Xyla exchanged gazes with Maisie and smiled. “Maybe it’s just fate.”Maisie supported her chin in one hand. “Noles and I were still concerned that Yorrick was going to be a bachelor for the rest of his life some time ago. I really didn’t expect this.”Nolan scoffed. “After all, he’s a middle-aged man who’s about to turn 37 years old this year, so there’s not much time left.”Yorrick glared at him. “You’re only three years younger than me.”“Okay, just how old do the both of you think you are now? And yet, you’re still quarreling with each other as if you’re still kids. Zee and Xyla are still here, so can you two not embarrass yourselves when they’re around?” Madam Hathaway might seem to be reprimanding those two men, but she had a wide grin on her face throughout the whole time.Xyla and Maisie both tried their best to hold back their laughter.“Xyla.” Madam Hathaway looked at her and picked up her wine glass from the table. “I would like to apologize for what Yorrick’s mother di
A few days later, at Stoslo…Ryleigh saw in a news article of the magazine she was reading that Yorrick had admitted to dating Xyla. The article also had the picture a reporter had taken for the couple.“I didn’t expect that they would become a couple!”Louis, who was sitting on the side drinking his coffee, raised his eyebrows slightly. “Isn’t this good news?”“Of course, it’s good news. Xyla has finally found the happiness she deserves, and she won’t think about you anymore.” Ryleigh supported her chin in her hand and held her smile back.Louis almost choked on his coffee, and he put down the cup. “So, this is the thing that you’re worried about?”She chuckled. “I’m only joking with you. I’m not worried about this. I was just thinking about...”Ryleigh lowered her gaze. “She loved you so much back then and even spent six years of her adult life on you. She must have been very sad when the two of you broke up. And now that she found the happiness she’s been looking for, she can
Ryleigh walked out of the ultrasound room while rubbing her abdomen. She was not at all prepared for the sudden addition to the family member that was living in her womb at the moment.‘I got pregnant before I even got ready to become a mother.‘But looking back on Louis’ various actions in the past few weeks now, he’s been telling me that I’m getting fat, but he hasn’t been restricting me from eating anything at all. I’ve not been allowed to stay up late, eat junk food, wear high heels, and even jump around. Don’t all these mean that he’s noticed this since weeks ago?’Louis stood and waited in the corridor. He was about to speak when he saw Ryleigh coming out of the room. Ryleigh stopped him by shoving the smacking his chest with the result. “Why didn’t you tell me about this earlier?”He took the report and looked down at her aggrieved face. “Do you... Do you not want to have kids?”“Of course not,” Ryleigh replied anxiously. “If you had told me about this earlier, I would have
Yorrick frowned. “You shameless ba*stard!”‘Is he planning to prolong his stay here and continue to bring more chaos into my life?’Nolan put down the teacup, and his expression remained unchanged. “Why should I act tactfully when I’m with you?”Yorrick laughed out of wrath, propped his arms against the edge of the table, and glared at Nolan. “Did Maisie take a fancy to you because of your brazenness?”Nolan rolled up his sleeves casually. “Then do enlighten me. How many shameless crappy things have you done when you were trying to grab yourself a wife?”Yorrick was rendered speechless.Standing upstairs, Maisie and Xyla turned around together, and Xyla bumped her arm with her elbow. “Are the both of them always like this?”Maisie turned to look at Xyla. “You’re just getting to know them. They’re both already in their 30s, and yet they act so childishly.”Xyla had gotten her horizon widened.‘Mr. Goldmann has always been a regal and prominent man in front of the public, he’s n
Nolan chuckled faintly. “You’ve already given them rings.”“Why should I wait?” Maisie approached him and blinked. “Rather than allowing them to order their rings from another jewelry company, why shouldn’t I make the first move?”Nolan rubbed the top of her head, and his eyes were filled with affection. “Yes, my wife is always right.”At this time, Maisie received a text message on her cell phone. It was from Ryleigh.“Nolan!” She called out his name immediately after reading the message and said with a grin, “You’re going to be an uncle soon!”Nolan hugged her and rested his chin on her forehead. “Nice, and I have another good piece of news for you. Helios has a daughter now.”“The baby is born already?” Maisie was surprised and looked up at him.He responded softly as he fiddled with the tips of her hair with his fingertips. “I just received the news.”Half a year later, in the late autumn…Nolan and Maisie returned to Bassburgh after Soul Jewelry’s branch in Stoslo had sta
Maisie smiled. “That’s great. You're who you are, yet you chose not to use your connections. Instead, you try to get in by yourself. I admire you for that.”There were plenty of people his uncle knew. It would be easily arranged if Francisco wanted to get in with his strong connections, but he didn’t use that advantage and instead got in through his hard work. That proved he wasn’t the useless person people thought him to be.“B*tch, why are you seducing my man?” There was a commotion in the rooms, and many customers from the main hall looked over. Maisie was one of them. A woman in her 40s dragged a young woman out of a room and started beating her up. The young woman had her back toward her, so Maisie couldn’t see her face, only that the older woman was slapping her and kicking her to the floor.A server tried to stop her, but the woman pushed him away, “Mind your own business. This woman booked a room so that she could seduce my man. What’s wrong with me slapping her if she’s
“Hector, do you really think that Maisie appreciates you? If she really appreciated you, why didn’t she let you manage the company and instead just let you work there?”Linda noticed Hector’s expression change and laughed even louder. “You’re just as dumb as Grandma. That’s why you’re only good enough to be her lapdog—”Linda fell to the floor. When she snapped out of it, she put her hand to her cheek and looked at Hector with a shocked expression, “You slapped me!?”Hector looked at his palm that still stung a little, then closed it and held it at his side. He took a deep breath. “Linda, Maisie never did anything wrong. We were the ones who were at fault.”Linda laughed again. “Have you been brainwashed by Maisie?” Her expression dropped. “If it weren’t because of that b*tch, Grandma wouldn’t have forced me to marry an *sshole like Jimmy Zimmerman! You saw how he treated me!”Memories from a year ago flashed across his eyes.Jimmy had kicked his sister out of their family home,
“It was Grandma and Mom’s fault, but are you really innocent?” Hector’s question made Linda’s pupils shrink, and she held her breath. He continued. “You knew what Grandma and Mom were planning, but you got involved, so you were an accomplice.”Linda took a few steps backward, “I… I’m not.”“No one is absolutely faultless or evil, but there aren’t people who are absolutely innocent either. You chose to join Grandma and Mom in framing Maisie, so don’t make it sound like she was the one who framed you back or like she did you wrong. You reap what you sow.”Hector turned around. “Grandma treated Maisie terribly, yet she let her live in the old mansion, and that’s very generous. We have no right to ask for compensation.”“If you have nowhere else to go, I can help you find a place.” Hector left after he said that. Linda leaned against the wall with her head hung low. She was still unhappy about the outcome. What was the point of feeling sorry for her now? Did they think she was a