"Mr. Green! Mr Green, I was wrong! I will teach my subordinates well in the future! Please have mercy on me!" Brayden Green panted with exhaustion as he beat the pleading man relentlessly with a golf club. He threw down the bloodied golf club and kicked the man, who was now lying motionless in a pool of blood. Then he waved a hand and gestured for his underlings to drag the man out. He let his rolled-up sleeves back down and walked over to Sean. He saw that all the wine glasses on the table were empty.Brayden opened a bottle of wine and poured some for himself. He downed it in one gulp and then filled the glasses of both himself and Sean again. He leaned against the table and asked, "I heard you assigned Lenny to protect that woman. Is she the woman for whom these idiot subordinates of mine went to create trouble? I'm rather curious about why she's so important."Sean put down his wine glass, then picked up another and downed it again. He tossed it aside, buttoned up his suit,
Marion aggressively bit the arm of the middle-aged man and grabbed the opportunity to break free and run out.Alva had just pushed aside the person beside her, but someone grabbed her wrist as soon as she stood up. At some point, Angeline rushed back in and grabbed Alva's other hand as she kicked the middle-aged man holding on to Alva so that she could drag her out.Before the two of them could reach the door, the middle-aged man whom Marion had bitten grabbed an ashtray and brought it down to smash against Angeline's head. "Angeline!" Ned kicked aside the bodyguard obstructing his path and grabbed Angeline to protect her in his arms.The ashtray smashed onto Ned's head, and his ears rang. His vision went black, and blood gushed out from his forehead. Ned had been holding Angeline tightly. She turned and saw Ned's body go slack as he slumped to the ground and stopped moving. Angeline instinctively reached out to grab him, but the middle-aged man seemed livid. He raised the ash
The current version of Sean was different from how he always looked on television, with his perfectly pressed suit, cold expression, and aloofness. It was also different from how he was in private when he showed his desire for her without abandon and confessed his feelings without any qualms."Ned! Ned, don't scare me! Wake up!" Gregory had his arms around Ned, who was lying unconscious on the floor.Gregory's shouts drew Angeline's gaze back to them. She looked down at Ned lying on the floor. He had taken the hit from the ashtray for her. She swiftly pulled out her phone to dial 911. Angeline had just reported their location when Sean gripped her arm with a sinister expression. He pulled her out roughly from the room and dragged her out of the Night Palace.Sean was walking very fast on his long legs. Angeline had to run to keep up with his pace."Sean, slow down!"Angeline's voice was drowned in the pounding music, just like the screams of the fight in Room 8923 had been com
When she thought about how Sean had punched that middle-aged man expressionlessly and arrogantly, Angeline's arm tightened around his neck, and she went up on her tiptoes.Her urgency and clumsiness calmed Sean's turbulent emotions, but his desire and the sensual thoughts that he had about her became magnified. They did not want to be parted from each other's lips and tongues. His bloodied hand circled Angeline into his embrace. He pulled open the door to the backseat and shoved her inside.The car door closed. Angeline propped herself up and shrank back.She saw Sean take his glasses off and toss them into the front seat. Then he deftly pulled her by her slender ankles so that she was below him. His fingers caressed her face, and there was a greedy obsession in his sharp, cold black eyes. It made the hairs rise on her arms and neck.Sean's bright red blood showed up in stark contrast to Angeline's extremely pale face. She lacked oxygen, and she was still dizzy. There were tear
Marion had personally seen Ned take a blow for Angeline before. She guessed that Angeline would be concerned, even if only out of guilt, so she told her about Ned's current condition."Is it Angeline?" Alva's voice traveled through the phone. When Marion confirmed this, Alva grabbed the phone and bombarded Angeline with many questions. "Who was the guy who took you away? Wow… It was so cool how he used that old pervert's head to smash the coffee table! He took out that sleezebag with just two punches! He's a total thug in a suit! He's over six feet tall, isn't he? His legs are already three feet long! It feels like he's seven feet, at least. "Those long legs, that lean figure, and that strength! Even after he beat the guy up, he didn't have a hair out of place, and he still looked as neat as he had when he first came in. That was so sexy. I could tell he was a top-quality hottie, even in the dark. Angeline, tell me the truth—is he your new man? Is he? He is, right?"Alva was
Hadn't Ned gone to see Angeline today? Had Angeline said something to him?Or had Ned recovered more of his memories?Ingrid's mind was buzzing. A ding sounded.When the elevator stopped, Sean took Angeline's hand and walked out.Ingrid's assistant was displeased. "Who is that? How could she ignore you when you greeted her first?"Sean walked over to the car and pulled open the door on the passenger's side. He gestured for Angeline to get in. Conversely, Angeline walked to the driver's side and opened the door for him. "You've been drinking, and your hand is injured. I'll drive.""Let's go to my place," Sean said after he got in the car.Angeline drove out of the underground garage and looked sideways at Sean, who had removed his mask and was leaning back in his seat with his eyes closed. She felt that she should offer him an explanation."Today, three of my friends from Cloudsville College visited Krontos. They'll be returning tomorrow, so we had dinner together. One o
The garage door had completely descended. It was frighteningly dark in the car. Angeline could not see the aggression in Sean's eyes. All she could hear was the sound of their breaths. Sean's jaw was clenched tightly. He closed his eyes and forced himself to steady his breathing. Then he pushed the door open and carried Angeline out.The motion-sensor lights in the garage flickered on, and he set her firmly down on the ground.He grabbed his suit jacket from the passenger seat and shut the car door before entering his password on the digital lock pad and heading inside. "I'll have the driver send you home."Behind him, Angeline stopped in her tracks. She quickly ran after Sean and entered the elevator to go upstairs. She watched Sean call the driver and instruct him to drive to the villa's front door. Angeline's hands tightened as she clasped them behind her back.She inexplicably felt rather disappointed.Perhaps it was because Sean had seemed to be so full of urgency in th
Gregory took out his phone. He debated if he should call Angeline and tell her. Then he thought about the man who had shielded Angeline and taken her away from the fight. He was worried that Angeline would be with him right now. He considered if his call would cause a misunderstanding between them.Now Ned had a fiancée, and Angeline had a protector by her side. Gregory thought it would be best if Ned and Angeline never interacted again. When Trevor received news of Ned's admission to the hospital, he rushed over, looking pale.Fletcher Corporation was in a precarious situation, and Ned had to stay safe. "Angeline…" Ned suddenly gripped his bedsheets tightly as he murmured her name. His brow and neck were covered with sweat. He seemed to be in the grip of an intense nightmare.In his dreams, he saw Angeline dressed in a school uniform as she sat on the balcony with him. She handed him a lollipop. "Don't worry, I'm not going pursue a direct entry to a doctorate course at