Ruth was gloomy after chatting with Katie. However, her mood brightened because of Abel’s words.She sighed softly and said cutely, “Yeah, I don’t like romance movies. It’s my fault that Abel is not so dedicated to work anymore. He won’t watch the movie unless I join him. Let’s take Promises Under the Starry Sky as an example. He initially planned to watch it but didn’t because I had something come up.”Ruth spoke insincerely and acted as if it was a pity. Even Abel could tell that she was doing it on purpose.However, Katie did not notice it. She looked at them in surprise and asked in puzzlement, “Your wife? You two are really married?”Ruth narrowed her eyes and looked at her. “Yes. You don’t look surprised, why is that?”Katie calmed down and forced a smile. “Actually, Abel is not just my boss, so it’s not surprising that I heard about it.” Ruth asked, “He’s not just your boss?”Katie did not answer Ruth. She only continued with the meal quietly.The dinner ended in a sile
Ruth spluttered and forgot entirely about the rest of her complaint. She raised her voice instead. “Fine! You didn’t ask me to make it up to you to watch another movie! I was just flattering myself and shot myself in the foot because of it! Happy?! Move!”She struggled. This time, she was really mad and used both of her arms and legs to fight against Abel. In fact, she was even using her grappling techniques. But, as if Abel had predicted her reaction, he elegantly negated all of her movements and pinned her down again. He even cooed at her gently, “Be good now. Let’s talk.”“Be good, my *ss! I don’t want to talk to you!”Ruth was so mad that she did not even want to bother maintaining her image. Abel pressed down on her and had to put in a little effort to make her stop struggling. He also stopped teasing her. Instead, he asked her gently, “Are you jealous?”Ruth stilled for a moment. Now that Abel exposed her thoughts, some of her fight left her body, but she still refused to
Ruth’s voice was still fierce, but there was no real heat in it. When she mentioned that Katie was trying to steal Abel away from her, Abel’s pupils dilated. He bowed his head and gave a light peck to her lips while he caressed her face. “I wasn’t watching you make a fool of yourself, and I don’t regret marrying you instead of Katie.”“I don’t believe you.”Ruth was being unreasonable, but Abel did not find it frustrating. He patiently explained, “I’ve never been interested in marrying Katie for convenience, and she’s the same.”Ruth frowned and asked in a more serious tone, “She’s not interested, either?”Abel nodded. “Do you remember the first time we met? My grandfather arranged for us to meet each other on a date, but she was late. I heard that she even found someone to show up at her place.”That was how the entire misunderstanding fell into place. Both the Lovehart family and Blakewell family thought that Abel and Katie did not view each other as suitable partners. But,
Abel was a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He never kept his hands to himself while they were talking. When she sat up, her dress slipped off her shoulders and slid off her body. She was naked, and she felt defenseless. That was why she had instinctively thrown herself into his arms, but she fell into his trap instead. Abel chuckled and kissed her hand before he leaned down and kissed her lips again. He nibbled and sucked on it before moving to her neck. The night was silent. Doing certain things in such silence would only lead to a night of passion. When they were done, Abel cleaned her up, and she returned to their bed. Ruth checked her phone as she leaned against the headboard. Abel had also finished bathing. When he came out, he toweled his hair dry and asked, “Who are you talking to?”Ruth stared at the picture on her phone for a while before she returned to her home screen and looked at Abel. “Did you know that Nicholas married Luna?”Abel put down his towel. “He did bring
Callum jumped up excitedly from the couch and started pacing about in the living room. “That’s great! It’s wonderful news! These are two great pieces of news for us! When are you two coming back? I’ll meet you two with your mo—”“It’s late now, Dad. We won’t be going back tonight.”“Ah, of course. Silly me. Have fun on your wedding night. Just remember to come home tomorrow!”Once he hung up, Bella went forward and asked him what happened. She had heard Callum talk about a wedding night, so her daughter must have gotten her wish. Feeling giddy, Callum told the butler that his new son-in-law was coming over tomorrow, and that they were to prepare his welcome. He only told Bella about the two joyful occasions that were set in stone after he was done instructing the butler. Bella was not as surprised and disbelieving as he expected, however. She just sighed. “I knew she could do it.”Once he got over his excitement, Callum lamented. “It’s all thanks to Luna that we were able to hi
The entire family sat down happily in the living room. Nicholas had a gentle smile practically plastered onto his face. This was his first time meeting Luna’s parents, but he was very friendly with him, as though he had known them for a long time. He was quite a smooth talker and put Luna on a high pedestal. Callum and Bella were beaming. “Since you’re so good to Luna, we are perfectly fine with letting you marry her.”Nicholas nodded modestly. “I’m sorry for making you two worry. I should have come to meet you sooner, but Luna said that the time wasn’t right. It’s because I can finally meet you two that we came so early in the morning to see you.”Luna took over the conversation naturally. “It’s still early, though. I haven’t even finished getting ready.”Nicholas held her hand and whispered dotingly to her, “We’re already married. It’s not like we’re asking them for permission to get married. Do you really need to dress up to meet your own parents?”Luna rolled her eyes and
Callum remained stunned for a few seconds. He could not wrap his head around what Nicholas had said. But he did feel that while Nicholas always appeared to be a polite gentleman, he was really aggressive. A strange thought appeared in his head. Suddenly, Callum had a feeling that Nicholas might have married his daughter for Seema. In the end, Callum did not agree to the collaboration. He only told Nicholas that he needed to speak with the board of directors about this before he changed the topic. After breakfast, Callum and Bella saw Nicholas off, but they had Luna stay back. When they were alone in the living room, Callum asked, “Luna, be honest with me. Did you get into some sort of agreement with Nicholas? You two did get married in a hurry…”Luna was briefly taken aback before she grumbled, “What on earth are you saying? I’m not like Ruth. I don’t treat my marriage as a bargaining chip.”Callum was relieved to hear that. Then, he earnestly gave Luna some advice. He told h
He changed the conversation topic awkwardly. “We’re done with the procedure to make Lockton Entertainment a publicly listed company. We were supposed to have a party to celebrate the event, but the headquarters has just hired an internationally renowned jeweler, and they’re going to throw a welcoming party for them next week. Our schedules clashed with each other—”“We don’t have to answer to any headquarters.” Ruth interrupted him. Mr. Herbert explained, “Lockton Entertainment still belongs to Lockton Corporation at the end of the day. Becoming a publicly listed company is a huge deal. We need the headquarters to come forward and organize the party on our behalf.”Ruth said coolly, “Lockton Entertainment no longer belongs to Lockton Corporation after I took it over. Just organize the celebratory party. You don’t have to talk to them.”Mr. Herbert was shocked by her words. He had been quite happy when the company was publicly listed, but, when he reported it to the headquarters, t
Galen stood nervously at the side. At first, he wanted to step in and help, but he held himself back.In the end, he gave up and watched the fight.The more he watched, the more startled he was.Despite her delicate frame, her moves were calculated and ruthless.Many of her moves were lethal.She was a young woman who was loved. She was pampered and adored by everyone. How was such a person so ruthless in combat?It was as if she often fought to the death…Mr. Watson was shaken as well. He covered his neck with one hand, while his other hand hung limply by his hand. He looked at Lily in shock. His other hand hung weakly by his side. He looked at Lily in shock.How could such a small and delicate-looking person possess such strength? Was she really the heiress of the Cavendish family?“Do you want to verify it? The wounds match with the one who attacked me. I broke his right wrist on the spot, though. After that, I didn’t wait for reinforcement to come. I moved immediately an
Her hand paused while hefting the silver fork.Ruth’s husband was really very considerate. He loved her sister truly and everyone in her family.She decided to find a boyfriend like him for herself in the future.“I definitely will!” She thought.She stood in the spacious living room and looked at the man beside Galen who wanted to get to the bottom of this investigation. Her fingers tightened on the fork. “Words might not be enough to explain. If you don’t believe me, why don’t you give this a try?”Galen had not reacted when Charles spoke, nor when Abel had talked about switching it to a blunt weapon, but he definitely did now. “Nonsense!” he said sternly and stood up.Lily’s fighting spirit was ignited, but his stern rebuke deflated half of it. “Why not? Is it now allowed? You said attacking a police officer wasn’t allowed, didn’t you?”“He doesn’t count!” Galen said with disdain.Lily’s aggressive stance was completely deflated. “Well… if he doesn’t count, then his skills
The seemingly innocent question was directed at the young police officer.He looked troubled.Her delicate appearance did not help.The young police officer turned to the stern-faced man beside Galen for some help. The man pursed his thin lips and spoke in a deep voice.“Your Excellency… Madam… the nature of this case is severe, but the process of investigation is smooth. If your daughter doesn’t reveal the whole truth, it’ll be difficult for us to reach the crux of the issue. I assume that you don’t just want the result from this investigation but also the truth?”His firm voice was authoritative yet respectful.Charles turned to look at him. His brown eyes were calm, and he was sizing up this person.The police officer’s cold demeanor momentarily faltered. He quickly looked away and did not dare look him in the eye. “We’re just following procedures. To prevent this matter from escalating further, we hope for your cooperation.”He sounded intimidated yet resolute. It seemed
He was already determined to stake everything on his plan.“Right,” Lily said, “What about those bodyguards assigned to protect me? How were they swapped?”“Abel offered them ten times the price and bribed the group of bodyguards hired by Denver. The two poor people were taken down. The rest were replaced by our own people,” said Galen icily.Lily was shocked. She looked at him and then at Abel, who was driving calmly.Ruth looked at her husband with the same shocked face.So, this was how money made the world go round!When Denver had transferred money to that company, Lily had caught wind of it, but it seemed Abel had found out even sooner.He had already made arrangements to take drastic measures.“Don’t they have any morals? I heard that those kinds of organizations have principles. They won’t willingly betray the ones who employed them,” said Ruth.“As long as it’s not a terrorist organization, every organization needs connections. William’s group was already in dire stra
It was mainly because Denver clearly fabricated an alibi. But he had appeared on the scene and had been taken away.It was indeed quite puzzling.At that point, everyone looked at Abel in confusion.Abel looked straight ahead and did not speak. He only spoke when he was asked directly.“The father and son lost because they didn’t know each other’s motivations. It’s easy to bribe their people to send a message to the other and get them to the scene…”Before they set off, Sean received news that Denver was going all out and wanted to go down with Lily in the manor in the suburbs.Sean did not doubt it because Denver had been acting increasingly strange recently.He was transferring his assets and buying and renovating manors. It was as though he was prepared for death.He had even arranged for his funeral.Afraid that his son was taking things too hard, he put down whatever he was doing and rushed over to the scene.Since that was taken care of, it was easy to deceive Denver af
“See what you are doing? What if something happens to your sister?”Charles was not known for showing affection or caring about people outright.However, when his daughter cried and threw a tantrum, he could not stop himself.Charles stood by Lily without hesitation and scolded Abel for his incompetence.Ruth was originally filled with resentment and wanted to vent it out on Abel too, but when she saw that the father and daughter duo had joined forces to attack her husband, half of her resentment dissipated.With four bodyguards that had been arranged to deal with two outsiders, coupled with Lily’s abilities, her life was indeed not in danger…She glanced at Lily hesitantly. At this moment, Galen had cleaned up all the stains on her palm.Other than the redness between her thumb and index finger, she did not seem too badly hurt.All the resentment was gone. In fact, she was even a little protective. “Why did you have to deal with the four bodyguards?” Lily lowered her head an
Everyone was speechless.This discussion was fruitless. Everyone had their own opinions, and no one wanted to give in.In the end, Reina and the old man took a car, while Ruth, Abel, Charles, Galen Barker, and Lily got into another.The fire slowly died down.The cars left one after another.After Mr. Lockton got into the car, his cloudy eyes became shrewd. He asked his daughter, “Do you think that police officer is also interested in Lily?”Otherwise, why would he be so active and rush to the front? Why would he find such a lousy excuse to be the one to drop her home?“I think so, but unfortunately, Lily doesn’t seem to be as interested as before,” Reina said helplessly.Otherwise, why would she reject such a good opportunity to get into his car?Wouldn’t she have acted pitiful enough to earn his sympathy to get into the car?Mr. Lockton frowned. He was in deep thought.The last time he had heard that his granddaughter had fallen in love with another man who happened to be
Also, she was sure that if it was Luna being attacked at that time, he would have helped her without hesitation.This man was just like Notus. He was stupid, stubborn, and hypocritical.The reason why she spoke on his behalf was that she could not stand Luna’s smug face. Even if she wanted to drag someone down, she had to ask first.It was just the truth. She would not die if she made that clear anyway.Luna’s smug look cracked as she stared fixedly at her. Her gaze shifted from doubt to resentment and unwillingness.Aquilo was not surprised when Lily accused him. He knew that he had done something wrong. If not for Abel’s careful consideration, they would have died here today.However, he was quite surprised to hear her defend him.As he was handcuffed and escorted to the police car, he could not help but turn to look at her.“Lily…”Lily was about to walk to her car.She paused for a moment and turned to look at him calmly.Her usually playful eyes were indifferent at that
Aquilo opened his mouth but did not know what to say.Just then, a team of uniformed police officers rushed over to the scene to rescue the hostages.Looking at the people standing before them, they could not tell which ones were the hostages.Galen Barker walked over from behind and glanced at them. “What are you still standing here for? Get out quickly!”This manor had an ancient Sommersetese courtyard.The place where they were gathered was a small open space in the courtyard.After passing through the desolate artificial mountain pavilion, they arrived at the large courtyard outside the manor. There were many people gathered there, with many police cars parked nearby.A fire truck had also arrived.To Lily’s surprise, Sean Lovehart and his father were also there and were being escorted into the police car.When he saw her coming out, Denver’s face filled with hatred. He wanted to rush to her and strangle her. “You’ve got guts! You risked your life to drag us down with you!