Victoria took the swab and put some cream on it, but before she could do anything else, Jayric took the swab from her hand, reached over her knee and began to gently rub the cream into her wound.“I'll do it for you!”There was no way Victoria would let her boss do that. He was her boss, for God's sake!Then, in one swift movement, she pulled her leg back and stopped Jayric before he could do anything.“I can do it myself, Jayric!”“Don't worry about it, let me help you!” - Jayric spoke in a commanding tone and began to apply the cream to her knee. “I'm your boss, and as your boss I have to take responsibility for your care. After all, you were in my office when you hurt yourself.”What Jayric said seemed to make a lot of sense, and Victoria found herself unable to refute his words. But in any case, it just didn't seem right, and she couldn't say why.In the end, she gave in and let Jayric take care of her wound. However, it only takes a few seconds to apply the cream, but Jayric like
Ten minutes passed and Jackson was released by the doctors. He then left the ward accompanied by his assistant, who immediately noticed the blood stains on his white shirt. “President, I'll get you a new shirt!” “Okay!” - Jackson simply replied and didn't look back. As he continued to walk towards the elevator, his phone rang non-stop, and when he looked at the display, it was his grandmother, Soraya Carson. Jackson just took a deep breath, because he knew that the only reason his grandmother would call would be to demand marriage and children, and today he was totally out of patience for that. However, as much as he didn't want to answer, out of respect for his grandmother and his regard for her, he ended up answering the call as soon as he pressed the elevator button. Soraya was passing through the garden of the huge mansion with her dog, a corgi, a Christmas present from her longtime friend, Queen Elizabeth. “Jackson, my darling grandson, I've been looking forward to telling
After a rather heavy morning, Victória went home at lunchtime and took advantage of the two hours she had to feed and play with her babies. Only their presence and energy allowed her to recharge her batteries. When she got back to the office, her phone started ringing, and when she looked at the display, she was a little surprised: it was Noemia, her best friend, whom she hadn't seen for over four years. Victoria was a little surprised and stunned as she looked at the name that vibrated in her hand. “Hello? Noemia?” “Vic, it's me.” Noemia's excited voice sounded on the other end. “I'm calling because I'm coming home soon.”When Victoria heard the familiar voice of her best friend, a wave of nostalgia and longing washed over her. They grew up together, but when they finished high school, Noemia went to Asia, more specifically to Seoul College to study fashion, and as Victoria was in a bad situation in her family, she had to give up everything, which is why they didn't see eac
When Victoria saw Jackson standing in front of her, she was somewhat stunned. But, following Jayric, she entered the elevator without showing any reaction.Jackson, too, had noticed Victoria's presence, but he didn't care, and in the next second, more people began to enter the elevator, and the room became smaller. Victoria was trapped in the corner by the few men, but fortunately Jayric protected her with his body so that she wouldn't get hurt. “Mr. Carson, what a coincidence, are you here for dinner too?” Jayric took the opportunity to greet the man, who just nodded silently, without even looking at him. The elevator began to rise slowly, and the customers whom Jackson was to meet were in the same restaurant as Jayric was to meet his, and at this moment, none of them dared to speak a word. Jackson was the first to leave the elevator when they arrived at the restaurant, and when he saw that both Jayric and Victoria had also left, Jackson suddenly stopped walking and stared at the
Jackson's expression immediately darkened, and just as he was about to walk away, Jeremy didn't recognize him, and thought that Jackson was just some man trying to take advantage of the young woman he had set his eyes on. “Excuse me, sir, I need you to hand her over to me!” Jeremy said. “Do you know her?” Jackson looked at the man in front of him and examined him from top to bottom. “Of course I do, she's my wife!” Jeremy replied, and glared at him menacingly. “Hurry up and give her back to me, I'm not asking you, I'm telling you.”“Your wife?” Jackson asked again, as he stared at the woman totally without strength. How many men had she flirted with tonight? However, before he could think anything else, Victoria's voice sounded against his arms. “Mr. Jeremy, I told you, I can't drink.” Victoria murmured in a soft, calm tone. “Please don't insist!”After that, Jackson understood what had happened and laughed. The man in front of him had said she was his wife, so for that to happ
“Can you help me?” Victoria bit her lip as she stared at Jackson in a daze. In fact, she stood on tiptoe, and in the next second, she caught Jackson by surprise, and kissed him. Jackson felt electrified by her kiss, and his eyes instantly went completely dark. This woman's kiss was extremely wonderful. After she kissed Jackson, he couldn't resist her provocations, so their roles were reversed and he took the initiative to kiss her. He kissed her uncontrollably and couldn't stop. Jackson suddenly came out of his daze. This woman had once planned to trick him into sleeping with her, so how could he want her? Jackson immediately pushed her aside, and he quickly bent down to carry her into the bathroom, and then, he put her in the bathtub, and opened the water, in an attempt to wake her up. In an instant, hot water came out of the shower tap, and Victoria thought for a moment that it was raining. After she had calmed down, he turned off the tap and realized that she was sleeping pe
Victoria rushed home after changing, and saw on her phone that there were several missed messages and calls from Valentina. Since she fainted yesterday, she hadn't replied to Valen once, so surely she was very worried. Victoria arrived at the apartment and picked up the house keys. When she entered, she saw Valentina playing with the children. “My child, where were you?” When Valentina saw Victória coming through the door, she quickly pulled her hand away to see how her niece was. “I called you so many times, but you didn't answer, let alone come back. I was so worried yesterday.”“I'm fine, auntie.” Victoria tried to calm her down. “If you didn't come home today, I was going to call the police.” Valentina replied. “I'm sorry auntie, I had to meet some clients last night, and I was discussing some projects until late at night...” Victoria rarely lied to her aunt, but today, she had no choice. “And my boss didn't like me fiddling with my cell phone during meetings, so I couldn't an
"Alright, then, let’s ask Soraya,” Lisa replied as they walked toward the reception desk. "Soraya, did you hand over my package to Miss Lazer?” Since Soraya was Lisa’s friend, she naturally went along with her friend’s plan. "What are you talking about, Lisa? Why would I give your package to someone else?” Victoria stared at Soraya and Lisa in shock. At that moment, she deeply regretted being careless with Lisa. How was she supposed to clear her name now? "So, you’re a thief!" Lisa accused Victoria in front of everyone. "JB Digital values its reputation, which is why we only hire honest people. How dare you ruin our reputation?” Lisa made it seem as though Victoria was genuinely a thief. However, Victoria was completely innocent and unwilling to stand by silently while being accused of stealing something she had never touched. If she didn’t fight back quickly, this would continue, and she’d never find peace. "I didn’t take it, and I don’t know what you arranged with Sora
The twins immediately stood up and started waving their chubby little arms. Victoria ignored the twinge of pain in her chest, walked past her angels and pulled Jackson up from the floor. “President Carson, can we step outside for a minute, please?” Then she turned to her children, they looked ready to throw their little bodies at her, but she pushed down the anguish growing inside her. “Enzo, Lara, your aunt needs to go out for a minute. I'll be back before you know it, okay?” She didn't give Enzo or Lara time to react to what she had just said, and instead, she dragged Jackson out of the apartment immediately, and soon after, Valentina ran towards the children and hugged them. “Enzo, Lara, have you forgotten what Mommy said earlier?” Enzo looked totally clueless. Lara was equally perplexed. She had no idea what Valentina was talking about. “Don't you remember what Mommy told you?” Valentina said patiently. “She told you to call her 'auntie' when Jackson is around. If
“Don't panic. Keep him busy. I'm coming back now.”Victoria hung up immediately and then turned to Harvey with an apologetic look on her face. “I'm sorry, Harvey, there's been an emergency at home, and I need to get back now. I'm so sorry. I can't believe I'm letting you finish dinner alone...”Harvey was not a stingy man and he knew he couldn't keep Victoria there when she clearly had an emergency to attend to. He knew that Victoria wasn't lying. He had heard parts of the conversation before. He knew that something terrible had happened. “Don't worry about it, Victoria. Let me give you a ride.” The man rubbed his lips lightly with his napkin before getting up, but Victória wasn't going to bother him for a ride.She was leaving in the middle of dinner. That alone made her feel terrible enough. She shook her head apologetically. “Thanks for the offer, Harvey. I can go home on my own, don't worry, but I'm really sorry. I'll buy you dinner another time.”Victoria seemed insistent, and
Meanwhile, outside the Village, Jackson had collected his car keys and was going to pay a visit to Valentina's apartment to see Lara and Enzo. Before leaving the restaurant, he called Maison, who was supposed to come to the restaurant now and wait outside. “If Harvey doesn't give Victoria a lift home after dinner, you'll take her home,” Jackson instructed. Having given his orders, he started the car and headed towards Victoria's apartment.He stopped at a shopping center and bought some expensive toys that he knew were extremely popular with children. He hadn't seen Lara since her attempted kidnapping. “I guess I should stop by and see if she's recovered from the incident,” he thought. It had been a long time since he had cared for someone, and the girl seemed like part of his family. The results of the DNA report said otherwise, but his instincts told him that she was his daughter. “I'm going to do another DNA test. If the results remain unchanged, I'll give up,” he decided. Thi
Was this Noemia's plan all along? Was Noemia trying to set her up with Noemia's cousin?No matter how strange the atmosphere, they had to get through dinner somehow, and Victoria needed Harvey's help, and the man agreed to help her. She couldn't get up and let him dine alone, so she put aside her feelings of embarrassment and started browsing the menu before placing her order.Harvey filled his glass with red wine and studied Victoria in silence as he swirled the wine in his hand. He had met countless beautiful people in his line of work. However, few were as beautiful as Victoria. He was overcome by the urge to have her as soon as his eyes landed on her, and it had been some time since Harvey had met a woman as attractive as Victoria.The man silently admired Victoria's beauty. Meanwhile, Victoria had no idea that she was the object of the man's appreciative gaze, and she placed her orders and handed the menu back to Harvey.“I've already ordered,&
The man smiled faintly before slamming his foot on the gas pedal.The car left Valentina's apartment and drove down the street, neither of them speaking during the journey, the car filled with a tense silence. A silence that was punctuated by their breathing, and there was something terribly suggestive about it all.Victoria tried to stop staring at the man, and turned and looked out of the window at the lights streaming past her. The gears in her head began to turn furiously. How was she going to get rid of Jackson? Should she tell him to leave her alone? Maybe she should ask him to join them, but the latter option didn't seem appropriate.She was having dinner with Noemia's cousin because she needed his help as a lawyer, and she wasn't really going on a date. What was she supposed to do? Victoria couldn't think of a solution, no matter how hard she tried, and they were going to get to the restaurant soon.“Don't worry, I'm not having dinner with you. I'm not interested in becoming t
The young woman went to the elevator and pressed the button next to it, heading for the lobby. Noemia wanted to give her a ride to the restaurant, but something came up unexpectedly, and she wouldn't be able to do it for dinner. She texted Victoria the address of the restaurant and told her to call a cab, and she would pay for the ride.Victoria didn't want to be late for her first meeting with a lawyer, so she rushed to the entrance. Perhaps she was in too much of a hurry and didn't pay much attention to the man coming towards her, smoking a cigarette. The moment their shoulders brushed, the man reached out and grabbed Victoria by the wrist, pulling her towards him.Victoria fell heavily against his firm chest.“Where are you going dressed so nice at night? Is it a date?” The young woman heard a low, husky voice in her ear.There was a clear possessive note in the man's voice, who spoke as if he owned Victoria. At that moment, the young woman instantly raised her head, her eyelids tw
“I'm doing this for Jackson's sake.” Mattew's lips curved into a smile. “You want him to be happy too, don't you? So think of a way to get her to join us for the trip.”“But maybe she really doesn't want to,” Samanta replied thoughtfully. “She doesn't seem to like Jackson.”“That's why he's interested in her. He wouldn't be if she was throwing herself at him,” said Mattew before tossing the card in his hand onto the table.“Men are such strange creatures. What's wrong with going after someone who likes you too? Why force yourself on someone who doesn't like you? You'll only let them go once you've broken up with them and got bored. Those poor girls. They're the ones who end up getting hurt.” Honestly, Samanta was convinced that Jackson was just trying to have fun with Victoria.She knew men like Jackson and his cousin. Except for the partner his family had chosen for them, all the other women were simply a casual fling, and that included all the women who had the misfortune to catch h
Here is the text with the lines in quotation marks:Elisa knew all along that Jayric was interested in Victoria, but what she didn't expect was for him to be so madly in love with her, and because of Victoria, he exploded in the office and showed his temper. She desperately wanted Victoria to leave. “Don't worry, Victoria. You can go back to work now!” Jayric turned and said gently to Victoria after shouting at the rest of the company.In fact, Victoria looked a little scared. She had never seen Jayric raise his voice to anyone, and was this what every man looked like when he got angry? Did they look exactly like Jackson?The young woman secretly berated herself, because that man was the cause of all her problems and the source of all her pain. So how could she compare him to Jayric? What was she thinking? “Thank you, Jayric, and sorry about that. My family life is a bit complicated... I'm sorry for the trouble it's caused the company.” “It's no big deal, and you can always talk t
Victoria took a cautious step back and looked coldly at the old woman in front of her. This was her grandmother. But she had been totally deceived by Suelen, the lies of her beloved stepmother, and had lost all reason. Her grandmother had lost her love for Victoria.“Mrs. Lazer, perhaps you should explain yourself, after all, I'm no longer part of your family. So why are you here? You don't have the right to invade the company I work for and then try to assault me.”Victoria's grandmother had treated her like a precious treasure in the past, and that was before her stepmother joined the Lazer family, and Suelen had created many lies about Victoria's mother and her, and gradually, her grandmother came to hate Victoria and her mother. The old woman wished they were dead.Victoria had lived with that woman's malice for more than a decade, so she couldn't take it anymore. She had endured everything silently in the past because she was still part of the Lazer family, but she was young and