Jay carried Rose back to the Fragrant Vessel Court where the family doctor quickly arrived with his medicinal case. After a quick check-up, he concluded, “Miss Rose has what’s called nutritional-deficiency anemia.” Jay frowned as he stared at the check-up report filled densely with arrows. After the doctor left, Jay sat blankly by the bed. His heart clenched as his eyes traced over Rose’s hollowed cheeks. What life had she been living for the past seven years? Under her care, their children had grown healthily while she herself was a mess. Perhaps it was time for him to take extraordinary measures. After having awoken, Rose was met with the sight of Jay’s thoroughly striking features staring back at herself depressingly. Having gotten used to his dignified expression, Rose could not help the itching feeling that something was wrong.Fearfully, she grabbed Jay’s hand. “Sir Ares, am I going to die?” Amusement flashed in his eyes. “Any last words?” he asked calmly.
Unable to hold them back in the end, Rose’s tears fell freely like rain through a torn canopy. It wet the pillow beneath. Could she still believe in him? Her gaze was empty as the void. Finally, she set her eyes on the white marbled tiles and the carved mahogany handrails. The handrail led to the quiet floor upstairs, where it was abnormally dark. “A crazy woman is hiding in Daddy’s bed!” Jenson’s shaky voice suddenly echoed in Rose’s head. Unable to sleep, Rose got up and dressed herself. Then, she tiptoed up the stairs. Jenson was not the only one panicking about the secret behind the attic, for it agitated her as well. Who was the woman in the attic? … As the Fragrant Vessel Court was built following the characteristics of classical overlapping architectures, its rooms were built intricately and were naturally dim. Pushing open the door in front of the handrail, Rose entered the room and closed the door behind her. She found herself in a small living room
Rose dashed toward it, only for the wall around the hole to move just as she reached it, blocking the hole. Then, the room’s lights switched on. Rose turned around to see Jay with a dark look on his face. His hand was pressing on a knob on the wall. Rose stared at the knob, then turned around to stare at the blocked hole. Did he close the hole? “Sir Ares, I… I think I’m lost. I wanted to go to the bathroom…” Rose spoke slowly. Her eyes stared at the ground as she made the subconscious decision to hide what just happened from him. Jay reached out his hand. Stunned by the gesture, Rose placed her hand in his larger one. “Come on. Let’s get you out.” The scrunch between his brows from realizing that Rose was no longer beside him when he woke finally relaxed now that he had found her. Rose’s gaze was fixed on the knob as if it was an enormous black hole that threatened to swallow her whole. What was the secret behind this place? Was Jay hiding something from her? “Wha
Despite having never paid attention to his own looks, praise from this woman somehow turned his negative mood around. Rose murmured under her breath, “Don’t you know? The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.” Jay shot her a death glare. “What other men do you want?” Rose shut her mouth and shook her head. Moving his arm from her shoulder to her waist, Jay squeezed her tightly against himself to the point where Rose felt as if the air from her abdomen to her lungs had been squeezed out. For a split moment, she felt suffocated. “Since you’ve slept with me once, Rose, you’ve signed yourself off to a lifetime of sleeping with me. You’re well aware of me being a clean freak, yes? I’ll throw you into the furnace should you have the slightest thought toward another man.” Rose nodded and bowed in a puppy-like manner. “There’s not a second of which I don’t remind myself that I’m yours, Sir Ares.” “Good.” Then, he said, “Grandfather wants me to entertain the gu
After Nancy had been taken away, Jay roughly ripped Sean’s jacket off of Rose. Then, he took his own and covered her with it. “Don’t touch things from other men anymore. It’s revolting.” He warned viciously. A soft chuckle left Sean’s lips suddenly.After using every method under the sun to stop him and Rose from publicizing their relationship, Jay had never expected and thus never prevented Nancy Bell from being the final key to telling the world. Just like that, the public was now aware of his and Rose’s relationship. The show had to go on. Sean smiled humorlessly at Jay. “A matching couple’s outfit with my girlfriend, Master Ares? What’s the meaning behind this?” “She’s my wife,” Jay declared his control imperiously. “Ex-wife.” Sean gave an extremely gentle smile. “That’s still my wife,” Jay said, asserting it as a fact.… The knowledge of Sean and Jay fighting over a woman in front of everyone had the Grand Old Master seething with anger. He had people bring the
“Get your *ss here,” Jay reprimanded in a commanding tone as he watched her stand beside Sean. Rose shivered and obediently walked to stand in front of him. There was no other choice. This devil incarnate held the future of Severe Enterprises in his hand. The Grand Old Master questioned menacingly, “Rose, which exactly of these two men do you love?” Rose glanced fearfully at Jay, then turned to look hopelessly at Sean. Choosing any one of them meant she would undoubtedly offend the other. She could not offend Jay, but she did not want to offend Sean as well.“Grand Old Master Ares, I don’t believe I have the right to choose,” Rose answered. “It’s alright, tell me who you love. I’ll have your back,” the Grand Old Master said reassuringly. “You’d better think twice before answering, Rose,” Jay whispered. He might as well have reminded her about the screenplay contract with The Moonlit Sky! Having always lived with the motto ‘to go with the flow’, Rose immediately decid
Sean’s smile dwindled, almost like sand in an hourglass. The more he tried to recollect himself, the more obvious his frenzy showed. Once again, he experienced the terror that was Jay Ares. “Your ultimate goal is to make me hate you so that I’d destroy Bell Enterprise for you. That’s why you used Rose Loyle, correct?” With every bit of his front ruthlessly dismantled by Jay, all that was left of Sean Bell was his riddled fragile self. His handsome features were pale and drained of blood! His body began to shake and tremble. Although, he quickly lifted his head in confusion and spoke suspiciously, “I don’t know what you mean, Master Ares.” He refused to believe that Jay knew of his malicious intent. There was no way Jay could find out his true intentions toward Bell Enterprise so quickly. Not when he had worn this facade for years and had minimal encounters with Jay. “Let’s make a deal!” Jay closed his eyes. When he opened them again, they flared with a strong man’s desi
She had been dismissed by Bell Enterprise? That meant she no longer had a way to avenge Severe Enterprise or to fish out Bell’s mole. Staring at the downcast woman, Jay mocked with his arms crossed. “What? Miss him already?” Rose glared at Jay. “You forced him to dismiss me, didn’t you?” “I didn’t,” Jay replied truthfully. All he did was have Sean stay away from Rose. He never said anything about a dismissal. Rose’s hands were balled into fists. Not only was this man complex and difficult to understand, but he was also two-faced and an absolute b*stard. Jay lazily placed his hands in his pockets. “If you want a revolutionary partner, how about me? Sean Bell is too easily swayed.” “Can’t afford you.” Rose huffed. “At least I’m loyal to you.” Rose rolled her eyes. “As if I’d be stupid enough to believe your bullsh*t.” Jay was speechless. “...” He was as loyal a man as they came! “Let’s go!” Jay spoke. Rose refused to move. Jay stared hopelessly at the angr