“You have no idea how vicious Myra is. She even approached me at that time and warned me to stay away from you!” A dark glimmer flashed in Lyla’s eyes as she wept with her head lowered. “Even if I was in the wrong, she still had no right to take away my child so ruthlessly…” By the end of her sentence, she was crying even more dramatically.
Just then, emotions were violently raging within Sean! Knowing he shouldn’t listen anymore, he closed his eyes and said, “Lyla, did you think I would miss you after you left and that I would still treat you well when you come back? Did you think saying a few words to me would make me give in, and we would carry on as before?”
“Why not?” She looked up, as if she was going to laugh. But in the end, she couldn’t stop the tears that were flowing down her cheeks. “Sean, I have always loved you deeply. There was never a moment where I have forgotten about you, and I refuse to believe that you have. The fact that you still came to the bar for me says it all!”
“This time, you thought wrong.” He loosened his tightly clenched fists. With a chilly voice, he said, “I only took you home out of goodwill. If anything happened to you and you only called me before it happened, I would probably find it disturbing. Besides, we used to be lovers. So, I’m only doing this as a small favor, not because I still have feelings for you. I married Myra because I love her. For the past two years, she was the only one by my side and never left! As for you, you’re nothing to me now!” Immediately after, he stormed out of the villa with a grim expression.
As he was about to reach the door, he stopped in his tracks. “You can stay in this villa for the time being, but I don’t like strangers staying at my place. You have one week to look for a place to stay, then get the hell out of here!”
With a loud bang, the door of the villa was slammed shut.
Watching him leave with no hesitation, Lyla couldn’t help but smash the phone that was on the nightstand as hard as she could.
If he really loved Myra, why has he been out partying and fooling around with different women for the past two years? If he didn’t have feelings for me, then why did he come to the bar and take me home? ‘Find it disturbing’? Sean Chase has never been the kind of man who would feel disturbed! He obviously still loves me, yet he keeps denying it! So, he loves Myra? We’ll see how much you really love that woman!
The corners of her mouth slowly curved up into a malicious smile.
Meanwhile, Sean sped all the way down the hill after leaving Fairhill Villa, during which he called Myra twice. However, both calls were rejected immediately without hesitation.
Remembering what Lyla said, he was in agony!
No! I don’t believe what Lyla said! She left me without hesitation back then. If Myra hadn’t been with me, I would have never been able to get through my breakup and the troubles the business was facing. Yet, she is thinking of coming back now… Does she think I’ll always be at her beck and call?
When a number came into his mind, Sean dialed it without a second thought.
However, it was rejected immediately as well.
At once, his face turned terribly sour. He kept calling the number over and over, until finally, Estelle picked it up irritably. “What do you want?”
“Myra moved out,” Sean suppressed his rage inside and snapped.
Hearing such a tone, Estelle was enraged. “Congratulations, Director Chase. You finally found out.”
As if he didn’t notice her sarcastic remark, he said bluntly, “Tell me where she’s staying now.”
That’s funny. Do you think I’ll tell you? Who do you think you are?” Surely, Estelle wasn’t going to be nice to Sean. “Let me tell you, Sean. Don’t assume that just because Lyla is back, you can go back to her and have your happily ever after. I’m not Myra, and I’m not as soft-hearted as she is. If you dare to hurt her, I will not spare you and that b*tch!” With that, she ended the call.
“What the hell!” She cursed at the phone. Just then, a darkened expression appeared on the face of the man who had opened the door of the private room.
“Oh, Shawn. I could change and be more gentle if that is what you want. I’ll do it for you.”
When she saw Shawn, Estelle’s face instantly took a 180 degree turn. However, the man in front of her only sneered, “You’re full of tricks, Miss Langley. I’m only staying here for a night, yet you already managed to get your hands on the key to this room.”
Then, he lit a cigarette and blew a smoke ring toward the woman in front of him. Watching her cough from the smoke and her eyes welling up with tears, he said, “Fine, you have one night to seduce me. If you manage to make me feel something, then I’ll give you a try.”
Once the words left his mouth, not only was Estelle bewildered, even Shawn himself froze.
But in the next moment, he put out his cigarette in annoyance and stood up. “Unless you were just popping in for a quick visit—”
“Of course not!” Estelle’s heart was already beating so hard that she stripped without a second thought and walked toward the man before her with irresistible charm. “You were the one who made the deal. You can’t go back on your words now!”
After moving out from Chase Residence, Myra was adjusting rather nicely. Over the years of being on the job, she had long been used to a casual and simple lifestyle.
In order to avoid running into Sean at Chase Group, besides attending meetings at Hart Group, she would go to the construction site for observations and rarely went to the office.
“Miss Stark, I have mailed the documents you wanted to your home. Are you still not coming to the office today?” Tilly’s voice came from the phone.
“Thank you Tilly.” Myra looked at the documents that had just arrived and whispered, “I won’t be returning to the office for a while, so if anything happens, keep an eye out for me.”
“Alright.”
Upon hanging up the phone, Tilly pouted. “Miss Stark is acting really strange these days… It’s like she’s going through a breakup and has turned into a different person.”
On this day, Myra went to the construction site as usual to check the progress of the project.
As soon as she arrived at the construction site, a foreman came to her. “Miss Stark, it’s about time we get paid for this month. When is Chase Group paying us?”
In fact, Myra wasn’t in charge of payroll. When the foreman came up to her, she still said kindly, “I’ll ask the company’s finance department for you later.”
“Thank you, Miss Stark.” The foreman was an honest man. A few days ago, he had heard some rumors and couldn’t resist asking, “Miss Stark, I heard that the houses built on the batch of land Chase Group bought for the Hilliville project have not been sold. Will this affect our future income?”
At once, Myra froze.
The Hilliville project was one of the first projects Chase Group started when they decided to invest in real estate in the early days. At that time, she had just joined the company and wasn’t qualified to participate in this project, but she vaguely remembered that the company had invested a lot of money into it.
At one point, the value of the Hilliville project had shot to sky-high prices, attracting countless companies competing for investment. In order to stand out from the crowd, Chase Group did not spare much money, but not long after the investment, the value of the property dropped. However, the houses were already in the process of being built, so they couldn’t just stop the project. All the enterprises in that area had the same thought, therefore they bit the bullet and continued the project.
