Finally, Lance calmed down.It is now the time for Jane to laugh as much as she wanted.“Pfft…”The sulky boss looked at her with a frown.“W-Why are you laughing?” he shyly asked.Fortunately, the forest is dark, and so Jane couldn’t see Lance’s reddened face. He is so embarrassed right now!“S-Sorry,” Jane apologized, but still, she could not stop laughing.“You look so happy after scaring the death out of me,” he complained.Jane wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes and answered, “It is because you are strong. You told me before that everyone feared you when you were young. But who would have thought that you are scared of ghosts?”“Ghosts are scary!” Lance defended. “I am strong but there’s no way to knock out a ghost.”“Other people say that humans are scarier than ghosts.”“Seeing you, I will agree,” Lance said with a nod. “Don’t you know how much it frightened me when I heard from Haidee that you went missing!? You are really scarier than ghosts! I thought I would die fr

“I love you.” This is not the first time Jane heard a confession. She was famous in college, and many admired her. However, this is the first time she heard one from someone she was close with. In the dim light with only moonlight to shine down the forest, Jane wordlessly stared at her boss. She had many questions to ask. Why? How? When? She and Lance were good friends. And she respected him as her boss. How did it come to this? “You don’t need to answer,” Lance said after a long silence. “I said it because I don’t want to keep it a secret and regret it later. However, I am not going to force you to give me an answer, Jane.” An answer. Yes. Jane thought that she should give him an answer. She could not accept his feelings because she knew whom she liked. “Lance,” Jane called. “I can’t… accept it.” “I know,” Lance said with a chuckle. “From the beginning, I know that you are not ready to date. Jane, you only focused on Eugene’s happiness. Also, you told me before that datin

Cyrus gripped the bottle in his hands. His eyes swiveled towards the back of his head in a distressed sense of a headache. He tilted his head towards the edge of the couch as he took a long swig of the dark substance that affected him. He sighed as the walls became part of a fun house, changing figures in a blink of an eye. His breath was the underlying cause of the smell of alcohol that entered his nostrils, and his mouth was sore from the amount of alcohol that he poured down on his throat. “It was my fault,” Cyrus whispered in a drunk tone. He even laughed at stupidity before finishing the bottle in his hand. Cyrus regretted it a lot. He decided to be a villain so he could get his revenge on Haidee. But in the end, he realized that it was his fault. ‘I failed to protect my unborn child and the woman I love!’ For many years, he thought that Haidee abandoned him. But she did not. Instead, Haidee did her best to protect him from her parents. At this time, Cyrus drowned in mel

“What?!”Valerie Desmond got up from her seat when she heard what happened in the meeting.“My h-husband gave 25% to Cyrus and 10% to Eric?”Valerie felt like dying. She collapsed on the couch while holding her aching nape.“Madam!” The maid, who saw her, ran to Valerie.She held Valerie, but Valerie shook her hands away, as she didn’t want anyone to comfort her right now.Everything was a mess.“What is happening?” Valerie cried without tears. “Why do you let this happen, Chase?”The meeting couldn’t determine the next Chairman of the Geelq. After the voting, Cyrus accumulated 30%, and Cyrus has 30% too.The person who will determine the winner is the last shareholder who has 15% of the shares. And it is no other than Manuel’s son, Lance.[“Since I am new to this position, I am requesting to the Chairman to give me one more day. I will decide whom to support.”] That was what Lance asked everyone.Valerie gritted her teeth.‘So, this is how you fight me, Lance. I should have taken you

After calming Eugene, Valerie asked the maid to send Eugene back to his room and let him rest. Then she went inside her room and peeked through the window. Valerie saw Jane outside the gate. She was still sitting outside and waiting. Jane didn’t call the police. She had no choice but to protect her son even in this situation. “How foolish,” Valerie uttered. “Why can’t she just give up?” ‘Because she’s a mother.’ Valerie answered her own question inside her mind. As a mother, she could tell why Jane didn’t want to give up. “No. I have to be strict. This is for my son and my grandson’s future.” Valerie closed the window and sat on her bed. While sitting there, Valerie remembered the day when Cyrus began to plant the seed of hatred toward her. It happened years ago, on a rainy day. Inside the room, Valerie watched the rain from the window. Then, she heard footsteps thundering on the ground outside the door of her room. “Help! Help!” Valerie placed the bottle of her sleepi