Kevin turned his back to him and nodded after a long time, but didn’t look back and walked straight out of the room.
The moment he saw his son nodding, Patrick shed turbid tears while was also smiling in relief.
Sometimes it wasn’t difficult to admit your mistakes to your own children, and since you couldn’t win them over, so why would you keep being stubborn?
Kevin officially moved back to the Cloud Mansion and also took over the Jones-Sharp Group again. He started to become busy. Being in charge of two large enterprises was a very laborious task, not to mention that the Jones-Sharp Group had become heavily indebted in the past two years. There was lower morale in the company. He needed to spend a lot of time and energy to properly reorganize and merge the two companies in a unified manner at the right time.
Fate had accidentally separated a marriage, and when time passed, they thought their lives would never intersect with each other again, a silent encounter descended unknowingly …
“Bella, come to my office for a moment.”
Bella, who had already been promoted to special assistant to the general manager, was summoned to the general manager’s office like this no less than ten times a day, and that general manager was none other than Quintin, who had been in love with Bella for a long time.
“General Manager, what is it again?”
She looked at the watch on her wrist. Fifteen minutes ago, she had only gone out from here.
Last winter, Quintin’s father retired, and he officially took over the company. On the same day, Bella also transferred from the marketing department to the general manager’s office, and a bunch of people was envious. Quintin took her with him wherever he went, so the company’s staff basically took Bella as the general manager’s wife and thought that sooner or later they would come together.
Others thought so but Bella did not think so. She knew very well in her heart that she and Quintin were impossible, not because of Kevin, but because she did not want to go again the path that had already been taken.
“Go back and pack tonight, and go on a business trip with me tomorrow.”
“Business trip again? Where will we go?”
“B City.”
Bella’s heart thudded and she was suddenly speechless.
As if long-ago memories were suddenly recalled. Some people, some things, and some objects were in her mind like movie clips flashed. It had been two years. When she heard the two words B City without a warning, she felt a sense of suppression in the chest with the feeling of not being able to breathe.
“What happened? Why do you look so bad?”
Quintin was surprised and asked.
She came back to her senses and shook her head sharply, “Nothing, can I not go?”
“Why? You’re a special assistant, so you have to follow the boss wherever he goes. It’s a workplace’s rule. Do you understand?”
“My aunt hasn’t been very well lately, and my uncle is too busy working at the docks, so I wanted to stay in F City to facilitate going back to take care of her at night.”
“Is that the only reason? It doesn’t matter. I’ll give your aunt the best nanny in F City, and make sure she’s taken care of well. If she’s not satisfied, you shall hold me responsible. How about it?”
Bella was pale, “Thank you for your kindness, but my aunt is not used to being taken care of by anyone other than me.”
“Then it would be better to bring your aunt with you.”
“Mr. Stock, don’t joke, okay? There are so many top executives in the company, and you can take any one of them with you, so why do you have to make things difficult for me?”
When Quintin saw that her eyes were a bit red, he suddenly asked in a serious manner, “You’re so averse to going to B City. There’s anyone in B City you don’t want to meet, right?”
“No.”
She shook her head in denial without thinking.
“Then, why would you be so averse to going to B City if there’s no one you don’t want to meet? I’ve never seen you like this on any business trip before.”
Seeing that Quintin insisted on accompanying her, Bella was really out of options, and asked in an exasperated manner, “Which company?”
“What company?”
“Which company will you be working with this time?”
“LoveBella Group.”
As soon as Bella heard that it wasn’t the Jones-Sharp Group, she was relieved a bit, and she nodded, “Alright then, but we have to come back as soon as possible. My aunt can’t be left unattended.”
“Got it.”
Quintin rolled his eyes at her, “Sometimes I really wonder who exactly is the secretary and who is the CEO, and the secretary rules that the CEO has to come back as soon as possible. It’s so unreasonable.”
“Because someone is always using the name of a business trip to sexually harass me.”
Bella and Quintin had known each other for a long time, and he always had dinner in her aunt’s house, so their relationship was naturally not like a superior and a subordinate, but more like a friend.
“Did I succeed in harassing you?”
“That’s because I’m strong in self-defense, otherwise you’d have gotten me by now.”
“Then please, can you be weaker in self-defense next time? What’s wrong with just letting me get my hands on you once? Do you know how many women have tried to be together with me and have been dumped by me without hesitation?”
“So to avoid ending up dumped, it’s better to stay alert from the start.”
“Who gets dumped? You? Are you kidding? I’ve been dreaming about dating you. If you’re with me, I’ll treat you well, okay? Can you be with me?”
“No.”
Bella was helpless and turned around to leave the office.
The more time she spent with him together, the more she felt that Quintin was like a scoundrel, and sometimes she was inevitably moved. But she was always able to sensibly put herself in the right place.
The LoveBella Group …
She sat on the edge of her desk before she thought there was something odd about the name, but she couldn’t tell. It was just that at this moment, her heart was pounding inexplicably.
The next morning, Quintin drove her to the airport, and Bella came out of the house with her luggage, which really startled him.
He strode forward, horrified, and asked, “What are you doing? Are you a spy?”
Looking at the way she was dressed, with a pair of black sunglasses on her face, a beige face-covering hat on her head, and a white scarf around her neck, he wouldn’t have recognized the person standing in front of her if he wasn’t clear about her figure.
“My aunt said that the exhaust fumes are more serious over there in B City, and I had to be wrapped up tightly.”
“Nonsense.”
Quintin took her bags, “B City is the best city in terms of natural environment. I’m planning to set up a factory there this time.”
What? Bella was shocked, “Why do you want to run a factory in B City? There are plenty of cities with good environments, and B City is so far away from F City. It’s simply inconvenient if you want to inspect the work!”
In fact, she didn’t care about where to build the factory. What she cared about was whether Quintin would take the opportunity to inspect the new factory for three days and bring her to B City.
“Proximity is not a problem, and making money is the truth.”
They took a plane to B City in the evening. When arriving at the hotel where they were staying, Bella sneaked out while Quintin was not paying attention.
Looking at the familiar city, she had an urge to cry. Her heart was aching when she saw the restaurants where she had meals with Kevin, the road she had walked together with Kevin, and the scenery she had seen together with Kevin.
It was true that she couldn’t come back, and standing on this land of memories, she healed heart began to ache again.
He and she must have had a good life. His and her child would have been two years old.
Who would that child look like? Although she was reluctant, she still wished him to be like Kevin. So that child wouldn’t be as hopeless as her mother.
Muddling her way to a flower shop, she said to the owner, “Give me a bunch of lilies.”
The lily was her mother’s favorite flower before her death. She had not set foot in B City. She had not visited her mother in two years, and her mother would not have blamed her but would have understood her pain for not coming back.
A strong wind blew. She pulled her head blown crooked hat. The sunglasses and scarf had been taken off at the hotel, and she forgot to bring out when leaving. So she could only rely on this hat to cover her face. The wind blew more fiercely. Seeing a storm approaching, Bella quickened her pace, wanting to go up the mountain before the rain fell.
There was some confusion on the street. She walked hurriedly and with her head down, and as a result, she accidentally bumped into a passerby, and her hat was knocked off the ground, she apologized, “Sorry, sorry …”
She bent down to pick up the hat on the ground. At the moment of her straightening up, a car slowly drove by her side, and the woman sitting in the car was Blanche. Their eyes unintentionally intersected, Blanche dreamily shouted, “Bella …”
“Stop the car! Stop the car! Stop the car!”
Blanche hurriedly shouted to the driver, and the car braked down. She pushed open the door and jumped down, looking carefully at that place, but she didn’t see Bella. There was not even a figure…
“Is it my eyes blurred …”
Blanche froze in place and muttered to herself.