Wearing a cap and a pair of sunglasses, Lamont had arrived in West-Hill cafe and was scrolling through his phone while waiting for Archer. Around ten minutes later, he heard footsteps coming his way as Archer entered the coffee shop through the front door. Then, Lamont stood up to greet him, "Mr. Saunders!" Archer gestured for him to sit before asking, "What's wrong? Why are you looking for me so urgently?" Next, Lamont nodded, "Yes, I wanted to ask a quick favor from you. It's about Miss Valeria Brown." "Valeria? Do you mean Natalie's daughter?" A mysterious expression flashed across Archer's face a while before disappearing. "What about her?" "Valeria came to me for help when she heard that Ronald was preparing to transfer his funds. As you know, I'm not too knowledgeable about business issues, so I thought I'd ask you. Valeria is just a helpless young child, surely you have some idea to help her, right?" Lamont explained. After that, Archer
Valeria got off her car and met up with Abbie, who had arrived before her. Abbie was grinning from ear to ear as she greeted Valeria, "Well, something good must have happened to you, right?" Valeria sat down and gulped down a glass of water before answering, "I have shocking news, today I discovered that there is an evil streak inside me after all." Abbie was excited to know more, "Really, what mischief have you gotten yourself into this time?" "Shush! Don't be too loud, you never know who might be listening in to our conversation," Valeria pretended to look around suspiciously before lowering her voice as she moved closer to whisper to Abbie. "Can you believe it? I actually switched out the company's official seal to a fake one!" "Wow!" Abbie exclaimed while sticking out her tongue, "I can't believe you did that!" "Right? I guess people do end up taking desperate measures when they are forced into unfavourable situations after all," Valeria answered glee
Valeria arrived outside Howard Group half an hour later, but there was no sign of William. She had no choice but to park her car before calling William, "Hey, I'm here, are you coming down soon?" "I'm coming!" William answered as he grabbed his coat before leaving his office. Steven, who had been working outside the door, looked up to William with a smile before greeting him, "Are you leaving now, Sir?" "Yes!" "Sir Hayden has requested you to wait for him, Sir." "What? Why do I have to wait for him?" William paused. Steven sighed and scratched his head, trying to evade William's sharp gaze. "He wants you to go to the company dinner with him and Ms. Anthony, but his driver's out running an errand so you all can only leave later." "Alright," William agreed readily, "I'll meet you all downstairs then." Steven heaved a sigh of relief at his answer. He was fully prepared to deal with William's anger, but it appeared that he got lucky as Willia
Hayden's attitude toward Valeria had ruined William's good mood, and he could only release some steam by speeding. After speeding on for miles, William finally managed to suppress his anger. The first thing he did was apologize to Valeria, "Valeria, I'm so sorry that I couldn't do anything about my father's attitude! You must have felt terrible after being dismissed by him like that!" Valeria could tell that William was really upset on her behalf, and she turned to console him, "Don't worry, I'm alright, don't let him ruin our time together!" "How could you be fine? My father has really crossed the line this time!" William answered with a bitter smile. He really did not expect Hayden to show his displeasure towards Valeria in front of others, but the incident today proved him otherwise. William was willing to take the brute force of Hayden's anger if it meant that Hayden would accept Valeria as the family's daughter-in-law. He could never bear to see Val
How could he see through the meaning behind her words? William completely ignored what Elizabeth had said, it was as if she wasn't even there. Elizabeth on the other hand wanted to disappear into thin air out of embarrassment as she had gotten no reply. Did William think that she would give up just because he had ignored her? Elizabeth was clear about the feelings Paisley's feelings towards William. Paisley should be burning with jealously now as William and Valeria were flirting with each other in front of her. All she needed to do was to give Paisley a little push and she could get into Paisley's good graces. Paisley must be desperate for someone to step in and back her up right now. Elizabeth decided to suck up to Paisley instead by filling up her plate, "Miss Anthony, I hope you're enjoying the food. How is it working with William?" "It's alright," Paisley replied coldly, having heard about all of Elizabeth's cunning tricks. Paisley was smart e
William carried Valeria and placed her on the bed inside their room, "Alright, you can tell me now." "Guess what I did today? I managed to not only switch out the official seal of the company with a fake one, but I also got Abbie and Richard to freeze all the company's funds! I'm amazing, right?" "Wow, that's awesome! How did you do that?" William pretended to be shocked but he was secretly enjoying Valeria's satisfied expression. "Wait, aren't you curious as to why I had to do this? I found out that our fathers colluded to take out a ten billion loan so that they could steal my company's funds!" "What a smart girl!" William praised as he gave Valeria a thumbs-up, "So who was the one who told you about their plans?" "It was Hardy," Valeria stated honestly as she began to tell William about the messages that Hardy had sent to her. "So why did you evade me and not tell me about this problem in the first place?" William questioned, pinching her face wh
In Merton Condominium, Mason had just finished his shower when his doorbell rang. He opened the door and the sight of a haggard Elizabeth greeted him. "Aunt Elizabeth, why are you here? What happened?" Elizabeth kicked her shoes off angrily and made her way to the sofa before sighing heavily, "William embarrassed me in front of all the other executives tonight!" "That b*stard embarrassed you? How dare he do so?" Mason had never gotten along with William. "Our great Sir William is the next head of the Howard Family, who would dare to stop him from doing so?" Elizabeth smiled coldly, bummed out at the events that had happened. "After the dinner tonight, I realised that they never treated me like one of their family members after all. Hayden, Charles, William, none of them recognise my efforts! It's even more annoying because I can't do anything about it!" Mason was furious after hearing about Elizabeth's complaints, "The Howard family has gone too far!
After Ronald had finished signing the contract with Hayden, he returned home to find no trace of Julie waiting for him. After asking Ashely, he got to know that Julie had gone out for a walk. Ronald immediately called Julie to ask her to return as he felt that it was improper for a married woman to be out this late. Around an hour later, Julie finally made her way through the front door. She smiled as she saw Ronald before explaining, "I met Madam Howard and hung out with her for a bit before coming back." "What did you all talk about?" Ronald asked. "I remembered that you wanted to look for a suitable husband for Valeria. Madam Howard recommended Mr. Anderson. He's old and limping, but a successful business owner that just lost his wife a few months ago." "Anderson? Declan Anderson?" "That's right! Do you know Declan?" Julie pretended to be surprised even though Elizabeth had told her all about the rumours. Declan was a rich businessman