Chapter 399

“Having some display of affection to look at is already good enough. What's there to whine about?”

Zayron scratched the back of his head and frowned slightly as he climbed up the countertop and started serving himself some soup.

He acted as if his parents were not even there in the first place.

Bailey had the urge to smack him, but Artemis stopped her.

“I also think that you're biased. I only see you smacking him. Why do you not do that to the other two as well?”

Bailey turned around and glared at him. “Anymore nonsense from you and I'll smack you too.”

Uh...

Artemis scratched his nose and mustered his courage to pull his wife aside before asking with an arched brow, “I just heard you telling Victoria that there'll be a wedding in a few days. Bailey, you can't treat your words as nonsense. When will you go with me to register our marriage?”

Before Bailey could reply, Zayron yelled as he walked by while carrying a bowl of soup, “Hurry up and marry this crazy woman. Don't let her trouble me anymore.”

Bailey lifted her leg and was about to kick the boy when Artemis quickly stopped her.

“The kid is carrying soup. You might burn him by accident.”

The next moment, Bailey kicked him in the calf, and what she said next rendered him speechless.

“You wish to marry me? Wait another ten years, and we shall see.”

Zayron burst into laughter. “Why don't you marry her in another ten years, Artemis? By then, I'll be an adult and have a girlfriend. We can have a double wedding then.”

“Buzz off.”

Zayron was at a loss for words.

...

That night, in a room on the third floor of Century Hotel, Zeke was leaning against the backseat of the couch as his assistant spoke beside him. “Mr. Shurmer, the dinner will start in an hour. Please take a rest first. I'll go and welcome the guests.”

Zeke hummed in response.

Shurmer Group had hundreds of pharmaceutical companies across the globe, and behind this vast corporate empire were burdensome trifles that currently fell solely on him.

thought of training Zoey to share some of his

she spare any thought of helping me carry the

door, and he

waiter pushed the door open and walked in before moving the tray from the cart onto the table. “Here's the red wine

“Mm.”

her eyes closed while leaning against the seat in an ordinary-looking MPV at the hotel's basement

phone in her hand

person on the end beat her to it. “It's all arranged, Ms. Hoffman. Mr. Shurmer

her

this moment finally

a little

not afraid of anything, but I didn't expect that there would be times when I felt insecure and hesitant to

Hoffman, Ms. Hoffman, are

the voice on the other end of the

I'm here.

in an hour, I didn't mix in a heavy dosage of the

By the way, he won't recognize me,

a hallucinogen. He'll be groggy for a short time.

“All right. Got it.”

...

Zeke felt his head growing heavier, his body getting warmer after consuming half a glass of red wine. His consciousness

little strong. I feel restless for

and he reached out to drain the remaining half glass of red

it if I'm getting wasted. In the worst case, I won't go to the dinner. I'm tired. I just want to get a

him became more and more intense, and a burning sensation spread slowly

for a woman, a feeling he never

Click!

pushed open a gap,

wise, he could not withstand the

and desperately desired a

the only two thoughts he had before

delicate fragrance hit him like rain after a long drought and colliding planets, spiraling him

instinctively pinned the woman approaching him under

his eyes with difficulty in an attempt to glimpse the other person's face. However, the light was too dim and he

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