Chapter 809 Forcing Her To Pick A Side
Meanwhile, June received a call from an unknown number while he was in his office. The person said, “Mr. Wick, we have injected Mrs. Larson with the hallucinogenic drug. She got bitten on her arms and legs while fighting the dog we sent her way and is currently recovering in a hospital. When will you be paying me the rest of the money?”
A wide grin formed on June’s lips as he said, “I’ll have someone transfer the money in a bit.” “Thank you, Mr. Wick. I hope you will consider hiring me for similar jobs in the future as well. I promise to get them all done perfectly,” said the person on the phone before hanging up.
“Don’t blame me for being so ruthless, Jennifer. I’m only doing this to make sure we’re on the same side. You were starting to give up on your desire for revenge when that unappreciative b*stard started courting you, so I had to hurt your mom a little to get you back on track. I’m not about to forgive Oscar after everything he has done to me, and it’ll take the two of us working together to defeat him,” June mumbled to himself with a sneer.
He then grabbed his coat and headed over to the hospital, only to bump into Carter outside the ward.
“Hello, Mr. Scott. Why are you standing out here all by yourself? Did Jennifer kick you out? She sure is a stubborn one, huh? I told her I was fine with you two having a history together, and yet, she still insists on keeping her distance from you so I wouldn’t get upset. Tsk, tsk…” June said with a faint smile.
Carter clenched his fists and shot June a fierce glare, but he didn’t lash out like June had expected him to.
The smile on June’s face grew increasingly sarcastic when he saw that.
“Wow! You have an impressive amount of self-control, Mr. Scott. I’m impressed! However, Jennifer is in love with me now. It’s unfortunate, but you seem to have become a thing of the past.”
That was the last straw for Carter.
Unable to hold his anger back any longer, he swung his fist at June as hard as he could. As their scuffle had caused quite a huge commotion, the security guards rushed over to break them up.
Jennifer’s eyes lit up with rage when she came out of the ward and saw them both covered in bruises.
“What are you doing here, June?” she asked while trying her best to keep her anger suppressed.
June simply walked up to her and wrapped his arm around her waist. As Jennifer tried to struggle free, June whispered into her ear, “Carter is now under the impression that we’re in a questionable relationship. Do you want him to see through our pretense?”
Jennifer stopped struggling after hearing that.
From Carter’s perspective, the two of them looked like they were having an intimate conversation with each other.
Naturally, he didn’t take too well to that.
Carter was about to say something when the head nurse came over and lectured them, “Need I remind you that this is a hospital? Ms. Larson, please tell your friends to stop their yelling and fighting! They’re disturbing the other patients here!”
Jennifer nodded and said apologetically, “I’m terribly sorry about them. They were having a little argument earlier, but I promise it won’t happen again!”
The head nurse nodded at her and walked off without saying anything further.
June tightened his grip on Jennifer’s waist as he asked, “I heard your mother has gotten injured. How is she doing? Is she going to be okay?”
Jennifer felt really uncomfortable being held in his embrace, but she forced herself to put up with it anyway.
“She’s fine. She just fell asleep a while ago, so you’d better not go visit her. I don’t want you waking her up.”
June then leaned in and gave her a loud smooch on the cheek, making things even more awkward as everyone in the corridor could hear it.
It hurts me like crazy to see them behaving intimately, but I have only myself to blame for this. I used to treat Jennifer with disdain, and now, I can only watch as another man hugs and kisses her…
With that in mind, Carter gazed longingly at Jennifer before walking away.
There was a glint of sadness in Jennifer’s eyes when she saw him leave without looking back.
June caught her right as her legs gave out beneath her. “You love him that much, huh? Do you really think he’d accept you after you’ve slept with me? I doubt he’d be okay with ‘used goods.’“
Jennifer shoved him off and glared coldly at him with her arms crossed. “June, you and I are merely working together. You are in no position to interfere with my relationships! I’m in a very bad mood right now, so you’d better get the f*ck out of my sight!”
“Jennifer, have you forgotten what we’ve done? I practically know all of your sensitive spots now. It’s a bit too late to draw the line, don’t you think?” June said with a devilish grin while eyeing her lasciviously from head to toe.
Jennifer went livid with rage.
“Leave me alone!” she shouted through clenched teeth.
Instead of leaving her alone, June took another step forward and grabbed her by the wrist. “You and I are partners now that we’re working together, Jennifer. Shouldn’t you be a little nicer to your dear partner? For your sake, I suggest you forget about being with Carter. The Scotts will never accept you into their family now that the entire city has seen your naked body. Keep in mind that Carter is the heir of the Scott family. I doubt he’d be willing to give that up for a filthy woman like you.”
Jennifer shuddered and lowered her gaze as she said, “Look, I know what I am. You don’t have to keep reminding me of it. I’ll continue working with you once my mom is all better. Until then, please leave me the f*ck alone!”
June’s goal was simply to hurt Jennifer just enough to ensure her compliance. Since he had achieved his objective, he decided to let her go for the time being.
“That’s more like it!” he said nonchalantly and walked off with a gleeful grin on his face.
Jennifer took a deep breath to calm herself down before heading back into the ward.
It was almost eleven by the time Vincent returned that night.
“You can go home and get some rest, Jennifer. I’ll take over from here.”
Jennifer shot him a glance and asked, “Where have you been, Dad? I tried calling you all afternoon, but I couldn’t get through.”
“Mr. Sullivan and the others were insisting on selling off their shares after the meeting. I tried talking them out of it, but they refused to listen. I thought about buying it all back from them, but the company has lost far too much money lately, so I can’t afford to do so,” Vincent replied lethargically.
Misfortune never came alone, and that was especially the case for the Larsons lately. Not only did the company suffer huge losses after Jennifer’s recent incident, but Vincent’s old friends had all turned their backs on him as well.
This was the first time Vincent had experienced such helplessness, and the overwhelming distress had left him feeling suffocated.
Jennifer exploded with anger after hearing what he said. “What? Why would Mr. Sullivan do that? He didn’t say anything when my videos were leaked, so why would he suddenly insist on selling his shares?”
Vincent waved at her. “Why he did it isn’t important right now. Those guys hold quite a significant amount of our company’s shares. We’ll lose the company if someone else acquires those shares.”
“Don’t worry, Dad. I’ll find a way to buy those shares back. You’ve spent dozens of years managing this company. I won’t let anyone take it from us!” Jennifer reassured him.
Vincent simply nodded at her in response.
Jennifer then left the hospital in a hurry after leaving Laura in his care.
She gave June a call and got straight to the point by asking, “June, where are you right now? I’m a little strapped for cash and need you to lend me some money. Will you help me out?”
June gave her an address, and Jennifer rushed over as quickly as she could.
Upon getting off the car, she realized that it was actually a five-star hotel.
Jennifer stared at it hesitantly for quite a while but decided to go in anyway.
She had just stepped out of the elevator when a figure stepped out from the adjacent elevator and grabbed her by the arm.
Jennifer quickly turned around, only to gasp in shock when she saw that it was Carter.
“Carter? What are you doing here?”
Without saying a word, Carter dragged her into the elevator and kissed her as it went down.
Jennifer’s eyes went wide with shock as she glared at Carter.
Because he kept his finger on the button to prevent the doors from opening, the elevator started making its way up again.
Carter was going to continue his barrage of deep and passionate kisses, but Jennifer moved her face out of the way and yelled, “Stop it, Carter! What the f*ck do you think you’re doing?”
Carter pinned her against the wall and glared at her as he said, “I was waiting outside the hospital the whole time. Your dad called me and told me all about the company shares. You know I can help you, so why would you ask June for help instead? Do you enjoy being abused by someone you clearly despise?”
A myriad of emotions flickered across Jennifer’s face as she felt humiliated by those words.
With a stubborn glare on her face, she mustered whatever strength she had and shoved Carter off her. She was about to lash out at him when her phone started ringing all of a sudden.
She answered the call when she saw June’s name on the caller ID, but Carter snatched it from her before she could say anything.
“Listen up, June. I don’t care what your reasons are for harassing Jennifer, but she’s mine now. I will help her out with whatever issues she’s facing, so leave her the f*ck alone!” Carter then hung up the phone after saying that.
Jennifer had a conflicted look in her eyes as she slumped weakly against the wall. “Carter, will you please stop interfering in my affairs?”
“No,” Carter replied firmly.
When the elevator’s doors opened upon reaching the first floor, Carter dragged her out of the hotel and shoved her into the back seat of his car.
The next thing Jennifer knew, Carter had continued assaulting her lips with his.
He even took things a step further by pinning her down on the seat.
Jennifer had gotten a little woozy from his aggressive kisses, but she quickly came back to her sense when she realized what he was trying to do.
She tried putting up a struggle, but that only seemed to excite Carter even more.
As he began moving his hand down her body, Jennifer instinctively reached out to grab him by the wrist.
Having been snapped out of his frenzied state, Carter stopped kissing her and propped himself up as he asked, “What’s wrong?”
Terrified by his actions, Jennifer mumbled weakly with reddened eyes, “Please don’t do this, Carter… I’m scared…”
Carter stared long and hard at her with a mysterious look in his eyes.
He then buried his face in her collarbone and took a deep breath as he said, “Jennifer, will you please stop torturing me like this? I’m really in love with you. Will you please give me a chance to prove my love to you?”
Jennifer’s tears flowed down her cheeks as she cried her heart out.
After what seemed like forever, she slowly regained her composure and asked, “If I give you a chance, will you help me destroy Amelia and the rest of the Clinton family in return?”
Carter was so shocked that he simply stared speechlessly at her in disbelief.
Jennifer shot him a sarcastic smile as she continued, “What’s wrong? You claim to love me so much, but you won’t even agree to this simple request of mine?”
“You’re no match for Oscar,” Carter replied with a frown.
“That’s precisely why I’m asking for your help. So, are you going to help me or not?”
“Why are you going after the Clintons?”
Jennifer snickered upon hearing that. She then sat up straight in her seat and tidied her messy clothes as she replied, “Oscar is the reason my mom turned out like this, and you’re asking me why I’m going after his family? Are you trying to play dumb with me, Carter?”
Carter frowned as he felt really uncomfortable with her distant attitude.
Jennifer flashed him a cold smile as she caressed his cheek with her slender fingers.
“You wanted to know why June and I are working together, right? Well, it’s because we both have a common enemy. He promised he’d help me take Oscar down, so I gave him my body in return. You must think I’m really disgusting, huh? But that’s fine by me. I’ve always been a filthy woman, to begin with. I kept this side of me hidden when I was in love with you before, but things are different now. Since you couldn’t care less about me, I had no choice but to throw myself into another man’s arms.”
The look on Carter’s face changed slightly, and a slew of emotions flashed past his eyes.
Eventually, he calmed down and said, “Jennifer, do you really want me to leave that badly? I know you’re concerned about the videos, but you don’t have to be. I promise I won’t let anyone hurt you.”
Jennifer felt slightly moved by his words but quickly returned to being sarcastic again.
“You overestimate your capabilities, Mr. Scott.”
She then opened the door and prepared to get out of the car, but Carter was quicker and pinned her back down on the seat.
With the man she loved being inches away from her face, it took Jennifer every ounce of self-control she had to stop herself from kissing him.
Carter stared deeply into her eyes and asked, “You wouldn’t be avoiding me like this if you don’t have any feelings for me, Jennifer. Tell me, what are you so afraid of?”
In her state of panic, Jennifer lowered her gaze and shouted coldly, “Let go of me!”
Carter refused to let go and leaned in to kiss her on the lips again, but Jennifer was able to avoid it by looking the other way.
“Stop making me hate you any further, Carter!”
Carter froze upon hearing that.
