Waylon turned to look at her. “Why do you ask that?”Cameron looked helpless. “He always has a smile plastered on his face ever since you came over. Even Nollace doesn’t receive this treatment.”Waylon smiled. “I guess it’s our fault.”Cameron thought for a while and leaned closer to him. “Are you going to acquire the Southern Clan?”Why else would her father think of them as ‘family’?Waylon looked at how serious she looked and couldn't help but smile. “What do you think?”“I—”The rolled-up newspaper hit her foot, and she looked up at Sunny. “You keep making your own assumptions. There’s no acquisition. Do you think money falls from the sky? Acquisitions don’t happen so easily.”Cameron picked up the newspaper. “How you treat them is so different.”Sunny smirked and looked proud. She just couldn’t understand.“Fine, I’ll leave then.” She gave the paper to Waylon, then turned and left. Daisie was going to go after her, but Sunny stopped her. “Willy, go speak to that kid. H
Cameron blinked. Her brain snapped back, and she pushed Waylon away. “You startled me!”She didn’t notice and hit his arm, which made him wince.Cameron extended her hand to grab him. “Did I hit your wound? Let me see.”She then proceeded to take off his clothes. Waylon grabbed her hand. “I’m fine.”“Let me take a look. If you’re bleeding again, we’ll go back and ask them to redo your bandages.” Cameron rambled on while Waylon gripped her wrist and took a deep breath. “Are you sure this is the best place to take off my clothes?”Cameron paused and looked back toward the entrance of the hospital. Everyone was looking at them with weird expressions. To them, one of the men was trying to remove the clothing of the other one. Was that appropriate?More importantly, Waylon’s shirt started creasing, and since he was trying to stop her, it looked like he was being sexually harassed.She let go of him but wasn’t done with it. She dragged him into the hospital. “I’ll check in the con
Sunny nodded. “That’s fine. What about Mateo?”Mahina replied. “I’ve informed Mateo. He’s loyal to Joaqin, so he won’t ignore anything that involves him.”Sunny raised his brows. “What about Cam?”Mahina hesitated, but it was best not to hide it. “She… went to see Mr. Puzo.”…Meanwhile, when Fabio heard that Cameron tried to meet him, he squinted. Before he could reply, someone next to him sounded very careful. “Mr. Southern is as cunning as his old man. He probably wants to meet you to talk about The Serpents.”They had caught wind that Joaqin was still alive, but they didn’t care whether Manuel was the one who tried to kill him. Now that The Serpents were under them, The Southern Clan would have to meet them to talk about this.Fabio took a drag of his cigarette. After a long pause, he crushed the bud in the ashtray. “Where is he?”“He’s at Parkin.”Cameron sat in the main hall of the Parkin Chamber of Commerce. Everyone there had their guards up and stood in two rows.
Cameron caressed her watch and chuckled. “Do you really think Manuel will be loyal to you?”Fabio replied matter-of-factly, “I don’t know if he’ll be loyal to me or not, but one thing I’m very sure of is that he doesn’t have the guts to do anything wild in my place.”“Yeah, you’re right. After all, if he dares to do anything wild, you won’t be using him anymore.”Fabio frowned as he seemed to be mulling over her sentence.Cameron’s smile deepened as she continued. “A subordinate who suddenly gained the power to govern over an organization. Initially, he's supposed to serve you, but we don't even know who he's serving. After all, I'm pretty sure that you're not the one who instructed him to do what he's doing, right, Mr. Puzo?”Her words were sharp, and the atmosphere froze. There was dead silence in the hall, and nobody dared to make even the slightest noise.Fabio took a sip from his tea as his face sank.It was only now that he realized how good Cameron was at talking. She had
Cameron was stunned. “Daisie?”‘She was here to pack some snacks just now?’When Damian realized that Cameron was not into Daisie, his face sank. “Cam, tell me honestly, do you not like women?”He had been a friend of Sunny since Cameron was a kid. In other words, he was the one who watched Cameron grow up and treated him like he was his nephew.Cameron was stunned. “What makes you think that?”Damian picked up the cup and replied, “There have been rumors going around here lately, and all of them are saying that you’re into men.”She rose to her feet and asked, “Who started the rumors?”Damian said helplessly, “I heard it from a little bird. They said you were being touchy-touchy with Mr. Goldmann in front of the hospital. Plus, you don't have any girlfriend at your age, so you can't blame people for being suspicious of your gender orientation. If... If you really don't like women, then... Sunny won't have any descendants.”Sunny had only one son, and if he was homosexual, then
Daisie turned her head away. “I don’t believe you.”Nollace chuckled deeply and grabbed her into his arms. Before she could do anything, his warm and wet lips claimed hers.Daisie placed her hands on his shoulders, trying to push him away but to no avail.They kissed for a long while, and he only released her after she nearly suffocated. Daisie pushed him away in anger. “Nollace!”He fell onto the couch, bringing Daisie along with him. He chuckled and coiled his arms around her waist to secure her tightly in his embrace. “I promise you. This will be the last time.”Daisie looked fixedly at his face. There was a serious expression sitting on his face as she said, “If you lie to me again, I’ll find another husband.”Even though she tried to make herself look angry, he felt she was adorable. He couldn’t help himself and grabbed her into his arms. As he chuckled, he said, “Do you need me to introduce someone to you?”She raised her eyebrows and asked, “Really? Remember to introduc
Fabio sat on the sofa in his bathrobe and put his arm around the blonde beauty beside him. The beauty was nestled in his arms, smiling at him obediently.Manuel walked forward and lowered his head. “Mr. Puzo.”Fabio lifted the glass on the table in front of him and nudged at the beauty. As the beauty poured wine into the glass, he asked, “I heard that you secretly took the money from The Commune's account into your own pocket?”Manuel was stunned.Even Joaqin did not know that he had taken the money, so how would Fabio know about it?As Fabio took a sip from the glass of wine, he lifted his eyes to look at him grimly. “It seems like Cameron wasn’t lying at all. You indeed have taken the money.”Manuel felt a chill down his spine. He did not expect Cameron to realize the missing money on The Commune’s account at all.‘D*mn it! Why does he have to get in my way every time!?’“Mr. Puzo, it’s true that I took the money.”He did not dare to lie to Fabio. Mustering up courage, he sa
Daisie replied in a serious voice, “No way! The first rule in chess is that we must go all out regardless of who we're playing with. If you lose, you lose.”Cameron crossed her arms in front of her chest and said, “Dad, just admit that you’re not as good as her. Stop bullying a little girl.”Cameron sighed. “There's no one to continue my bloodline. Is there anything worse than that?”Daisie couldn’t help herself and laughed.Cameron then said with a straight face, “You talk as if I can really help you to pass on your lineage.”Sunny picked up a cup of tea and sighed. “But how are you going to explain it this time?”She did not want to waste her time with him, so she said, “Alright, let’s stop that. I have something to discuss with you.”Sunny became serious and asked, “What is it about?”Daisie knew she shouldn’t stay here, so she rose to her feet and said, “Then I’ll go back to my room first.”Cameron sat on Daisie’s seat and filled him with everything she had said to Fabio y