"I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid… To take a stand, to take a stand… It's been a ride… Everybody..."Corinne snapped back to her senses when her phone suddenly rang, and the suggestive atmosphere between her and Jeremy disappeared in a second.As she faced the man's long dark eyes, she backed away uncomfortably and took out her cell phone to look at the caller ID. It turned out to be Sherlyn. Before she could answer the phone, Sherlyn's voice sounded outside the restroom, and there was a knock on the restroom door."I know you're in there, Corinne. I heard your horrendous ringtone coming from inside! Come out of here right now! Stop slacking off, hiding in the restroom!"Corinne frowned, looked up at the man, and shrugged her shoulders while saying, "Did you hear that? Sherlyn's looking for me. I need to go out."Jeremy looked down at her and did not react.Corinne moved off him, thought for a moment, and then said, "Wait here, and don't go out after me. If she sees us inside the s
Sherlyn was startled by the sight of Jeremy. 'What in the world is going on? Why did Jeremy come out as soon as that b*tch Corinne left? Were they both in there earlier?!'As soon as she realized that possibility, Sherlyn had an incredulous look and immediately became wary soon after. Jeremy had been looking at Corinne rather strangely when she was pouring tea for them earlier, and Corinne was a little vixen good at seducing men. Perhaps Corinne had spilled that tea on purpose just to attract his attention and hook up with him.Having come to that conclusion, Sherlyn felt an unbearable pain in her heart and she wanted to get to the bottom of what happened. A charming smile appeared across her face as she walked toward Jeremy. She asked innocuously and curiously, "Mister Jeremy, my assistant just came out of that restroom. Why did you come out right after her? Did the two of you share the same restroom earlier?""Your assistant?" Jeremy glanced at Sherlyn coldly and gave her an icy t
Jeremy went back to the tea room and sat for a while longer.Goran was still going on with the script of his new movies. All the while, he had been talking to himself because the rest of the four people were talking to each other. Until the very end, none of them actually paid attention to Goran.'I guess I'm not getting any investment funds from these four people today…' Goran thought.He looked at the time helplessly. It was getting late if he continued to hold on to them he might irritate them even more. Without a choice, he got up, used a glorified excuse to bid goodbye to them together with Sherlyn, and left the room.When there were no outsiders in the room, Zeke joked amusingly, "Hey, Jeremy. Where's your wife?"Jason was also curious. "Yeah, Jeremy. Where is Corinne?"'Corinne? When is Jason so close with Corinne?' Jeremy thought.He raised his brow and looked at the man. "Do you have something to do with her?"With an appealing face, Zeke asked, "Nothing. I'm just curi
A chill ran up Tommy's spine. He looked to the back of the car and explained innocently, "Sir, I had to deal with an urgent matter at the company, so I didn't accompany Miss Corinne to the subsidiary company. I did call Mister Feldman before I left, and he said Miss Corinne was the one who insisted on becoming an assistant."Jeremy's eyebrows furrowed as he said nothing. Tommy could not tell what Jeremy was feeling as his expression looked dead calm.Tommy carefully continued, "I'll arrange a much lighter job for Miss Corinne tomorrow."Still, Jeremy remained indifferent. He said, "Ignore her. If this is the job she chose, then let her be.""... Yes," Tommy replied."Go take a look in Jason's art gallery if there are three paintings by Nellie Nymphaea. Buy them. She wants them," Jeremy instructed.Tommy nodded and made a mental note of this. "Understood. I'll get to it."Oh, right… Sir, Miss Anya's treatment is about to end. I estimate she's going to come back next month."Jere
Gloomily, Jeremy kicked over a chair to sit and gave Corinne a cold glare.Corinne merely carried on with her meal as though nothing out of the ordinary was happening. As she ate, however, an idea occurred to her. She brought the kebab near Jeremy's lips and, raising her eyebrows, giggled. "Try it."Her sudden attention toward him caught Jeremy off-guard, yet he could not deny he felt slightly intrigued. He opened his mouth slowly—Corinne pulled back her hand and stuffed the kebab into her mouth.She chuckled, her mouth full. "Hey, didn't you say you don't want to eat?"The shade of Jeremy's expression got darker. He narrowed his eyes sharply. "You tricked me?"Corinne pursed her lips and took out one potato fry for him from the plate. "Alright. I'm not going to tease you anymore. Males and females shouldn't drink using the same glass. It's inappropriate for us to eat the same kebab, and it's unhygienic too. I'll give you a new one. Try it. It's very nice."After the last exper
Jeremy narrowed his eyes and asked, "Are you close with the owner?"Corinne nodded. "Yes. We always came here for supper in the past.""We?""Yea… My friends and I!" Corinne answered.Suddenly, he remembered the owner saying he was more handsome than the last guy Corinne brought here before. Did that mean Corinne always brought guys over too? Who were they?Jeremy's eyebrows furrowed. "Friends? Your ex?"Corinne nodded honestly. "Nope. I'm ashamed to tell you this, but I've never had a boyfriend before, so I don't have exes. I came here with my classmates and some friends I grew up with."Jeremy's dark eyes sank. "Classmate? The one who gave you his button?""No, not him," Corinne answered without thinking about it, but seconds later, realization dawned on her. "Wait! How did you know someone gave me a button before?"Jeremy snorted with a stone-cold expression. "Unfortunately, I was around to witness it."Corinne thought back and remembered Jeremy and her walking together on
Corinne blushed upon hearing what others around them were saying. It was easy to be misunderstood that they were a couple because they were holding hands.However, they did not walk alongside each other. Instead, Jeremy walked ahead of her while she reluctantly followed.Rather than being seen as a couple, she thought they looked like a father and a disobedient daughter.Still, Corinne felt it was not nice to be misunderstood, especially when there was nothing between them and they were just cooperating to play-pretend. Thus, she tried to withdraw her hand to clear the air.By the time she moved her arm, she noticed they had gotten to the car.Jeremy let go of her hand and opened the door for her. "Get in," rang his voice, deep in his chest.Corinne did not stall and bent to get into the car. Jeremy used his hand to cover the top part of the car, protecting Corinne from knocking her head. It was a very gentlemanly and lofty act.Corinne was startled. 'He's always so cold at time
The pain from getting scalded was more unbearable than other injuries. It was the type of pain that was not abrupt but a slow burn instead. The burning sensation would remain that it was possible to ignore.Corinne nodded. "I had to do everything myself when I lived in the countryside. That meant chopping the wood, making the fire, and boiling water. At first, I didn't know how to do it and ended up burning myself. It was so painful that I couldn't sleep for the whole night!"Jeremy's eyebrows furrowed at this. Unknowingly, his eyes looked worried. "When did you start doing all that?"Corinne answered faintly, "I can't remember."Very often, she refused to talk about her childhood. If she accidentally brought it up, she would stop the topic immediately.Jeremy placed his hand on top of her head and patted her like a little pet. "Did you have a bad childhood?""It's not that bad."Corinne did not like to have other people feeling pity for her. She pushed away his hand with disgus