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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hospital, Olivia, 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

thought Alexei to be so good at cooking, which was totally unexpected from a silver- spoon type who probably had bloodstains

of her–including spicy

had to admit defeat.

people had their reasons. Not only did he recover like

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

saw Alexei sitting on the couch, beckoning her over like she was

dragged her feet.

doesn’t try

By the time they’d cleared the dishes, he’d cherry–picked the hottest call

with Natasha on the couch, Alexei tapped his

moment Andrew’s furious voice blasted through the

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

ungrateful, disgraceful…” The insults

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

had a hacker on standby, covering

was so loud that others at the party caught snippets, shooting weird looks their

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humiliated, had to slink away

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composed Andrew dropped some rare curses before smashing his phone

fake heiress, shameless gold–digger,

Noel and Lucas frantically hitting the emergency call

Matthew, he lasted less than two minutes before losing it. A half–hour screaming match later, he got so mad at losing

the next few days, we’ll haunt them like ghosts. Full three–day service guaranteed. I’ve timed it–2 days, 23 hours, and 5

they do their homework, but

creative array of

‘Lesson learned.

of heat? Man, the coming days are

was seriously impressed after hearing

being chased and yelled

his work, Shawn secretly plotted whether to arrange

attacks, but this

just tossed out the

had to admit the effect was next level, and she

getting randomly