Filed to story: A Second Chance with My Billionaire Love
‘You call me your savior, but you hid from me for four years, making me worry about you for four years. Is your heart made of stone?”
Seeing the woman who had become more charming, more attractive, and more elusive than before, Xavier’s emotions were complicated.
After all, this was the woman who once made his heart race and the woman he risked his life to save. Even if it was impossible between them, she still held an important spot in his heart.
Rather than saying that he and Halston had searched almost every corner of the world for Flossie all these years, it would be more appropriate to call it his personal obsession.
Halston had long given up on finding Flossie. It was Xavier who tried any method he could think of to look for Flossie like a man possessed.
Some time ago, when he learned that Flossie had returned to Beach City, he was already looking forward to meeting her, but the opportunity never arose.
Who could have known they would reunite under such circumstances?
“Let’s talk about something more serious. Do you know what the top executives of H Group are thinking? Why are they appointing an incompetent guy like Jovan Guajardo as CEO? Are they trying to destroy the company?”
Flossie changed the topic. She wanted to see if she could extract some useful information from Xavier.
Xavier lazily leaned back on the seat and crossed his legs. He looked at Jovan, who was sitting on the stage, with a strange smile. “Who knows? Halston told me before that the H Group may seem impregnable from the outside, but it has actually started to rot on the inside. Various factions are constantly fighting against each other. The situation is as intense as the political struggles in the ancient empires. Maybe Jovan is just the dog of a certain faction. While Halston’s power is weakened, they push Jovan out to be their puppet, just like the puppet leaders in ancient history. He may seem powerful, but he’s just a puppet, so he’s actually powerless!”
Flossie immediately noticed the key point. She asked, “Are you sure Halston is just weakened?”
‘What else could it be?”
“Haven’t you paid any attention to the rumors?”
Flossie carefully probed, “The rumors say Halston’s already dead. The Guajardo family claims he’s dead too. They’ve even chosen a grave for him and are just waiting for a suitable day to hold the funeral now, so…”
“Are you saying that Halston is dead?’
Xavier turned to look at Flossie. His smile deepened.
“Isn’t he? Don’t tell me he’s still alive?”
“Honestly, I don’t know. I haven’t received any news from him for many days. It’s like he’s completely vanished from the world…”
Xavier let out a long sigh, then asked Flossie, “But I’m curious. Do you wish him to be dead or alive?”
Flossie, who talked like a chatterbox a moment ago, suddenly went quiet.
Xavier would not let it rest. He sat upright, looked her right in the eye, and asked, “We’re good friends, aren’t we? Then tell me this – You two parted on bad terms and you disappeared for four years, but now you’ve suddenly come back. Did you come back to start over with him?”
“No way!”
Flossie said coldly, “The first reason I came back is because Beach City is the hometown I grew up in, so I have feelings for this city. The second reason is because I want to take back the things I lost. I want to redeem the Ellsworth family’s tarnished reputation and make the Ellsworth family one of the eight major families in Beach City again. I want to make the people who once hurt the Ellsworth family pay!”
Her gaze was fierce and tenacious. She was like a thorny rose, beautiful and captivating, but dangerous.
‘Tsk tsk, how ambitious. But are you really gonna compete with those ruthless and cunning old foxes for territory? I’m afraid a weak woman like you will be eaten alive before you can even get into the game…”
Xavier expressed concern for Flossie.
Although he had seen what she could do, it would not be easy to bring a downfallen family back to glory. Out of the eight major families in Beach City today, which one could she afford to mess with?
She, a lone woman, wanted to carve out a place for herself? It would be extremely difficult!
“A weak woman?”
That made Flossie laugh. “They should pray that they don’t lose all their teeth when they try to eat me alive!”
“Nice. Your courage is commendable. I’ll give you a round of applause.”
Looking at the confident Flossie, Xavier almost overflowed with admiration.
“To be honest with you, the only person I’m afraid of in the entire Beach City is Halston Guajardo. But now that Halston is gone, those old fools are destined for defeat.”
She knew her words were very arrogant, but it was not without reason.
‘That means you’re hoping that Halston’s dead for real. Tsk tsk… Poor Halston. He’s so sincere to you, but you want him dead.”
“Sincere?”
Flossie snorted. “How could you utter a blatant lie like that? Halston’s sincere to me? Would you want that kind of sincerity?”
“I know you have a lot of resentment in your heart, but Halston has his own difficulties too. There are some misunderstandings between you, and those misunderstandings have been brewing inside you for four years.
Neither of you wants to let it go, but…”
‘That’s enough!”
Flossie impatiently interrupted Xavier and sneered, “He’s already dead, so these things are meaningless now. Talking about them will just reopen old wounds and make me feel the pain again…”
“What if Halston comes back from the dead? Would you be willing to give him another chance?”’
Xavier asked one more time.
He’s probably not the only one who was curious about the answer. Halston would be curious too.
Flossie remained silent for a moment, then said firmly, “No!”
She had only made peace with Halston because he was dead.
If he were to come back to life, she would feel like a clown that he could fool anytime he wanted. Her hatred for him would only deepen.
“Fine. The relationship between you two is way too complicated. We outsiders can’t help you even if we wanted to.”
Xavier sighed and shook his head.
“Why do you keep asking me that? What about you? I heard that your love life has been pretty bumpy in recent years. Shirley White has you completely under her spell. I heard you did a lot of things for her that you normally wouldn’t do.”
Flossie joked.
She would occasionally read entertainment gossip when she was bored, and Xavier was famous for his high-profile acts to make his girlfriend happy
The most famous one was him booking the entire Time Plaza, which was a famous landmark in Beach City, and covering the entire plaza with red roses to celebrate his girlfriend’s birthday. It made lots of women envious.
He was so famous that even Leia would often gossip about him.
However, unlike other women, Leia was not envious. She would always laugh out loud when she talked about him, saying that Xavier was a fool.
“Sigh. I don’t feel like talking about those embarrassing things. In short… I’ve fallen for her hard!”
Xavier awkwardly coughed a few times and said, “I’ll tell you the details when we have time. I’m in a real dilemma.”
At that moment, the press conference officially began. Jovan finished up his socializing and took his seat at the very center.