Their Villain, The Mogul's Beloved

Chapter 17

Natasha had already scrolled through her call log.

Seeing who had called, she wasn’t the least bit surprised.

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Clearly, her mom hadn’t had enough of their morning argument, and now everyone in the family had taken turns blowing up her phone. Even Matthew Hill, Olivia’s simp, had jumped in. News of her beating Olivia into the ER must’ve spread fast.

Just glancing at the list, she could already guess what those calls were about.

If Alexei worked for her, that shit would totally qualify for workers‘ comp.

But he was a capitalist.

“So, did you scold them back for me?

“If none of them got scolded back, how am I supposed to vent? And how can I reward you?” Natasha spread her hands, playing dumb shamelessly.

Alexei seemed thoughtful. “So, if I were to scold them back, you’ll repay me?”

“Duh,” Natasha answered offhandedly.

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Shawn hung up, squinting at his phone in bewilderment.

After

task.

years as a personal assistant, he’d never received such a ridiculous–no, downright childish-

‘Seriously, childish.

‘What kind of CEO, when pissed at someone, just hires a bunch of professional scolders to call and

curse them out?

‘Based on past experience, anyone who crossed Mr. Turner would at least end up with broken limbs or bleeding–if not worse, like their whole family going bankrupt and getting abandoned by everyone. Shawn couldn’t wrap his head around it.

This soft, almost playful approach was downright eerie.

But orders were orders. He immediately rounded up a few smooth–talking scolding pros and had them take turns cursing out everyone on Alexei’s list.

Duration? As Alexei gave no specific timeframe, Shawn decided to start with a 72–hour roasting session first.

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along with Noel and Lucas keeping her company, and Thomas wrangling the old property mess in Scrushire, the Clark couple at a last–minute dinner party, and Matthew drinking at a bar all had their

so good at cooking, which was totally unexpected from a silver- spoon type who probably

front of her–including spicy chicken wings tailored to her

had to admit defeat.

had their reasons. Not only did he recover like a

home was something she hadn’t experienced in a long time. Strangely enough, the atmosphere felt kinda

automatically cleaned up. Once she washed her hands, she saw Alexei sitting

her

doesn’t try to weasel

fast. By the time they’d cleared the dishes, he’d cherry–picked the hottest call recordings–real fire–breathing performances with

on

furious voice blasted through the speaker after getting absolutely roasted, Natasha was

had been in power for years, living the high life. No one had ever

the caller didn’t hold back. “Blind, incompetent, ungrateful, disgraceful…” The insults came rapid–fire, no repeats, absolutely

the phone? Nope. Switching to a backup number? Still

like they had a hacker on standby,

at the party caught

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thoroughly humiliated,

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some rare

hospital. Olivia got hit with a barrage of insults-“homewrecker, fake heiress, shameless gold–digger,

Noel and Lucas frantically hitting the emergency

lasted less than two minutes before losing it. A half–hour screaming match later, he got so mad at losing the verbal brawl that he smashed the custom

few days, we’ll haunt them like ghosts. Full three–day service guaranteed. I’ve timed it–2 days, 23 hours, and

did they do their homework, but

creative

‘Lesson learned.

cracked after just one hour of heat? Man, the coming days are gonna

was seriously impressed after hearing the recorded insults. The method might be naive, but damn, it

himself being chased and yelled at like that made

the results of his work, Shawn secretly plotted whether to arrange a premium insult package for those old

but this move? It hit

recording. She’d just tossed out the idea casually, never expecting him to actually make it

to admit the effect was

be happy getting randomly screamed at? But for