At that moment, Pierre’s eyes widened in shock when he recalled the wedding ring that Niall had prepared for him. Oh jeez! I nearly forgot about the ring! I was supposed to grant Juniper’s birthday wish by proposing to her mother, but it slipped my mind ever since her abduction.I remember putting it in my car, but I don’t remember seeing it when I was driving earlier today. No one else has taken my ride except my boys. Thus, if the ring goes missing, that could only mean… At the thought of that, Pierre stood up straight all of a sudden, leaving Juniper in confusion.“Relax, Mr. Handsome. You seem desperate to propose to Mom. Shh!” Juniper looked back and peeked at Selena. “Don’t ruin the surprise.”“Juniper, tell your mom that I need to leave for some urgent business.” “Alright, Mr. Handsome. Goodbye!”Pierre then walked out the door and made his way to his car as he began to search high and low for the ring. Soon, he knew that his memory served him right when he couldn’t find it any
As soon as Pierre stepped into the mansion, the butler, Yoel, immediately walked up to him with a big smile. “Congratulations on your successful proposal, Young Master Pierre! You’re finally getting married!” Worried that his words might have sounded inappropriate, Yoel quickly added, “My apologies. I must have gotten carried away with my words since due to my happiness for you. You’re going to marry sooner or later anyway.”Pierre knitted his eyebrows after hearing the butler. “What’s going on?” I have a bad feeling about this. My boy must have taken the ring and fooled around with it.At that time, Meredith had already left, while John and Helen were discussing their son’s wedding. Upon seeing Pierre, the old man’s faint smile faded, and he returned to his usual stern self. “Since you’ve already proposed, we should go about the preparation for your wedding.”After hearing his father, Pierre knew that his guess was right. Meredith happened to visit earlier today, and I bet that littl
‘Jameson stole the ring and took the liberty of proposing to you with it. That was never my idea.’ After a long deliberation, Pierre finally made up his mind to send Meredith the message.Although his frankness would definitely break the lady’s heart in a cruel way, he still figured that telling her the truth was the better way to deal with this mess since he knew he was a terrible liar.The man then continued to sit in his car and smoked while brooding on the matter in a preoccupied manner. Meredith has always replied to my every message almost instantaneously, even though I have never done the same in return. However, she seems to be taking longer than usual to reply to my text this time.Even after waiting for a long while, she still hadn’t replied. Well, maybe she feels awkward and thinks it’s better not to bring it up. So, that’s probably not a bad thing for both of us either. At the thought of that, Pierre tossed the cigarette butt out of the car window and drove off.Meanwhile,
Roland rebuked Megan in frustration. After all, she was the designer for Yard Corporation’s brand, Jewel Blossom. “The people in the marketing department aren’t doing their job well. So, how could you blame that on me? However, this year is going to be different because we’re going to get help from JNS Corporation.”A sudden thought occurred to Megan, and she added, “Earlier on, Selena called and told me that her husband has already agreed to give us a hand. She said a company in Astoria would like to work with us. Thus, with their help, I doubt we’ll have any trouble selling our clothes.”Roland’s eyes brightened up when he heard Megan’s words. Hmm. She has a point, I suppose. “Did Selena really call you up and tell you that?”"Come on! Why would I lie to you? I’m your daughter, so why would I do anything harmful to our company?” Megan then took a chair and sat in front of Roland. “By then, we’ll work with JNS Corporation and come up with some impressive designs. Trust me! It will b
Pierre heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing Niall’s words. Well, I think I know who the stalker is now if it isn’t Selena. Phew! Thank goodness it’s not her!At that moment, he felt like he had taken a heavy load off his chest, only to be bewildered by a strange realization deep down. Why would I feel that way? What’s happening to me?“President Fowler. President Fowler…” Niall realized Pierre was caught in a trance, as the latter didn’t respond even after he called out to him a few times.Upon coming to back his senses, Pierre looked askance at Niall with a glacial gaze and beckoned him over with his finger. Then, Niall leaned closer and listened to what his boss was going to tell him, only to be stunned by what he heard. Oh gosh! We’re going to set a trap and lure our target into it!“Alright, I’ll work on it right away!” After a few moments of hesitation, Niall went on to say, “By the way, there is something I’d like to bring to your attention, President Fowler. Our men hit a littl
Linda was aware of Selena’s family background. First of all, Selena’s ex, the man who hurt her inside out, was from a family who was involved in the textile business. They had started their own clothing brand as well, but since it was still a relatively new business, it had not made much impact yet.Secondly, Selena’s father and the Yard Family had always been involved in the fashion industry and owned many clothing brands.If Selena started a new clothing brand, it would be perceived as going up against her own father, and if the public knew about this, they might talk bad about Selena. In fact, this might even negatively affect the entire JNS Corporation.“Keep talking,” Selena said while reading the document.Hence, Pauline went on to say, “There’s so much we can do for wedding dresses as the outline and styles are limited. I don’t think it’s an easy feat to innovate and come up with new styles.If we design styles that are too avant-garde, it might cause a backlash and we’ll be cr
However, for some reason, after the age of 17, Pierre rebelled so much that he caused a ruckus within the Fowler Family and even made John so angry that he vomited blood once. John had no choice but to comply with the Moody Family’s wishes and sent him to the army to train.Since then, few people had heard about Pierre, and five years later, he suddenly returned from the army. It was said that he had made a grave mistake in the army which caused him to be driven back home, but after he came back, he founded his own Empire Group.Regardless of the truth, what Selena was sure of was that Pierre must be a very difficult man.“But if we can deal with this demon, we can do whatever we want unhindered in Astoria.”When Linda heard that, she gulped and asked, “President Yard, do you really want to deal with this demon?”“After all, I’ve dealt with a demon before, and I really don’t believe there is a second demon in this world,” Selena muttered in an undertone.“What?” Linda didn’t hear Sele
Selena stretched her body lazily on the office chair as she thought, It seems that Pierre is really not an easy man to deal with!Suddenly, Juniper could be seen peeking into the office. The matters regarding the kindergarten had not been completed yet. After all, it was not a simple matter to enter an international kindergarten; they needed to investigate a lot of things, so Juniper had not been able to join the classes yet. Thus, she had been following Selena around these days.“Mommy, here’s some milk. Do take a quick break.” Juniper came in with a glass of milk.“Thanks dear.” Selena puckered her mouth to ask for a kiss, and Juniper went up to kiss Selena on the cheek. “But why is it not coffee or tea?”“Those are not healthy. Milk is the healthiest.”“Okay, whatever you say is right, because you look so cute!” Selena pinched the tip of Juniper’s nose and unknowingly spoke with a tone that actually resembled Jameson’s pitch. After not seeing those two boys for the past two days, s
“No can do!” Selena turned Pierre down outright. After all, their first intimacy was an accident since she was drunk at that time. Therefore, she didn’t think that counted as her willingness to make love with him. I wouldn’t have gone ahead and shared an intimate moment with him had I been sober at that time.“Relax! Think about your company and your…” Pierre purposely paused for a second before going on to say, “Daughter.” In that instant, Selena’s eyes dilated in horror. “B*stard!”Selena was willing to give up her company if she had to since she had more than enough money to spend for the rest of her and her daughter’s life. However, she would never abandon her daughter for whatever reason it might be. Pierre is like the devil himself! How could he threaten me with my daughter?!Noticing Selena’s silence, Pierre knew she was scared deep down. “T-This… is a one-time thing, right?”“Of course.”"Will you leave me alone if I take you up on it? Promise me that you will never disturb my
Upon stepping out of the elevator, Selena had arrived at the top floor right outside the president’s office. “Miss Yard, President Fowler is waiting inside.” The employee left after walking her to the office’s entrance.Selena then took a deep breath and knocked on the door, entering the office when she heard Pierre’s deep voice. As soon as she stepped inside, the first thing that came into her view was the piled up documents on the table that Pierre had to go through. While the man’s absorption in work reminded her of herself back in those days, she was still rather surprised at the sight of his overwhelming workload.A moment later, Pierre looked up at Selena only when she sat right in front of him. “What do you want from me?” Selena directly asked the man the question with a poker face.Pierre responded with a glacial chuckle and continued to bury himself in work. “I made myself clear the last time, didn’t I? Beg me, and I’ll undo everything for you.”“You and I both know that we h
So, he wants me to beg him by denying me of all my chances! “What a b*stard!” This guy is an absolute jerk!For the next three days, Selena and her team actively searched from all their sources and contacted any company that they could work with, but strangely enough, all of them changed their minds not long after they agreed to collaborate. Even when they phoned to find out what happened, their calls were immediately declined. Thus, Selena was even more certain about her suspicion that Pierre was manipulating these companies from behind the scenes.Meanwhile, Pauline had personally made a trip to Empire Group, but she was turned away there and then. Despite her desperate effort to initiate a negotiation, she didn’t manage to meet up with anyone from the management, let alone Pierre himself. Her unsuccessful approach inevitably became a discouragement to everyone in her team, as they had never come across such an insurmountable setback. Because of that, the overall workplace morale ha
I’ll find the best few companies that we can work with. “Hello, Mr. Jacobs. May I ask… Oh, but I believe you still remember the deal that we discussed yesterday, right?” The moment Pauline picked up the call, she drew everyone’s attention, including Selena, who looked at her as well.“Sure, we’ll work together some other time.” Right after Pauline had just hung up the call, she heard her phone ringing again, so she had to pick up her phone again. “Hello, Miss Nolan. Regarding our deal yesterday—Oh… Okay, I understand.” After putting her phone away, Pauline appeared to be a little disheartened.“What’s wrong, Pauline?”“Well, we can talk about that after the meeting,” Pauline said with a gloomy look on her face.As soon as everyone was seated, Selena started off the meeting by complimenting her team, whereupon Linda proceeded to distribute the dossiers on each of the companies that they would soon be collaborating with.“Let’s discuss and select the companies that we think are suitable
In the meantime, Meredith was seen with an unhappy look on her face. Ever since her sister’s wedding, she had only filmed a movie and turned down all her jobs because she was too moody to accept any of them. Therefore, she had only spent the last few days loitering at home.“What should I do now, Mom?” Megan bitterly gazed at Jezebelle.“Your situation is still not as bad as you think. Look, you and Finneas are already married, which is something etched in stone. So, if he really wants a divorce, he’ll still likely have to think it through. Thus, your situation can afford to wait, but on the other hand, Meredith’s situation seems a little more pressing.”Jezebelle then shifted her gaze to Meredith. “What’s your plan?”Knowing both of her daughters, Jezebelle was aware of the differences between their characters and strengths. Although Megan never seemed to run out of ideas, she was an arrogant loudmouth most of the time. On the contrary, Meredith was more reserved and unfathomable, as
“President Fowler, these are the files for the meeting later.”Despite his assistant’s words, Pierre remained still without even casting an eye on those files. In fact, he would usually take a few minutes out of his time to skim through the papers before the meeting so that he roughly knew all the agendas that would be discussed later. Thus, Niall had no idea what was on Pierre’s mind as he stood aside and waited in silence.“Head over to Fowler Corporation and take back all our shares from Laya.”Pierre’s words came like a thunderbolt to Niall. In fact, the management had decided to redeem the company’s shares from Laya since clothing business was never the main focus of both Fowler Corporation and Empire Group, and neither was that area their forte.Despite Laya’s unsatisfactory performance in the past few years, Pierre had never once expressed his interest in that company. Even when it was mentioned earlier during the meeting at Fowler Corporation, he had only just assigned someone
It’s him again?! Why won’t this guy ever give up?! Irritated and annoyed, Selena gritted her teeth and exclaimed, “What does this guy want from me?!”Unaware of what was going on, Juniper asked, “What did you just say, Mommy?” “Nothing.” “Mom, why do your lips look so red? They seem to be swollen. Are you not feeling well?”After hearing Juniper, Selena subconsciously touched her lips. This is all thanks to that b*stard! Nonetheless, she didn’t want her daughter to know what happened earlier, so she had no choice but to lie to her. “Oh, that’s because I took some spicy fries when I was waiting for you.”Juniper pouted. “Hmph! You secretly ate the good stuff again!”“They’re not good stuff. They’re junks,” Selena replied to Juniper’s words while setting her eyes on ‘Venom’. Then, she was followed by Pierre until she entered her residential area.After that, she parked outside her house and impatiently got out of her car, stomping toward the man. As she was about to confront Pierre and
Then, Selena took the ring out of her pocket and flung it at Pierre, making the latter stop in his tracks when he felt something hitting him. “Take back your ring! You shameless liar!”As the ring fell onto the ground right beside Pierre’s foot, he took a glimpse of it from the corner of his eye and stepped away. Soon, Selena came out of the alley as well and saw a huge crowd at the kindergarten’s entrance, whereupon she quickly queued up.At that moment, Pierre was nowhere to be found. Selena glanced across the crowd, but she soon noticed that his assistant was in the queue as well. So, he sent someone to pick his kids up, didn’t he? Then, why did he still come here in that case?Meanwhile, Juniper was queuing up as well, with Jameson standing behind her. Although he had been trying to open her up the whole day, the little girl simply wouldn’t respond to him. “Come on, Juniper! We’re best friends, aren’t we?We might have lied to you, but we didn’t do that on purpose. Wait a minute.
“Yup, I’m doing this on purpose!” Pierre didn’t bother to hide his intention at all.Staring at the man’s look, Selena felt a strong urge to punch him in the face. I wish I could just slam my fist into his face until no one recognizes him! In this way, he could never harm anyone ever again.“Do you think this is fun, Pierre Fowler? You knew my relationship with Meredith all along, didn’t you? She is my half-sister, and I can tell you that we both could have lived peacefully without a bitter history, but because of you, I became your mistress!”Well, I might as well keep this going.“Furthermore, she gave birth to a pair of twins for you! Anyway, you both are getting married sooner or later. So, please be a dutiful husband and stop fooling around for your children’s sake!”Alas! I can’t help but feel sorry for the boys. They deserve a better father! But I guess having Meredith as their mother is something more pathetic!“Yes, I do.” Pierre gave his reply in a glacial tone. “What did yo