Chapter 1 The Rivera Family's Second Daughter

In the Beginning

The airport was as busy as usual, and a sweet female voice could be heard reporting the flight numbers over the broadcast.

Upon the arrival of a flight from California to the Philippines, the passengers walked out of the arrival hall like a swarm of bees.

A slim girl walked out of the corridor while dragging her luggage out. She was wearing a T-shirt, which had words printed on it, as well as a pair of dark blue pencil jeans. Her naturally wavy hair was also tied up into a ponytail.

She had pale skin and was very tall and slender. Moreover, she had a pure and peaceful demeanor that made her stand out among the crowd.

Once Mr. Ramil Oliveros, who came to welcome her at the airport, saw her, he immediately went forward to take the luggage from her. “Miss Arabella Rivera,” greeted Mr. Ramil.

Arabella Rivera scanned her surroundings and realized that Mr. Ramil was the only one who had come to fetch her at the airport. She could not help but curl her lips up in ridicule.

Perhaps she had stayed overseas for too long and, thus, nobody could remember the existence of Arabella Rivera anymore.

But it was fine. There would be ample time for them to interact with one another.

After she exited the airport, Arabella closed her eyes to rest in the car. Mr. Ramil placed her luggage in the boot of the car before opening the door to sit in the driver’s seat. He turned around, only to see her with her eyes closed, and decided to remain silent.

Miss Arabella had addressed him before to bring her to the Gravidez family for a meal, but he thought that it would be better to ask Miss Arabella for her opinion.

Yet, upon seeing that she had closed her eyes, he thought that she had fallen asleep and did not want to disturb her. He started the car and drove off.

After sitting on a flight for over ten hours, Arabella fell asleep once she entered the car. However, it had only been a while since she fell asleep and she was awoken by an ear-piercing sound.

She saw that the car was not moving and looked out the window. They were at the center of a busy city, and the bustling streets looked very crowded and packed. Under the sunlight, the skyscraper looked especially majestic.

She rubbed her tired eyes. “Ramil, what happened?”

Mr. Oliveros took a glance at her through the rearview mirror. “Miss Arabella, traffic jams always happen at this road junction. You can continue sleeping, and when we have arrived, I can wake you up.”

Arabella was a light sleeper. Once she was awoken, she could not fall asleep again.

The car in front of them drove a small distance before stopping. Mr. Ramil also followed suit and, just like this, they slowly progressed on the road.

After an hour, Arabella had lost patience. As the car ahead of them moved forward, she told Mr. Ramil to intercept the car from the side.

Mr. Ramil was an experienced chauffeur of the Rivera family and had good driving skills. Using the way Arabella taught him, he intercepted many cars.

A slightly zigzag road in a highway seemed to be rushing as well and furiously intercepted cars. At the spur of the moment, Mr. Ramil accidentally chased after the car. Luckily, however, the car speed was not very fast and both parties did not get hurt. It was just that they ran into the other party’s car.

Mr. Ramil was so scared that his face turned pale. He stuttered, “Second… Miss Arabella, what are we going to do?”

One look at the car and one could see that the car owner must be very wealthy, especially given that unique car number of his. The owner must not be a person who could be easily trifled with.

Arabella furrowed her eyebrows slightly and pursed her lips before alighting from her car. She went forward and knocked on the window of the other party’s car.

The driver was unbuckling his seatbelt while preparing to get down from the car to check the car’s condition. Upon hearing someone knocking on the window, he raised his head to look at Arabella through the window.

He rolled his car window down, but before he could say something, Arabella said, “Do you have a pen and a paper?”

Calvin was still feeling very confused and gave her a dazed look. It was not until Arabella repeated her question that he came back to his senses and passed her a pen and a paper.

He saw through the rearview mirror that the girl before him had alighted from the car behind his own and thought that she must be the perpetrator.

Arabella skillfully wrote down a list of numbers before writing down that person’s number.

Perhaps it was etched too deeply into her memory as, even after three years, she could still remember that person’s number.

She passed the paper and pen back to Calvin. “I am the one who ran into your car. My brother-in-law is Gravidez Group’s Johnny Gravidez. If there’s anything you need, you can contact him and he will compensate you.”

She was not long-winded with her words and, within her indifferent voice, there was a hint of dominance. After she’d said her piece, she turned around and left.

This was the first time Calvin had been met with such a situation. He looked at the man sitting in the backseat of the car through the rearview mirror.

The man’s cold face was devoid of expression while his fists were clenched tightly. In his pitch-black eyes, there seemed to be a hint of displeasure.

He mumbled, “President Daniel…”

This scene was seen by the person in another car. The man sitting in the driver’s seat of that car was the Galvez Group’s heir, Calvin Galvez.

He stared at Arabella Rivera for a long while before confirming that he did not recognize the wrong person and excitedly fished out his phone to make a call.

A woman dressed flirtatiously was sitting on the passenger seat beside him. His female partner coquettishly leaned over and took his phone. She pouted and said, “Who must you call when you are with me?”

Calvin Galvez was the son of a rich family. However, he was also a playboy. He changed his female partners as though he was changing clothes.

He looked very handsome and elegant. Moreover, he was never stingy with his praises for women and, hence, many women were willing to be his woman even if it was just for one day.

His female partner was unhappy to see him making a call as she was afraid that he would dump her the next day.

Hence, she constantly took notice of his every move and action in case another woman stole him away.

Calvin watched Arabella get into her car and turn around to face his female partner to take back his phone. “Quickly, give me back my phone.”

His female partner had a premonition. “Do you know that woman?”

“Of course. We are even very close to each other.” Calvin Galvez took the phone from her hand and merrily searched Johnny Gravidez’s contact number. Just as he was about to call him, he paused.

If he was not wrong, the car Arabella had run into belonged to Daniel Garcia.

He contemplated for a while and decided to book a suite at the L’Fisher Hotel before calling Johnny Gravidez.

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Gravidez Group President’s Office

Johnny Gravidez was reading his documents with his head lowered when the phone on his desk rang. He put down his pen and reached out to look at the caller before answering the call. “Why did you call me?”

Calvin’s excited voice could be heard over the phone. “Mr. President Gravidez, Busy Gravidez, I saw Arabella just now! She’s back!”

Johnny Gravidez’s breath hitched. He was right. She was coming back today.

He purposely did not want to think or ask about it and used his work to hypnotize himself, but Calvin Galvez’s call brought him back to reality.

He closed the document with one hand and faintly replied, “Yes.”

“The moment she came back, she created big trouble for you.”

Calvin’s voice was full of gloating over his misfortune. Johnny Gravidez did not speak; he only quietly listened to the latter part of his story.

Calvin also did not wait for him to ask and narrated what happened just now to him.

After he heard it, he did not have that big of a reaction, only replying with an “I got it.”

Calvin was very dissatisfied with his response and even especially emphasized that the other party was Daniel Garcia.

In Bacolod City, everyone knew who Daniel Garcia was. He entered the business world when he was 22 and became the president of Zenith Group when he was 24. He was indeed a talent in the business world.

He had a wide range of businesses under his name and had almost monopolized all of the economic powers in Bacolod City.

He was only 28 years old, yet his net worth was already at an alarming number.

Everyone in the business world knew that Daniel Garcia was very decisive and firm in his decisions. Whenever needed, he would come up with a plan that could be as shocking as a thunderstrike.

Calvin said as though he was trying to claim a reward from him, “Since I’m such a good bro of yours, I have already booked a suite for you at the L’Fisher Hotel.”

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