Sharon pursed her lips silently. She was well aware that Eugene’s family background would only be more complicated considering he was the head of the Newton family. She merely believed that the happenings within the Newton family had nothing to do with her.She and Eugene were no more than friends right now. If anything, Eugene just happened to care for her as if she was his long-lost sister. Their relationship was hardly complicated at all.Not to mention that she was a normal office worker for the company. There was no reason for her to be involved with the Newton family.Yet here was Eugene’s brother employing a group of men to kidnap her. ‘Did I somehow get myself involved in the Newton family’s infighting?‘Am I that important to Eugene?’Seeing how she was remaining silent, Simon’s gaze darkened slightly and he spoke indifferently, “Do you believe me now?”She looked up to meet his eyes and spoke after a moment of silence, “I’ll ask Eugene about what happened tonight, then.
The man immediately leaned into her, pinching her chin with his long fingers. “I’m not in the mood to kid around. I mean it, be mine.” His tone held no room for protest.However, anger began to fill Sharon instead as she said, “My apologies, but I can’t agree.”He had a fiancée whom he was going to marry one day. ‘Isn’t he just trying to hurt me with such an overbearing request?’“You just said you’d agree to anything else.”“I… I said nothing illegal or unethical. I’m not going to be your mistress!”“I never said you had to be my mistress.”“You have a fiancée. Being your woman now makes me a mistress by default, no?”The man pursed his thin lips as his dark eyes grew deeper. She felt his gaze suck her in as he lightly caressed her lips with his thumb and whispered in a low raspy voice, “That won’t affect you coming back to my side...” Sharon’s pupils contracted. She could not believe such irresponsible words had come out of his mouth!Looking at the man before her, Sharon s
“Yeah, it’s my brother.” At the thought of this brother of his, a cold glint flashed in Eugene’s eyes. This gentleman’s gaze actually had a trace of frost in them now. He did not want to think of such a man.Sharon had heard before that Eugene had three older brothers. Eugene was the youngest, so the Newton family tended to refer to him as ‘Fourth Young Master’.“Why would your brother want to kidnap me?”After all this while, Sharon had only met his third brother Jim and not the older two.She had no unknown history with them, so why were they picking on her?Eugene hid the icy look on his face but his brows were still furrowed. “Perhaps he heard from someone that you’re my new girlfriend and he wanted to meet you.”Sharon looked shocked. “He wants to meet me?” ‘By kidnapping me?‘These people from the Newton family are so weird!‘The most unjust part of this all is that I’m not even his girlfriend!’“I’ll talk to him about this. Don’t worry, it won’t happen again.”“Yea,
...Augury Court, a medieval-style villa where Austin lived.It had been a long time since Eugene came and he was only here today because of the incident of Sharon almost getting kidnapped.As he sat on the mahogany furniture in the living room, a sinister chill could be felt with all the medieval-style furniture within the large and quiet space. It ran a shiver down Eugene’s spine.Austin liked medieval-styled things and like the man himself, they gave off a sinister chill.After a short moment of sitting in the chair, Eugene finally heard the sound of a wheelchair grinding against the tiles. Austin was here.Following that, Austin was pushed into view on his wheelchair.“Austin,” Eugene greeted. There was not a shred of affection on his face. He would not be here if not for Sharon.Austin was around his 40s and was a slim man. No one knew what was wrong with his legs that bound him to a wheelchair.“It’s a surprise to see you here, Eugene. Why’d you visit so suddenly?” The c
It was time to clock out and Sharon was packing her things when her phone dinged in a notification of a message. Tapping on it, she realized that it was from an unknown number: [Come down. I’m waiting for you at the entrance.]Reading the message, Sharon assumed that it was another disturbing message from Howard. ‘So he’s waiting for me at the office entrance?‘Does he want me to call the police on him for harassment?’She quickly packed her things. She needed to make it clear that Howard had to stop disturbing her!Angrily exiting the office building’s entrance, Sharon looked around but saw no sign of Howard at all. ‘Where are you hiding, you b*stard?’Someone then patted her shoulder from behind. “Miss Jeans.”Startled, Sharon turned around to see a professional smile on Franky’s face. “Why are you here?”“Mr. Zachary has been waiting for you for a very long time. Please come with me.” He pointed at the black Maybach stopped on the opposite side of the street.She could not
Darkness started to emanate from within the man’s eyes. “Why can’t I see you here?”“This is Eugene Newton’s company!”“I know,” he answered indifferently. So far, there had not been a place where he could not go as long as he wanted to.Sharon glared at him. She could not have given an explanation that was clearer than that. Why was he pretending to be dumb?“Fine. You’re not scared, but don’t you dare affect me. I don’t want anyone to see us together; I don’t want them to misunderstand what’s going on between us.”“What’s going on between us?” He caught on to her words immediately.“We…”When she noticed the cold smirk that danced between his eyebrows, she choked on her words.As he watched her, Simon’s black eyes slowly sank into darkness until not a single sliver of light could pierce through. Her silence was truly infuriating.His large hand gripped her chin forcefully as he said, “Sharon, is it that unbearable to be with me?” Did she find him embarrassing?This time, Sh
Sebastian said he wanted to eat pasta, so Simon brought them to a pasta restaurant and got themselves a private room.Sharon felt that her throat was getting dry recently and ordered carbonara for herself, carefully avoiding anything spicy.Riley ordered everything available on the menu. Knowing that Simon was buying them the meal, it would be an act of disrespect if she did not try to take advantage of him, no?Sharon was somewhat grateful that Riley came along with them. Otherwise, she would have to sit through an awkward meal with Simon and Sebastian. After all, she had just displeased him a few days ago.Sharon carefully put the pasta on her son’s plate. Without her realizing, the man next to her was silently putting food on her plate too. Riley watched them for a while before exploding in a wave of irritation. “If I knew this was going to happen, I should’ve brought along someone to put food on my plate too.” How meaningless it was to eat the food she put on her own plate!
Simon did not expect his son to blurt out the truth. He frowned but did not blame the child, and his face remained composed.Initially, he had thought of telling Sharon about it himself.He met Sharon's gaze that was gleaming with suspicion and thought, 'It seems that she’s not buying it.'"Well, President Zachary, you're quite a scumbag, aren’t you? You're already engaged to another woman but you don’t plan on marrying her. Are you thinking of hurting another woman?"Riley was actually surprised as well. Who would have thought the man was actually not planning to get married?'Is he doing it for Sharon’s sake?'He's afraid that other men might deceive Sharon again, so he intentionally said those things.'"Mommy, Daddy only wants to marry you." The little kid grabbed his mother's hand and started acting as an ambassador for his father.At that moment, Sharon was having mixed feelings and suddenly could not find the right words to speak.Moreover, it was her son who had been ta