When Michael called Marcus, he was reporting to William regarding work affairs. When he picked up the phone, he glanced at the inner room. Valeria and Deborah were playing with the kids and weren't paying attention to what Marcus and William were doing. Marcus lowered his voice and said, "Michael wants to see you right now. He doesn't sound very good." "I've got it. I'll go see him right now." William frowned. "What about Madam?" Marcus glanced at the inner room worriedly and lowered his voice. "Will she ask you where you're going? It'll be terrible if Madam finds out." "Look at you! Wouldn't it be fine as long as we don't tell her? Don't tell me you're going to inform her of my whereabouts?" "Of course, I won't. I was afraid other people would tell her accidentally. I realized you have been pretty cowardly lately." Marcus rambled on until William glared at him. He then immediately twisted his words and said with a smile, "People are saying that only good
"Alright, since I have gotten your answer, I will contact other people." Michael waved him away. "You may leave now. Pretend I've never told you anything." William frowned and looked at Michael. "Since I don't agree with your request, who are you going to ask help from?" "No way! Why should I tell you when you're not willing to help me?" Michael's reaction rendered William helpless. "Michael, are you planning to use the five billion dollars after mortgaging all your shares from the law firm and the Davis family?" As Michael did not respond, William knew that he had guessed right. "Can you tell me what you're planning to do with five billion dollars?" "I want to start a new company and pull myself away from the Davis family. I'm sick of being tied down to the family. I want to be like you and be controlled by no one. I want to do whatever I want." It wasn't a bad thing for Michael to think this way. William thought for a moment and said, "If so, mortg
When William left Michael's law firm, he didn't look quite happy. When he got into the car, he instructed Marcus, "To Wolf Group Hotel!" His voice sounded unhappy. It was evident that he didn't have a pleasant time meeting Michael. Marcus carefully observed William's expression as he drove. He wanted to ask William what Michael had said, but he swallowed it back. It was obvious that William was in a bad mood. If he asked, he would probably be scolded. Marcus didn't dare to say anything. The car drove to the parking lot of Wolf Group Hotel, and William strode into the hotel after getting out of the car. Marcus was one step behind, and a car next to him came to a stop. When Marcus saw the familiar driver, he stopped and greeted Callum with a smile, "Hello, Mr. Floyd!" Hearing Marcus greeting Callum, William stopped and turned his head around. Callum got out of the car with a smile and walked over. "William, are you not taking care of Valeria at the pos
Upon hearing Callum's words, Wayne couldn't stand it anymore. What was going on with Callum? How could he say that Azalea was someone unrelated? Did he like playing dumb? Since Callum wanted to pretend, Wayne simply made it clear. He coughed dryly and said, "I came here mainly to talk about Azalea." "Talk to me about Azalea? What does Azalea have to do with me? Did you get things mixed up?" Callum was straightforward. Since Wayne had already started the conversation, he had to continue. So he laughed dryly. "Does Azalea have nothing to do with you? But I heard a rumor recently that Azalea is your daughter? This matter..." "No! Azalea isn't my daughter! That's ridiculous! How could someone like Azalea be my daughter? Who was the one who ill-intentionally spread the rumors? What is their purpose? Are they trying to ruin the Floyd family's reputation? They are so despicable!" Callum's speech of denial was unexpected to Wayne, who asked again desperately
Azalea didn't expect that Emily would refuse to answer her calls. As they watched Azalea, she felt very awkward. So she tried to hold her ground. "Why isn't she answering her phone? My mom should be pretty busy now. She's a translator. So she always put her phone in silent mode to ensure that her work quality is top-notch. How about this? Let me send her a text. She would surely reply to me when she sees it." Azalea then sent Emily a message in front of Wayne and Meadow. "Mom, my dad has met with Michael's grandpa today. He surprisingly told Michael's grandpa that I'm not his daughter. What's going on?" After sending the message, Azalea was no longer in the mood for lunch. She got up and went to the living room to wait for Emily's reply. Emily felt disgusted when she saw Azalea's call. She was prepared to ignore Azalea since she first called. So when Azalea sent another message to ask, Emily felt even more disgusted. Since she had promised Braelynn that she woul
Emily did not deny it and nodded. Thomas looked surprised. "Who is she? Why have I never heard you talk about her?" "She... she..." Emily hesitated as she wondered if she should tell Thomas about Braelynn's identity. Her phone on the coffee table then rang. She glanced at the number on the screen and saw that it was Azalea again. Emily had already disliked Azalea. Now that she heard from Thomas that Azalea had killed Abbie, she despised Azalea even more. So she continued ignoring Azalea's call. Thomas also saw Azalea's name on the screen. "Aunt Emily, why aren't you answering Azalea's call?" "I don't want to answer it." Emily's face was full of disgust. "She has already called me several times, but I ignored her." "Is she in a hurry? Why is she calling you?" "What else does she want? The Davis family is questioning her identity, so she wants me to give her an accurate answer. She sent me a message just now to ask me, but I ignored her. She must
Emily's words were merciless. Every word she said revealed Wayne's heart. As his dark thoughts were exposed, Wayne couldn't stand it anymore. He got up and went to the study room. Azalea did not expect that the good-tempered Emily would suddenly lose her temper like this. She could only try her best to explain. "That's not what Grandpa Wayne meant. He did it for the sake of Michael and me." "That's enough. I don't want to listen to any more of this nonsense. If you have nothing better to do, think more and look for things to occupy yourself. I'm warning you! Human beings are not made to do nothing. There's no such thing as a free lunch. You should plan your life well. By the way, I don't want you calling me to ask me about this matter anymore. If you ask me again, I will ignore you." Emily hung up the phone angrily. Azalea spread out her hands to Meadow and said, "Aunt Meadow, look..." "Wayne is angry! How can your mother be so rude?" Meadow complained. "S
Meadow looked surprised. "Dad, why do you suddenly want to visit Valeria and her twins?" "Fandrey posted on his social media that he checks in to see the twins every day. Since that's the case, I'll bring Azalea there to meet them by chance. Speaking of which, I haven't officially met with Fandrey and Deborah yet." "Are you going to check on Fandrey and Deborah's attitudes? Dad, I'm worried that they might be as stubborn as Callum." "I don't think so. After all, in the few days since Valeria gave birth to the twins, Fandrey had already uploaded a few posts on his social media. If they like their great-grandchildren so much, shouldn't they like their granddaughter too? Can their great-grandchildren compare with their granddaughter? I don't believe it. Get someone to prepare gifts immediately. The gifts should be valuable enough and suit their identity." Fandrey sat on the sofa outside for less than half an hour before William pushed the door open and came in with
On the day of Azalea's recovery, she was escorted out of the hospital by two police officers to wait for her sentence. She was wearing shackles and handcuffs as she walked through the parking lot. She saw Michael with Abbie, who was holding Emma in her arms. Michael was holding Abbie's waist, ready to get into their car. Seeing that Michael had recovered, Azalea was extremely perplexed. She had learned from the police that Leonard's man had tried to kill her to silence her and knew that Leonard was using her, so she did not regret her vicious behavior. Azalea stared at the child in Abbie's arms and Michael as she started to have vicious thoughts. If the one who got injured that day was Abbie, and if Abbie died, everything would be different now, wouldn't it? Michael would be living a life worse than death. His child would not have a mother anymore, and no one could have what she couldn't. She would be satisfied. However, all of this was just her imaginatio
After Leonard's matter was settled, Richard returned to the Clark family. Abbie wasn't asleep yet and was sitting alone in the living room in a daze. Richard walked to her and sat down. Then, he reached out and patted her on the shoulder. "Why aren't you asleep yet?" "I can't sleep. Richard, he... he will be fine, won't he?" "Don't think too much. He will be fine." "I don't want anything to happen to him... Richard, I actually hate him very much and have never thought of being with him again. I have suffered enough! Every time I made up my mind to cut all ties with him, something bad would happen like what happened now. Richard, what should I do?" Richard understood Abbie's dilemma. "Abbie, do you still love him?" "I don't know! I hate him! I hate him so much!" "You can't let him go, can you? You and he broke up three times, but he has always been in your heart." Richard sighed. "To be honest, I don't want you and him to start over again. After
It was late at night in Azalea's ward as she lay on the bed and fell asleep with her eyes closed. Three of Azalea's ribs were broken while one of her hands was handcuffed to the hospital bed. The policeman guarding her felt that there was no way she could escape, so he relaxed his guard. The man who was arranged by Leonard's assistant had been waiting for the right moment in the hospital. Then, they immediately entered the ward and attacked Azalea when they saw that the policeman had left. Just as they covered Azalea's mouth and were about to suffocate her to death, a soft voice could be heard by the door of the ward. "Hey! Are you trying to silence her?" The man turned his head and saw that Bobby were taking photos with his mobile phone while Silas was bent over in laughter. Later, Leonard was woken up at 2 a.m. in the morning when Richard and his bodyguards came to visit him furiously. Leonard had already guessed the purpose of Richard's visit as soon as
It had been two days since Leonard's assistant brought Azalea back to the city and she was specially sent here today to attack Michael. Although Azalea hated Michael, she did love him immensely in the past and she didn't want to kill him. The one she hated the most was still Abbie. She had been overshadowed by Abbie since she was a child and she had never won against her before. It was all thanks to Abbie now that she ended up like this. Michael wouldn't deal with her if it weren't for Abbie, and she wouldn't have been driven to a dead end like this. She was going to die in the end anyway, so she wanted nothing more than to drag Abbie down with her. She knew that she couldn't get close to Abbie. Besides, she also knew very well that Leonard wanted to use her to kill Michael so that he could marry Abbie. Azalea acted as if she had been persuaded by Leonard's assistant to attack Michael, but in fact, her target was Abbie all along. She saw how desperat
Azalea looked up when she heard the voice and met Leonard's assistant's gaze in the car. She stopped crying once he got out of the car. "Miss Clark, I've been looking for you everywhere!" Azalea lowered her head frantically when she saw him, but he said warmly, "Miss Clark, get in the car." She didn't know if Leonard's assistant knew about the murder she'd committed, so she hesitated for a moment before getting into the car. He then gave her a bottle of water and some food. Azalea was famished because she hadn't eaten anything for a few days, so she wolfed down her food desperately. Leonard's assistant had been observing Azalea all this time, and he said once she finished eating, "I know what you've done! The police are now looking for you everywhere." Azalea's expression was filled with panic. "Are you going to hand me over to the police?" "No, I'm here to help you." "How can you do that?" Azalea asked in frustration. "I won't be a
It started to rain again early in the morning, which made the air in the mountains damp and cold. Meanwhile, Azalea lay motionlessly on the messy bed. She could hear the child's wailing from outside while Monthel's mother tried to coax the child. However, there was no sign of it ending even after some time. Monthel's mother started to become angry as well, so she scolded the child and eventually began to target Azalea again. "Why are you still lying in bed at this time? I've never seen someone as lazy as you. A wife should get up early in the morning to cook, but you are the only one who will laze around like this!" This was not the first time that Azalea had been scolded. Monthel's mother had begun to pick on her the second day after she arrived. Azalea would fight back initially, but she no longer dared to talk back after she was slapped in the face by Monthel. Monthel's mother cursed outside for a while. Then, she lifted the curtain and came into the ro
Leonard's expression turned very ugly, but Richard did not give him a chance to even catch his breath. "After I learnt of your relationship with her, I sent someone to extract the DNA of the fetus in Evelyn's belly and compare it with yours. The results show that she's indeed pregnant with your child, but you can verify it personally if you don't believe me." Since Richard dared to say this, there was no possibility for Leonard to turn the tables. The veins on Leonard's forehead bulged as he was filled with humiliation. He initially wanted to get back at Fandrey by asking him to propose the marriage to the Clark family, but she ended up being embarrased like this. He was furious, but Richard continued, "We are very grateful to you for saving Abbie's life. Although she can't marry you, we can continue to be friends if you want to." What could Leonard say? He had done a terrible mistake, so he couldn't possibly tell Richard that he wanted to cut all ties between t
Abbie tried her best to escape, but it was useless. Michael even kissed her on the face a few times, which made her so angry that her voice trembled. "Michael... F*ck you... I'm going to kill you!" Michael turned a deaf ear to her words because he hadn't been so close to Abbie for such a long time. He missed her like crazy, so how could he bring himself to let her go? Abbie kept struggling desperately, but her physical strength was no match for Michael's. Michael then carried her back to the sofa, which made her furious because she couldn't escape. "Michael, what are you trying to do?" Michael did not answer her at all. Instead, he just hugged her so tightly as if he didn't want to let her go at all. He hugged her for such a long time that her whole body had gone numb. "Michael, what's wrong with you? Let go of me! I can't move!" It was only then did Michael let go of Abbie. Her limbs had already gone numb and she felt extremely uncomfortable. Just t
Michael happily placed the coffee he ordered for Abbie in front of her. "Here, I've ordered your favourite coffee." However, Abbie sneered and picked up the coffee to splash it all over him. The coffee was very hot, but Michael just smiled bitterly and said, "Do you hate me so much?" "What do you think?" Abbie looked at Michael coldly without any affection in her eyes. "My feelings for you have never changed! What happened between me and Azalea is all fake, and I've never had anything to do with her. The news with Anastasia was also fake. I was the one who used her to provoke Azalea, but Leonard made up those news articles to get back at me. I swear, I haven't been with anyone else apart from you!" Abbie let out a cold laugh, "Really?" "I'm serious! I swear that I'm not lying to you!" "There's no need to swear, or else even you'll beleive your own lies." Michael became desperate when it was obvious that Abbie didn't believe him. "What do I have