“Do you know that when I heard someone tried to assassinate you at the hospital, my heart almost stopped beating?”
“I only had one thought as I ran all the way here, to see if you were safe. I was really scared, afraid of losing you again.”
“Cheyenne, it’s all my fault. I didn’t consider that they would resort to desperate measures and put you in danger. If anything happened to you, I wouldn’t forgive myself.”
“I won’t let any harm come your way again, Cheyenne. I really love you and nothing can happen to you!”
…
He had lost her once during their divorce.
On the island where life and death hung in balance, he lost her again.
When Cheyenne lost her memory and forgot about him, it was another blow for him.
In the cave he thought they would be separated forever and Kelvin even planned how he could meet her before Omari did in his next life.
Luckily fate intervened and they survived but Kelvin never expected this kind of heart-wrenching pain when he heard she was stabbed by someone today.
Cheyenne wasn’t a cold-hearted person; all these years she acted maturely and aloof outside because she had no choice but to pretend.
She wanted nothing more than being carefree like Kate under Master Glenn’s protection every day without any worries or concerns but reality didn’t allow it.
She had no backing except herself so she needed to become stronger than those who wanted to step on her just so they could climb higher up themselves.
Her father once said that she inherited Selah’s strong personality traits.
Once trust was betrayed it became hard for Cheyenne or anyone else like Selah trusting others anymore.
When young, she bravely forced a marriage with Kelvin only ending up being hurt all over and making her setting up defenses since then.
Although misunderstandings were cleared over these years making him less detestable, she couldn’t recover her past feelings for Kelvin.
With tears welling up in her eyes, Cheyenne hugged his waist tightly while choking out words through sobs.
“Kelvin… I forgive you.”
Kelvin felt like fireworks were exploding in his mind, and tears silently slid down his face, out of sight.
“Cheyenne, I swear on my life that I will treat you well, very well. Let me make up for my past mistakes with the rest of my life.”
“Mm-hmm.”
…
A day earlier, Kelvin had used some connections to investigate the Logan Group’s strategy over the years.
Their main business was agriculture. In recent years they had been taking away land from farmers by leasing it under false pretenses in order to gain property rights.
Not only did they deceive generations of farmers who relied on their land for survival but they also violated national regulations under “Land Management Regulations”. When this news broke out, it shook up the stock market.
On the previous day, Kelvin bought large amounts of shares from Logan Group quietly, becoming its second largest shareholder. The next morning when trading began at 9 am, he started selling off his shares and released news at 2:30 pm when trading resumed again.
In response to an early morning surge, everyone thought that Logan Group would be a dark horse so investors followed suit by investing money into it as well.
However, later that afternoon, Kelvin withdrew his investment, causing stocks to plummet, trapping those who had just followed him into buying stocks earlier that morning without enough time to react or sell before prices fell too low.
Master Glenn cut off the Logan Group’s bank loan source which stopped cash flow, forcing Logan Group to sell large amounts of inventory as collateral.
While Logan Group was struggling, Kelvin instructed his assistant buy up their inventory secretly using small companies under its umbrella.
When new scandals arose involving assassination cases with Logan Group involved, he resold previously purchased agricultural products back into market. Even though he sold them at normal prices, he still made huge profits.
Ultimately, Kelvin won his bet against Glenn, who kept true to his word, sending him ten million dollars as promised.
Kelvin didn’t care about such small amount, instead invested it all back into Kate’s new drama series, which turned out successful, making him more money than ever before while keeping everything within family circle, rather than letting outsiders profit from it.
This showdown between two bigwigs wasn’t bloody or violent as media portrayed, instead both parties worked together towards mutual benefit.
The two families were already close due to Kate and Cheyenne’s friendship, but now, because of this gambling incident, the two men who had previously ignored each other happened to meet and greeted each other.
After all, Glenn had scrutinized every child in the neighborhood and found that only Oliver was worthy of his daughter. Although the child’s father was not very likable, a son-in-law could be cultivated from a young age. He was very satisfied with Oliver.
For Kelvin, Sasha was a nice girl although she couldn’t compare to his own Cierra in cuteness. But if he could bring her over as his daughter-in-law, wouldn’t it be like having another daughter?
Unfortunately, Kate and Cheyenne insisted on letting their children choose their own future; arranged marriages were mistakes that modern mothers should not make.
Henry Logan thought that divorcing his wife would save his life but he underestimated Kelvin’s methods.
The charge of occupying and wasting land resulted in him being sentenced to ten years in prison; while Valeria was sentenced to eight years for intentional injury. Even if they came out of prison later on, they would probably get divorced.
This seemingly small case has alarmed Omari – the greatest lawyer who hasn’t personally appeared in court for more than three years now.
Everyone in the industry knows that Omari is extremely capable but he is way too lazy! He only takes one case per year which can earn him fees equivalent to many companies’ annual revenue combined.
If he worked harder, perhaps he would have surpassed Kelvin long ago, but everyone knew that Omari only served Cheyenne.
It was said that even the name of his law firm existed because of Cheyenne; he himself had admitted publicly before that studying law was initially intended to protect his little girl.
Yes, even though Cheyenne was married now with two children, she would forever remain eighteen years old in Omari’s eyes.
Today Omari flew from the capital city specifically just to visit Cheyenne. Upon learning about it, Cheyenne started preparing yesterday while Kelvin wore nothing but an angry expression on his face!