"Yes, they should be the ones apologizing instead! You just arrived, Mr. Lene, so you had no idea what happened before you came! That man was behaving extremely aggressively and slapped Leonie here without warning!" "Mr. Lene, how can you be on their side? Look what they did to Leonie! why should we be the ones apologizing?" "Why should we apologize?"All the sales girls, Leonie included, were all extremely upset to hear this. The last thing they wanted to do was to apologize to the people who had wronged them.Leonie, among them all, was the most outraged. She was already extremely furious at being humiliated so publicly by Liam, and her prideful personality would not allow her to apologize to someone like Celena, who she deemed to be below her. "Mr. Lene, we're your employees! Why are you defending them instead of us? Have you even seen what he did to me?" she wailed, clutching her cheek, and shot another look of hatred at Liam and Celena.Samuel was extremely wary of offendin

Celena lifted her head to meet his solemn gaze and was just about to continue pleading when, on second thought, she realized that he was right. The longer she stared at Liam and the more she mulled over his words, she realized that he was right. She needed to learn to be strong and to say no to people who did not serve her. This was the only way she could protect herself and her little family. However, for some reason, when he said this, she suddenly felt strangely detached from the man standing before her, as though there was a misty fog separating her from Liam, not allowing her to reach out to him.Although she and Liam were just a few feet apart from each other, she suddenly felt as though she did not recognize him at all, like he was just a stranger to her."Liam…" she murmured, gently squeezing his arm.Liam knew that Celena was a kind person by nature and that it was already exceptionally tough for her to step back and take such a boundary to herself, so he was very pleas

"Look at you, I bet I can hang something off your lips right now, from the way you're pouting them. Please don't overthink, my dear. Ms. Bristow is my boss, and I am her bodyguard—nothing more. Besides, why would I have eyes for other women when I have such a gorgeous wife at home?" Liam said as he reached out to pinch Celena's cheek mischievously. The feeling of her soft, rosy skin underneath his fingertips made his breath catch in his throat. Then, trying desperately to prevent Celena from noticing the change in his demeanor, he added hastily, "All right, all right, let's put an end to this overthinking, all right? We should go home now."Celena, too, was beginning to wonder if this was all just in her head. Besides this, they were in broad daylight, subject to public scrutiny, and she did not enjoy being judged by strangers as Liam teased her. Her entire face flushed crimson in embarrassment.Despite Liam trying to make her feel better, she still felt some lingering anger, and swa

Just as the men were about to reach her, Celena closed her eyes in a panic, waiting for their weapons to strike them and for the excruciating pain that would follow.However…After a few minutes, nothing came. She slowly opened her eyes and saw, to her surprise, Liam standing before her.The men, who just a few minutes ago had been charging toward them with their weapons raised above their heads, were now all lying spreadeagled all over the ground, their weapons strewn haphazardly all around them. Each of them clutched their own limbs, howling in agony.Even though she had witnessed Liam in combat many times before this, it still did not take away from the shock of seeing him take down multiple stronger, faster opponents than he was at the same time. Even though she had seen this play out many times before, she still could not stifle a gasp at the sight of this.Even Cheryl and Wasyl seemed to be utterly stunned. They stared in disbelief at the shrieking thugs for a few moments be

Wasyl's face contorted into an ugly grimace, and he hissed through gritted teeth, "Who would've known that Liam would pick up so many tricks from his time in the military? Who would've thought that wretched scum of the Cole family would turn out to be such a good fighter?"Another surge of fury rose within Cheryl, and she slumped back into her chair, her arms crossed as she stared out the window in front of her huffily. "What should we do now? We can't just let this go! Let me tell you this, Wasyl, you are obliged to stick up for me and get revenge after what Liam and Celena did to me! If you don't, I will call off the wedding immediately! I will not marry a man who can't even defend his own wife!"Ordinarily, Wasyl would have been outraged to hear this, but at that moment, he was so infuriated from their unpleasant encounter with Liam and Celena that he let Cheryl's threat fly over his head. He replied with a snarl, "Let this go? Never! This will not end here! I'm going to get in to