Chapter 1 8

Lucy’s face turned pale. “Hone!”

She quickly grabbed Samson’s arm in desperation. “Mr. Stone, what’s going on? Didn’t we agree that if I delivered Celine to your bed, you’d help me arrange a meeting with Dr.

This ”

Her voice abruptly stopped as her eyes caught sight of a slender, elegant figure standing near the doorway. Celine had arrived.

No one new when she had come, but now she stood there silently as her clear, luminous eyes calmly watched Lacy’s penic and disarray.

Lucy froze, her body stiffening. Meanwhile, Samson quickly scurried to Celine’s side, bowing and scraping with a fawning smile. “Ms. Tate!”

Celine pulled out a pen from her pocket, then casually tossed it into the nearby pool. “Mr. Stone, I’ve dropped my pen.

Tate, I’ll get it

Lucy walked over, her expression incredulous as she watched the scene unfold Samson surfaced from the pool, soaking wet but triumphantly holding up the pen like a prized

Celine as though she were some kind of monster. Celine smirked, “What’s wrong?

was seeing. She couldn’t figure out what Celine

understood why you treated me this way. What more do you want? You took over my father’s house, stole his company, and abandoned

a small warning. Let me reintroduce myself–I’m not the same Celine you knew back then. Next time, you’d better think twice before

Celine’s clear eyes had tumedley and

reply,

lawn, a Rolls–Royce Phantom sped up the driveway. Adam had come

dignified as ever. Beside him Carly was in a

She thought she hid healed, but the memory of last night, when Adam abandoned her and suggested finding another man for her, resurfaced. The

her “carly didn’t come home last night. Mr Alvarez

understood the implication Immediately. Adam and Carly

set foot in. A place she

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