‘The two rugrats have mastered the skills of buttering someone up.’Kennedy nodded all of a sudden. “If that’s the case, Mr. Boucher is really doing his best in helping us to promote our products. Although we’re profiting from this association with him without any condition being named beforehand, we can’t just take advantage of him without expressing any appreciation.”“Yeah, I understand that.” Maisie smiled with her arms crossed. “I’ll see if I can treat Mr. Boucher to a meal or something when I’m free someday in the future.”Ordinary people would not even dare to think about buying Mr. Boucher a meal, but she could not take advantage of Mr. Boucher without doing anything in return. Thus, she could only repay his favor with a meal after giving it a good thought.When speaking of returning favors, Francisco from the training camp came to her mind too.‘It’s depressing to admit this, but how did I end up owing favors to both the Boucher heirs?’At noon, everyone had gone out for
Nolan stared at her with his tender gaze, feeling a sense of satisfaction deep down.‘I’ve “trained” my little wild cat well.’He pulled her fingers nearer to him and kissed them. His eyes were filled with hints of dangerous lust. “Would you still go to a bar in the future? Huh?”“No, I won’t go to one again.”“Really?”Maisie hauled his hand away from her and gave off a wrathful laugh. “Yes, can we eat now?”There was a knock on the door.Nolan’s eyes narrowed slightly, and his voice sounded cold and indifferent. “Come in.”Rowena walked in with some documents and was about to say something, but a trace of abhorrence flashed across her eyes when she saw Maisie sitting beside Nolan with a table full of delicious lunch.“Is there something that demands my attention?” Nolan’s attitude toward her was still very cold.Rowena suppressed the resentment in her heart and forced a smile. “I’m here to inform you that the project meeting with Gleaming Mountain Inc. is about to start.”
If this was the past, Nolan would probably be a useless king! And that useless son of his, the father-and-son duo were the same. They even worked together to rebel!Rowena advised in a low voice, “Don’t be angry, Grandpa. I think the problem is Ms. Vanderbilt instead of Nolan.”“What do you mean?” Titus asked. Rowena pouted. “Grandpa, if I told you, Nolan would say that I was complaining to you.”“Don’t worry, I’m on your side. Just say it as it is.” Titus showed that he would support her. That made Rowena slowly say, “Ms. Vanderbilt kept bothering Nolan and wanted him to bring her to the meeting. And her attitude toward me was horrendous. She probably thinks that I’m a threat to her.“She targeted me at the camp for no reason. On the day of her assessment, Nolan suddenly went to the camp with me. I think she probably told him something, and that was why he didn’t trust me.”She was trying to paint Maisie as the troublemaker, and if it weren’t for her, Nolan wouldn't be so rec
Cherie shook her head. “No. The people who saw Wynona all said that she was fine. No one knew how she got hold of the knife.”“Was no one guarding?”“No.”Maisie had her answer, so she fell deep in thought. Someone could have entered the interrogation room to see her without a guard. Seeing that she was still concerned about Wynona, Cherie smiled and said, “Alright, Maisie, no need to be concerned about that. We’ll look into it.”After Cherie left, Maisie leaned back on her seat and picked up the crushed jade ring. Even though she thought that it had been ‘violated’ by Rowena, it was a present that Nolan had gotten for her, so she decided to restore it. In the evening, Maisie went to the underground garage. When she got in front of the car, a person suddenly walked close to her. She raised her hand but was immediately held down by her waist on top of the car. The man smiled. “Trying to ambush me?”Maisie relaxed when she saw that it was Nolan. “You’re the one who’s trying to a
Daisy’s eyes reddened, and she didn’t say anything. Colton hugged her to console her and stared at Titus. “We don’t want food from this woman.”To them, anyone who wanted to take their father away from their mother would be a bad woman.Even though Rowena was disappointed, she still looked gracious. “It’s alright, Grandpa, don’t blame the children.”This little girl would get what she deserved one day. Titus angrily slammed the table, his anger scaring everyone. “I’m not your grandpa nor your father. If they pampered you in the past, I’m going to change your bad attitude. Apologize to Aunt Rowena!”Colton and Daisy were obviously startled by his anger, but they were still stubborn and refused to apologize. Waylon angrily looked toward Titus. “We don’t need to apologize to her.”Mr. Cheshire almost had a heart attack when he heard that. How could this little child talk back to Titus?Titus was shocked. This child was extremely hostile, but he had to subdue these children.
Waylon was going to grow up into someone extraordinary. The smell of the spaghetti floated into his nostrils and made that old man hungry. Daisie noticed that and brought her plate over. With watery and innocent eyes, she said, “Great-grandpa, do you want some?”Titus paused. He had yelled at this child in the evening, but now she was willing to share her food?Titus still had to keep his pride, so he cleared his throat, turned his face away, and said, “Don’t think that I will forgive you just because you did this.”Daisie lowered her head and took her plate back, disappointed. “We know that you don’t love us.”The old man widened his eyes. “Who says I don’t love you—”“There’s some left in the pot if you want some. If not, it’s fine.” Waylon cut him off. Titus was rendered speechless. Had he grown too old? How could these three children walk over his ‘fierceness’?Forget it. There was no point arguing with children. Titus took a plate for himself. He wanted to try out Wa
She smiled and tried to get closer to him. “Waylon, didn’t you go out with your sister today?”Waylon coldly looked at her, and when he walked past her, he said in a disgusted tone, “Stop trying. Even if you try to put ideas in Great-grandpa’s head, you will never replace Mommy.”Rowena froze on the spot. She watched the little boy walk upstairs and was a little shocked. Putting aside the fierceness this little five-year-old had in his eyes, how would he know that she was putting ideas in Titus’ head?Her hands that were at her sides curled into fists. They were indeed from that woman’s womb—difficult, just like her!At that moment, she received a text from an unknown number. [Didn’t you say you were going to get me out of the Underground Freeway? I told you everything. When are you going to do what you promised?]Rowena knew immediately that the text was from Willow. Yes, she had forgotten that Willow was a ‘knife’ that she could use!…After Willow escaped with the help of a
Maisie knew that the three rugrats had no reason to lie, and she was fully aware that Rowena was a hypocrite. Since Titus trusted Rowena so much, it would be a piece of cake for her to sow discord between them. Before she could ask anything, Helios and his two assistants appeared outside of the door.Daisie rushed up to Helios and tugged at his hand. “Uncle Helios. Come and meet my mommy!”However, Helios had known about it a long time ago.He offered Daisie a smile and patted her head. He then looked at Maisie and asked, “I've kept you waiting, haven't I?”Maisie responded with a smile and said, “We just arrived not long ago as well.”After they took their seat, Daisie climbed into the seat beside Maisie. Her mother was all hers today, and she would help her brothers to eat their share. “I heard from Waylon that you've been taking care of both of them on the set, Mr. Boucher. I hope they didn't give you too much trouble.”Daisie puffed her cheek out and said, “I didn’t give