"Go figure. The men in the Howard family are all the same; you're all dependent on women!"Tina smirked as she stared at Thomas coldly. Her words were potent with mockery as she continued, "Howard Group is at its glory now because your father had gotten help from your mother. I thought it was different for you when you found yourself a village girl, but it's still the same. You need this woman to come to protect you now? How amusing!"Her words were downright insulting.Thomas furrowed his brow. As he was about to retort, Yannie interjected, with her arms wide open in defending Thomas, "Hey, are you listening to yourself? You insulting Thomas like that also means you're insulting your husband and your son. Aren't your husband and son from the same family as Thomas? Are you saying your son, Dan Howard, is also a man who relies on women too?"Yannie's face and tone were cold when she said that.Tina never expected such sharp remarks from Yannie. She was stunned and did not know how
Senior Howard furrowed his brow and looked at Thomas and Tina. Lastly, he closed his eyes and said with a plain tone, "Why did Dan hit Thomas?"The question caught Tina off-guard; she never thought Senior Howard would ask that question. After a while, she pursed her lips and said, "Didn't I just say it? He was angry because Thomas shot you."She then added, "Don't you know how much Dan cares about you? Not like someone else here. Dan would've fought the person who hurt you with his life if the transgressor wasn't his brother."Senior Howard sneered, "Is that so? You say Dan cares about me. How does he do that? Using my cars to gamble and losing them to someone else? Or spending my money behind my back?"Do you think I don't know any of that stuff you two did behind my back?"Tina's eyes blew wide open in shock. She looked at him with a stupefied look. "You…"After a while, she bit her lip and lowered her voice. "There are outsiders here. Why are you talking about these? I'm telli
Tina had a terrible look on her face after what Thomas said, and her eyebrows were pressed in a firm line."What are you talking about? He's my husband, and Dan's my son. In my heart, my husband and my son are equally important!"After that, she glanced from the corner of her eyes at the man on the bed while trying to grovel, "Furthermore, Dan's your father's son. If you treat Dan badly, that means you don't care about your father!""Scram!" Senior Howard shut his eyes, not giving Tina the responses she wanted. He stretched his hand out to massage his glabella. "The doctor said I need to rest. If all of you care for me, stop disturbing me."All of a sudden, he remembered something and said, "Get Mr. Zink here."Mr. Zink was Senior Howard's personal lawyer.Tina, baffled at how he was summoning his lawyer, furrowed her brow and looked at him. "Why do you want Mr. Zink here?"Senior Howard rolled his eyes at Tina. "To get him to sue Thomas for causing intentional injury. Are you h
Thomas' alluring, husky voice rang next to Yannie's ear, and her ear grew warm as his breath fanned the side of her face.She bit her lip and shrunk. Her mind drifted to how not long ago, she was locked outside of the door while listening to his…and Denise's moans of pleasure.Instinctively, she bit her lip and moved away, creating a gap between them.Thomas's brow furrowed once more when he noticed this. He tried to pull her back to him by wounding his arms around her. "Why are you moving away? Is there anything you're not telling me?"That was the only reason why Yannie kept on distancing herself from him after he woke up from his unconsciousness.She bit her lip. After a moment of silence, she pushed Thomas away. "Nothing. I'm not hiding anything from you. You think too much."With that sentence, the elevator reached the first floor, and the door opened. Yannie hastily walked out of the elevator, much to Thomas' confusion as he chased after her."Yannie!"However, Yannie did
As Luna grasped the phone tightly in her hand, her eyebrows were pressed into a firm line. She had assumed that Thomas would come find her because of Yannie but never expected it to be so soon.It had been less than 24 hours after the incident happened, and she had been busy dealing with Denise and her family. There was no time for her to think about how to explain it to Thomas if he asked.The moment was here, yet she could only bite her lip and made it up as it went. "Why do you think so? Yannie… Is there anything wrong with her?"Thomas furrowed his brow slightly upon hearing Luna hesitating. He grasped his phone tighter and replied in a deep voice, "Something's wrong with her. Luna, I know you and Yannie are best friends. The only one she trusted other than her mother is you. So, I'd like to ask what's going on. Previously…"He closed his eyes and thought back to the time when Tina and Denise had drugged him when they were at Howard Mansion. "Was it…"He hesitated and said the
Luna held her phone as she fell silent for a good while. It was not long until she exhaled deeply and answered, "I would."She took another deep breath and said plainly, "Thomas, maybe you don't know me that well yet. In the past, I hated Joshua so badly, but it was because of my son that I took it all in strides and went back to Joshua."The misunderstanding got cleared in the end and we knew that we fell into a trap, but even if it wasn't a misunderstanding and Joshua was really a scumbag, I would still tolerate everything for the sake of my children."To me, being sad and uncomfortable because of someone important is just temporary, and it'll pass."Maybe you're right. Joshua and I were wrong on this matter; we shouldn't have used our thoughts to decide what Yannie should do. Nonetheless, she cares about you. She hopes that you can settle your matter peacefully and that incident will not affect you. She just can't get past the hurdle in her heart and pretend that nothing happene
"I can't promise you that now," Yannie replied.She took a deep breath, her eyes filled with despair and helplessness when she gazed into Thomas' eyes. "Perhaps you wouldn't be able to digest it all if you were in my stead. I'm sorry."After a deep sigh, she curled up her lips into a bitter smile. "I can't lie to you nor lie to myself."She thought Thomas would get mad, feel helpless, and despair with her after what she said. However, that was not what happened. Instead, Thomas curled up his lips and smiled, gazing into her eyes with his frail ones, "Alright, I respect your wishes. As long as…"After a short pause, he continued looking at her with a smile. "As long as you stay with me, that's enough. If there comes a time you want to leave me and Riley, I hope you can tell me. Don't just go without saying goodbye. I won't force you to stay."After all, he was a fool to have fallen into Tina and Denise's trap. Therefore, he had no right to stop Yannie, no matter what decision she m
Tina quivered as she stood outside the door eavesdropping on the conversation between Senior Howard and Mr. Zink.'That old geezer! He wants to give everything to that bastard!'After all these years she spent time together with him, she and her precious son ended with nothing!She clenched her fists tightly and angrily.'Why? Why did that old geezer leave everything to Thomas in the end? Is it just because he's Eanne's son? Because Eanne was the one who helped him become rich? What about the twenty years I spent with him? Are my twenty years incomparable to the few years Eanne spent with him?'"Alright, Mr. Howard. Is there anything else you'd like to add?" asked Mr. Zink again. "Give it a good thought."Senior Howard said again after remaining silent for a long time, "There are two mansions in South Hill of this city and a company…""Do you want to transfer those to Mr. Thomas Howard too?" Mr. Zink asked.Tina could not bear to listen any further. She bit her lip angrily and