He was the nephew of Maxwell's wife. No matter what, he could be considered partially a Rivera.The Riveras were a symbol of powerful status, so of course, he had to pretend to be part of them even if he was not! Corinne looked at Cole and saw that he was related to the Riveras and he did not look too bright, so she thought she might be able to get him to talk and see if he knew about the family's past.A brilliant man like Lucas was very sharp and vigilant, so there was no way for her to get any information out of him at all.Thinking of that, Corinne gave the man a friendly smile. "Hello, sir. It's a pleasure meeting you."Cole got all excited as he was bewitched by Corinne's smile. "The pleasure is mine! How should I address you, gorgeous?"Corinne said, "My name is Corinne.""Miss Corrine. You can just call me Cole!" He tried to probe, asking, "Oh yes, Miss Corinne, does the jacket you have on belong to your partner who came with you?"If she had a partner, and he was more
Cole led Corinne down the long hallway on the second floor as he was preparing to take her to a bigger room.Corrine stopped in her tracks when she saw a painting hanging along the hallway. That was because she felt the brushstrokes of the painting looked like it was done by her mother.Seeing that she stopped, Cole asked in confusion, "What's the matter, Miss Corinne? Why are you not moving along?"Corinne looked at the painting on the wall and asked, "Mister Cole, you're a member of the Riveras, so you should know about the things that happened within the family very well, am I right?"Cole smiled. He wanted to look good, especially in front of the woman he was interested in. Therefore, he pretended that he knew everything like the back of his hand. "Of course! How can I not know about my own family's affairs?"Corinne smiled. His vanity was precisely what she was banking on to get him to talk. She asked, "I heard that Mister Maxwell's current wife is his second wife, am I right
Cole was extremely eager and had already removed his shirt. He removed his belt from his trousers and said, "Don't bother! You have such fair and tender skin, and you smell heavenly too. There's no need to take a bath! Just take off your clothes and get on the bed!"Corinne blinked her eyes, lowered her head, and smiled shyly. "Okay, but you need to close your eyes. I get shy when I'm undressing in front of someone else."Her words were music to Cole's ears since she was starting to get into the moment."You love playing hard to get, don't you, my sweet little thing? Okay, I'll play along! I'll close my eyes right now, and I promise I won't peek when you take off your clothes!" Cole smiled at the end of his sentence and closed his eyes.Suddenly, Corinne's expression turned cold, and she took out her phone. She tapped on the camera app, switched it to video record, and aimed it right at Cole's face. She then made a point to speak seductively, "Mister Cole, who told you that I'm goo
Cole was visibly panicked when he heard Lucas's voice. He immediately picked up his clothes that were strewn all over the ground and put them on."Lucas! It's me, Cole! I drank a bit of wine downstairs and felt a little dizzy, so I decided to rest here for a bit. It's just me and no one else! Is there something you need from me?"'Crap!' he thought, 'I'm doomed! Why is Lucas here?'Cole seemed to have heard Rosie's voice saying that the woman in his room was Lucas's secretary, and he also recalled her saying that she came with her boss.'This is bad!'Had Cole known that would happen, he would have never dared to deal with Lucas's men!"Open the door!" Lucas repeated. He did not bother to entertain any shenanigans from the other party.Cole was left without a choice. He did not dare to piss Lucas off, so he hurriedly put on his clothes, went to open the door, and smiled wretchedly. "Why are you here, Lucas?"Lucas's indifferent and cold gaze frightened Cole into backing away sl
Rosie pursed her lips and sighed. "Some people progress pretty quickly in their relationship and end up sleeping together after meeting for the first time. We're probably too conservative, Anya. I don't understand how any girl could sleep around like that..."As soon as the girls that Anya brought overheard that, they took out their cell phones right away and texted their friends to come over and see the commotion. That was exactly the kind of effect Anya intended to achieve.Abya wanted everyone to witness for themselves that Corinne was an unchaste woman who slept with a random man. That way, Corinne would fall behind in the race to win Jeremy's heart.Despite Anya's malicious thoughts, she had a kind yet helpless expression on her face as she sighed."Even though things progressed too quickly between Corinne and Cole, they're both single, and they have the freedom to do what they want with each other. We shouldn't be busybodies. Just let them spend their time with each other!"
Lucas stiffened slightly, turned around to look at the source of the voice, and saw Corinne slipping through the crowd of onlookers from behind.She walked up naturally to Lucas and asked, "Is there anything I can help you with, Mister Lucas?"Cole, Anya, and Rosie were all shocked by what happened. They were dumbstruck as to why Corinne was outside.Lucas looked at her intently and asked, "Where did you go?"Corinne answered calmly, "I didn't go anywhere. I was waiting downstairs for you to come back, but when I saw a lot of people running upstairs, I thought that maybe something serious happened. I followed everyone up to see what was happening. I heard you calling my name as soon as I came up, so I can't help but feel curious as to why you'd look for me here."Lucas was speechless. 'How am I supposed to answer her? Do I tell her that I thought she was fooling around with another man?'Rosie did not believe Corinne one bit, so she came forward to cast doubt on the latter's stat
Lucas skeptically glanced at Corinne. When he noticed that she was only wearing her off-shoulder dress, he frowned a little and asked, "Where's the jacket that you were wearing?"Corinne looked at her jacket-less shoulders and realized that the jacket was gone. 'Crap!' The jacket had accidentally fallen off when she jumped out from the bathroom windowsill and climbed into the next room. Her pregnancy had affected her nimbleness, and that sort of mistake was something that should never have happened in the first place.At that point, she could only cook up an excuse and say, "I'm sorry, sir. I spilled a drink on your jacket and stained it, so I took it off downstairs. I promise I'll compensate you at the original cost. You can tell the company's finance department to deduct the amount from my salary every month."Lucas felt a little ashamed that he almost made the wrong accusation at her earlier, so he just waved his hands and said calmly, "Forget about it. You make it sound so ser
Corinne smiled and replied, "Yes, Ma'am. I can tell that you know a lot about fashion if you could immediately identify the clothing brand at first glance!"Missus Benet maintained her graceful and unsmiling expression. "I was present at the fashion show where Comi first introduced this dress to their lineup, and it left quite a strong impression on me. You have very good taste, young lady, and this dress looks amazing on you. I'd even go so far as to say that it looks much better on you than on the models."Corinne did not show any awkwardness after being praised and smiled heartily. "Thank you for the compliment, Missus Benet."Missus Benet had much admiration for the way Corinne carried herself. She scanned Corinne again, then finally looked into the young woman's eyes as she offered, "My name is Mindy, and I'm the editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine 'Fashion Pyramid'. Would you be interested in modeling for the pages of our magazine?"Corinne's height was 168 centimeters. Al