Selena's eyes snapped open. That bouquet of flowers! That's right! That bouquet of flowers was brought by the waiter along with the wine. The waiter only told her that Megan had told him to watch her drink the wine, so her first thought at that time was that the wine must have been drugged, which was why she didn't even notice the bouquet of flowers! The flowers must have been drugged as well, and the drug was emitted through the fragrance of the flowers.How vicious could this woman get?! Selena couldn't help applauding Megan for being crafty and malicious enough, so much so that she didn't manage to guard against her! Besides, Megan was determined to make her take the drug. How much does she really hate me?Pierre looked at Selena's reddened face and guessed what had happened. "I can help you with that."Only now did Selena look at Pierre. The handsome face that could charm people off their socks was not something that ordinary people could resist. Moreover, she was drugged now, so
Selena sat on the floor before leaning against the bed in a daze. She then reached out to touch Juniper's head. "It's okay. You go back to sleep, and I'll get myself some cold medicine."With that, Selena tried to get up, but her knees gave way, and she fell to the ground."Mommy, you should rest. I'll go get Miss Linda to come over." Juniper rolled out of bed and went to look for her phone. Just when she was about to call Selena's assistant Linda, she suddenly thought of an idea. Next, she dialed Pierre's number instead.Selena was so weak that she didn't notice what Juniper was doing. She simply thought that her daughter was calling Linda.Pierre was asleep in the middle of the night when he heard a noise coming from the phone and saw Juniper's call. Feeling rather odd about it, he picked it up."Hello.""Mr. Handsome, my mommy has a fever, and it's awful. Will you come over?"Pierre barely hesitated before saying, "Yes."The woman had been bathing in cold water for the whole aftern
Facing Juniper's sincere gaze, Pierre nodded slightly. Juniper immediately revealed a brilliant smile, which was as clear as the blue sky.She waved her hand toward him and said, "Remember to bring your sons to my birthday party tomorrow!"Pierre then quickly left. He went straight back to his house, sat on the couch, and lit a cigarette as the image of Juniper's clear eyes kept lingering in his mind.A long time later, he stubbed the cigarette out in the ashtray, picked up the phone, and dialed a number. "Prepare a ring.""W-What? What? Mr. Fowler, what did you say?" Niall, on the other side, couldn't believe his ears."Prepare a ring," Pierre repeated."Okay, okay, okay. What kind of ring do you need?""Anything will do."Pierre hung up the phone at once and got ready to go to the company.At this time, Meredith was sitting in the president's office of the Empire Group. When she heard Niall say something about a ring, she immediately raised her head to look at him.A ring? Pierre as
Meredith drove directly to the Fowler Residence. The servants of the Fowler Family had always been very kind to her. After all, she was the biological mother of the two little young masters. It was only a matter of time before she married Pierre, so sooner or later, she would become the matriarch of the Fowler Family. Thus, naturally, they should be pleasant toward her.Joaquin was in his room fiddling with his Nerf guns while Jameson was sitting to the side painting something. There was a large pile of paint materials on the floor. After Jameson played with the brush for a while, he simply dropped it to the floor and used his palm to paint. In the end, he was completely covered with paint, looking like a colorful little cat.The door opened at this time, and the two little ones looked up in unison to see Meredith standing in the doorway in a white dress."Mommy!" Jameson immediately got up and ran toward her.Meredith was shocked to see the messy paint on Jameson's clothes, and just
Meredith pointed at Juniper, who was checking out the cakes on display. Megan immediately looked over in the direction where Megan was pointing, and that elfin and lively little girl turned out to be Selena's daughter!"She looks just as nasty as Selena!" As Megan spoke, she rushed straight over.Meredith stared at Juniper, noting how the girl looked so similar to Selena as if she was really carved out of the same mold as her mother, but she also resembled Pierre a little. However, the resemblance with him would not be realized unless one knew they were father and daughter, and if one didn't know, they couldn't be linked together at all.Meredith was glad that this girl looked like Selena because if she had looked like Pierre, that would be rather terrible since everyone would know who her father really was.But the appearance of this little girl made her feel a sense of danger as well. After all, they had thought that this little girl would not survive; she was born with a respirator
Selena watched as a man dressed in dirty clothes carried Juniper away, and as fast as she could, she rushed out. However, when she came out of the store, she lost sight of them.After all, the cake store was located on one of the busiest streets in the center of Digton City.Selena looked around but found nothing and decided to call the police. She continued looking around the street while picking up her phone and started calling the police.Meredith drove the car with an indifferent expression while Megan was cursing and complaining to the side. When the car stopped, Megan took a look out the window and found that Meredith had unexpectedly driven the car to the entrance of a beauty salon. "Merry, how are you still in the mood to get a beauty treatment? My lungs are going to explode from anger!" Megan was still furious.However, Meredith simply smiled. "Why think about those unhappy things? Megan, look at this wretched state of yours. You will feel better after getting a good facial,"
It took Juniper a lot of strength to sit up. Since her limbs were tied up, she lifted her hands, and with her fingers, she wrote a few letters on the window: SOS."Jojo, why are her hands still tied up?" Jameson shot a puzzled look at Joaquin, who was frowning."Hey, kiddos! What are you doing? Get lost!" Back from buying cigarettes, Leopard ran toward them while smoking. Hearing his voice, Juniper hurriedly lowered her head.She knew that the two boys were children who could not save her. They definitely needed to get help from adults, which would take some time. Therefore, she could not let her kidnappers find out that she was sending SOS signals."Your van…"Joaquin instantly covered Jameson's mouth."Get lost! Did you hear me?" Leopard yelled at them. At the same time, he took a glance from the window to make sure that Juniper was still tied up.Joaquin whispered something in Jameson's ear, and the latter nodded in agreement."I like your van. Why don't you sell it to me? How much
Back at the White Swan Bakery, Selena had lodged a police report. The police officers arrived and were retrieving the surveillance footage of the bakery. Thankfully, the bakery had a surveillance system in place.Selena saw the scene showing Megan grabbing Juniper's hair and slapping the little girl. The disturbing sight almost caused her to faint. The world was filled with man-eating beasts, but how could she forget that human nature was the worst of evils.Selena had always been wary of human traffickers, but she totally overlooked the existence of monsters like Megan."It's her! It must be her!" She shot up and screamed, pointing agitatedly at the screen. The officer gestured at her to sit down. "Miss Yard, please keep calm. Let's finish watching the entire footage."The next scene showed Megan and Meredith leaving the bakery. About five minutes later, an unkempt man dashed into the bakery, grabbed Juniper, and ran out at lightning speed.The footage was paused at the scene where t
‘Jameson stole the ring and took the liberty of proposing to you with it. That was never my idea.’ After a long deliberation, Pierre finally made up his mind to send Meredith the message.Although his frankness would definitely break the lady’s heart in a cruel way, he still figured that telling her the truth was the better way to deal with this mess since he knew he was a terrible liar.The man then continued to sit in his car and smoked while brooding on the matter in a preoccupied manner. Meredith has always replied to my every message almost instantaneously, even though I have never done the same in return. However, she seems to be taking longer than usual to reply to my text this time.Even after waiting for a long while, she still hadn’t replied. Well, maybe she feels awkward and thinks it’s better not to bring it up. So, that’s probably not a bad thing for both of us either. At the thought of that, Pierre tossed the cigarette butt out of the car window and drove off.Meanwhile,
As soon as Pierre stepped into the mansion, the butler, Yoel, immediately walked up to him with a big smile. “Congratulations on your successful proposal, Young Master Pierre! You’re finally getting married!” Worried that his words might have sounded inappropriate, Yoel quickly added, “My apologies. I must have gotten carried away with my words since due to my happiness for you. You’re going to marry sooner or later anyway.”Pierre knitted his eyebrows after hearing the butler. “What’s going on?” I have a bad feeling about this. My boy must have taken the ring and fooled around with it.At that time, Meredith had already left, while John and Helen were discussing their son’s wedding. Upon seeing Pierre, the old man’s faint smile faded, and he returned to his usual stern self. “Since you’ve already proposed, we should go about the preparation for your wedding.”After hearing his father, Pierre knew that his guess was right. Meredith happened to visit earlier today, and I bet that littl
At that moment, Pierre’s eyes widened in shock when he recalled the wedding ring that Niall had prepared for him. Oh jeez! I nearly forgot about the ring! I was supposed to grant Juniper’s birthday wish by proposing to her mother, but it slipped my mind ever since her abduction.I remember putting it in my car, but I don’t remember seeing it when I was driving earlier today. No one else has taken my ride except my boys. Thus, if the ring goes missing, that could only mean… At the thought of that, Pierre stood up straight all of a sudden, leaving Juniper in confusion.“Relax, Mr. Handsome. You seem desperate to propose to Mom. Shh!” Juniper looked back and peeked at Selena. “Don’t ruin the surprise.”“Juniper, tell your mom that I need to leave for some urgent business.” “Alright, Mr. Handsome. Goodbye!”Pierre then walked out the door and made his way to his car as he began to search high and low for the ring. Soon, he knew that his memory served him right when he couldn’t find it any
Meanwhile, Megan rejoiced at the sight of Selena’s hesitancy. This matter is getting out of hand, but the poor lady has no idea that I’m just putting on a show all the time. I can’t wait to see how she cleans up the mess.“I don’t have a say in this matter.” Selena’s voice still sounded cold as it had always been from the beginning.“Oh, come on! You both are a couple, so I’m sure your words carry some weight, don’t they? Furthermore, I heard he dotes you on quite a lot, so I think he’ll definitely listen to you,” Roland said and waved his hand.“That’s right. I can tell that he really dotes on you too. Unless you’re still mad at Dad or me, you would kindly lend us a hand, wouldn’t you? After all, we’re a family, right?”“Exactly! We’re a family, and that’s why we should bear no grudge against each other. Please tell him that we’d like to dine together someday. In fact, when Meredith becomes a Fowler, he and Pierre will be in-laws by then. Thus, I’d say this is promising to him!” Rola
“Wait a minute! I think I’ve just figured it out!” At that moment, something seemed to cross Jameson’s mind. “Jojo, do you think this could be the wedding ring that Dad wants to give Mom? Oh, dear! What is he gonna do without the ring now that it’s with me?”Nevertheless, Jameson’s words were met with silence, as Joaquin only stared at the ring in silence. “Well, people buy a ring to propose. Since Mom and Dad are not married yet, could Dad be planning to propose to Mom?”Jameson gently thumped his head and beat himself up. “Oh, man! I shouldn’t have taken the ring! Dad is gonna be so mad when he realizes his ring is missing.”“Just go to bed now. Keep the ring somewhere safe and give it back to him later on.” Joaquin lay down on the bed straight away.Meanwhile, Jameson put the ring back into the case and said, “Dad is not good at sweet-talking, so I wonder how he’s gonna propose to Mom. In fact, I think I could do better if I were in his place. Anyway, is Mom gonna cry when she sees
Pierre then carried the child in his arms. At that moment, the tall man revealed his gentle and caring side to Juniper, while she became more expressive and outgoing because of the man. Soon, the kid was seen chuckling, holding the man’s finger. “Hey, that’s cheating! No way! You’re cheating!”Meanwhile, at the sight of their touching interaction, the heartwarming scene soon moved Selena to tears. Juniper must have wanted to have a father so badly, even though she has never spoken her mind about that at all. It was only then that Selena recalled seeing her daughter’s drawing during her art class. It was an artwork that depicted a scenario in which a family of three was dining together.Although Selena had never thought about committing to another relationship, she felt a strong urge to build a family for her daughter. She then wiped off her tears and headed downstairs, followed by Pierre and Juniper a few moments later. Then, the lady pretended as if nothing had ever happened, placing
Holly Adams appeared unsettled by Megan’s personal question. “Well, Miss Yard, it’s not a good idea to ask me that. You will put me in a tight spot.” She had a troubled expression on her face.“What’s so secretive about it?” Megan blew on her coffee. “Miss Adams, My friends are all single. When they get hitched, I’ll refer them to your store for tailored luxury gowns. Does that sound good?”“If so, I will be very grateful to you.” Holly bit her lips and answered, “Miss Yard, I will tell you the truth. The man you met in the store today is not the president of JNS Corporation.”Megan’s eyes widened in surprise, and she sat up straight. “What did you say?”“Well, I am in a difficult position too. I received orders from our president to put on a show, and I was to introduce the man as our president since no one truly knew the identity of the real president anyway. As for a reason behind this, our president did not elaborate more. I guess the man could be a friend of the president, and th
Finneas finished picking up the bills, straightened his back, and handed the money to Selena. “Selena, didn’t you say that these are not enough? How much do you want? I will prepare the amount later.”Gazing into his ‘sincere’ eyes, she was momentarily speechless. Pierre unexpectedly accepted the stack of bills and said, “Alright.”Finneas instantly beamed at him, thinking that everything was settled. “In this case—”Before he could finish his sentence, Pierre slapped the bills back onto his face. “She will get any amount of money she needs from me. She doesn’t need your money.”The bills hit Finneas on the face, but he bit his lip and smiled widely.“President Lake, you’re quite resilient. I’m in awe of you. So, alright, we shall consider this issue settled,” Pierre remarked.After hearing that, Finneas finally let out a huge sigh of relief. His endurance and efforts had not gone to waste. He commented, “We got to know each other better through this misunderstanding. Next time, I sha
Finneas knew that Pierre was insulting him, but he could not explode in anger.Right now, Lake Corporation needed help to get itself out of the dire situation. He had to lower himself and get the support of JNS Corporation. Knowing that many companies in Astoria were competing for JNS Corporation's partnership, he could not afford to put dignity before opportunity. Otherwise, he would lose out in the stiff competition."I was too rash just now. It's all my fault. I'll treat you to a meal one day and apologize formally to Selena. How does that sound? Hmm... Forget about picking a date. Let's make it today!"Pierre finally set his gaze on Finneas. "A formal apology? Alright. I'd love to see how you're going to apologize for slapping her."Selena had been staring intently at Finneas all the time.Indeed, she wished to see how low Finneas could stoop in order to partner with JNS Corporation.At that time, Finneas started to feel ashamed.He did something abominable-slapping Selena. Based