Since he was about to lose, Benjamin heaved a sigh of relief after hearing Arabella’s words. No matter what, he was still an elder. How could he lose face in front of a junior? Hence, he said, “Since that’s the case, let’s go eat.”Daniel knew what he was thinking but he kept it to himself and simply smiled in agreement. The three walked out of the chess room. Coincidentally, John came back from outside with a pomegranate in his hand.She had just said that she had gone to pick pomegranates. Now that John had also returned with a pomegranate, what would others think?Serenity was playing with Eva Grant so she didn’t notice this.Helena’s expression turned ugly for a moment and Benjamin Rivera glared coldly at Arabella, the warning in his eyes obvious.Arabella looked at Daniel next to her. There was nothing unusual about his warm and indifferent face but he could sense her uneasiness so he wrapped an arm around her shoulder and led her to the dining table.John didn’t seem to feel the
Company lunch time commenced at noon, and Julia was not an unreasonable person, which was why she suggested 12.10 p.m. to factor in the travel time of taking the elevator and walking over.After all, Julia came from a scholarly family.She called the waiter over who handed her the menu. She pushed it across the table to Arabella. “Take a look and order whatever you want to eat.”Arabella knew very well that Julia did not ask her out for a meal. She handed the menu to the waiter. “Give me a glass of lemonade. I don’t need anything else.”“Pregnant people should drink ‘that’ to be healthy,” said Julia.Arabella was surprised and eventually said to the waiter, “A glass of plain water instead.”After the waiter left, Julia Silver looked at Arabella with a serious gaze. “Ms. Arabella, I’m sure you know why I’ve invited you out today.”“Madam, if you have anything to say, just say it,” said Arabella calmly.“Leave Daniel after you gave birth. I’ll compensate you fairly,” said Julia.Althoug
Serenity looked at the calendar on her desk and her fingers swiped across the numbers on it. Today’s date was circled, marked because she had a business banquet to attend.“Let’s have dinner together after work tomorrow,” said she after a while.Lunch break was coming to an end and it was time to go to work. Francesca passed a document to Arabella and asked her to send it to the president’s office. arabella happened to have something to ask him, so she took the document and went to the office. She raised her hand to knock on the door.When the man’s deep voice allowed her entry, Arabella pushed the door open and entered. The man had just come out of the lounge next door and had not officially entered work.Arabella placed the documents on his desk, turned around, and looked at Daniel who was fixing his tie. “The day after we registered our marriage, did you invest two hundred million in Rivera Group?”“Mmhmm.” Daniel remained calm.After dinner, Daniel went to the study room while Ara
Arabella Rivera was having mixed emotions when Serenity Rivera started to recount what happened.John wasn’t doing well in the Grant family back then. He had fallen out with Zach Grant and was often repressed by Shia Grant after entering Grant Group.How could he think of giving Arabella a good life as his wife when he hadn’t sorted his out yet?At the same time, Serenity received 10% of Rivera Group from Benjamin for her birthday. It was no mystery to anyone by then that Serenity would be the one to inherit Rivera Group.Marrying Serenity would mean that he would also have the backing of the Rivera group to strengthen his position in Grant Group. With that in mind, John proposed a fake marriage to Serenity.It took Serenity three days of careful thought before agreeing.She had two reasons for doing so. The first was that she had always been envious of John and Arabella’s beautiful love that lasted for more than ten years. The second was due to her love life.When Arabella agreed to
He entered the bathroom but could no longer see her figure clearly through the matte glass. He could only see the fog inside.He frowned and pushed open the bathroom door. He was shocked to feel the hot air. Then, he took two steps forward to turn off the shower. His face was frighteningly dark. “What are you doing?”Arabella didn’t feel embarrassed as she looked at him blankly.Daniel’s gaze turned cold when he saw the large patch of red on her skin.Even though the bathroom was filled with steam, her face was as pale as a sheet of paper.He took the towel and wrapped it around her, then carried her out of the bathroom and threw her on the bed angrily.The bed was very soft, so the fall did not hurt. Before she could react, a black shadow pressed down on her.He placed one hand on her side. The other hand was embedded in her chin. His warm voice was filled with suppressed anger. “Why did you hurt yourself?” When she met his sharp gaze, her dark eyes focused and her gaze gradually bec
Daniel did not stop as he continued walking while buttoning up his coat.When Daniel returned to South Bay, the family doctor had just arrived. The two of them drove into the villa one after the other.Mrs. Winstead heard the sound of cars arriving and came down the stairs. When she saw Daniel return, she was so shocked that her mouth was half open. “Young…Young Master!”“How’s she doing now?” Daniel rushed upstairs.“Her fever is getting worse.” Mrs. Winstead and the family doctor quickly followed.Daniel pushed the bedroom door open and walked closer to take a look. The woman on the bed had an unusually red face and her sickly appearance made her look like a fragile doll.Because she was pregnant, many medicines could not be used, but her fever was too high. The doctor suggested using this most primitive method.Although she wasn’t wearing anything, he didn’t have any thoughts that he shouldn’t have. His actions were especially serious and careful.After a few minutes, Daniel remove
“How is she?” asked Daniel rather indifferently.“She just had her lunch and is still reading a book,” said Mrs. Winstead as she glanced upstairs.Daniel replied with an ‘OK’ and hung up without saying anything else.Mrs. Winstead was a little confused when she heard the immediate dead tone coming from the receiver. She did not know why Daniel called.After giving it some thought, she realized that it was her answer and not his question that mattered.He just wanted to know if Arabella had eaten and what she was up to.She remembered how Young Master had taken care of Young Madam yesterday when the latter had a fever. It was obvious to her that Young Master cared about Young Madam.She poured a glass of water and brought it up to the second floor. She knocked on the bedroom door and Arabella’s gentle voice came from inside. “Come in.”She pushed the door open and walked in. Then, she placed the glass of water beside Arabella’s hand. Seeing that Young Madam had been reading with her he
He hummed faintly and paused for a moment before saying, “You don’t have to wait for me next time I’m late.”The two fell silent again.Recalling the perfume she had smelled on his clothes, she turned around and faced him. Looking at his broad back, her chest felt heavy and uncomfortable. Suddenly, she reached out and hugged his waist. “I’m cold.”Daniel froze for a moment. Then, he turned around and pulled her into his embrace. “Go to sleep,” said he in a low and gentle voice.Arabella snuggled in his embrace, but he did not hug her tighter or react in any other way. She rubbed against his chest again and he said with a whisper, “Don’t mess around.” However, he did not make any further moves.He was not interested in her at all.If a person’s desire was satisfied, he would be indifferent to any other woman.Thinking of the woman’s perfume on his clothes, she felt even more upset as if something was gripping her tightly, and she spasmed.She removed her hand from his chest and turned
“Yeah, it was quite entertaining,” said Jack, stretching out his hand, with two 500 bank notes that Daniel had earned with ten minutes of work.He had to walk up to Jack to pull them out of his hand, which was the pinnacle of this experience. “Did you pull up here just for this?” he groaned and pushed the money into his pocket.“No, I still want my car washed,” said Jack, putting his hands into his pockets, on both sides of the bulge in his pants. He smelled of arousal, and all of a sudden, handsome Daniel could tell.“Sure, why not. Why not watch how badly I did, huh?” Daniel walked back to the buckets, trying to ignore the burning shame. “‘Look at me, I used to be the school loser and now I’ve got a Jag’,” he muttered and dipped the large sponge in the soapy water.Jack sighed. “You must really hate it, don’t you?”Daniel’s pulse sped up, and he could feel the vein bulging out on his neck. Even the orgasm he’d just had couldn’t soothe his nerves when Jack rubbed his success into Dan
Jack Ramirez POV “Daniel Garcia, am I right? The basketball star?”Daniel gave him a crooked smile. Daniel Garcia, the basketball star. That did sound nice. Too bad it wasn’t school anymore, and you couldn’t live off being a mediocre basketball player. He’d been good in school, just not good enough for a scholarship.But Daniel had to focus on the problem at hand. He couldn’t link those tantalizing eyes to a name at all. “Yeah, long time ago,” he said and held out his hand to the guy, hoping the driver would save him from his misery and introduce himself. He didn’t even take the hand Daniel Garcia offered.“Do you know who I am?” he asked with a small smile.Daniel crooked his head to the side and rubbed his hand against his sweaty stomach as if he’d never held it out. This was getting truly annoying. “Not really, no.” He shrugged, trying to keep his cool even though goosebumps of shame were crawling up his back. A motherfucker he was supposed to know from school pulled up in a sport
Daniel Garcia POVThe heat made Daniel Garcia boil in his uniform, so even though his boss had told him not to, he pushed the top of his coveralls down to his hips. Daniel was pretty sure the old pig was just jealous that his employee looked so much hotter than him. Not to mention both Manny’s wife and their daughter, Kiara Ramos, were making eyes at Daniel Garcia, which couldn’t be going down all that well with the guy. Manny Ramos probably only kept Daniel on because he couldn’t find anyone else who’d do the job for the slave wages he was willing to offer and live in the ancient motel by the gas station as well.Daniel carried a crate of beer into the small convenience store where Manny Ramos sat behind the counter, sweating, farting, watching TV, and fanning himself with a newspaper. Without a word, Daniel made his way toward the fridge to stack it full of beer. When he left home three years ago, he never thought he’d end up working at a shabby gas station in a deserted place, in a
Xander Reyes POVXander looked at this Daniel, so gorgeous, pretty, hard, and needy. It was one of the easiest assignments he’d ever had. His bright hazel eyes were heavy with lust, and then sooty black lashes swept Daniel's face as he shut his eyes tight. Xander didn’t kiss on jobs like this, ever, nor did any of his clients ever get to know his real name. But right now, seeing Daniel’s lips parted in a moan, his name repeated over and over, it was all he could do not to bite down on Daniel’s plump lower lip and then lick his way into that appealing open mouth. Groaning, he pulled himself back, he needed to get his head back in the game, and he wasn’t going to expose his vulnerability like that. He focused back on what he was doing, turning Daniel into a pile of sobbing need in his arms. "Want to suck me?" Xander asked, low and insistent. "Want me to force you to your knees, and make you suck me until I come all over your skin, rub it in… make you beg for me?"Xander felt Daniel push
Daniel Garcia Past LifeDaniel Garcia lived his own life far from his brother after they separated from their parents. He tried so damn hard to be a good straight husband. The life he chose meant so much to him. He experienced the ultimate sin which made him aware of the remnants of his past. Together with his brother, he approached the only sparkling desire that he thought to be the answer to his dream. Daniel wanted a family of his own, but, fate was unkind to him.It may have been the alcohol or the high of knowing tomorrow he’d be closer to changing his life, but tonight, worse the wear for the beers he had downed in quick succession on an empty stomach, meant that for once, he wanted to be himself. So he stood here, in a gay bar on what the cab driver said was the wrong side of town. The bar had shadowed corners and the smell of sex in the air—he watched.He watched the man at the bar; saw him leaning back, veiled eyes scanning the heaving late-night crowd. He stood in sinfully
Arabella put her cutlery down too and indifferently said, “He just doesn’t want to see me. So no matter how much you cook, you won’t persuade him otherwise.”‘Didn’t you say that you didn’t want to see me? Why did you come back then?’She remembered every single word he said yesterday which lingered like thorns in her heart.Daniel’s expression turned colder when he heard her words. He walked away to pick up the car keys on the coffee table and grabbed his coat at the entrance.He must have used too much force because the hanger shook twice and almost fell to the ground.Daniel walked out and not long after, the sound of a car engine came from outside.Mrs. Winstead walked to the living room and saw Daniel driving away. She returned to the dining room with a gloomy expression. “Young Madam…”After Daniel left, Arabella lost her appetite so she stood up and walked towards the stairs.Mrs. Winstead looked on and sighed heavily. When Young Master had not been coming back over the past fe
He got up and walked towards the stairs. She followed closely behind him and the two headed up to the second floor one after another. When they reached the bedroom door, Daniel did not stop, continuing to walk towards the study room.Arabella grabbed his sleeve again and Daniel stopped in his tracks. He turned around to look at her expressionlessly.“What are you angry about?” She looked up and met his dark eyes.He looked back at her innocent eyes and the words that he wanted to ask became stuck in his throat. “Nothing,” said he calmly.“How can it be ‘nothing’? You haven’t been home for half a month.” Afraid he would shake her off, she tightened her grip on his sleeve which started to wrinkle.“It was a business trip,” said he curtly.“What about before the business trip? Furthermore, Caleb told me that it has been a few days since you returned from your business trip.”Well, the part about Caleb telling her so was a lie. But she felt no guilt implicating Daniel’s assistant since Ca
Arabella had been waiting in the parking lot of Zephyr Group since 4 p.m.Afraid that she would be seen by her colleagues, she chose to hide in an inconspicuous corner while keeping her eyes on Daniel’s car.One hour, two hours, three hours passed, but Daniel still did not appear.The sky gradually darkened and the lights in the parking lot were a little dim, making the place gloomy and cold.She wrapped her coat tightly around her body and crouched as if to curl herself into a ball. Since she stayed in that position for quite some time, her legs started to feel a little numb. She decided to stand and walk a few steps to return blood flow to her legs. After stretching for a while, she resumed her crouched position.With the night approaching, the cold in the dim parking lot grew heavier – Arabella started to shiver. She wanted to go home in a huff, but she was also unwilling to do so without having confronted Daniel.What right did he have to treat her like this?Even if he was angry,
When it was the day of the pregnancy checkup, Daniel had not returned from the business trip. She was already expecting to go to the hospital alone only to find someone else in the living room when she came downstairs.“Why are you here?” She looked at Francesca in surprise.“Young Madam, President Garcia asked me to accompany you to the hospital,” said Francesca gently.It seemed that he still remembered the date. Arabella nodded. “Let’s go.”Mrs. Winstead noticed how thin the clothes Arabella was wearing so the former handed the latter a red coat on the hanger at the entrance.How could Arabella refuse Mrs. Winstead’s kind intentions? The former took off her jacket and put on the coat. Then, Arabella grabbed her bag and left the living room with Francesca following behind her.Because Francesca had made an appointment in advance, they went straight to the hospital for the checkup. After a series of examinations, the doctor said, “The child is very healthy. It’s just that you must ha