“Yes.”Luna looked at him seriously. “After all, in the Lynch family, I am worth a million dollars. Asking for a raise isn’t too much, right?”“It isn’t.” Joshua put the check down and leaned back. He changed into a more comfortable posture and looked at Luna. “You brought me this check just so you could ask me for a raise?”Between the two of them, Joshua was the one sitting while she was standing, yet he had such an overpowering aura that Luna felt like she was the one looked down upon.Luna nodded. “Of course.” Her face was devoid of any emotion. “I have small goals, and I just want Mr. Lynch to give me a raise. These million bucks is too much for a servant like me. I feel guilty receiving it.”Joshua stood up and gracefully walked toward her. “Is that so?”“Of course.”He reached out and lifted Luna’s chin with two fingers, forcing her to look into his deep, endless eyes. “You’re refusing this money not because you feel guilty, but because you’re unwilling to leave me, rig
“Now is not the time yet.”Joshua sighed lightly. “Nellie won’t be able to leave her yet. The replacement of servants has to be done slowly.”Lucas looked at Joshua and furrowed his brows tightly. He doubted that Nellie was the only one who was unable to leave Luna. Joshua was the same, too.After Luna Gibson left, Joshua never had a woman by his side for almost six years. If she was not alive, Lucas felt that Luna the servant was a great choice. Nellie liked her, at least, and Joshua did not hate her either.However…Lucas took a deep breath. In the end, he could not help but remind Joshua, “Sir, don’t forget that you still have to get the missus back.”Joshua lifted his head and looked at him with an ambiguous smile. “Are you trying to teach me what to do?”Joshua’s gaze was so cold that Lucas instantly shuddered. “I just remembered. I should get off work.” At that, Lucas immediately opened the door and escaped for his life. The door of the study room was shut once again.
“Okay, I’ll treat you as such. You could think of using a million dollars to get Luna to leave me just from what Aura said, but...“You’d do well to listen, Granny Lynch. Even if there is no Luna, even if she took the million dollars and went away, I’d still call off the marriage with Aura. This won’t affect my decision, so save the money. It’s pointless.”Joshua then stood up to leave.“Joshua Lynch!” The infuriated Granny Lynch took the teacup on the coffee table and threw it at Joshua.Smash!The teacup landed next to Joshua’s feet. It shattered as the tea splashed onto his pants.Joshua stopped in his tracks, but he did not turn back.Granny Lynch gritted her teeth. “What on earth are you trying to do? Back then, you insisted on marrying Luna Gibson into the Lynch family against all of our objections. She married into the family for a few years, yet she didn’t even bear you any children before she died in an accident.“After her death, you rejected all the women that the fa
“Granny, you’re the best!”Aura excitedly passed the box to Granny Lynch. “Have a look, Granny. This is one of Mr. Y’s designs. It’s the same series as the necklace on your neck. Isn’t it beautiful?”“It is beautiful.” Granny Lynch loved the necklace. Inexplicably, Luna the maid’s words rang in her ears suddenly.‘But, the fake necklace on your neck is probably worth much less than a million, right?’Granny Lynch furrowed her brows and looked at Aura somewhat uncomfortably. “Aura, is your necklace…a fake?”Mr. Y was a jewelry designer who had made a name for himself abroad in the past two years. His fame was second only to the famous designer Moon. Mr. Y had left the jewelry industry so abruptly, however. His designs were obsolete, hence the prices of his jewelry have gone up from the initial million-dollar mark to more than 10 million dollars. Granny Lynch had seen the news, that was why she would give Luna a million dollars on Aura’s behalf.However, what Luna said the day be
However, at the thought that Granny Lynch was her last hope of remaining at Joshua’s side…Aura gritted her teeth and stomped her feet. “Help me find them.”“There’s no need to.” The woman on the other end of the phone call sighed. “Mr. Y didn’t have many designs to begin with, and we’ve bought all the fakes of the unowned sets, the rest being in the hands of others. I heard that the President of the Quinn Group, Malcolm Quinn has one set of jewelry. I’ll help you ask.”“Okay.”…Blue Bay Villa.It had rained the entire night before. It was rather cold in the morning, so Luna spent the entire morning organizing Nellie’s closet. She washed and kept the summer clothes in the closet.Although Nellie had only been with Joshua for a short while, in less than a month, the number of new clothes that she had was far more than what she had in a year previously.Luna was exhausted just by organizing Nellie’s clothes, so much so she could barely stand up straight.She thumped on her lowe
After hanging up the call from Malcolm, Luna laid on the bed and rested for a while. Unknowingly, she fell asleep.She had a dream.The dream was how she met Joshua for the first time. It was a warm and sunny Spring afternoon.She was sitting under the cherry blossom tree, holding a drawing board as she sketched. After a flutter of cherry blossoms, she saw that young man in white.He had a deep-set face and protruding facial features. His white clothes amplified his aloofness and regality.He was reading under a tree in the distance as his brows would occasionally furrow.Absent-mindedly, Luna drew him into her sketches.“Not bad.” When she put on the final colors, the young man’s low voice suddenly rang in her ears.Luna’s hand trembled. She successfully managed to color his face black.Utterly alarmed, she did not know whether to stand up and greet him or rescue the sketch in her hands.At that moment, Joshua behind her gently chuckled. “You made me ugly.”He took her penc
Joshua coldly interrupted her, “I’ve decided to call off the engagement with Aura at Granny’s birthday banquet three days alter.”Luna shuddered.She looked at him in shock. “Call off the engagement?”Why was he planning to call off the engagement? Was it because of Nellie, or because he knew that Luna Gibson was still alive?Strange how he stopped at nothing to kill her off six years ago so he could be with Aura, though. Why did he call off the engagement six years later after Nellie’s appearance?This was illogical. There must be another reason.However…Luna bit her lips and carefully looked at Joshua. “Is it…because of me?”All this while, Joshua would seemingly unintentionally have body contact with her, so if it was not because of Nellie, the only other logical reason was that Joshua has treated her as his new love. He was sick of Aura.Joshua laughed a little. He did not answer her question but instead asked her in return, “What do you think?”He was trying to tell L
After Joshua left, Nellie woke up and headed downstairs as well.She was still in her pink cartoon pajamas. She sat awkwardly by the dining table.“Why did Daddy leave so early in the morning?”Luna furrowed her brows. “Nellie.”“Hmm?”Luna looked around. Once she made sure that no one else was in the house, she sighed deeply as she softly spoke, “If Mommy isn’t here in the future, you have to take good care of yourself. Do you hear me?”Startled, Nellie put the hash browns down. “Mommy, why won’t you be here? Are they chasing you away?”Luna ignored her question. “I only want you to learn how to be independent.”Nellie pouted. “I don’t want to be independent. If I’m independent, Mommy, Neil, and Nigel won’t take care of me anymore,” muttered Nellie while she angrily munched on the hash browns. “I don’t want to be independent! I don’t want to be obedient. I don’t want to grow up!”Luna, who sat in front of Nellie, looked at Nellie helplessly and sighed.She took out her pho