Vivian’s eyes reddened and her lips trembled slightly. “Edward Levin, do you think I’m playing hard to get? You hit me in the face. It’s swollen because of you! Do you think my injury is automatically hunky-dory just because you caressed it a bit afterward?” she fumed. “As for you putting up with me?! Well, excuse me for not thanking you for that immense sacrifice!”Her outburst confounded Edward even more. With furrowed eyebrows, he took the tablet and eyed it. Painkillers.His expression softe
Frankly, had Edward not explicitly drawn the lines, Vivian would have moved on with her plan to chop off Baldie’s finger. It was never intended to be a show of dominance, but a distraction from the issue about her phone. The human mind clung to memories associated with intense emotions, and Vivian was banking on this inherent human nature to erase Baldie’s memory of her asking about the keys and the phone prior to slicing off his finger.Unfortunately, since Edward had mentioned it, Vivian was e
Vivian could not belie her discouragement. “It’s no use. Edward will either physically alter his fingerprints through some unknown means, or he will swap his prints in the authorities’ database to someone else’s so that the results will never match.”A soft chuckle escaped Joan. “Oh, the records in the database have been tampered with. That much is true, but their handiwork is a tad bit sloppy. They left one out somewhere they thought is unimportant, but a very persistent old lady has found it.”
Jake came to a sudden halt. He turned around and gazed at Baldie as disbelief radiated from his eyes. Baldie looked at him back in a hoity-toity manner. He refuted, “This is the shining example of what people would call a fire at the city gates bringing disaster to the fish pond. Anyway, everyone only goes for the low-hanging fruit. It’s Mr. Levin who ordered me to cut his finger off. Miss Carraway doesn’t dare to find fault with him, so she comes to me. Mr. Levin is also the same. How could h
Both of them began their show again, squabbling like two kids vying for their favorite toy. Vivian could see they were playacting again, so she pressed her lips into a thin line and turned around. She raised her arm and hurled the phone even further away into the lake. When the phone dropped into the water with a plop, she felt as if a stone had been lifted off her heart. Jake and Baldie were a little stunned. They stopped their bickering and looked in unison towards the rippling water. The w
Jake drove over to look for Edward who was in a video conference. His secretary checked his schedule and noticed that there was no appointment with Jake, so she sent the latter to wait in the reception room courteously. She would consult Edward about whether he would see Jake when the conference ended. Due to Levin Enterprise’s new project in Southeast Asia facing some issues, a few agendas were added to Edward’s already fully-packed schedule. It was so tightly packed that he had no time for a
On the other hand, he was late to the scene by twenty years compared to them. No matter how much effort he put in, he could only lament his weakness before the vast disparity. Alfred watched Edward’s expression cautiously when he did not receive a reply. “Noted.” Edward behaved apathetically on the surface. He waved his hand to dismiss Alfred while he flipped through a few documents in silence, appearing as if he was caught in a trance. He took out his phone and called Vivian. “What are you
Officer Konstantin stayed in a rather old residential building that still preserved the architectural style of the previous century around the 80s or the 90s. There was no elevator and the corridor was narrow with dim lighting. Vivian felt like she might just faint as she ascended the concrete staircase step by step. Only then did she see the greenish-gray burglar bars. She raised her head to look at the house number and ensured that it was the right house before she knocked on the door gently