "Baby, what do you think? I'm a husband that you've picked, so could you have been mistaken?""That's right!" The fake Yvonne happily leaned her head on Marcus' shoulder. Marcus hugged the fake Yvonne and was feeling so disgusted that he almost threw up. This Yvonne and his Yvonne indeed look very alike. They looked extremely alike! If this Yvonne did not speak and remained quiet, Marcus would feel that this is his Yvonne and his wife whom he had been thinking of all day and all night. However, the real Yvonne would never make such a request o
Of course, the fake Yvonne agreed. Three days later, they held a banquet for the fake Yvonne's benefactors at the most luxurious hotel in South City. Some of them were out-of-towners. There were also some from South City. Marcus roughly scanned them and surely, the middle-aged woman was there. She was the woman who was staying in the same area with Mila back then and the one who suggested letting Mile do a DNA test.Marcus held the fake Yvonne's hand and came to the middle-aged woman. "Miss, do you still recognize me?"The fake Yvonne immediately introduced her to him. "Darling, let me tell you, this is the lady who had helped me the most. Her name is Bella Hughes. She has always been taking great care of me, including the time I had a miscarriage. She was the one who took care of me. I feel we should give her two apartments!"The middle-aged woman named Bella immediately waved. "No need, no need. There's really no need for that. To be able to escort you back to your husband's side