“Nonsense!”
“Nonsense!”
Two different voices said the same thing.
Myra stared at Lyla, who had been quiet since earlier. This woman has become even more gorgeous than before. After all, she has managed to get between my relationship with Sean and replaced me. All of her tactics have succeeded.
Suddenly, she leaned closer to Lyla and said faintly, “Miss Fisher, you’ve racked your brains just to be with Sean. However, the heavens are keeping watch on the wicked and the good. One day, you’ll accidentally expose your cloven foot.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Approached by Myra, Lyla shrank and buried herself in Sean’s arms in fear. “Myra, you’ve betrayed us so many times. Even though Sean accidentally put you in prison, there’s no need for you to hate us like this, is there? Your debt to us… has been written off.”
Noticing that Lyla was hiding in his embrace out of her fear toward Myra, Sean looked right at the latter’s cold gaze. “Myra, we didn’t know you’d be here when we decided to come today.”
“I came here without knowing you guys would be here too. If I had known earlier, I wouldn’t want to run into you guys either.”
After Myra said that, she turned around and left. When she was about to leave, her eyes caught Eve, who seemed to have something to say. Quickly, she added, “Please don’t try to stop me again, Mrs. Chase. I know your son is popular, but he’s nothing to me now.” Then, she walked toward the hotel.
Behind her, Eve and Sean’s expressions got ugly. They didn’t expect Myra to turn into a different person after the divorce.
“She… She’s… getting on my nerves!” Eve’s hands were shaking. “I treated her with all my heart in the past. How can she turn her back on me after the divorce? Sean, from now on, you can’t get involved with her anymore!” Her chest was heaving with anger.
Sean’s expression clouded. When Myra said that he no longer meant anything to her, he was embarrassed. Yet, the corners of his mouth curved into a disdainful grin. She’s only trying to act calm. Let’s see how long she can stay that way!
“Hmm,” he replied to his mother indifferently.
Right after Eve finished her words, she took a glance at the Ritz Carlton.
Ritz Carlton was the largest hotel in Bradfort City. Pomp and circumstance were its distinctive characteristics. Its annual profit was no less than that of a medium-sized company. But, what did Myra say earlier?
‘Fifty percent of the Ritz Carlton belongs to me. I have the right to stand here more than anyone else.’
When Eve recalled the manager of the Ritz Carlton treating Myra politely, her expression immediately sank. How come Myra never mentioned to us that she owns fifty percent of the Ritz Carlton?
Myra was down in the dumps after she ran into Eve and the others. Standing outside Conan’s office, she took a long, deep breath. After she shook off her bad mood, she knocked on the door.
“Come in.” A hoarse voice rose from inside.
When Myra heard the voice, her heart softened, and she felt upset. She pushed the door open and her eyes immediately found the old man, who was sitting behind the desk.
Conan had aged a lot in the last two years. Back then, he only had white hair on his temples. Now, his hair was almost completely white.
She choked a little at the sight and went to the old man. Softly, she began, “Mr. Engelhard, I should’ve come earlier to apologize to you… I don’t know if you’re willing to forgive me…”
When the Chase Group ran into troubles back in the days, Myra blindly sold twenty percent of her shares in the Stark Group to the old man in front of her. Besides that, she also wanted to sell her share of the Ritz Carlton in order to provide Chase Group with the funds they needed desperately. Nonetheless, Conan strongly opposed her decision. Since then, she never contacted him out of anger. She didn’t regret her decision until some time ago, but she was too ashamed to visit him. Looking back at what happened, she felt guilty.
Conan looked at the girl in front of him, who had grown more mature compared to two years ago, and was overwhelmed by emotions. He knew how Myra had been living all these years. Yet, he also knew that the girl in front of him was very stubborn—she would never give up.
All these years, he had never stopped watching over her. It was only until yesterday when she got a divorce with Sean that he finally felt like the dust had settled. He waved at her. “Come here, Myra.”
With her eyes brimming with tears, Myra walked toward him and squatted down before him. “Mr. Engelhard, I know I’ve made a lot of mistakes in the past. Can you forgive me?”
Conan was a close friend of Myra’s grandfather, and he watched Myra’s mother and Myra grow up. Therefore, he loved Myra as though she was his own granddaughter.
He caressed her head. “I’m not fed up with you. I’m just afraid that you’ll be hurt. Myra, the past is in the past. I know you’ve divorced Sean. That’s great. Don’t think about that heartless man anymore. I’ll never get angry with you. I was worried you might not live happily in the future.”
“Mr. Engelhard…” Myra’s heart flinched. She wondered what a bastard she had been to skip visiting him for two years…
“I won’t think about him again. I’m no longer the old Myra.” She held his hand, and her expression was complicated. In the end, she bit her lip and whispered, “Mr. Engelhard, I’m ready to go back to work at the Stark Group.”
A trace of surprise flashed across Conan’s face.
Myra took a deep breath and repeated, “I’ve decided to work at the Stark Group, Mr. Engelhard.”
Staring at the girl in front of him, Conan realized that Myra had grown up from a stubborn girl into a strong, open-minded girl. She was braver than he imagined, and she took the fastest time to grow up well. There was a touch of comfort before his eyes as he asked gently, “Myra, are you sure?”
“Hmm.”
This was not a decision made on the fly. A long time ago, Myra had considered going back to work at the Stark Group. The Stark Group was the result of her mother’s efforts. She didn’t want to give it to that mother-daughter pair. However, she wasn’t prepared to leave Sean either. She thought Sean would eventually share a single heart with her, and she would be able to take back the Stark Group—the company that belonged to her mother. Yet, she had overestimated herself. Now, she and Sean were divorced, and she left the Chase Group. It was about time she returned to the Stark Group and took back what was supposedly hers.
Fortunately, she was not alone. The thought of Tony softened the hard lines on her face.
“Mr. Engelhard…” She hesitated. Still, she went on and told the old man in front of her gently, “There’s someone that I would like to introduce to you sometime…”
“The kid from the Hart Family?” Conan arched an eyebrow at her.
“How did you know, Mr. Engelhard…” Myra was surprised.
Conan let out a chuckle. “Silly girl, how could I not know about your things?”
The ‘kid’ came to see him a while ago.
Conan shook his head. “Myra, I won’t comment on that kid from the Hart Family. You’re all grown up. Whether he’s good or bad, whether he treats you sincerely, and whether he’s the man you want, these are the things you need to think about carefully. I won’t interfere this time.”
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to put in a good word for Tony in front of Myra. There were some things that Tony had gone overboard with, but Conan didn’t even step in to stop him.
