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
Hector suddenly felt shy, but he remembered something. “By the way, the middle-aged woman who was with my sister was the wife of our editor-in-chief.”Maisie frowned, “The one who cheated on with Mr. Lowe?”Hector nodded. She pondered, ‘That means that when Linda and the wife of Hector’s boss were fighting, the man in the room was Mr. Lowe? What kind of relationship does Linda have with him?’Hector looked down, looking upset. “I really wanted to advise my sister, but she wouldn't listen.”Maisie smiled. “It’s fine as long as you advised her. It’s up to her to listen or not. It’s not your fault if she chooses to ignore it because you’ve done your part.”He nodded.When Hector was walking into his apartment, Maisie called out to him, and he turned around. “Is there anything else?”Maisie looked at him. “It’s best to be careful around Mr. Lowe.”Hector paused for a moment, but seeing how serious Maisie looked, he nodded. Two days later, at Soul…Maisie hadn’t been back to th
Maisie’s eyes turned cold. It must have been Linda!…When everyone from the magazine company saw this breaking piece of news, they were all shocked.“Could it be true? Hector went to prison before?”“He sold drugs and got into fights. He was a thug!”“Don’t judge a book by its cover. Did we really wrongly accuse Mr. Lowe about the watch incident?”“It’s possible. He went to prison before, so it wouldn’t be too weird if he really did that.”The colleagues were discussing when Hector showed up at the door, and then they suddenly went quiet. Hector walked to his desk and ignored everything. He left after taking some documents and saw Liam happily walking toward him when he got to the corridor. “Little thug, how could you still show up here?”Hector ignored him and walked past him, but Liam put out his arm to block him. “Weren’t you so arrogant before this? Why are you trying to run away?”“What do you want?” Hector asked in a low voice. Liam touched his nose, smiled, and put
The editor-in-chief was stunned. “What is it?”Hector looked at him and said, “Watch out for Mr. Lowe.”“Liam?” The editor-in-chief was dumbfounded. He seemed rather surprised at Hector's reminder and wondered why he had mentioned that he should be wary of Liam.“What’s wrong with him?” he asked.“Mr. Lowe has his own hidden agenda for working under you. In any case, just keep an eye on him. You'll understand it in the future.”After Hector left the office, the editor-in-chief looked at the resignation letter on his desk and fell silent.He knew the “feud” between Liam and Hector. Liam had been working under him for 10 years, and he was very familiar with his personality.Liam was flighty and impetuous, which was why he had not been promoted for so many years. Hector indeed was better than him, and he had a knack in fashion. He also knew that it was Liam who had framed Hector for stealing the watch out of his jealousy. ‘Hector is not someone who would make something up on purp
Nolan asked him to take his seat. After the editor-in-chief had taken his seat, he parted his mouth and said slowly, “My wife loves the recent beauty magazine published by your company, so she asked me to come and ask who is the editor for the recent issues.”The editor-in-chief froze.The staff beside him replied, “Isn't the editor for the recent issues of the beauty magazine Hec—”Before he could finish his sentence, he realized something and fell silent.Nolan took over the cup of tea that was handed to him and asked. “Were you trying to say Hector?”The editor-in-chief let out an embarrassed smile. “Yeah. The editor for the recent issues of beauty magazines is indeed Hector, but he resigned yesterday…”“Resigned? What happened?” Nolan asked as he sipped on his tea.The editor-in-chief sighed and answered, “Honestly, Hector is good. He's serious in his work, and he's a self-motivated person. Unfortunately, he has been in prison before, and this is a big no. Most of the people