The Billionaire Who Stole My Heart

Chapter 199

That abandoned mansion must have been rigged with surveillance gear, for sure.

Bonnie’s plan was to keep me and Russel under her thumb, so Neil would give up.

I’ve gotta thank her for that.

Now that I’ve chosen to be with Russel, I don’t give a rat’s ass about the bad press. But I do worry about my parents, especially my dad; he was in a particular line of work where all this news would bother him.

The internet was buzzing with comments. Most of them were discussing that the relationships in our circle were a hot mess.

Some folks didn’t know when to quit. They were calling out Neil on social media to come see what was going on between his ex-wife and his best friend.

Under normal circumstances, Neil should have sent someone to do some PR, but he didn’t react, as if he just vanished.

After getting discharged, I rested at home for a day and then went straight back to work.

“Ms. Finch, these are your flowers: please sign for them” Around noon, a courier delivered a large bouquet of beautiful flowers.

I was surprised, but after I signed and read the card, I realized that they were from Russel.

He had really nice handwriting.

The other employees saw this and started cracking jokes. They must have seen the news these past few days. But because of who I am, they never brought it up in front of me; instead, they were really nice to me.

This was the first time I received flowers at work. I felt a bit embarrassed but also really content.

Soon after, Russel called. “Did you get the flowers?”

“I did, thank you. They’re beautiful.” I replied.

you like them; free for dinner tonight? Russel

to respond when I heard a patient asking about their condition on his end of the line. He said

It would be our first date since

day, I went home to shower and change before heading

previous kidnapping, we’ve made some progress and would

hadn’t been punished; instead, Finn’s underlings took the fall. I was really bummed out until I saw

having dinner with me?” Russel noticed my gloomy face and pinched my

the victim can’t even get her punished.”

and he comforted me gently, “It’s okay, I’ll take care of

surprised, “How will you handle it?”

just wanted to be a simple doctor, which was not bad, but it wouldn’t do much if he wanted to compete

him and me had been all over the internet, hadn’t his parents

promised his mother that I’d try to avoid contacting or meeting him, but now that things were this way, I guess the

meant Russel would face even more

smile. “For now,

choosing

I really enjoyed this rare peace. I had a normal

turned himself in. But he took all the blame and didn’t drag Bonnie into

hunch that this was Russels

had no clue how he managed to make a guy

been sorted out, but Bonnie’s situation is tricky. You’ll

bit puzzled. Why did he not just tell

then, Barbara called, “Rena, I need you to go wedding

was

skipping the engagement and

to come with me for a fitting Barbara

wasn’t just an ordinary man. He was rich and handsome, a perfect match for Barbara.