The following morning, Yvette was eager to prepare carrot oatmeal, only to discover that there were no carrots left. Despite her extensive search, she couldn't locate any. Hence, she had to improvise with other ingredients. Meanwhile, Xavier had left early in the morning, claiming he was headed to the hospital....In the dimly lit basement, Claude slowly opened his eyes to find himself tightly bound to a chair. His forehead was bleeding, and there were painful wounds all over his body.From across the room, a voice broke the silence. "Mr. Lane, he's tough. I brought in 15 guys, and every single one of them got hurt. It took a lot of effort to restrain him," Mark reported to Xavier.Claude glanced in the direction of the voice and spotted Xavier sitting on the chair across from him, exuding an air of nonchalance.Mark noticed that he had regained consciousness and quickly informed Xavier, "He's awake."Claude knew that Xavier's subordinates were behind the attack yesterday. No
To Karen, it seemed that what Xavier gave her was just a piece of paper. Was he a madman?When Yvette got back, Karen tugged at her and said, "Your husband's quite good looking, but he's a bit weird. I made smoked bacon, so I brought some over, and he gave me a piece of paper instead. He even asked me to fill some numbers in."She tried to express it as indirectly as possible, without saying that Xavier was a lunatic.Yvette knew that Karen had misunderstood, but she didn't want to correct her. She had no choice but to admit that Xavier had an odd temper indeed."Thanks for the smoked bacon. Next time, don't look for him when he's the only one at home. You can come to me when I'm back.""Alright." After seeing Yvette off, Karen found herself feeling sorry for her. Why had a nice woman like Yvette married a blind, insane man? Hadn't Yvette been born with a silver spoon in her mouth and married a wealthy man?Yvette had just returned after visiting Noah at the hospital. She had a
Yvette had returned to Sangine County to accompany Viola during her last days. She didn't want Viola to have any regrets before she passed. Yet, she hadn't expected to be involved with Xavier and the rest of the Lane family.Pulling away from her thoughts, Yvette replied, "I'll release the next song during Christmas."She had finishing writing the song. Yet, there were still some minor imperfections that troubled her."Alright." Cynthia typed away on her keyboard. "I'll announce it on all major platforms.""Okay, sure."Since Yvette had become popular, she had started to announce her new releases online, unless the songs were meant for her close friends. After the announcements, companies and singers would reach out, asking for quotations.Usually, Cynthia was the one in charge of discussing about the price and collaboration matters. The only exception had been last time, when Yvette had lacked money to run the company and had resorted to finding Tony.Now that the company wasn'
The moment Yvette saw the woman in the video, she was reminded of when Yara when the latter had been younger.As a child, Yvette had admired Yara, who had debuted as a ballet performer. She used to secretly watch videos of Yara dancing. "Boss, are you done? What do you think?" Cynthia asked.Coming to her senses, Yvette assumed she might've mistaken Zoey for someone else. "It's pretty decent, but I'd still like to wait.""Alright, I'll save their contact information.""Okay." Yvette then hung up.She didn't dare rewatch the video. The moment it played, she got flashbacks of her childhood. She recalled how she had told Yara she had wanted to learn ballet, only to have the latter sneer at her."Why should a deaf person like you learn ballet? Can you hear the rhythm? Can you keep up with it? Don't humiliate me."Despite that, Yvette had gone on the stage and won countless awards. However, Yara had never complimented her once."Why are you even working so hard? Some achievements
Xavier and Yvette were sitting quite close to each other. While listening to her, he could smell her nice body scent. He gulped. Recently, he had started to have dreams about their past, including their intimate moments."Do you still not believe me?" he asked. His voice was hoarse. Yvette looked at him. Figuring that he wouldn't lie, she shook her head. "No, I'm just thinking that you're amazing. Although you can't see, you can play the piano. You even helped me amend my piece."The helplessness in her voice gave him a clue as to why she had sounded so sad when he had come in. Her spirit seemed to wither. "Because I have to excel," he said softly.She was stunned.He continued, "I've been dreaming about my childhood lately. I took all kinds of classes. I was groomed to be the heir of the family. I had no choice but to grow up."He paused momentarily before continuing, "Even today, it's the same. If I'm not good enough, how can I look after you and your baby?"Yvette didn'
Zachary was clearly putting Xavier in a difficult spot, and Viola could tell immediately.Right when she was going to refuse the offer, Xavier piped up, "Yes, I'll go fishing tonight."That caught the ladies surprised. Yvette wondered, "Why so suddenly?"Viola wasn't buying it. It was the cold winter, and the frozen layer over the river would be at least 12 inches thick. How was he going to catch fish from the river? Even if he was going to bluff, he should've made up something reasonable. But reality proved them otherwise. There was nearly nothing that money couldn't do. At 10:00 pm, freshly caught fish was delivered to their doorstep! It was Viola's favorite—carp!Xavier handed the fish over to Yvette. She then quickly made some soup with the fresh ingredients. She left some fish to share with the neighbors later, too.Yvette wasn't curious about how Xavier had gotten the fish. After all, people were willing to help as long as they were paid. However, Viola didn't want t
The car slowed down to a stop at the entrance of Seasons Hotel.Sitting in the car, Kiki stared at the inside of the hotel. Emotions swirled in her. Forcing herself to calm down, she alighted from the car with Zachary. Yvette got out of the car too.Zachary looked at his watch. It was almost time, but the man wasn't here yet! Did he not want to earn money? What a bad service! If Zachary could leave feedback somewhere about the man, he would surely give the man zero stars!On the other hand, Kiki hadn't taken his words seriously. After all, how could a kid find her a plus-one who was better than Leonard? She looked over her shoulder at Yvette. "Yvvy, I'm so nervous."Yvette stepped forward to hold her hand. "Relax. I'm here with you."All these years, Kiki hadn't gotten into a new relationship because of Leonard—not that she hadn't had any suitors; she had turned all of them down. Back when she had just returned to the country, the first thing she had done was look for Leonar
Since Kiki was a CEO's daughter, Olivia believed Leonard would definitely benefit from keeping in touch with her. Alas, Yvette saw through Olivia's intentions. As the realization struck her, she could no longer be bothered showing Olivia any respect. She didn't even care that Leonard was there with them."Oh, I see. You sure are a selfless mother. Your son is getting married, and you're helping him find mistresses. Does your future daughter-in-law know?" Without waiting for Olivia to response, Yvette continued, "Kiki isn't hung up on your son; she's here to attend the wedding. She only wants to see which proper lady is going to be ruined by your family."After speaking, Yvette coldly looked at Leonard. "Mr. Cook, I can finally see where you got your personality from. If you're just going to stand there and let your mother say things like that, do you even deserve to be a lawyer?"Before she'd come to the wedding, she hadn't known Olivia's true colors; she'd thought that Leonard