Grabbing my wrist with one hand, Dave said quite angrily, "Didn't I tell you a long time ago that you should stay away from him and that he isn't as simple as he seems? There are so many men in this world. Why do you insist on pestering the men of the Mitaka Family? Is it because you don't have many admirers? And except for the men of the Mitaka Family, you can't find any other men who are rich, yeah? If yes, let me introduce some to you!""What are you talking about?" I was stunned. For a moment, I couldn't figure out what Dave meant by saying all that."What did I say?" Dave looked at me coldly, "You are a vain woman. Aren't you after money? Let me tell you, Oogway is poor. Even if he is rich, I can immediately make him go bankrupt. I advise you to seduce another man. Perhaps.."Pah!Before Dave could finish his words, I raised my hand and hit him on the face!I slapped him really hard. When I redrew my hand, my hand had become numb and I didn't feel anything. Looking at him, I sne
While laughing, I turned around and walked out of Oogway's room.I didn't know what happened next.I spent the entire day in my room.By nightfall, the sunset shone into my room.It was a beautiful scene.Fortunately, I brought a notebook and solid watercolor pigment with me.I found an empty lounge chair on the beach, sat on it, and began to draw.As I mixed orange and yellow watercolor pigments together and painted the sunset glow on the paper, a tall figure blocked the light in front of my eyes.Without having to look up, I knew who it was.I said as I drew, "Mr. Mitaka, you'll get married tomorrow. How come you are still following me around? If Miss Teresa sees this, she will misunderstand you.""Come with me." He said directly.I didn't move. "Mr. Mitaka, the reason why I came to your wedding is to give you your wedding present. If you don't like me being here, I'll give it to you in advance and leave the island tonight.""Okay." To my surprise, Dave directly agreed. He paused a
That night, I packed up my things and told Oogway I was leaving the island.Oogway immediately said, "Then I'll go with you. I accompanied you here. If you want to leave, I'll go with you.""No need. I'll leave on my own."Hearing my words, Oogway was quite reluctant. I persuaded him for a while and he was finally convinced.As the old saying goes, everyone will belong somewhere in the end.On this island where it rarely rained, unexpectedly, it rained heavily that night.Dave stood in a small room by the dock with me.The rain kept falling from the sky.A sailor ran in from outside, "Mr. Mitaka, I think it will rain for hours. It may be dangerous if we sail out by force...""Then don't." Dave looked at me.The sky was too dark. I couldn't see the expression on his face.He stretched out his hand and wanted to put his palm behind me. I took a step forward, took out my cell phone, and said to Dave, "Mr. Mitaka, it's midnight. In a sense, you are Miss Teresa's husband starting from tod
Because it was a western style wedding, there were only a few rows of chairs on the scene.The elders and important relatives of both family were sitting in front. Oogway and I stood at the back.I felt bored. Then there was a stir in the crowd.I followed the direction of the voice and saw Dave dressed in a black suit. Beside him was Teresa who was dressed in white.The two of them stood side by side.Teresa's wedding gown was beautiful.It was as white as snow, with beautiful lace on her shoulders and sleeves and a long trailing tail behind it.Everyone on the spot rushed up and surrounded them.Only I stood where I was still and I even wanted to escape.I always thought that I could handle it but when I saw them standing together, I knew I couldn't accept it.The band began to play a piece of beautiful piano music.Under the guidance of the staff, the new couple walked towards the stage.I stood in a corner and looked at them.Teresa held Dave's wrist and at that moment, a strange
"Oogway." When Oogway was about to accompany me leave, I heard Jamie's voice from behind.Oogway and I looked back together."Bro." Oogway was quite respectful to Jamie.Jamie patted him on the shoulder, "Oogway, I've been busy with the wedding these past days. I haven't had a good chat with you. Come to my place in the evening so we can have a good chat.""I plan to leave the island with Reed. Would you be coming back home or you'll still be travelling? How about staying in the City for a while?"Oogway rejected Jamie.It made me feel a little embarrassed. I said awkwardly, "No need. I can go back by myself. It's been long since you and uncle met each other.""Well, this little girl is sensible." Jamie said with a smile, "However, don't hurry to leave the island. Have fun here for a few more days. Why are you leaving in such a hurry?"Jamie and Briana's attitudes towards me were completely different.He seemed to treat me as Oogway's female companion so his attitude to me was quite g
Bleak looked at me and said calmly, "I just want to ask you, if Lita was standing next to you now, what will you do?"I realized something and pretended to be calm. "I have nothing to do with her and I don't want to see her.""Miss Defiant, it's not good for you to lie." After saying that, Bleak said in the direction of a room in the cabin, "Bring her here."As soon as he finished his words, the door was opened.I looked over and saw a strong man coming out with a woman who had been tied up.The woman's hair was disheveled and her face was unkempt. Her clothes were even in tatters and her mouth was covered with adhesive tape. Even so, I recognized her at a glance.Lita?Lita looked quite horrible now. Her hair was black and the length of her hair looked almost the same as that of mine.Although her face was yellow, there were dark circles around the rim of her eyes, indicating that when she had been caught, she had make up on her face.Her pants were gone. Her blouse was shabby. Most
Bleak smiled with satisfaction and said to Lita, "Get it started."Lita looked at me with a reluctant look on her face.Both of us knew quite well that if Lita wanted to live, she had to rely on me to save her.If she revealed what she had done to me now, I surely wouldn't save her..Seeing that Lita didn't speak, Bleak frowned slightly and said, "Should I suck out all the water you just drank from your stomach?"Hearing Bleak's words, Lita was so scared that she trembled. "I am on it!" She, who was originally standing, fell onto the ground as she started to recall what she had done in the past, "I...""You'd better tell me everything. After all, I've investigated what you did in the past clearly. If you leave anything out, you'll bear the consequences."Bleak spoke gloomily.His tone didn't sound tough. Even so, it sent chill down others' spines.Staring at Bleak, Lita held back what she was supposed to say and reorganized her thoughts. Only after a long time did she speak, "On the
As I was pounding on the door desperately, someone opened the small sized window on the door from outside.Something was thrown in from outside!I avoided the item subconsciously and turned around to look at it, only to find that it was the fruit knife in Bleak's hand just now.Then, Bleak's voice rang from outside, "Don't blame me for being ruthless. If someone has to be blamed, blame yourselves for being useless. You failed to affect Dave. However, while dealing with abandoned bargaining chips like you, I won't be that cold hearted.""Let me out!"I didn't have time to listen to his nonsense."Don't be anxious, Beauty Reed."Bleak said with a smile, "There are three lifeboats attached to this yacht. My men and I will drive two of them away, leaving only the roughest one behind. There are two oars on it.""And then?"I quickly picked up the fruit knife from the ground.At this time, the temperature inside the cabin was a little high."I deflated the remaining lifeboat. If you sit on
I followed him into the elevator specifically for the president. Dee stood in front of me. Through the mirror in the elevator door, I could see that he looked dignified.Walking out of the elevator, I saw that the whole top floor was the same as before.Dee took me to the door of Dave's office. Knocking twice on the door, he said, "Mr. Mitaka, she's here."Then he pushed the door open slightly and motioned me to go in.It seems that Dave had known I will come.I looked at the door and felt extremely nervous. Taking a deep breath, I pushed the door open and walked in.In the office, Dave sat in front of a large L shaped desk with a document in one hand and a folder in the other, correcting the document.I walked in. He paused what he was doing for a moment. Without raising his head, he asked, "What do you want to say?"If Dave's attitude to me was as normal as usual, I might indeed think that I had seen something wrong. However, judging from the current scene, I knew that I hadn't se
Lying there, I rested for quite a while before sitting up.Looking at the dim living room around me, I saw a faint light shining through the window of the living room. Searching the living room carefully, I was sure Dave hadn't come back.Yeah, he didn't come back. Otherwise, seeing that I fell down, he surely would come to me.I thought of the kiss at noon.I, who had been pretending to be strong, could no longer disguise myself.I stood where I was and kept telling myself, "Aren't you going to be independent of him? Aren't you going to stop thinking about him?"After all, everything would only get worse and worse if we were together. It would be better if we weren't together.In that case, the ones I loved wouldn't get hurt.How nice it would be!I kept telling myself this.Yeah. Since I decided to break up with him, I would have to make things clear to him face to face, right?I was deceiving myself in my mind.Rubbing my waist, I took out my cell mobile phone from my pocket. Look
Marie sighed, "Alina Jetson, oh, Alina Jetson. Sometimes I really don't know whether you are smart or stupid. Dave is so good to you. Why did you hide this from him?""I..." I turned around, "I don't want to make trouble for him. I think I can solve this independently. If I tell him, he will definitely help me. I am independent. And I can't always be protected by him, can I?""Are you making blind and disorderly conjectures?" Marie looked at me with a frown."Am I thinking randomly?"I didn't know what to say at the moment.Marie took my hand and said, "He may be having a meeting. Don't think too much. As Scarlett said, he's a president. How can he hang around you all day? Maybe he hasn't seen the press conference up till now."I knew that what Marie had said wouldn't happen.When I left, I remembered Dave's expression very clearly.He surely knew that I was going to do something that I kept from him.Scarlett shouted from the side, "Let's go have the meal quickly. I'm so hungry."Wit
At this time, Harry looked at Matt on the side, "Vice Dean Parma, it's your turn."Matt stood there with a look of embarrassment on his face.Matt was dressed in a gray blue jacket, a pair of sweatpants, and a pair of sneakers, looking casual.It was as if someone had forcibly dragged him over here while he was doing his morning running.Hearing how Harry called Matt, all the reporters under the stage suddenly understood who Matt was. All of a sudden, they all aimed the cameras at him!Matt lowered his head, clenched his hands into fists. The conference room was not hot at all. But I could clearly see a layer of sweat on Matt's forehead."Vice Dean Parma?" Harry raised his voice, called out once again, and handed Matt the microphone he had used just now.This time, Matt finally moved. He raised his hand to take the microphone over and looked at the audience with a dull look. Then he opened his mouth as if he had made up his mind, "I'm Matt Parma. I testify that what Alina said just n
When I no longer looked at the computer screen, I saw the reporters all looking at me with different looks in their eyes. It seemed that each of their looks was meaningful.Some seemed to be waiting to make fun of me. And others seemed to be waiting to mock me.This made me even more certain that I wouldn't have an easy time later.To prevent them from sensing my cowardice, I straightened up my back, trying to look calm as much as I could.Finally, it was 10 a.m.At this time, Matt hadn't yet appeared still.At this moment, Loraine walked to the platform in front of her. Sitting down, she said, "Thank you all for coming."After that, she introduced me to everyone and the purpose of the press conference today.I greeted everyone, "Hello, I am Alina Jetson as well as Reed Defiant."I didn't want to hide my identity anymore.At this time, the reporters under the stage all showed that they were all watching a good show.Judging from their expressions, they all seemed to be waiting for th
At this time, the phone had been hung up, and my heart was pounding. I was afraid that he would know that I was going to hold a press conference privately tomorrow.I was afraid that he would blame me for hiding the contact with Matt from him.My feelings were extremely complicated. However, the man was at the door.I went downstairs and opened the door.Dave stood at the door, only wearing a thin suit coat. Under his slightly messy hair, his eyes were bloodshot, and there were dark circles under his eyes.He had food in his hand.He must have had a wearing journey. At first glance, it could be seen that he had hurried to come over as soon as he got off the plane.Looking at his appearance, my heart was filled with guilt, and I felt that I shouldn't have hidden it from him.At least, I should tell him.But now things had been proceeding, I didn't even have the courage to say it.Dave entered the room and put the food on the table. He reached out his hands and took me in his arms. Pu
I suppressed the excitement in my heart, "What is it?"In fact, if only Matt told the story by himself, it would be not convincible as there was no evidence.Then it needed to be testified by someone else, or by some evidence which Matt had kept for himself.Matt was in a conflicting emotion which can be seen from his face. "In fact, I also recorded what happened at that time."Haha.Recording was really a good method.I was relieved hearing this. I put my hands on the table and seriously asked him, "Which do you think will be more disadvantageous to you? The exposure of having an affair with the director's wife or of doing something wrong for your child?"In fact, I felt that both of them were almost the same. However, the latter seemed to be slightly better than the former.Matt looked at me. Instead of answering, he asked reluctantly, "How many videos and recordings do you have? Where did these things come from?""I have four altogether." I thought for a moment and said, "I asked s
Because it was at night without heavy traffic, Dave arrived soon.I followed Dave back to No.1, but I still didn't tell him about the videos after hesitating several times.However, I beat him around the bush and it turned out that Dave knew nothing about that.Then, who sent those files to me?Soon, I thought of another person, Oogway.I realized that meeting him this afternoon wasn't a coincidence.Since the previous incident, I realized that there were not so many coincidences in the world. All the coincidences might be set by others.I remembered what Oogway said before I got in the taxi?Was he really making up for his mistake?His deed has nothing to do with me, but I need these documents now.The next morning, Dave went to work.Before he went out, he told me that he needed to go abroad for a business trip, which would take about a week.Originally, I planned to go straight to meet Matt that day. However, after thinking for a while, I gave up.I took my laptop to Judith's house
I went to Judith's home. I didn't know why I felt more relaxed here than elsewhere, as if I belonged here.Or, only in here, I can really let go of things.I was preoccupied with the matters concerning Judith's death.I called Marie and told her all the ins and outs of this matter. I wanted to see if her husband Jerrold can check whether there was any report about this.After that, I searched for the list of associate directors of the Hospital.I had also come in contact with grandma's attending doctor at that time, so I should have some impression.There were four associate directors in the hospital. I scanned them roughly and soon focused on a photo of an associate director named Matt Parma!'That's him!' I told myself!"My grandmother's attending physician was this man."I looked at the doctor's resume from the Internet again. He was the youngest among all the associate directors. In comparison to other associate directors, he should be the most inexperienced.How could he be an a