Linda trembled and lifted her head. She hugged his leg and pleaded, “Mr. Donovan, I… I didn’t want to run. It’s… It’s just that that person is too scary. I don’t want to serve him. He… He’ll kill me!”Mr. Donovan grabbed her hair and said, “This is the path you’ve chosen, and now you’re telling me that you don’t want to serve him?”He gave her a slap, causing her face to swell up.Mr. Donovan then spat on the ground and continued. “You have two choices now. Either you give me $150,000, or you go back and apologize to the customer. If not, I’ll kill you. Right here, right now.”Linda scrambled up from the ground and got on her knees. “I… I’ll pay you! I’ll pay you!” She did not want to go back to face that mad customer anymore. She would die!“Three days.” Mr. Donovan grabbed her hair and forced her to look him in the eyes. “If I don’t receive money from you in three days, I’ll shred you to pieces and throw you into the river to feed the fish.”After that, he left with his men,
“Maisie, do… Do you think I’m lying to you? I’m not lying!” Linda said flusteredly. It went without saying that she couldn’t tell Maisie that she knew about it. She was worried Maisie wouldn’t lend her the money if she told her.“Linda, you should be well aware that I don’t like it when other people lie to me. People who have lied once will need even more lies to cover up their previous lies. If you knew the nature of the work when you signed the contract, then you deserve what happened to you today. If you were cheated, I will help you lawfully pay the compensation,” Maisie said calmly.Linda was devastated when she heard what Maisie said. “Maisie, are you really not going to lend me $150,000? I'm your cousin! What do you care about $150,000 with your current status?”“$150,000 are money too.” Maisie’s face turned stern. “Money doesn’t grow on trees. You indeed are my cousin, but I don’t have an obligation to help you. You should be grateful that I’m willing to lend the money to yo
Cecile rolled the window up and drove away, leaving Linda standing frozen stiff on the spot. She looked at the name card in her hand and pressed her lips thin.In the evening, at the Blue Bay villa…After Maisie finished her bath, she wrapped herself and her wet hair with a towel. She stood in front of her dressing table and pulled out her face cream.When Nolan came into the room, he threw the jacket on his arm to the bed and hugged her from the back. He leaned closer and whispered into her ear, “What a surprise. The first thing I see after I come back is such a beautiful scene. She looked at him back through the mirror and asked, “Sometimes I really wonder what’s in your head.”He chuckled deeply. “What’s in my head? It’s all about you, Zee.”She was applying cream on her face right now. She turned her head around, and just when she attempted to wipe the remaining cream on her hand to his face, he avoided her and grabbed her wrist. He giggled and said, "You're so naughty, Zee.
“I see.” The receptionist nodded and said something to the other female employee.The female employee no longer doubted Linda, so she approached her to take over. “You just started working. All the teas that you see here are reserved especially for the administration department. Ms. Vanderbilt likes to drink Earl Grey, and the temperature mustn’t be too hot.”Linda nodded, staring at the teapot she had poured the powder into.After the female employee poured water into the teapot, she boiled the pot on the induction cooker. A few minutes passed while they were waiting for the water to boil, and Linda did not dare to speak too much for fear of being discovered.When the water started boiling, the female employee placed a tea bag she took out of a box reserved exclusively for Maisie into the thermos and poured the water into it.Linda took a deep breath as she started to perspire profusely on her temples. But she calmed down as soon as she thought about what the woman had told her,
After saying that, Quincy stood with his arms akimbo and complained, “It’s not easy to be someone’s personal assistant nowadays. Delivering food for my boss is one of the errands I have to run while I’m not managing the company for him. And my salary gets deducted instead of increasing…”Saydie glanced at him expressionlessly. “I’ll pass this message on to Mr. Goldmann without leaving out a single word.”“Don’t!” Quincy shut up immediately and then looked around with an aggrieved face. “I was just joking around, Ma’am. I’m begging you. We’ve been working together for three years now. Can we please just live together peacefully?”His gaze then landed on the report and thermos that were in Saydie’s hand. “What are these?”Saydie handed the report to him. “See it for yourself.”Quincy’s expression changed slightly when he skimmed through the report.Saydie returned to the office and passed the report results to Maisie. She also reported to her that she had run into Quincy downstairs
Linda did not overthink it as she urgently needed money now. Thus, she hung up the phone and hurried across the road, but a car appeared out of nowhere and rammed into her.A loud shriek pierced through the stagnant air, and Linda was knocked into the air, flew in the air, and landed a few feet away from the car. One of her shoes fell off, and the screen of the cell phone beside her shattered.Her face landed on the ground, and she seemed to be staring straight ahead with an unwilling gaze. Her fingertips trembled as her pupils gradually dilated, and a pool of scarlet blood oozed out from behind her head.A man walked up to her, picked up her phone with a gloved hand, pulled out the SIM and SD card, broke them forcibly, and threw them into the flowerbed in the middle of the road.He then walked back to the parked car and got into the car. Cecile, who was sitting in the rear seat, retracted her gaze as the corners of her cherry lips twitched. “Let’s go.”…Maisie called Hector, ob
“Mother, please just stop. Linda is already lying in the morgue, so what else do you want?” Yorick felt very upset too.Madam Vanderbilt shut up wisely.Maisie did not take Madam Vanderbilt’s words to heart and looked at Yorick. “I’ll pay for the funeral’s expenses. We’ll get to the bottom of the incident when we find out about the cause of the accident.”At Blackgold…Quincy walked next to Nolan. “Mr. Goldmann, I’ve located the nightclub for which Linda worked before this. The owner is known locally as Mr. Donovan, and he runs an illegal loan shark organization. His nightclub business isn’t clean either, as he provides special services for his guests.“I also found out that he often exploits his female employees, deceiving them into taking nude loans from him. When they cannot pay him back, he’ll get them to serve guests according to his requirements.”Nolan’s gaze looked keen. “Who does he have supporting him from behind the scenes?”Quincy skimmed through the information. “Am
The wording on her nametag showed that she was Cecile Wolfsbane from the strategy department.Cecile had a jacket in her hands, and Maisie was very familiar with the custom-made jacket that Nolan wore to the office earlier this morning.Maisie raised his eyebrows slightly and chuckled. “Miss, is there anything that I can help you with?”Cecile lowered her gaze and handed her the jacket. “Mr. Goldmann has dropped this jacket. Since you’re his wife, please return it to him for me. Thank you.”Maisie took a glimpse at the jacket in Cecile’s hand, and her gaze shifted onto Cecile’s face. She did not grab the jacket directly from Cecile but asked Saydie to grab it for her instead.Saydie took the jacket into her hands, and Maisie walked into the elevator with her without uttering another word.The moment the elevator’s doors slowly closed, isolating the people on both sides of the doors, Cecile smirked out of the blue. She glanced at her reflection in the mirror, and her face was fill