“What’s wrong?” Chelsa asked with a puzzled face seeing Lucy go all silent.Lucy composed herself taking deep breaths. She stood up, staring at them with a straightforward gaze.“Thank you, everyone. I’m grateful to you all for respecting my decision and listening to me.”“I wouldn’t have been able to come this far without your help, so, I hope we’ll have more good times together.”She forwards her hand towards them.“I hope we will be able to all those competitors out there, and win this game. Are you with me?”.Nick came and placed his hand on top of hers. “Yes.”Chelsa also did the same, following Zoe.“Forget about the money I said earlier. I don’t need it.”“If you can become the owner of the company, I hope something good will happen, after all, you are a hard worker.”“This company has a big future if you lead it. So, I want you to win and become the CEO of Campbell Enterprise.” “I hope you won’t disappoint me.” Lucy nodded. “I’ll try my best not to disappoint you.”“You bet!
Noir and Robin left together. Chris watched them go.“I wasn’t able to tell him what I wanted to say even now.” he clenched his fists out of frustration.“Hope, I’ll be able to say it by today.”Lucy and her co-workers went to a family restaurant and ate and talked about the test given by her grandpa.They discussed everything while eating. Henry went to the restaurant. He took out his phone and dialed the number of Noir.She didn’t pick up the phone. He again called two to three times, but she didn’t pick up.“Isn’t she able to hear her phone ringing?”.“Why she’s not picking up my call?”.He was about to dial again but then stopped.“Maybe she’s busy, No point in calling any further.”“I’ll just text her.”“That’ll work.”He returned to where the others were.“It was a nice day we spent together. Thank you for this opportunity Chelsa.” Lucy said, standing up.Everyone looked at Chelsa.She became surprised herself why she said that about him.“What? What did I do?”.“You were the on
Noir shot up glances at him, as her lips curled into a smile. “You don’t understand?”.“No, I don’t!”.“Why are you telling people to kidnap, Laila? What has she done to you?”.“Hm, she has done nothing, but…..”.“But?”.“Your existence is quite painful for me.”“You are trying to get in the way of my plan.” “And, I definitely can’t let that happen.” “Your plan?”.“Why do you want to reveal me in front of Robin? What will you be getting from this?”.Chris gulped, clenching his fists.“I’m….definitely not trying to do that.”“Then why did you call Robin to this house?”.“Was It just to meet him?”.“Y-yeah…..”.“Don’t lie.”“You were trying to look for ways to say that Uncle and I were plotting something together.”“And don’t even think about denying it! Why do you want to reveal me?”.“That’s……”.Chris heaved a sigh and looked up at her.“Don’t involve my daughter in this.”“Why do you want to get in between young master and his wife?”.“What have they done to you?”.“They love each
Chris sighs, heaving a deep breath.“No matter how much you try. You can’t force your love onto someone else.”“Love doesn’t work like this.” His statement echoed into her ears.She almost backed away in attempt.“You…..”.“You are wrong!” she gritted onto her teeth.“He’ll love me!”.“He has to love me after Lucy’s gone. When she won’t be beside him any longer, he has to love me!”.“And, I’m sure that’s going to happen. You mark my words!”.Chris took a step forward, fixing his posture to give her a straight gaze.“You need to see the reality sitting in front of you.”“Just because Young Master is not familiar to your real identity, you can’t use him like this. He loves his wife, and they both are in love with each other. You are trying forceful ways to tear them apart. At the end, you will only fail and get hurt.”“So, it’s good to back away when you can, and also have the time to do it.”“You’ll never have his love this way. He won’t love you when he learns that you tried various w
Gray’s nose flared in anger as his eyebrows narrowed onto Robin.“You…..you mongrel!” he shouted, about to slap him hard on the face. But then something happened.Robin stopped the slap with his hands right away.Gray purred at him.“What are you doing?”.“You don’t have the right to slap me in the middle of the street with so many people around watching us,” Robin replied with a smile.“You are going to ruin your image, you know?”.“And what do you care about my image?” Gray yelled back.“How dare you hold onto my hand?”.“Leave it!”.Robin slowly pulled away his hand and removed Gray’s hands from his collar.“Have a nice day.” He goes back into the car after this statement.Gray watched their car go away.Gray clenched his fists tightly in anger.“Ugh!”.“Why did I have to cross paths with that scoundrel?”.“He has gotten a lot cockier than before. We need to shed off all anger from his head.”“He needs to be taught a lesson.”He recalled something and smiled.“We have her anyway. W
“Is that Lucy?” he dashed towards the bathroom right away.He stood outside the door and knocked on it.“Lucy!”.“Are you alright?”.“Can you hear me?”.“Hey!”.She gave no response back. He stood there all puzzled unable to understand what was going on.“Lucy!”.He heard another groaning noise coming from inside the room. He was able to understand she was in pain or something else.“I should check her out. What if she’s not in any condition to call out?”.“I should go inside.” He placed his hand on the doorknob feeling hesitant.“Is this alright for me to “.He kicked aside all the hesitation and without a second thought enters through the door.“Lucy, are you alright-“ his eyes searched for the figure only to see her sitting on the ground with her knees hugged closer to her chest.The shower was on, and she was sitting there getting wet. Water was dripping down from her hair. she sat with the white towel wrapped around her chest which was already drenched with water that came down f
Lucy’s cheeks became redder with each passing second. She clutched onto the towel tightly out of frustration.“What is this?”.“This only makes me look like a bad person who doesn’t know how to accept her faults.”“This is not fair for him to do that.”“If he apologizes for his mistakes, then I should……..”.“Gosh!”.“Why’s it so much harder to apologize as an grown up adult?”.“It wasn’t so much hard to do it in the past. But now, it’s hard to apologize.”“Who told him to be so honest with me?”.She looked down at her hands, then at his face.She removed her hand from his hold, and adverted her eyes away.“I’m…….”.“Also sorry for going anywhere I wanted without informing you.”“That day, I was angry at you so I accepted Henry’s proposal of eating lunch out and then we bumped into each other in the taxi.”“I’m sorry for behaving rudely with you after that. You didn’t deserve any of the behaviors I did with you.”“I’m sorry for everything that I have done to you these past days.” “yo
“Why did she call me suddenly?”. Christina puts down the phone.Suddenly she received a call from Richard.“Yes.”“Noir called me.”“What did she talk about?”.“Just getting enough information about my whereabouts.”“Oh.”“Maybe she doesn’t mean any harm. But still, be careful. Don’t leak any information about you.”“Sure. I’m hanging up for now.”She puts away her phone and looked out through the window.“Noir, what exactly are you planning? I just can’t get the suspicion off.”“How did she know Uncle was talking with me earlier in the morning?”.“Was she spying on him?”.Noir cuts the call and sits down on her bed with a thumping sound.“Gosh, she’s so nosy.”“I wonder if she suspected me or anything like that.”“But the way she was talking, she sounded quite strange.” “I wonder why?”.“If she’s not working with Uncle, then he would have said something about her to me right? There’s no point in him lying to me.”“Maybe, all of it is just my imagination and nothing else.”Meanwhile,