088.“She fucking broke up with me!” Liam kicked the chair in his office to the floor. He grabbed his laptop and threw it at the wall.“You have to calm down, Liam.” Victor stepped forward.“Calm down?” Liam yelled, his eyes red with anger. “You're asking me to calm down! I just lost a valuable asset and you're asking me to calm down? If she goes back to the man called Lucas, I'm done. Dad will have my head. The Blackwood's inheritance will partly be his own and you know how big even a quarter of it is. Now look at the half!!!”Victor sighed. “I understand your frustration but scattering and destroying things won't get you anywhere. We have to find another way to get her to marry you, so sit and let's think instead of destroying your own office.”Liam groaned and pushed everything on his table to the ground. He used his hands to sweep away the paperworks and documents... everything flying to the ground. He ruffled his hair aggressively. “
087.“Janette, you can't be serious, right? You're pranking me, aren't you?” Liam chuckled awkwardly. “Alright, this isn't the time for pranks, okay? Come on, say what you've always wanted to say to me.” Janette sighed and licked her lips. “You want me to say what I've always wanted to say to you?” she asked and he nodded. “Alright, I will,” her eyes met with his. “I'm really grateful for everything you've done for me, Liam. When I had no one, you stood by me and took me in. You made me achieve my dreams of becoming a successful doctor. All these years, I've mistaken gratitude for love. I'm sorry to tell you this now but I don't love you, Liam. I never did,” she bit her lower lip, each of her word cutting through Liam like a knife. “Of course I cared for you and liked you, but I didn't love you romantically. I thought I did, but turns out, I was just playing along with your feelings because I didn't want to hurt you; because I saw you as my savoir. I'm sorry. I sh
086.Rosa blinked at Janette. “Huh?” she asked, not sure where the question was coming from.“You used to tell me that Liam was up to no good, and that he wasn't what he portrayed himself to be. Tell me everything you know about him, please. I don't want to make a mistake I might regret.” she pleaded.Rosa was happy Janette was finally returning to her senses. “Well, I don't know much, but I already told you it's by instincts and my instincts are never wrong,” she said and Janette nodded. “The first time I got hired and met him, I thought he was actually a nice person, but I started discovering that he was too secretive. You were too comfortable around him to notice.”“Uh-huh.” Janette urged her to continue. She needed to know the truth today.Rosa licked her bottom lips. “Back at Chicago, I always see him making strange calls. From what I heard, I think he wants something from you, but I have no idea what it is. I don't know who he talks to during those times, but he keeps saying he
085.“You've got to be kidding me, right?” Lucas asked, his fists balled. What the heck was Bella up to this time?Bella scoffed with her arms folded. “I kid you not, Lucas. Dave is your son, and it's time you took responsibility for him.”Janette blinked at whatever was happening. Dave was Lucas' son? Why didn't Bella reveal it all along? Why now when she and Lucas had settled their differences? Janette couldn't help but suspect that something was fishy, but her heart was pounding in her chest at the possibility that this could actually be true. Besides, he was having an affair with Bella behind her back. They must have had done something once or twice.Lucas noticed that Janette was tensed and he stepped forward. “What stunt are you trying to pull, Bella? You and I know that we did nothing two years ago. I always turned down your advances. You can't just tell me you have my son. Look at the boy, are there any of my features? The boy doesn't look like me at all.”Bella sneered. “Oh,
084.Next Day...“Well, you're good to go. Do not do anything stressful or strenuous for the meantime. You can rest for a week before returning to work.” Janette instructed and Lucas nodded with a smile.“Oh, thank you so much, Jane. You're a lifesaver.” Genevieve hugged her.Janette chuckled. “Don't thank me. Thank all the doctors and nurses who took care of him. If it weren't for Dr. Hill who found out there was poison, we wouldn't have known how to identify it.”Aunt Maryanne smiled. “Still, you contributed greatly. It's hard to see a CEO who's this dedicated and even does more work than her employees.”Janette blushed. “Oh, Auntie.” she smiled and her gaze with that of Lucas.Lucas was so tempted to hug her right now but there were nurses in the ward. After the nurses left, he wanted to do what he has been thinking of but...“Daddy!” An adorably cute voice sounded from the doorway. Sophia stood with Ethan beside her and Ethan rushed into Lucas's arms.Janette was shocked to see hi
083.CALIFORNIA “Why don't you hand over the will to me? I can help you look after it. When you're all better, we can find a way to find the Blackwood heiress together.” Reynold suggested.Dean got down from the bed and walked toward the window. He gazed at the city and let out a sigh before turning to look at Reynold. “Before the Blackwood family was murdered twenty five years ago, Mr. Blackwood gave me the will to look after for him. He had already willed everything to his only child and entrusted the child to me. He made me promise never to give it to anyone, and I am still holding onto that promise today.”“I felt like he knew he was going to die that day, that's why he gave that child to me and made me promise never to let the will get in the wrong hands. Knowing the kind of danger she was, I put her in an orphanage and watched her. Then I got involved in an accident, only for me to wake up and discover that she had been adopted. I tried to follow it up and there was no trace. I
082.“She really did?” Victor asked, his eyes wide in surprise. If what Liam said was true, then Janette was really in love with Lucas. Liam ruffled his hair aggressively, his face twisted into a snarl. “That Lucas! Gosh, if only that poison can just finish him off then I'll know I have nothing to worry about. Janette and I were perfectly fine before he came into the picture. I regret returning to New York. We would have just stayed in Chicago and I would have married her before we came here.”Victor licked his lower lip. “So what are you going to do now?”Liam steepled his fingers. “I didn't want to do this from the start, but I guess I have to. I already called her and asked her to go with the second plan, once that is established, I will know what to do next. We need to cause a rift between them immediately; something from the past that might trigger Janette and make her hate him.”“Wouldn't you be hurting her then?” Victor asked.Liam glared at him. “I think it's time you stopped
081.Liam forced a smile at Janette and walked to hold her hand. “How long have you been here?” he asked, causing Janette to raise a brow at him.“I was here long enough to see you loathing that necklace,” she shifted her gaze to the locket in his hand. “Hope you aren't planning something bad.” she asked, starting to suspect that Liam might actually be behind what happened to Lucas. He's the only rival Lucas had that she knew about, but she didn't want to jump into conclusions. Besides, Liam was in California when it happened. He might be hot-tempered, but he wouldn't stoop that low.“Oh, the locket,” he said and handed it over to her. “Why would I plan something bad? I do admit that a second ago, I wanted to get rid of it, but I decided against it. Also, about when what you heard me saying, I was talking about work. The proposal we made to a tech company didn't go through, so I'm telling Victor to go with Plan B.”Janette watched him for a while. He looked so sincere, and she felt ba
080.After work, Janette was about to leave her office when a knock came in. She hung her coat, picked up her bag and opened the door. One of the nurses held a big gift box in her hand. “This came in for you.” The nurse said and Janette raised an eyebrow. Could it be from Liam? Did he remember her birthday?With a sigh, she took it from the lady. “Who brought it?”“Mr. Lucas’s personality assistant.” The nurse replied and Janette’s face fell. It wasn’t from Liam after all. It was from Lucas, but how did he prepare this? He was currently unconscious. She gestured for the nurse to leave before dropping the gift box on her desk. She massaged her temple as she thought about it, but then it hit her. Lucas must have prepared it before the poisoning incident.With a sigh, she dropped her bag and reached into the big gift box, wondering what might be inside.Janette slowly pulled out a bundle wrapped in a blue velvet cloth. As she unwrapped it, her breath caught in her throat.Nestled insid