“Which gym? I’ll meet you there.”Barbara sent her location, and Maisie took a cab over. When she got there, Barbara was done with her sets and was drenched in sweat. She wiped the sweat from her neck with a towel. “Don’t you have your hands full? Why are you here?”Maisie leaned against the door. “Because I want to.”“I’ll go change,” Barbara walked into the changing room and got out in clean clothes with a jacket. Even though it was winter, November in Bassburgh wasn’t too cold. “What’s up?”Maisie said something into her ear, and Barbara was surprised. “Me?”“I promised that I wouldn’t hurt her.” Maisie shrugged. “But, some people need to learn their lesson, or they will never behave.”Barbara buckled her belt and raised her brows. “Let me handle it.”…In the bar, the music was too loud. The customers played drinking games while the lights blinked, while women in sexy clothing danced around poles. Linda wore a maid’s outfit because she was working there. She walked ar
The manager was stunned. He looked toward Mr. Olson and Linda sitting at booth #29. Mr. Olson also sensed something was not right. Just when he was about to sneak out of the booth and run away while the police were not looking at him, a police officer pointed at him and shouted, “Hey, stay it right there!”Two police officers rushed forward and pinned Mr. Olson on the floor.Mr. Olson snarled, “No! It isn’t me! I’m innocent! I didn’t do the deed!”Linda sat on the chair, her blood running cold.The police officers watched the video again. The man in the video had the same body size and wore the same clothes as the man in front of them. “The man in the video is obviously you, and you still have the nerve to say you're innocent? Cuff him up!”One of the police officers cuffed him up.He shouted, “It was that woman! She seduced me! It was that woman who seduced me! She was the one who approached me first, not me!”Linda’s face was bloodless right now.At that moment, someone cam
Maisie mumbled, “I’m sure that’s what you’re thinking.”Nolan buried his head onto her shoulder and chuckled. “So, I’m that kind of person to you, Zee.”Before Maisie could come around to her senses, Nolan scooped her up from the floor, and the smile in his eyes deepened. “I’ve decided. Starting from tomorrow, I’ll be the kind of person you want me to be.”Maisie’s voice erupted from upstairs. “Nolan! How could you set me up again!?”The next day, at Soul…“Sigh, did Ms. Vanderbilt not come to the office again today?”“Well, Ms. Vanderbilt has been rather busy for the past six months since she returned from the branch in Stoslo. She has to rest.”Naomi was having her lunch in the staff restaurant when she overheard the conversation of the three female staff members across the table. Most of the people were eating in a group of two or more. They were all chatting and laughing, but she was alone.When the few female employees who used to take the initiative to ask her out saw her
Naomi parted her lips open and lowered her head. “I… I don’t have their contact numbers.”Other than Ryleigh, she did not have the contact numbers of her other friends.Lucy gave her a puzzled look. “What? No way. That’s too nerdy. You need to have your own friends.”Just when Naomi was about to say something, she suddenly shouted, “Watch out!”It was already too late by the time Lucy reacted. At the same time as she stomped on the brake, the front of the car hit a vehicle that was stopped in front of her waiting for a red light.Lucy forced herself to calm down, and she was slightly stunned. “Oh my gosh, I just rear-ended someone… Can you see what kind of car it is?”Lucy did not know what kind of car it was, but judging from the logo, it seemed to her that it was an expensive car, and she was worried that she couldn’t afford to pay.Naomi looked at the logo and said, “It’s a Land Rover. Looking at the model, it should be the 3.0 L6 series. It's worth at least a few hundred tho
“Either you pay the money, or none of you will leave today!” The man hissed. More and more cars began to gather around them, disrupting the traffic flow. The sound of the horn resounded continuously, and there were passersby on both sides. “How could you do that?” Lucy shouted nervously, “We already said we'd pay you, but $15,000 is too much for us. Can't we work something else out?”The man spat at the ground and said, “Work something else out? I just want money. Don't think that just because you two are women, I won't dare to do anything.”Naomi looked at him calmly and said, “The manufacturer's price for the model of your car is about $270,000, and it's the cheapest model. The annual full coverage insurance cost is $4,200, and even if you've included the gas fee, parking fee, and road toll for a year, it only takes you about $15,000 to keep a car, but you're asking for $15,000 just because of a little scratch? Go ask the insurance company yourself and see if they'll give you
Naomi looked at Francisco.‘So, he’s a prosecutor?’He was the one who had helped her last time, and then he helped her again this time.Francisco looked at Naomi and squinted. He had not recognized her until now. He had come to help them because it seemed to him that they were in trouble, and now, upon closer inspection, he felt that the woman in front of him was familiar.Naomi suddenly remembered something and pulled out $4 out of her purse. “Sir, this is the money for the coffee last time. Thank you very much.”Francisco was stunned. His memories were slowly coming back to him as he said, “Are you the woman from that day?”Naomi nodded with a smile on her face.Francisco laughed and rubbed his temples helplessly. He pushed the money back to her and said, “I think I’ve already told you that you don’t need to give me back the money. Consider it a treat from me.”“No, you have to take money. I can’t let you treat me for nothing.” Naomi pushed the money back to Francisco. “Besi
Naomi lifted her head, looked at the bonsai flowers on the windowsill, and thought of that man subconsciously again. She knew about the Bouchers and also Helios, and it was the first time she got to know the second heir of the Bouchers.…Coralia was extremely cold and was covered in snow during the winter. Maisie was wearing a white down jacket, and her face was flushed from the cold as soon as she got out of the car.Nolan wrapped a scarf around her neck and could not help but chuckle. “It’s said that women are more resistant to cold than men, yet look at you.”Maisie refuted angrily, “That’s not an absolute thing. It depends on the person too!”Nolan covered her freezing cheeks with his warm palms. “Isn’t it colder in Morwich during the winter?”Maisie responded with a hum and lowered her eyelids. “That’s why I don’t leave home.”He stroked the ends of her hair. “Let’s find ourselves a hot spring hotel to stay for the night first, and I’ll accompany you back to Vanderbilts an
At Bassburgh, at Soul…Lucy had become even closer to Naomi because of yesterday’s incident. She even sat with Naomi during lunch.Probably because Lucy had always been an enthusiastic and talkative person, and Naomi was a rather introverted woman, their interaction made it look like Naomi was very offhand with Lucy.After finishing her lunch, Naomi left the office restaurant first, and two female staff members approached Lucy. “Lulu, why are you paying so much attention to Naomi? All she’s been doing is giving the cold shoulder all this while.”“You’ve misunderstood Naomi. She didn’t ignore me.” Lucy lifted her head, looked at them, and added, “She’s actually quite a nice person instead of the sort of person that we thought she was.”“But do you know her as well as you think you do?” The female employee looked around and continued. “I heard someone saying that Naomi came to the company in a luxury car this morning, and the man who sent her looks quite old. Not to mention that she