Mrs. Flores sighed and lowered her head. "I'm the one who wanted to quit this job."Truth be told, she never wanted to quit this job, either.Her bosses, Joshua and Luna, were both kind and accepting people, and all the children in the house, including Shelly and Riley, were obedient, easygoing children.Because everyone in the family loved her so much, Lucas offered her attractive pay with decent employee benefits.Before this, Mrs. Flores had wanted to stay at this job for as long as she could, but after her meeting with Samuel the night before, she had a long discussion with Yannie and decided that it was best to listen to her old friend's advice.After all, Samuel had not been in touch with her for almost a year, and when he was about to leave Merchant City, the first thing he decided to do was meet her one last time to warn her to stay away from the Landry and Lynch families and the man named 'Howard'.After careful consideration, Mrs. Flores decided it was probably better t
"Why are you here at my house?" Luna grabbed her phone tightly as she furrowed her brows. "I remembered only promising to work together on business terms only, nothing more than that. Why are you here, then, coming to my house early in the morning?"Luna never liked Thomas to begin with. He disconcerted her to the very core, too. It was one thing that he had bribed Joey Charles to pursue her, but he even said he liked Nellie. When Luna did not agree with his offer, he forced Luna to sign the contract by threatening her with Sean and Kate's safety after he kidnapped them!After all those incidents, no one would blame Luna for having a bad impression of Thomas, especially when the man showed up at her doorsteps so early in the morning when she had just signed the contract yesterday. This disgusted Luna even more."Do you think I want to be here?" Thomas sneered from the other side of the phone.He changed his posture and took off his sunglasses while leaning into the car seat. Then,
However, Samuel decided to look for this maid who was over her fifties! Thomas' instinct told him that Mrs. Flores had to be related to the woman from a year ago.Secondly, he wanted to go into the house to check out the situation. After all…Thomas squinted, and his eyes faintly gleamed with coldness.After all, Joshua and Luna were the ones responsible for causing his daughter to be kept in the ICU, monitored at all times.He wanted to get to know the other children in their house so he knew which one to capture when the time comes. He wanted to let Joshua and Luna understand the feeling to know their children being tortured by a stranger."Sir." Thomas' assistant wiped off the sweat on his forehead silently. "I don't mean to mind your business, but—ah!"Before he could finish, however, Thomas' assistant screamed in pain, causing Thomas to furrow his eyebrow and turned toward him."I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" A girl dressed in casualwear got down from her motorcycle and quickly sto
Joshua's words stunned Thomas for a good few seconds. After a while, he managed to calm himself and looked at Joshua. "What makes you ask me this question, Mr. Lynch? If I remember correctly, we're not close enough to be calling each other brothers."Joshua changed his position to a more comfortable posture. He sat on the couch in a kingly manner and stared at Thomas, who pretended to know nothing. "Do you not know, or are you just pretending that you know nothing? I'm sure you remember your mother's family name."Thomas squinted at this. "I'm sure my mother's family name has nothing to do with you."Thomas' mother was, in truth, Senior Howard's first wife. Back in the old days, Senior Howard was just a poor young man, while Thomas' mother was the second daughter of an affluent, powerful family.She met Senior Howard and thought he was her soulmate, the love of her life. Thus, she decided to elope with him, leaving her family and twin sister behind, vouching to never reunite with t
"I've unearthed information hidden from the public. Your mother's family name isn't Levine—she's from the Moore family."It was just a simple statement, but it struck Thomas like it was lightning, leaving him petrified as he stood still.He looked at Joshua with his deep, dark pupils that were filled with disbelief. "You..."'How did he find out? My real mother's family name is Moore!' Thomas thought."Not only do I know her family name, but I even know her name. Eanne Moore." Joshua switched to a more comfortable position and looked at the man in front of him nonchalantly. "You don't have to be so surprised. No one from the Howard family told me anything. After all those despicable things Senior Howard had done over the years, he won't tell the truth, even if I point a gun to his head."Thomas squinted and looked at Joshua coldly. His lips moved a bit, but not a sound came through his lips.He did not dare say anything, after all. He was afraid that this was Joshua's plan, tryin
Thomas' pupils shrunk upon hearing Joshua's confession, and he squinted at him. "Are you kidding me?"Thomas' mother did have a twin sister, but how could it be Joshua's mother? If his mother and Joshua's mother were sisters, this would make him and Joshua cousins!His cousin, Joshua, accidentally brought the wrong child back home from the hospital and took the child in as his own. When he knew that his child was still alive, he tortured the poor infant, causing the baby to end up in the ICU as she fought for her life.Thomas felt suffocated when he thought of this.If Joshua was his cousin, then he truly was a devil in disguise. Thomas could only repeat this in his heart to warn himself from falling into Joshua's trap.'This must be his trap. Something as coincidental as this could never happen! He must've gotten to know about my mother from that old man, and that's why he told me this now so that he'd ruin my momentum!' Thomas thought and sneered."What evidence do you have to
"Why? Not liking what I said?" teased Thomas, squinting at the irked Luna as she tried to defend Joshua. "So you know it's the time to defend your husband now?"Luna's eyebrows knitted tightly together. Was it wrong for her to defend her spouse when Thomas bluntly said Joshua did not deserve to have family, all while she was standing nearby? "What's wrong with me defending him when you spoke so poorly of him?"She narrowed her eyes as she shot Thomas a glare. "Thomas, I knew you had ulterior motives for getting close to me and Joshua. I don't care what that's about, but neither I nor Joshua knew you before we met you. Joshua had told you just minutes ago that he only found out that you're his cousin last night."We only met each other yesterday. Neither of us did anything that harmed you or caused you trouble. You don't have to be so hostile with us."Thomas sneered at this. He crossed his legs elegantly while he leaned into the couch. His eyes were focused on Luna as if he had hea
"Did I cross the line with what I've said? Don't you think he's disgusting by asking me to acknowledge him as my relative the moment I came?"Yannie was stunned when Thomas pointed at her. She shot Thomas a dull look, then turned to look at Luna and Joshua warily.She was in tremendous fear at the moment.Her heart had been pounding the moment she bumped into Thomas' assistant. After all, she had once seen his assistant before.On that night a year ago, she bumped into a man when she was in a hurry to escape from Thomas' room, and that man was Thomas' assistant!Yannie, on that night, was in a mess with her clothes torn. The assistant had assumed she was a beggar and thus barked at her.She was badly shaken up, fearing that the assistant would recognize her when she bumped into him—afraid that Thomas would come looking for her.Two months ago, she delivered her infant in a small hospital, but the baby did not survive.She thought she could care for her child, even imagining tha