After a long day, it was finally time to clock out. Pushing the folders off to the side, Jean stood up and stretched before walking toward the office doors. Grayson stood there, blocking his way. “Master Jean, the president has specifically instructed that you’re not to leave the company before translating everything that has been given to you.” Jean placed an affectionate arm on Grayson’s shoulder and flashed him a perfect cunning smile. “Where’s my brother, Grayson?” Grayson replied, “My apologies, but the president’s whereabouts are secret information.”Jean stared at the empty office. “I can probably guess without you telling me. Jay’s not in Grand Asia anymore, is he?” Grayson remained silent. Jean’s expression immediately shifted into something sinister. “Get out of my way, okay, Grayson?” Grayson remained unfazed. Jean raised a fist. “Imagine if I missed and hit you instead.” “You’re welcome to try, Master Jean.”In the blink of an eye, Jean’s fist soared to
“Let’s get you home, bubs.” Darkness shrouded over Garden Of A Diary. Sitting quietly on the wooden chair in the patio, Jay became one with the night around him. His only source of light being the diamond set watch on his wrist, its silver glow illuminating its hands. The hour hand reached one o’clock. Without an ounce of drowsiness, the hope in Jay’s piercing eyes slowly dwindled as time ticked by. Suddenly, a thud sounded off the side. A lithe figure crawled up from the ground. Turning around, she was stunned in place with the sharp glare of a cell phone. She lifted her arms to shield the flare only for her wrists to be caught by a pair of plier-like large hands the very next moment. “Rose!” Caught red-handed, Rose gave up on fighting back. “Sir Ares, what are you doing awake so late at night?” she asked, evidently trying to get on his good side. “Looking at the flowers,” Jay replied. Rose tilted up to stare at the starless sky. Who was he trying to kid? “
“Why?” “Why what?” “Didn’t you say you’d never abandon the kids again?” Jay stared intently at her. Rose averted her gaze, not daring to lock eyes with him. “Look at me.” Jay’s tone commanded obedience. Rose had no other choice but to follow.“I can look past any mistakes you make, but don’t you dare abandon your children.” Jay shut his eyes, suppressing as much of his emotions as possible. Rose blurted out, “I won’t abandon them.” She said it with conviction. Jay’s eyes shot open to reveal a fiery gaze. His sharp eyes darted across Rose’s serious expression. “But you’ve already abandoned them, though?” he said coldly. Rose’s lips twitched to counter, though she remained silent in the end. In her mind surfaced memories of Zayne. He was ever so vain yet shed his expensive status to start his business. She recalled the loneliness in her mother’s eyes and the helpless despair in her father’s eyes as her stepmother mocked him. This was the same man who had once shaken
She might as well claim so. “Yeah. So what if I like him?” Jay’s indifferent expression shattered instantly into hideous pieces. “Have I indulged you too much, Rose Loyle? Is that why you’ve become so unruly?” His hand quickly reached for the back of her head, tugging hard to leave a painful tinge on her scalp. With Rose forced to tilt her head back, his lips domineeringly attacked forward. Rose’s scalp was numb with pain as tears fell from her eyes. Cold tears dripped onto the back of his hand like an ice shard into raging flames. Slowly, Jay let her go. Staring back at the infuriation in her eyes, the raging fire within him quelled as every chunk of ice seemed to rid his heart of its warmth. “Get out,” He turned and rebuked. Rose fled. At the shut of the door, worry bled uncontrollably into Jay’s violent eyes. … Like a wild beast with its mouth wide open, the night threatened to swallow everything in its wake before conceding. On the pedestrian walk was a peti
Downstairs, Jay had his gaze locked on the only bright window of Central Building. Two shadows approached one another, then merged into one following the rustle of the window curtains. Jay felt as if his heart had been gouged out. He turned around and left dejectedly. After that, Rose and Sean sat down and began to go over solutions for a pressing problem. Jay returned to Garden Of A Diary. Ruffled by the events, he hid in the attic on the third floor and drank himself silly. In the end, he fainted in the room from alcohol intolerance. The next day, Jenson discovered that his daddy had fainted in the attic. He immediately dialed for Josephine. Unfortunately, Josephine was still enjoying her vacation overseas and was too far to help. Jenson had no other choice but to ask Grayson for help. Not too long after, Grand Asia’s ambulance charged into Garden Of A Diary and brought Jay away. As the symptoms were severe, from his skin to his respiratory tract, he was sent stra
Had he— She must be overthinking. How could he be worried about her? If anything, he was merely worried that his children would lose their mommy. Tapping on the messages application, she found a message from Josephine Ares. ‘Sister-in-law, Jay’s been admitted into Grand Asia’s ICU. Please take care of him for me.’“How could this be?” Rose stared at the day the message was sent. That was three days ago! Unease began to dwell in Rose’s chest. Fear filled her heart. For a man who held himself with such indifference, just how much despair had he felt to drive himself to the point of lying in ICU? She felt an unexpected clench in her heart. Tears began to stream freely down her cheeks. Suddenly, she dropped to her knees. Clasping her hands together, Rose prayed. “Please, God. Please, let him go. Exchange my life for his. Exchange my health for his. Exchange my fortune for his. Take my peace, safety, my health in exchange for his good health.” However, nothing she did see
It had been five days since Jay got out of the ICU ward. Meanwhile, Sean used those five days to steal actresses whose contracts had expired from Ares’ film company. This subsequently made Jean furious.“That Sean Bell! He might look elegant and cultured but deep down, he scurries in the shadows. He took away the girls who rake in the most money from us. He has gone too far.”“That can’t be right. How could he have known that the girls’ contracts have expired?”Jean suddenly realized something. “Our company’s secrets have been leaked.”Jean immediately ordered an investigation on the internal servers, and it was true. Around five to six days ago, the company’s internal server had been attacked by a person called ‘The Mountain Bloom’.Jean suddenly felt shivers running down his back. Although he had only overseen the film company for a short while, he knew that the Ares’ firewalls were more unbreakable than The Great Wall itself. Now that it had been cracked open and invaded, t
How could Mr. Ares let the hacker who ruined the Ares’ internal server go scot-free?“I need to rebuild the Ares defense systems,” said Jay after a long pause.Grayson was shocked. That did not sound like Mr. Ares at all.Against an enemy, Mr. Ares would usually kill one to serve as a warning to the others. This time, however, he would personally enhance the defense systems of the Ares network even with his body like this?This method of confronting the enemy was too lenient, was it not?“Yes, Mr. Ares.” Grayson agreed out of habit.He believed that the president's decisions were always meticulous and reasonable. If there was an aspect that one could not understand, that could only mean that they lacked the wisdom to figure it out.Jean asked with dissatisfaction, “Big Brother, so we’re letting The Mountain Bloom off that easily?”“Let them go? No way,” replied Jay with streaks of blood across his eyes. It made him look like a bloodthirsty drug addict.There was no way that he