Filed to story: A Second Chance with My Billionaire Love
“Yes, sir.”
The woman was wearing a pair of sunglasses and was blind, and even her voice sounded like what Jovan had heard that day, but for some reason, Jovan felt like she wasn’t the one he had spoken to.
“Do you know the consequences of lying to me?” Jovan growled, then stood up and walked up to her. During the six months that he was blind, his perception had grown strong. Nowadays, he evaluated things with both his eyes and heart, and his heart told him that something was off with this woman.
“Mr. Guajardo, please… please don’t frighten me. I’m not lying to you, and you said that the consequences would be very serious if I did. I wouldn’t dare do such a thing,” the woman replied, trembling.
“Yes, it seems you know what’s at stake here, so I’m going to give you two choices. First, I’ll pay you three times the money the others paid you to lie, and you tell me the truth. Or, you can take the second option and keep lying, and suffer the consequences once I find out the truth.”
Immediately, the woman dropped to her knees, sobbing.” Mr. Guajardo, please spare my life… I… I’ll tell you everything!”
“Good! At least you’re smart.” Jovan took his seat at the desk again and crossed his legs, waiting for the woman’s reply.
At that moment, a subordinate approached Jovan. “Mr.
Guajardo, Ms. Seraphina is here to see you.”
“What bad timing…” Jovan sighed in frustration, wanting to send Seraphina off, but then decided against it. “Let her in.” After that, he said to the woman kneeling on the floor,” Leave. I’ll interrogate you later.”
Once everyone had left, Seraphina walked into Jovan’s study.
“I came to congratulate you; I heard you can see again.” Seraphina threw a gift at Jovan arrogantly.
“Thank you, Ms. Seraphina, how thoughtful.” Jovan took the gift and sneered, “Will I be getting an invite to the wedding too?”
“Don’t mess with me! I’m sure you’ve heard the rumors,” Seraphina snapped and angrily kicked Jovan’s sofa. “Halston is an ungrateful jerk. I was so blind that I risked the future of my family to help him!”
“Why so angry? I was blind, but now I can see. It’ll be the same for you-you’ll be sensible again once you realize.
You’ll know how to move forward from now on.” Jovan seemed to be hinting at something.
“I know I should be smart about this, but I still don’t know how to move forward. Can I ask for your advice?” Seraphina pretended to be ignorant but her greedy gaze betrayed her. The reason she had come to see Jovan was to see what he could offer her.
Jovan narrowed his eyes suspiciously. “What do you want and what’s in it for me?”
Seraphina smirked. “I want to see Halston fall from grace and end up with nothing, and I’ll give you all my family’s resources to get there.”
Jovan raised a brow. “That cruel? Isn’t he the man you love the most?”
“He won’t know who can help him otherwise.” Seraphina continued icily, “He’ll only know how much I love him once he has nothing.”
“What an interesting idea!” Jovan fished out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, smiling wickedly. He rather admired Seraphina—she was fearless in her love life and would risk everything to achieve her goal.
“Well, are you going to work with me or not?” Seraphina urged impatiently.
“Sure.” Jovan shrugged. “Currently, Guajardo Enterprise is facing external and internal crises, and The Great Eight of Beach City are getting stronger. Of course it’ll be better if I have someone to back me up, so I see no reason for turning you down.”
“Good!” Seraphina felt more confident with Jovan on her side.
When she was about to leave, Jovan stopped her. “Leaving so fast? Don’t you want to talk for a bit?”
“What’s there to talk about with a despicable man like you?”
“I’m curious about what Halston did to turn you against him like this,” Jovan said casually. He’d heard that the Murphy family had fallen out with the Guajardo family, but he didn’t know why.
“Is it that hard to guess? He got his memories back and ran straight to that witch Flossie. They’re now a happy family of four, but what about me? I worked hard for half a year staying by his side, and I sacrificed everything that I could. How could he just leave me?” Seraphina’s body shook in anger. She thought that Halston might have feelings for her, and she wanted to see if she could win him back by acting pitifully in front of him, but he went to Flossie right after the surgery, not saying anything to her. It broke her heart.
“He… went to Flossie?” Jovan’s indifferent expression wavered.
“Yes!” Seraphina gritted her teeth, crossing her arms in front of her chest. “He went right after he was discharged from the hospital like a spineless coward. I never got to see him, and their son pushed me into the lake. They made me look like a fool, so I have to be cruel!”
“What happened after that? How did… Flossie react?” Jovan asked, clenching his fists. He usually tried to keep his feelings hidden from others, but he couldn’t hide how much he cared about Flossie.
“How else? She must be overjoyed that they’re a happy family again!” Seraphina rolled her eyes and scoffed.” Somehow, they’ll always go back to each other. Even after everything we did, they just became more inseparable in the end. It looks like we’re just insignificant tools to bring them together.” Seraphina was trying to make Jovan jealous and angry so he would thoroughly ruin Halston and Flossie.
“Is that so?” Jovan’s eyes glowed with malice. “They’ll see how tools win in the end.”
“What’s your plan?”
“It’s just as you said.” Jovan said dangerously, “We’ll ruin Halston so badly that he ends up with nothing!”
“Great. It’s always a pleasure working with wicked people like you-l know you’ll get the job done. I’ll be waiting for your good news!” Seraphina said joyfully.
“Likewise. Halston is blessed to have a loyal pursuer like you.” Jovan faked a smile. It was something he would do-ruining someone just because he loved her and wanted her.
Flossie was awakened by sunlight the next day. It was the only thing that told her it was morning.
Halston had prepared a grand breakfast, and the whole family sat down at the dining table, eating happily. Since it was the weekend, both Adie and Abby didn’t have school, and they were excitedly discussing what to do.
“Daddy, Mommy, I want to ride a pony. Why don’t we go to the farm?”
“Why don’t we go swimming instead? It’s been a long time since I’ve gone swimming…” Adie was good at swimming, and would feel uneasy if he didn’t swim for a while since he grew up on Sun Island. Ellsworth Manor had a swimming pool, but it was rarely used. Besides, they loved going to large stadiums to swim.
“I think we’d better go to the amusement park… I want to ride a roller-coaster!”
“Let’s go to a haunted house. It’s exciting!”
The two children came up with endless ideas in only a few minutes.
Halston served Adie and Abby patiently, then smiled and said, “Whoever finishes breakfast and eats the most has the right to decide.”
Instantly, the two children started wolfing down their food.
“Just eat. I’m full, and want to go enjoy the sunlight,” Flossie said suddenly, looking troubled. She drank a glass of milk, wiped her mouth, and carefully made her way toward the yard for sunbathing.
When Halston noticed Flossie’s sadness, he asked Margaret to help take care of the children before following Flossie to the yard. ” What’s the matter, Master?” He sat on the lounge beside Flossie and asked curiously.
“Nothing,” Flossie answered indifferently.
“There must be something troubling you. Let me guess…” After a brief contemplation, he said, “Do you feel sorry for the kids since you can’t play with them no matter where they want to go? You feel frustrated and defeated, don’t you?”
Flossie was shocked. “How… How did you know?” She thought that she had hidden her feelings well, and didn’t expect that Halston had seen through her. She didn’t know if she should be happy or worried that he knew her so well. After all, it could either bring her happiness or pain.
“We’ve known each other for so long, and we’ve been married, enemies, best friends, and lovers. If I didn’t know you well, there must have been something wrong with me.” Squatting in front of Flossie, Halston wrapped his hand around her cold hands and comforted her, “You don’t have to worry about them so much. It’s not like the kids want you to do everything with them, they just want you to be around. As long as you’re here and happy, our family of four will be fine. You’re very important since you’re our support. Do you understand?”
Flossie’s sadness slowly started to fade. She smiled and said, “Weren’t you rather reserved? Why are you so talkative and sweet now? I think you changed after the blood transfusions, you must have got this from Jo…” Flossie trailed off, not wanting to mention Jovan. If Halston found out that she had given up her eyes to Jovan, he would be furious.
Besides, now that Jovan could see again, who knew what ruin he would bring. If Jovan destroyed Halston one day, Flossie would unfortunately be the person who had helped Jovan do it.
“What did I get? Halston asked Flossie carefully.
“Nothing. We’re happy now, so let’s not bring up sad things. It’s nice to hear you talk more; it makes you feel more human.” Flossie smiled and squeezed Halston’s hand.
Halston raised an eyebrow in amusement. “You make it sound like I wasn’t human before this.”