Luna paused for a while.She did not realize her nails dug so deeply into her palms.“So, the two of you got me here to persuade me to hold a news conference, just to prove that Alice is a good woman. Then, you want to use that to get closer to her and ask her for money?”Natasha sighed. “I know you must be looking down on us, but as parents, if we could find a way for our children to be free, who’d want to watch their children stay in prison? We’re only living like this now because we love our children too much.”Then, Natasha lifted her head and looked at Luna. “Ms. Luna, you should know that I misunderstood Luna Gibson, now Alice Gibson, in the past. She hates me, so it wasn’t appropriate for us to find her directly. I hope you’ll cooperate with us and hold a press conference tomorrow. Clear her name so that the people on the internet would stop bullying her. This way, she’ll remember how uneasy it is for us as parents, and only then would we be able to get money from her.”Lun
Luna took a deep breath and walked away.Natasha went home dejectedly after a long while after Luna left.“How was it?” Joseph immediately approached her as she walked through the door.Natasha shook her head. “She said she wouldn’t agree to us, and neither would she attend the press conference.” Joseph furrowed his brows hard.“Did she say anything else?”“She also said…” Natasha sighed. “She asked me to check properly, saying that Aura might not be my daughter.”Upon her words, Joseph’s face suddenly turned pale.“I told her that’s impossible.” Natasha shrugged. “Luna isn’t reliable, so we shouldn’t pin our hopes on her.” “Yes. What nonsense! How could Aura not be your daughter?” Joseph furrowed his brows. He lifted his head and looked into the distance. “If she doesn’t want to help us, I could only go and find Alice.” …“Ma’am, there are people outside looking for you.”Ever since coming back to Blue Bay Villa from the cafe, Alice laid in bed as she gazed up at the
Luna helped Natasha up and let her sit on the sofa. “You’re asking me to help you. How should I help? You still want me to hold the press conference and tell everyone that I’m the mistress, that it was alright for Alice to push me. Is that it?”Upon her words, Natasha could not help but bite her lips.“Ms. Luna, I know this is a little hard for you, but we really have no other choice.”Luna took a deep breath. She got up and headed to her desk. She opened the drawer and took a bank card out.She passed the card to Natasha. “There are five hundred thousand dollars here. Treat it as my loan to you. Asking me to hold a press conference to admit those false things would be impossible.”Natasha held onto the card. Her face kept changing between blushing and turning pale.Finally, she put the card back in Luna’s hands.“I cannot take your money. My eldest daughter has money. As long as you are willing to help us…”“Then you can just forget about it.” Luna kept the card back. “I will
Theo smiled. “I wasn’t planning on letting you go help her clear her name.”He yawned and turned to sit on the sofa. He looked at Luna calmly. “Just now you called to talk about Natasha and Joseph’s problem. I went to their place to have a look. Initially, I wanted to help them, according to what you say, to get a better place to stay in the name of charity. Guess what I saw?”Luna furrowed her brows. She stopped what she was doing and looked at Theo.“I saw Joseph going to Blue Bay Villa. Not long after coming back from Blue Bay Villa, he was taken away by the ambulance. I casually followed them to Central Hospital. After a few rounds of socializing, the nurse secretly told me the truth.”Luna paused for a while. “How is he?”“He’s faking it,” Theo chuckled, “he is still doing great. He was faking the stroke.”Luna shut her eyes and laughed bitterly.She knew it. In the end, Natasha and Joseph were still only thinking about themselves.“So why did you still promise Natasha?”
Joshua looked at Luna’s nervous face. He could not help but think back to her look the night before.He calmed himself down and smiled. “Don’t worry, the incident last night won’t happen.”Luna glared at him. “You’re not welcome.”Joshua leaned back on the sofa confidently. “What if I take Neil and Nellie over?”Neil and Nellie.Luna has not seen them for almost a week. Although the two of them would secretly call them every night, hearing their voice and meeting them were two different things. Furthermore, they almost fell sick the night before…At that thought, Luna glared at Joshua coldly. “Because of Neil and Nellie, I’ll reluctantly welcome you.”…After making an appointment with Joshua to have dinner at home in the evening, Luna accelerated her work.As soon as it was the end of the day, she packed up her things and left work straight away.When she exited the office, she bumped into Shannon, who was also leaving. “Director Luna, so early today?”Luna nodded. “I have
“You cheating mistress! How dare you pretend to be all motherly grocery shopping?” “Leave!” The crowd started insulting her and kicking her. Some even threw rotten vegetables at her.Shannon immediately raised both her hands. “I’m innocent!” Then, she looked at Luna coldly. “Director Luna, I’ll make a move first. You… deal with this on your own.” At that, Shannon immediately went past through the crowd and left.Luna was the sole target of the crowd.She bent down, trying to protect the groceries that she just bought while taking her phone out, planning to call the police.Before she could call, her phone rang.She was being pushed around, so she could not stand properly. Her fingers lost control too, she immediately picked the call up.“Where are you?” Joshua was standing outside Luna’s house together with Neil and Nellie. He calmly asked on the phone.What replied to him was the sounds of people pushing and yelling insults.“A mistress should be killed!” “Breaking o
Her words made the entire supermarket silent once again. Everyone was looking at Joshua.He slightly narrowed his eyes.He was letting off a frigidly cold aura, it was cold enough to freeze the entire supermarket.After a while, he looked at the woman in front of him, then at everybody there.“First, Luna is not my mistress. She is an exceptional staff member of my company and a dear friend.“Next, my wife will not believe these baseless rumors. I also do not need to explain myself.”Then, he looked at the woman in front of him coldly. “Move aside.”The woman was determined to continue blocking Joshua and Luna in their path. “But from what I saw in the video online, it was Mrs. Lynch who first spread the rumor that Luna is the mistress. Before Mrs. Lynch returned back to you, you had a public image of a deeply loving husband. Now that there are rumors of you having a mistress, what you should do is draw a clear line and not protect this woman and not let your wife continue misun
“Mommy!”Once she got in the car, Nellie immediately buried herself in Luna’s arms. “Are you alright?”Neil, on the other hand, was carefully placing the groceries in Luna’s hands properly. Then, he checked her for any injuries.“That woman just now was Alice’s friend,” Joshua said coldly while sitting at the driver’s seat. He started the car.Luna shuddered a little.Before Joshua came, that woman was the one who led the attack and bullied her. The scratches on her face were made by that woman too.Joshua said that she was Alice’s friend, but that woman had a fluent Banyan City accent. She was local.What about Alice? Alice was not from Banyan City. She has never even stepped foot in Banyan City before.The chances of them being friends were extremely slim. It was more like a client and the employed.Luna dug her fingernails deep into her palm. First, she slandered Luna for ruining Theo’s artwork, then she used the power of the internet, releasing the surveillance footage h