Chapter 176
This time, L took a deep breath before quickly answering the call. Immediately, a gloomy man’s
voice was heard on the line. “L, it’s been so long since you went back. Did you find yourself a new
boy toy? You forgot about me so fast, and you didn’t even pick up my call!”
As soon as L heard his gloomy and ruthless voice, her hand trembled subconsciously. Then, she
pretended as though she was cold when she said, “Director Walton, I broke up with you before I left. I
hope you won’t call me again. You’re disturbing me.”
“Ugh…” There seemed to be a woman moaning softly from the other side of the phone, and it was
coupled with an ambiguous thumping sound. L was very clear as to what was happening over there.
Although she felt disgusted, she only bit her lip instead of hanging up. Gideon’s cold voice that
sounded discontented rose again. “Disturbing… It looks like you’ve really found yourself someone new.
But, what should we do? When you first came to me, this game wasn’t something you could end just
because you wanted to. Now that you’ve found someone better, you want to leave? You never asked if
I agreed!”
As his merciless voice sounded, L heard that woman crying out in pain too. Her expression changed
subtly. Taking a deep breath, she tried to soften her tone. “Director Walton, you promised me that if I
followed you, you would make sure to inform your family about our rtionship and marry me. But, I
was with you for over a year, and you didn’t marry me. Instead, you’re fooling around with more and
more women! I love you, but I can’t stand the thought of sharing you with other women at the same
time. I’d rather die…”
“You love me?” echoed the man as if he had heard a joke. He went on with his disdainful tone, “It just
so happens that I’ll be going back to Bradfort Cityter next month. I would like to see how much you
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love me by then!” After saying that, he hung up straight away.
When L heard the beep sound as the call ended, she only felt a chill all over her body.
That gloomy man was as ruthless as the devil. Back then, when she first went to him, she did it partly
because she didn’t have a choice and partly because it was a fantasy of hers. It turned out that he
would never belong to a woman. Besides, he had this weird kink in bed where he would torture her to
the point of death. This was also one of the main reasons she hated Myra so much.
If he’sing to Bradfort City…
“Who did you just talk to on the phone?” Suddenly, a voice rose. In that instant, L felt the hair on the
back of her neck stand on end. She quickly turned around, only to see Eve walking out from the house
without an expression.
She forced out a smile. “Mom, weren’t you taking a nap? Why did youe out?”
However, Eve seemed like she didn’t hear her question. She stared straight at L. “Are you feeling
guilty? Who did you talk to on the phone just now?”
“Guilty?” L pretended to be indifferent as she smiled at her. “I was just worried that I would disturb
you, so I came out and answered the call. It was a friend from abroad who’sing to Bradfort City
next month and wants to look for me.”
“A friend?” L’s stiffened figure didn’t go unnoticed by Eve when she called her earlier. She twisted
the corners of her mouth. “Male or female?”
L noticed the meaning behind Eve’s question, and the smile she barely managed to put on faded in
an instant. She returned her gaze and suddenly, she got tired of having to deal with her constant
harassment. Faintly, she said, “Mom, don’t you believe me? I’m married to Sean, so I’ll never hurt him.
You don’t want to see this family fall apart, do you? It’s tough for Sean to get caught in the middle of our
squabbles.”
Eve never paid much attention to L’s words. However, she agreed with her earlier statement. Now
that L was married to her son, if the two of them really got into a fight, her son would suffer the most.
To be honest, the reason Eve’s attitude toward L changed recently was due to a chat she had with
her friends some time ago at the salon.
After the crisis at the Chase Group, she started hanging out with her friends again. Those richdies
loved topare everything between themselves, including their jewelry, their outfits, their sons, and
their daughters-inw. At first, Eve despised that behavior. However, after Sean divorced Myra and
married L, somehow, she started to concern herself with what they said. For instance, which family’s
daughter-inw was married to their son with how much dowry, and whose daughter-inw was the
backbone of the project their son hadpleted. The more she heard about those things, the more
depressed she got. Eventually, one of her friends asked her about L.
Eve had no idea if that woman had asked her intentionally even though she knew L’s identity and
that she couldn’t do anything to help the Chase Group. Eve was embarrassed by her question.
Nevertheless, she didn’t want to lose face in front of them. Hence, she said calmly, “Our L is an
acquaintance of the Walton Group and the Hart Group. When the Chase Group encountered some
financial issues and couldn’t sell thend in Hilliville, L was the one who got a customer to buy it.”
Immediately, her friends started looking at her differently as they praised L and her luck.
Eve was slightly delighted for a while. Although she wasn’t satisfied with L, she was somewhat
useful. Suddenly, she heard one of her friends say, “Wait; didn’t the Hart Group terminate L’s
their products anymore. How could she possibly be good friends with them?”
At that moment, Eve was caught off guard. L was the one who told her that she was an
acquaintance of the Walton Group. However, her rtionship with the Hart Group was something she
learned from her son. Besides, she didn’t know that the Hart Group had terminated L’s endorsement
contract. Or perhaps, she should say that she never cared about her matters at all.
Then, her friends started to agree with that earlier woman, saying that they had heard about that as
well.
At the end of the day, Eve was no longer in a good mood. Her friends had been looking at her as
though she was lying in order to build some kind of rtionship with the Hart Group and the Walton
Group. On the verge of flying into a rage, she heard those women criticizing her behind her back when
she was in the restroom.
“Don’t you guys think that Mrs. Chase is dumb? How can she let her son divorce the girl from the Stark
Family and marry an underrated pianist who only knows how to have fun?”
“That’s right! I call her a pianist out of respect, but she’s merely making a living as a performer. Two
days ago, I even saw her shopping for designer clothing and purses in a high-end shop like a country
bumpkin. For God’s sake; luckily, my son didn’t marry someone like her! How dare she lie to her
mother-inw that she’s acquainted with the Hart Family? How ridiculous! If she had a good
rtionship with them, why would she marry into the Chase Family? The one who bought the Chase
Group’snd in Hilliville was probably the man she spent a night with, and the price of thend was the
amount she got for a night with him!”
“You don’t say! Didn’t she find another man back then because she thought the Chase Group was on
itsst legs? I heard she found herself a rich man. Perhaps, her years in that circle have expanded her
Thatst sentence was like an arrow shooting straight into its target; it hit right into Eve’s heart.
In the past, although Eve had warned L to leave her son alone publicly, L had gotten into another
rtionship a little too quickly. She did it so rapidly as though she already had an affair with that guy.
And it was because of what Eve did that allowed L to announce her rtionship with him to the
public.