Vic was too shocked to react. He had not imagined that the guys he had been obsessively looking for as soon as he had returned to his senses would be the new chairman and his secretary. Naturally, this meant he had to abandon his search. Arrogant as he was, Vic was not stupid enough to think knocking on the chairman’s door would be a good idea at all. He would have never realized that the woman he had been flirting with was the chairman’s secretary and the chairman was the one who had punched him. Worst of all, he had even paraded around in front of the chairman as though he owned the company, telling him that Vic was the one who called the shots…Randall elbowed his son. “What are you staring at? Everyone’s clapping. You have to clap!”Even if he wanted to, Vic could not bring himself to do it. Feeling disconcerted, he replied, “I found the guy who punched me.”Randall stopped clapping. “Who is it?” he bristled. “Tell me and I’ll tear him apart!”“It’s the chairman.”“Who?”Ra
The banquet ended, and the Bates were taken away by the cops. As the attendees dispersed, they had lost any mirth they had felt at the beginning and now treated their new chairman with only respect and deference. Javier returned to his office, where Derek gave him a thumbs-up. “That was incredible, sir! Just like that, you made them all defer to you like loyal subjects!”While the Bates were the ones being expelled, the entire act doubled as a deterrent for the rest of the company. He was showing his inferiors that he could easily dismiss a powerful investor of the company if he saw fit. What chance did those who had even less power have? Javier might not care about whatever meager profits Parsson Group could make, but he definitely would not sit on his hands and watch his underlings break the rules. He was sure that after his stunt, these people would learn to behave themselves.. He talked to Derek for a bit longer before leaving the building altogether. He then decided to dri
Javier led Xander to a jewelry store nearby. They entered, and Javier shot Xander a glance. “You know what rich alphas like to do? They buy all kinds of expensive sh*t for their girls like there’s no tomorrow! Since you insist on showing off how rich you are, then let’s play a fair game. Let’s see who can buy the most expensive jewelry! The one who doesn’t have enough money will f*ck off before he makes a huge fool of himself. Agreed?” Xander thought it was a fair game. The jewelry he bought would be meant for Grace, and besides, he was sure he could afford it. A necklace would only cost him about 3,000 dollars anyway. He eagerly agreed. Grace wanted to step in. She wanted to stop him before he crashed and realized he could not possibly beat Javier. She opened her mouth and began to speak. “Xander, listen to me. I don’t like you that way, but I’ve always seen you as my good friend, so listen to me when I’m telling you—”Xander cut her short before she could get to the point. “Do
Xander was furious. He refused to believe that he could not rival Javier when he had 500,000 dollars. He disregarded Grace’s advice to stop him and made purchases worth over 150,000 dollars.He felt that he was surely going to win this time and even pointed at Javier, who was at the door, arrogantly. “Go on, keep showing off!”Before he could get his fill of mocking Javier, though, the sales associate swiped the card and pulled double the amount of his payment from Javier’s card.Xander was stunned. F*ck, how much money did the guy have? Javier appeared to be around his age and he only had this much money because he had won a lottery. Where had Javier gotten his?Despite that, he couldn't care less about it now. All he could think of was squashing Javier and satisfying his ego by flaunting his money, so he went all out with the remaining 300,000 dollars in his card.“F*ck you, I don’t believe you could pay more!”As Xander snapped, he swiped his card again and barely made up the
Javier was only trying to scare Grace and did not actually follow her inside. After all, the latter had said that her younger brother was home. She would be put in an awkward spot if Javier went in and realized that there was no one home.Besides, he had told Cher earlier that he would go to her tonight and…Javier was someone who kept his word.The next day, Javier asked Cher to let the school know that he was on leave. He was not going to school. Cher was incredibly curious about Javier’s whereabouts and asked, “What do you actually do? You look busy all the time and you don’t look like a student even when you’re on campus.”Javier chortled. “As long as you know I’m not a student.”He kissed Cher and got her into the car before taking her to campus. Upon arriving there, and before Cher got out of the car, she stared at Javier for a while, hanging her head and mustering the courage to say, “I think…we aren’t compatible.”“Hmm?” Javier had not expected Cher to suddenly blurt someth
Javier was blunt. There was no need for him to be tactful with Bella either since he was speaking the truth.However, that was not what Bella thought, as she assumed Javier was too courteous, so she could not help retorting, “Mr. Kersey, don’t you know whether you’re being genuine or not? You—”Bella regretted it the moment the words left her mouth. Javier was her client, after all, and she ought to be polite. She forced a smile and shook her head. “Sorry, I was a little rash just now.”Javier waved. “Don’t, no need to apologize. We’re clearing this up today. I just want to know. If Taylor Kloss is here, will you have her as a coach?!”Seeing that Javier was relentless on the topic, Bella lost her cool as well. Her temper flared all of a sudden.“Sure, you have to get to the bottom of this, right, Mr. Kersey? Okay, we’ll get to the bottom of this!“As long as you get Taylor Kloss here, I don’t care what kind of conditions you have. I will agree to all of them!“But if you can’t
Javier was not actually lying. His work could be done no matter where he was. Turning on Bella’s computer, Javier connected to Reivaj Group’s internet to go through his reports easily. He went on his phone and signed on the touchscreen to look at documents that required his signature.Everything went on smoothly. Bella went to her secretary and asked about Javier several times but could only avoid him when she was told that he was still around.When noon came, she could no longer hide from him. They were business partners, and she could not possibly not offer him lunch. Hence, Bella hung her head as she went back to her office to ask Javier out to lunch.At the same time, Javier was just done going through the documents and signing them, so he stretched himself after deleting any relevant traces. It was during his little stretch that he accidentally pulled the drawer of Bella’s desk open.It was just a drawer. He could just close it if he accidentally opened it. It was not a big de
Bella was, of course, reluctant to have Javier stay with her, but there was nothing she could do. Would she offend him? She could not afford to offend Javier. Persuade him? It would be in vain.Especially now that Taylor was here and was doing such an amazing job, Bella found it too risky to offend Javier. What if that caused Taylor to leave as well?Unable to do anything, Bella could only agree to take Javier home. It was fortunate that she was living with her mother and they were staying in a mansion, so there were plenty of rooms and she did not have to worry about sleeping in the same room with him.“Is this considered living together without sleeping in the same bed?”Bella glared at Javier but did not answer when his question reached her ear.When she stepped into her house, contemplating how she should break the news to her mother, she heard an argument breaking out inside.“I’m telling you, Bell has to get married whether she wants it or not. This isn’t your decision to