He wouldn't have insulted her with such a contract if he harbored the slightest love for her. He wouldn't have offered to pay her to be his mistress.The mere thought of such an idea infuriated Victoria.“I've read the contract, President Carson. I'm not interested. “ said Victoria as she tried to keep her temper under control. She took another step towards the table, put down the contract and slid it back to Jackson“If there's nothing else, I'll get back to work, as I have some business to attend to.Victoria was ready to turn and leave the office now, but before she could do so, Jackson's arm shot out. He grabbed her by the wrist and stopped her from taking another step away from him. The next moment, he was pulling her towards him and into his arms. The force of his pull knocked Victoria off her feet, and she fell right into Jackson's lap. For a moment, they looked like a couple in an intimate embrace, their limbs entangled with each other's. A blush instantly unfolded on Vict
“I just want sex, what does that have to do with love?” Jackson raised an eyebrow. The realization dawned on Victoria then. He was looking for a good time in bed, not a girlfriend or a partner. Well, right now, he's got the wrong person. “I'm sorry, President Carson, but I'm not interested in casual relationships.” Victoria took a deep breath and raised her chin proudly, for the first time in her life, she wasn't worried about upsetting Jackson or incurring his wrath. Her rejection was direct and definitive. The young woman turned on her heel and marched out of the room.He might get Jayric to fire her, but she didn't care anymore. She could always look for another job, and honestly, she would like to keep her job at JB, but there was a line that shouldn't be crossed.She would stick to her principles even if they drove her out of the company. Jackson stared at the closed door for a long time after Victoria left. Her eyes shone darkly. “Victoria Lazer, what an interesting woman
Jayric left the office and went straight to Victoria. “Victoria, we need to talk.”“Is something wrong, Jayric?” Victoria asked.“No, what I mean is...it's the middle of the day. We're at work. Your suitors are free to send gifts, but it would be great if they toned down the elaborate gestures, as it could reflect badly on the company. “Jayric spoke gently. No one would be able to discern the hidden meaning behind Jayric's words, and Victoria had no idea what Jayric was really trying to say at first.She thought he was scolding her for causing a commotion in the office, and her pretty face fell. “I'm sorry, Jayric. There must have been some kind of misunderstanding. Mr. Lazaro and I don't know each other personally. I promise this won't happen again. I won't do anything to damage the company's reputation.” Deep apologies flowed from Victoria's lips, and Jayric's heart fell back into his chest. So she didn't know Lazaro personally. From the looks of it, Victoria wasn't interested
“Really? Is the design ready?” Soraya really loved Victoria, and the sound of the young woman's voice filled her with joy. The old lady hugged her pet dog tightly. “Why don't you come to my house now? I'm home.” “Sure, I'm on my way then!” Victoria ended the call and started tidying up her desk, after which she told Jayric where she was going and got his permission to leave the office. She ran down the stairs. She would have to take the subway to get to Soraya Carson's house, but as soon as she appeared in the lobby, the guards called Maison and informed her that Victoria was leaving the building. Maison told Jackson, who simply hummed when he heard what Maison told him. He then told Maison to leave the room.He picked up the phone on his desk and called Jayric, but he wasn't going to simply ask Jayric where Victoria had gone, in fact, he was going to tell Jayric that Victoria was now responsible for designing a wedding dress for Mattew's cousin.Jayric told him that Victoria h
There was a unique timbre to Jackson's voice, and Victoria knew it was him immediately.Startled, she spun around and found herself staring directly into Jackson's dark eyes. What was he doing here? He should be at work!Victoria wasn't going to try to find out why Jackson was here. After all, he lived here, and had every right to be in this house, but she simply hadn't expected him to be here now. Victoria was beginning to regret her decision to help Soraya design a new coat. It looked like she would be seeing more of Jackson in the future.She pulled her mind back to the present and pulled herself together, then she took a hasty step back and greeted the young man with a completely professional tone.“Hello, President Carson!” She had every intention of leaving after that, so she put the coat back on the shelf and turned around, when Jackson's hand shot out, caught her wrist and pulled her back. He wasn't a monster. She didn't need to be afraid of him. “Why are you running ou
“Oh, I'm in no hurry to get the designs for the coat.” The lady looked disappointed the instant she was informed by Victoria that she had an emergency. However, she still gave a kind smile as she said. “Oh, I'm sorry, Ms. Lazer for taking up so much of your time. I'll have the mansion chauffeur take it! “Soraya replied. As Victoria had an emergency, she didn't want to force her to stay behind, so she turned around and was about to call her driver, when Jackson was slowly coming out of the closet. There were hints of slight discontent on his face, but it disappeared as soon as he approached Soraya, and her grandmother was startled when she noticed him as he lamented. “When the hell did you arrive? You scared me when you came up so quietly! “I've only just got here. I didn't want to interrupt you when I realized you were on the phone earlier.” Jackson replied in a polite tone. It seemed that he was still quite obedient whenever he was with his grandmother, and Victoria pretended no
“Oh, I'm in no hurry to get the designs for the coat.” The lady looked disappointed the instant she was informed by Victoria that she had an emergency. However, she still gave a kind smile as she said. “Oh, I'm sorry, Ms. Lazer for taking up so much of your time. I'll have the mansion chauffeur take it! “Soraya replied. As Victoria had an emergency, she didn't want to force her to stay behind, so she turned around and was about to call her driver, when Jackson was slowly coming out of the closet. There were hints of slight discontent on his face, but it disappeared as soon as he approached Soraya, and her grandmother was startled when she noticed him as he lamented. “When the hell did you arrive? You scared me when you came up so quietly! “I've only just got here. I didn't want to interrupt you when I realized you were on the phone earlier.” Jackson replied in a polite tone. It seemed that he was still quite obedient whenever he was with his grandmother, and Victoria pretended no
“Shall we go, auntie?” exclaimed Victoria. She didn't dare stay any longer after hearing what the customer had just said.She felt extremely nervous as she frantically opened the door for her aunt. Luckily for her, Enzo was a bright and obedient child, and he simply remained silent after realizing how nervous his mother was, and he was wondering if something had happened to her. He needed to be obedient and not bother his mother anymore.Victoria and her aunt were relieved to see how quiet Enzo was.Jackson already had his suspicions when the pair were pushing the trolley out of the store. It seemed that the child looked so much like him that it was literally uncanny.Would such a resemblance... not arouse his suspicions?“Wait a second, Victoria!” Jackson shouted at her before they could leave through the glass door. “President Carson? Is there a problem?” She turned and asked in a firm tone. As she hadn't yet been fired from her job, it was only natural that Victoria pretended t
“Well, thank you for thinking of her, President Carson. As you can see, she's fine, so can you go now?” said Victoria.Jackson didn't seem to be in any hurry to go, in fact, he gave her a long look before changing the subject without any warning. “And how was your meeting with Mr. Spector?” he asked over dinner, and Victoria frowned. What was wrong with the man? Why had he mentioned it?“That's none of your business, President Carson,” replied Victoria, struggling fiercely to free herself. “I won't agree to another DNA test. It's inappropriate and disrespectful to my cousin, after all, they are her children.”No matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't free herself from the man's grip, and Jackson simply laughed softly. He seemed to be tickled.“Your cousin is the mother, and your cousin is the father? Right!” Jackson tightened his grip on the young woman. “So why do his children look so much like me?” His warm breath hit Victoria's cheeks like waves of heat. Victoria couldn't m
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