My Four Miraculous Treasures

Chapter 126

Lara beheld a tall, lean, well-built man in a bespoke black suit, radiating an aura of refinement and menace. Powerful legs propelled him across the floor of the lobby.

This fleeting glimpse of him was enough to leave her utterly stunned, rooted to the spot and staring blankly after him.

It was only after Jasper had already disappeared from view that she came back to her senses, and realized that she'd just caught sight of none other than the CEO of the Hughes Corporation himself. She'd encountered him before, back at the village.

Previously, Lara had mistakenly assumed that he was Samantha's boyfriend, but Willow had corrected her: He wasn't Samantha's boyfriend, he was in fact the CEO of Hughes Corporation.

Last night, he was the one who'd sent her daughter home.

Excited, Lara turned back to the receptionist. "That's him! Could you please give him a call, for me?"

The receptionist balked at this. "That's our CEO, Mr. Hughes. I'm afraid I don't have his personal number. At most, I can only page his secretary's office."

Oh, no... perhaps this lady had a screw loose upstairs...?

Willow Nason was a humble cleaning woman. Jasper Hughes was an eminent business tycoon. How could the two possibly be involved with one another?

Ah, it was all those rumors, right? That had to be where this misunderstanding was coming from. Mr Ward had already sent around an internal memo about how Deborah Salt had been behind all that nonsense. There was no grain of truth in any of it. There was nothing going on between Jasper Hughes and Willow Nason.

Lara fumbled about for a moment

caught sight of him getting into a car, which drove off even as she

coughed terribly for a moment, fanning away

she decided to return to the front desk and leave a message for Jasper, informing him that she would be back to see

building. "Mom, what are you doing here?" Her

Willow that someone named Lara Smith had come

your boyfriend or not," answered

around nervously. They were surrounded by her colleagues, on

thing!" Willow hissed under her breath. "Don't go asking around, either! He's in charge of the

rash of

a laughing stock before the whole company. Everyone had assumed that she'd done something slutty y to try and seduce Jasper and had been spreading those rumors around herself, for her

been disdained, ostracized,

calmed down, the last thing she needed was for her own mother to start things back up

tried to pull her

your boyfriend, then what are you so nervous for?! I know you haven't been telling me the truth, Willow! Why would Mr. Hughes be driving

over her mother's

as though there was nothing but

coast was

her mother. "Mom,