It was Suzanne Quinn! Javier had never, not even in his wildest dreams, expected to bump into Suzanne again. As one of Kaiser’s trained stewards, she was expected to be by his side at all times. But now that she was here…Javier’s eyes brightened at the implication. Kaiser had to be around here somewhere too!Unfortunately, Suzanne disabused him of that hope after their initial greeting. “My boss gave me a few orders, so really, I just got here. I haven’t seen him yet myself,” she said. After talking to her a bit, Javier realized Suzanne had received the same message from his old man: He would come to this city in two days. Javier invited Suzanne along to dinner, but the young woman stole a glance at Lara, who was standing beside him, before giving him a knowing grin. “Oh, heavens no! I’m afraid I’ll have to pass today. See ya, big man!”She waved, her slender fingers pearly-white. She turned to Lara and gave her a polite smile before strutting away. The younger lady’s eyes li
Javier and Suzanne had selected a beautiful lakeside garden as their meeting spot. When the two of them arrived, a few youths could be spotted walking around the lake. The air was filled with barely-repressed passion fueled by youthful hormones. It would make anyone feel the clutch of their desire.Suzanne thought the moon was especially beautiful tonight, especially when the quiet lake spreading wide before them reflected its brilliance. She felt her heart swell at the sight of prim grass and meadows rattling at the sigh of a breeze. It was a beautiful night...Then, Javier took one look at her dress and remarked, “Why did you pick a place this suitable for f*cking?”Suffice to say, Suzanne’s pleasant feelings were shattered by his vulgarity. She turned to Javier and sighed, “Can you please not talk about sex, Master Javier?”He nodded. “Sure. My actions speak louder than words anyway. But I’m sure you already know that.”Suzanne’s fair cheeks immediately turned red. She knew w
Suzanne might outwardly deny it, but she was secretly delighted to hear him call her his girlfriend. Javier had been living rent-free in her head ever since their trip to Hildegarde. She simply could not make any comments hinting at it because she was just Kaiser’s lowly subject. Today, though, was different. She had become one of his many women…and right before she was ready for it too. Now that she had become his girl, Suzanne knew nothing about what was next. She thought her life was pretty good as it was, so there was no desire to ask him for more—certainly not for a big luxurious house or being some rich dame or anything. Had she wanted any of these things, she could have done it herself without Javier ever needing to come in. What she liked was how happy being with Javier made her feel. It must be what they called a happily-ever-after, like those fairytale endings! That night, Suzanne returned to her hotel…with Javier. He then gave her more of what he always did, bringing h
For the rest of those two months, Javier went nowhere. He stayed in Medb, researching the Grimoire of Five until he finally understood the powers of his eyes. He possessed superhuman powers because of them, though not exactly like the powers of superheroes in movies. He could look into the future and see danger. He could even predict what might happen. Javier had not tried to put his new superpowers to use because he was more worried about something else. Where the hell had Kaiser gone?! He tried to contact Kaiser every now and then, but he never picked up. He could not find him by contacting people who were supposed to be around him either.Javier was dead sure that this had something to do with the Raiders. He took his suspicions to Suzanne and laid them out in front of her. “I wanna know who’s the new target of my supposed cover. Please don’t hide anything from me—tell me everything you know, or we’ll be in a world of hurt very soon!”Suzanne understood the gravity of the situ
Javier spent every day of that week with Lara. The young woman was very kind, even after what Javier had done to her, so she chose to stay with him simply because she pitied him for shouldering so much pressure. A week was enough to kindle genuine love between them anyway. By the time Lara had really fallen in love with Javier, the man was ready to leave again. “Give working here your best shot, okay? Buy whatever catches your fancy too. There’s no need to hold back. I’ll leave you enough money,” he proclaimed. “I have a very important mission that needs to be done. I’ll look for you when it’s over! If you’re still single by then—if you’re not seeing anyone—then you’ll be my girlfriend!”He kissed Lara hard, took a deep breath, and climbed into his car. He left. Lara held her cheeks go hot, and her tongue was tied as she tried to say goodbye. She did not want money or formally being anyone’s girlfriend. She just wanted what he had told her to be real—that Javier would come back, a
Joey set up a trap for Javier on purpose, wanting to drive him away by using 15,000 dollars. Evanna was upset. She could understand that Joey was doing it for her sake, but she did not like it.“Mom, you’re just picking on Javier now. How could he possibly…”“Okay, three days. I’ll place 15,000 dollars that I’ll make on my own on your table!”Well, Evanna was pushing Javier away from the trap, only for the latter to hop in voluntarily.After a moment of stupor, Evanna asked, “Javier, are you thinking straight? How will you make 15,000 dollars in three days? Do you know how much that is? You’ve got to make around 5,000 dollars in a single day, and you’d have to make over hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Why do you have to do that?!”Do what? It was only 15,000 dollars.Although Javier had no regard for money now, making it was not a challenge with The Grimoire of Five that he had currently mastered.“Bluffing buffoon!” Evanna left, slamming the door after her last comment
Wilson rushed out of the office with his men before he could dwell on it, dashing to the accident site.Joey stopped, standing rooted there in shock, as she could not understand how an accident could have happened when they were just tearing down a washroom. Wholeheartedly hoping that there would be no casualties, she tossed the folder and hurried out of the office.When she passed by Javier, however, she glared daggers at him.“You unlucky man. You jinxed this and brought us bad luck. Would something have happened if you hadn’t made sh*t up?!”Javier scoffed. He had warned them that the excavation could not go on, but he had become a jinx now.In spite of this, the accident had already happened and this argument was pointless. He hurried to the excavation site as well.There was a washroom at the southwest corner of Aurora Academy, but students rarely used it since it was far from the classrooms and the dorms. Joey had planned to renovate and turn it into a pond to improve the s
Wilson was stunned. He had just entered the shed from the outside, and one more man had gotten buried? Were they planting carrots out there?How many years had it been since workplace safety had been emphasized? Accidents on construction sites were mostly superficial wounds nowadays. Why did it feel like they had been cursed today?Was this a jinx? Bad luck?Wilson looked at Javier in astonishment, only for the latter to sneer, “Go on and cry, you fool!”Wilson, who was insulted right in front of his workers, was not even angry, as his priority was to save the victim. He rushed out of the shed to orchestrate the rescue.Javier could not see what was going on outside, tied as he was in the shed, but he could guess most of it based on the noises they made.The person buried this time was the excavator driver. The arm raising the bucket of the excavator while he had been working just now had gotten jammed, so he had come down to have a look. Unexpectedly, the bucket had dropped sudd