Ariel obviously didn’t intend on pushing Rex Anderson back to the car as she didn’t want to be involved with him anyway.
“I will get someone to send you some finance books. The teacher who will be explaining it to you will also be at our villa at twelve.” Rex Anderson slid his wheelchair in front of her and said “one more thing, etiquette class starts at four. If you are not tired, you can learn some negotiation skills at night.”
Ariel froze, looking at him like the monster he painted himself to be.
“Why should I learn these things? You can take care of the company yourself. These are gifts from your grandma to you”
“If you want to enter the core of Ann Company, to take back your mother’s property, you must master this and learn well”
“I’m a designer; I don’t plan to go to the Ann Company now.”
Rex Anderson smirked,
“The company is already heading towards bankruptcy, it will only take a few months” Ariel muttered under her breath.
“That’s true with a person like you; it would be weird if the company didn’t close down once you took over.”
“You”
“You’ve always been suppressed by your sister Elvira. Even though you have a biological father, you still live like an orphan! If you have any accomplishments in the Anderson, your status in the Ann family will skyrocket. At that time, your father would truly be your father and your mother would truly be able to rest in peace without any worries.”
Ariel wanted to say something but couldn’t say anything. He was right, she had to stabilize her footing in the Anderson family. By then, her father would not dare ignore her and she could get her mother’s property back.
She raised her eyebrows.
“Why are you helping me?”
“Can’t I help you or did you want me to harm you? Just take it as us helping each other”
Ariel blanked out.
“I’ve already found a professional doctor to follow up on your Aunt’s illness. What you need to do now is be a good and obedient wife and enter into the Ann Company as fast as possible.”
He looked away with a complicated expression, “you can choose to reject working at the Anderson group of company and continue your design for the fashion company grandma gave us. It was our wedding gift after all, and so, technically speaking, it both belong to us.
Here’s my card. Go get whatever you need. It has no limit. You can spend any amount you want. Rex handed his card to Ariel but she hesitated for a while before she stretched fort her hand to take it. She was sent to the mall by another chauffer and a bodyguard. However, once in the mall she escapes through the other door.
Ariel Ann waved down a car and the driver drove her to the bar where she had agreed with Damien.
The day was still bright so there were not many people in the bar and Damien was sitting in the corner drinking.
“Hey Damien, why are you drinking alone?”
Damien raised his eyes and looked at Ariel. “You can sit”, he pointed to the seat beside him.
Ariel walked over and sat next to Damien.
“Damien, I know you love me and I know you didn’t mean all those things you said to me in the Ann villa, you know how much I love you and I know you love me too. Damien. I trust you I’m sure it is that bi**h Elvira that forces you to say all these things” Ariel talked on and on while Damien kept mute.
Ariel Ann was still waiting for Damien’s answer.
“Damien, I love you so much”
However, Damien was already drunk so he looked at Ariel in a daze, “What did you say?”
“I said I love you”
“Wake up from your dream, Ariel. Stop being pathetic. I already told you I love your sister. Get that into your head”
Damien stood up and staggered out of the bar, leaving Ariel alone.
Since the moment Elvira came to the Ann family, her world has changed and the only man that showed her love was all a pretense just to get close to Elvira.
“Waiter!, get me three bottles of wine” Ariel shouted, and immediately the waiter brought three bottles of wine over and put them on the table.
Ariel drank alone as she recalled all that had happened over the years and how she was being set up by the man she said she loved. The more she drank, the more she couldn’t stop.
It was late in the night, four Rolls-Royces pulled over at the flower garden villa, and a bodyguard got out first and helped Rex Anderson to his wheelchair. Rex Anderson slid out of his wheelchair in a black and white suit in the dark night, looking more and more severe and cold.
Pius hurriedly came forward, “Young master, something is wrong. The young madam is missing.”
Rex Anderson’s cold eyes narrowed slightly, what do you mean she is missing?”
“Did you not ask the young madam to go shopping today? The bodyguard I assigned to follow her said that he didn’t see the young madam until this evening. I’ve dispatched more bodyguards to follow her. They went to the mall to look for her but they still couldn’t find her at all.”
“Pius, you are going to the forest this weekend and tell the bodyguard they are all fired if they cannot even keep an eye on her. What is the point of hiring them if they are useless?
“Young Mast…” Pius tried to say something, but thought of the fact that no one could change his master’s mind at that instant.
“Call the detective to find out where she wa…” as soon as the words were out of his mouth, the sound of a car came from afar.
Pius sighed in relief. “It must be the young madam.”
She staggered out of the car and almost fell.
“Who said I’m drunk? Do I look drunk? Don’t touch me. I’m not drunk at all”. Ariel used her hand to push the bodyguard that came to help her. She stumbled and almost fell to the ground and Pius immediately went up to help her.
“Leave her alone, let her walk on her own”, Rex Anderson snapped, and no one dared to go forward to help Ariel in.
She staggered inside the villa and leaned against the sofa with her legs crossed, looking at Rex Anderson on the wheelchair, “Devil, why are you here? I thought you wouldn’t come back for some days”. After hearing this, Pius and the bodyguards hung their heads and all the blood in their bodies seemed to flow back to their heads.
Everybody in Oakland knows Rex Anderson as the devil, but no one dares call it to his face and here Ariel dare call Rex Anderson devil to his face seems she want to die.
Rex Anderson looked at the woman in front of him. Her face pinked, exactly the same as when he first saw her.
Ariel dawdled in front of his wheelchair and almost fell down when her knees went soft. Pius quickly stretched out his hand to hold her. But she flung his hand away and stood in front of Rex Anderson. “Devil Anderson, why don’t I tell you where I was coming from? Since I’m in a good mood today”
“Oh, fine. Go ahead and tell me”
“Okay, give me some wine and I will tell you the whole story of what happened where I went, otherwise I won’t.”
“Okay”, Rex would like to know where Ariel was coming from. Soon he had Pius prepare the wine. A bottle and a glass were prepared and placed on the table. Just as she was about to reach the bottle, Rex Anderson grabbed her wrist.
“Tell me first and you will have all the wine to yourself.”
She had her other hand propped up her head.
“Okay devil pinky promise”
“I promise”
“I went looking for Damien today and that bastard told me he loves my sister so much and me who will love me? Devil you know what? when my mother died, my father brought a girl about two years younger than myself and he told me she was my sister Elvira, my father had always treated me like an unwanted child since the arrival of Elvira and her mother and Damien showed me love, but in the end, he got together with Elvira” Rex Anderson listened to Ariel blabbered all the way she wanted.
She stretched her hand to pour herself a glass of wine and sent it directly to her throat.
“Rex Anderson, you liar, how can you give me juice instead of wine? It turned out it was juice they brought for her instead of wine.
“Pius send the young madam to her room and lock her up. Don’t let her out until I say so.