“Took her life…?“

Theo’s anger dissipated the moment he heard Joshua’s words. He no longer felt like arguing with Joshua.

He turned around and grabbed Luna’s arms. “Luna, why did you… Why did you attempt to end yourself? Was it because of what my parents said last night? Was it something else…? What’s wrong?“

Theo shook Luna so harshly that she grew light- headed. Then, after a moment, she furrowed her brows feebly. “I’m fine. I’m just…“

“Theo! “ a shrill voice abruptly interrupted Luna. She frowned and glanced in the direction where the voice had come from.

A black BMW was parked by the side of the road. Celeste and Nathan frantically got out of the car and sprinted in their direction.

“Theo, as soon as we discovered you were gone, we knew you had snuck out to find that b*tch! “ Celeste grabbed Theo’s arm and pulled him to her side. “ What did you promise me last night? You promised me you wouldn’t get in touch with that b*tch ever again! Why did you come here to find her?“

Nathan shot Luna a stern look. “Ms. Luna, I thought that after what happened last night, you’d be dignified enough to stay away from Theo. Seems like I thought of you too highly. “ He condescendingly added, “I do have to admit that it’s not entirely your fault, however. How could a promiscuous gold— digger like you resist the temptation? Although we’re not as rich as Mr. Lynch, it’s still more than enough to keep you satisfied.“

“Dad! “ Theo frowned and flung his mother’s hand away. He sidled in front of Luna, blocking her from the rest. “How could you say something like this? Didn’t I explain everything to you last night? Luna isn’t that kind of person at all! How dare you even insult her like this?“

Celeste’s blood boiled as soon as she heard Theo defending Luna.

Theo was her only son, so it was natural that she wanted nothing but the best for him. Yesterday, when she saw the news, she even researched Luna to understand better what kind of person she was.

Initially, she was very pleased with this future daughter-in-law, but everything had changed.

Beautiful women were never faithful!

Celeste recalled her conversation with Alice last night and grew even more outraged.

This woman was so shameful that she even dared to seduce her best friend’s husband. This was unacceptable!

Celeste stomped toward Luna with an air of fury. “ You b*tch! Would it kill you not to seduce other men like this?“

With that, she raised her palm in the air and swung it towards Luna’s face—

A slender, bony hand caught Celeste’s wrist in mid-air.

“Mrs. Allen.” Joshua curled his lips into a smirk. “ How dare you even assault my employee right in front of my office building? Don’t you think that’s very disrespectful toward me?”

Celeste’s eyes widened in shock. She never expected that Joshua would stick up for Luna like that.

He had been the first to accuse Luna of not being good enough for Theo last night. Moreover, he was also the one who exposed Luna’s promiscuity! Why was he…

“Mrs. Allen.” Joshua flung her hand away and stepped in front of Luna, guarding her behind his lean body. “This is the entrance of Lynch Group Tower, not someplace where you can cause a scene whenever you like.”

Celeste’s face turned white, then scarlet.

Theo frowned, lunged forward, and immediately grabbed Celeste. “Mom, what are you doing?” “Mr. Lynch.”

Nathan frowned. “Since Luna is your employee, shouldn’t you reprimand her for being promiscuous and having a complicated personal life?“

Joshua chuckled. “It’s not like she’s my wife, so why should I care about all this?“

Everybody froze as soon as they heard that, even Luna. Her expression darkened. It turned out…

Joshua still thought she was promiscuous and impure.

The reason he had defended her in front of the Allens was not that he trusted her, but because—

He did not care about her at all.

Luna gripped the hem of her shirt tightly.

She had always known that Joshua did not care about her. Even if he did, it was just temporary because he wanted to have fun with her.

However, Luna still could not help but feel a twinge of pain in her heart when she heard what Joshua had said. She felt as though someone had pricked her with a needle, and her heart oozed blood.

Meanwhile, Nathan was so shocked by this sudden turn of events that he did not know what to say.

Joshua turned around and glanced at Nathan and Celeste. “If I remember correctly, you two have decided not to take Luna in as your future daughter-in-law, right?“

Celeste snorted in indignation. “Of course. We won’t allow our son to marry a s1*t like her! “

“Well, since you’ve already changed your mind about the engagement, then what are you doing here?“ Joshua shot them a stern look. “Since she’s not going to be marrying your son anymore, why do you care about her personal life? What does any of this have to do with you?“

Celeste furrowed her brows. “She seduced my son! If it weren’t for her, Theo wouldn’t have come here so early in the morning! “

“The stitches on Luna’s shoulder burst last night, and she was in so much pain that she passed out. She spent the entire night in the hospital, and I was with her. She never contacted Theo ever since they parted ways last night, so how can you say she seduced him?“

With that, Joshua glanced at Theo impassively. “Did Luna ask you to come here?“

Theo paused for a moment, stunned, then finally realized what Joshua was trying to do. He immediately shook his head. “No, no! Luna didn’t contact me at all. I came here all by myself to look for her…“

As soon as he said this, Joshua smirked. “Did you hear that, Mr. and Mrs. Allen? What you have to do right now is keep an eye on your son instead of causing a scene at my building entrance.“

He then turned around and glanced at Luna. “You should go in first.“

Luna pursed her lips, lifted her head to gaze at Theo, then finally turned around and entered the building.

“You…“ Celeste was seething with rage when she saw Luna disappear into Lynch Group Tower.

However, she did not want to offend Joshua further, so she had no choice but to swallow her rage and keep quiet.

“Lucas.“ As soon as Luna entered the building, Joshua gave a stretch and ordered, “Get Zach and Yuri to guard the front doors and tighten up security all around the building. Don’t let any troublemakers into Lynch Group Tower.“

“Yes, Sir! “

The color drained from Celeste’s face as soon as she heard that. Nathan, too, was so angry that he balled up his fists.

“Joshua Lynch! “ He snarled through gritted teeth and glared at Joshua’s retreating figure. “How dare you treat us like this? Did you forget that you were supposed to collaborate with us? We’re the only people who can supply you with the precious ores you want! Aren’t you afraid that we’d forfeit the contract and refuse to do business with you anymore?“

Joshua could not help but smirk when he heard what Nathan had said. He turned around to look at him. “I t seems as though you’re unaware that we’re buying these gemstones from you upon Luna’s request, Mr. Allen.

“According to Lynch Group’s senior executives, we can always change the materials used for this project to diamonds. However, Luna was the one who insisted on using your gemstones. She thinks they’ll be more suitable for her designs. If you want to forfeit our contract, I can convince Luna to change her mind and use diamonds for her products instead, but…“

Joshua stared at Nathan with a steely look. “Are you sure you want to do that, Mr. Allen? I ‘m afraid you don’t want to find out the consequences of offending Lynch Group and any of its employees. “

Nathan’s face turned pale, then blushed scarlet. He clenched his fists and stared at Joshua. “Mr. Lynch, I don’t think the two of us should break our contract over a woman.“

“Look who’s talking,“ snapped Joshua. “It’s you who caused a scene in front of my office building so early in the morning, yet you had the audacity to say this?“

Nathan was so affronted by this that he could not answer.

Shooting them a final smirk, Joshua turned around and strode into Lynch Group Tower.

Nathan and Celeste were rooted where they stood, and their faces contorted in rage. They were furious at the way they were treated. However, they did not dare to offend such a big corporation as Lynch Group, so they had no choice but to relent.

”Dad, Mom! ” Theo shot his parents a somewhat helpless glance. ”I already told you that Luna isn’t the kind of person you think she is, but you didn’t listen to me at all, and now you even followed me here! See what happened? Are you happy now that Joshua Lynch has humiliated you in public like this?”

”Shut up! ” Nathan was still irate from his encounter with Joshua and immediately vented his anger toward Theo. ”You can have any woman in the world, yet you chose that b*tch Luna and even announced your relationship on television ! If our relatives find out about her, you’ll embarrass both of us! Let’s go home, right now! ”

With that, he grabbed Theo by his collar and dragged him into the car.

Celeste sighed when she saw the way her husband and son were behaving. She took out her phone and typed a message to Alice.

(Ms. Lync, we’re at the front door of Lynch Group Tower right now. I was about to slap Luna on your behalf, but Mr. Lynch stopped me. I believe what you said about Luna seducing Mr. Lynch now, but… He’s forbidden us to enter Lynch Group Tower now, and he threatened to forfeit our contract. We can’t do anything about Luna. What do you think we should do next?)

Blue Bay Villa.

Alice stared at Celeste’s message and gritted her teeth in anger.

She narrowed her eyes and gripped her phone tightly.

Last night, she had called Joshua to ask where he was. He had lied to her, saying that he worked overnight at the office when, in reality, he had spent the entire night in the hospital with Luna!

He was even willing to forfeit his contract with the Allens just for her!

Even though the Allens were not a big company, they were one of the few corporations who possessed the rights to mine this particular ore that Lynch Group needed. Therefore, many companies clamored to do business with them. Lynch Group had to fight tooth and nail just to get this opportunity to work with them.

that Joshua was willing to lose the Allens’

a reply to Celeste, her

good at manipulating people. Don’t worry, though. Just focus

this point, Celeste was on her way back to her hotel. She glanced at Theo, whose hands were held down by his father. (Mrs.

so of course she’d seduce men with money and power.

frowned and stared at Alice’s

recruited for the position of Luna’s assistant were all

floor, she immediately interviewed all of them herself and finally settled on three candidates

one was a girl. Together with Arianna, they would be

day showing them the ropes, describing their job scopes,

day of work. Aren’t you going to treat us to dinner,

nodded in

camp, she did not have much to do after work. It would indeed be a good idea to have dinner with her new assistants

Arianna piped in, glancing at Luna’s shoulder worriedly. “Your injury… Are you sure

just dinner. It’s not like I’ll be drawing

of them left the building, got into Samson’s car, and headed

it was not long until the new assistants clamored around Luna and insisted that she had

their offer. Then, she pretended that she needed to use the bathroom and quickly fled the scene

a sink in the restaurant’s bathroom when she heard a woman’s voice

It seemed to be

she was such a promiscuous woman! I guess it’s true that beautiful women

recognized this voice… It belonged to Theo’s

never expected that her and Theo’s frantic announcement in front of the hotel

their relationship only a day ago, Luna felt it was too soon to break up with

as she recalled what had happened this morning at the entrance of

the bathroom cubicles and sat down

enter the bathroom and walk

how shameless this woman was! Not only did she seduce Mr. Lynch, but Mr. Lynch’s assistant and Lynch Group’s bodyguards as well! Yes, that’s right. The two burly guards who stopped us from

though she’s

more disgusting than a toilet!

cubicle. As soon as she heard

way Celeste had insulted her last night and this morning, Luna did not take

allowed Celeste to walk all over her, the more outrageous she

believe Celeste was spreading rumors about her sleeping

phone with a certain ‘Mrs. Lynch’, Luna guessed that this was probably

promiscuous woman marry our beloved Theo?“ Celeste’s voice rang out from outside the cubicle door. “I’m

could finish, however, she heard the cubicle door behind her

frowned and turned around, still holding

the cubicle nonchalantly, dressed head -to -toe in white, and Celeste froze, realizing that Luna

as she gracefully took out a recording device from her pocket and

Mrs. Allen.” Luna leaned against the sink and pointed the recording device toward

phone stiffened. She narrowed her eyes. ”Everything I said

in court.” Luna smirked and added, ”If you know

want to sue me? ” Celeste hung up the phone and glared at Luna. ”Aren’t you afraid that the public will find out how dirty and promiscuous

she sneered. ” Where’s your proof, Mrs. Allen? Are you spreading rumors behind my back based only on what

a fine young man. Did he spend

a single curse word, Celeste was still outraged by what she said. Her chest heaved as she tried to catch her breath, and she glared at Luna crossly. ”You have no right to insult me like that ! You’re so desperate that

just making empty accusations without any evidence…like a

raising her hand in the air. “I wanted to slap you this morning! If it weren’t for Mr. Lynch, I would’ve gotten my

Celeste drew her hand back, Luna

furiously to bring her hand down toward Luna’s face, but try as she might, she could

your way this morning if it weren’t for Joshua, Mrs. Allen?“ Luna smirked and

edge of the sink. Her arm bumped against the faucet, causing water to gush out and splatter onto her face. Her makeup immediately started to

“Mrs. Allen.“ Luna let out an exhale and pressed the off switch on her recording device.

my back one more time, not only will I sue you for defamation, but I’ll publish this recording and expose

a horrible person Theo’s

and walked out

glowered at her with

of a world-famous artist and the Allen Group’s CEO’s wife.

could she let a b*tch like Luna threaten her? Celeste bit her lip and recalled

coerced my husband into thinking it was a big deal. My husband values her as an employee very much, so he took her to the hospital multiple times and

narrowed her eyes and fixated her gaze

Celeste could still make out a bulge on her right shoulder that looked

narrowed her eyes and lunged towards the hallway and in

are you doing?“ Before Celeste could grab onto Luna’s shoulder, however, someone’s hand reached out and

of the new assistants that Luna had

flung Celeste away. “Director Luna’s

make you pay

what Celeste attempted until Samson stopped her. She turned around and smirked at Celeste. “Mrs. Allen, was I being too kind to

Luna, then at the man standing before her, who did not look a day over 18. She sneered and remarked, “I didn’t know Luna

she turned around and

moment, she turned around and glanced at Samson. “What are you

booth for such a long time that we got

paused, then realized that there was another person standing behind Samson. It was another one of the assistants that she had hired—a

so he towered over Irene and blocked her from Luna’s view. Plus, she had not spoken a word since Luna came out of the bathroom, so naturally, Luna did not even notice

name, Irene, with her phone at hand,

turned around, and walked back toward their booth. “Come on, let’s

voice, “No matter what you heard, don’t

meekly and

company group chat was

Luna

slept with

about her and President

you sure all of this is

typed a response, (It’s all true. Director

even have a recording

to the booth, Arianna and another of Luna’s male assistants, Zayne

he saw Luna entering, Zayne immediately tucked his phone away and regained his composure. Meanwhile, Arianna stared at Luna as if she wanted t o say

did not notice her assistants’ strange behavior. She entered the booth and sat down in

she received

hired today has been

as she was about to ask Shannon more, she received another message from

read all of the messages. It

at the four people before her. They were engaged

their previous work and

to suppress her emotions. Then, she

rest join the company’s group chat. When Luna heard this, she smirked and turned around to glance at Samson. “Do

I’m an introvert, so I don’t really enjoy socializing with people. No matter where I go, I never join any

glanced at Arianna and Zayne.

was getting at, so she stammered, “I… I

brows and answered impassively, “I like to join, but

just there to get to know

are entirely different from Irene. “ Luna crossed her arms in front of her chest and tossed her phone onto the table. “Irene, please hand out all of the recordings and

room fell

and he glanced at Irene but dared

a glass of water and set it down in front

Luna had tossed

face. She tried to pretend as if she did not understand what happened. “Director Luna, what are you talking about? I don’t

found out about everything! Stop pretending! “ Samson put down the phone and glared at Irene. “Didn’t I tell

said to that crazy hag? She’s going to sue her

you’re more important

respect! What makes you think she

was just trying to get closer to the rest of the

to Luna and grabbed hold of one of her

curled her lips into a sneer and was about to say something when her phone rang. Samson glanced at the screen and immediately handed her phone over. “It’s President Lynch.“ Luna could

their way to Joshua. Otherwise, he

sigh, picked up the phone, and strode out of the room.

and Yuri won’t be working

in a deep

Aura had tried to kill Nellie at the amusement park. If it were not for them, Neil would never have managed to open the door to the

and Yuri had saved

two brothers had come all the way to the city from their rural village just to seek a job. They did not desire much and were already content with working at Lynch Group Tower

Joshua going to fire them over

curtly. “There are a lot of rumors about you circling around the company now, and I’ll try to find

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