When the night was dark and windy and the lanes were silent, it would be the perfect time and place to kill and destroy the body.

Yuna was more upset when she thought about it, "Kai, will Brother Wesley ask you to kill me right now?"

Kai sympathetically looked at Yuna and said, "Yuna, your crisis awareness is very strong! ...Do you want to run now?"

Wesley couldn't bear to listen. "Shut up! Kai, go buy two bottles of water."

"Oh, right away!" Kai ran to the small shop nearby.

Yuna organized an apology for mercy, thinking about how to impress Wesley to win his sympathy. Wesley suddenly called her, "Yuna."

"What?"

"Come here!"

Yuna walked a little embarrassedly. Wesley stood up by holding her hand, and he looked very uncomfortable. Yuna subconsciously gently stroked his back like how grandma usually did to her.

She did not realize that Wesley's back trembled a little bit, as if hit by a force.

"Are you alright?" Yuna asked.

Wesley stared at her gloomily. "What do you think?"

Yuna immediately bowed her head, "...I'm sorry. I didn't think it through."

At that time, Kai came back with a few bottles of water. Yuna opened one quickly and handed it over to Wesley. He gargled and his face finally returned to normal.

But he still felt uncomfortable, so Wesley took off his tie. Kai found that Yuna suddenly stepped back two steps. He looked at her; the little girl's lips moved a bit, but she did not say anything.

He asked, "What do you want to say?"

"Brother Wesley." Yuna was about to cry. "please don't kill me."

Wesley gave a look at the tie in his hand. She thought that he would strangle her with a tie?

He smiled and pulled his tie with some strength; Yuna was so scared that her face turned pale and held her neck with both of her hands to beg him.

He was very satisfied with her reaction, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

Wesley actually seldom smiled. So even if he slightly raised his lips, it was enough to show that he was in a very good mood.

Yuna realized that Wesley just scared her so she could only look at him silently.

So childish!

"Kai, get in the car."

Wesley got in the car, the taillights' luminance quickly disappeared from her sight, but she did not return to the house for a long time.

She was very surprised. Wesley, who was defiant and strictly asked other people to follow his rules, faced a table of food that he did not like, and swallowed. He also addressed her grandma politely. It completely subverted his usual dangerous and cold look.

Yuna would not admit that when she was eating, she felt that Wesley was very handsome several times.

Arlington.

The newspaper suddenly released the news that Steven was re-admitted.

It seemed that it was only a matter of time for the Scott Group to fall in the hands of Brian.

Since accidentally seeing the news in the newspaper during breakfast, Joanne was distracted, and that continued for the rest of the day. Lu Yanyan came to pick her up in the afternoon, and she didn't even notice that the car stopped in front of her for a while.

Finally, Brian got off and walked to her, "Joanne?"

"Ah?" Joanne came to herself and looked at Brian standing in front of him. "Hey? You're here."

Brian took a deep look at Joanne and immediately opened the car door. He laid his hand on the top of the door. "Get in the car."

When she got in, Joanne was still distracted. She also gave simple responses to Brian while he was talking to her. After a while, Brian said, "We're here."

Joanne thought that she was home, so she wanted to open the door subconsciously, but found that the car was parked in front of the hospital.

She looked back at Brian inexplicably.

Brian just said, "I will wait for you in the car."

Joanne's head was in a blank and her eyes were full of entanglements. "I..." She didn't know what he was thinking in his head.

Brian helplessly rubbed her hair, as if he would give his understanding and support to her for anything. "Go."

Joanne felt inspired and her mind became clear all at once. Eventually she went to Steven's ward. She heard across the door that Patricia was quarreling with him, and she was talking about "divorce" all the time.

Steven was very angry. "I can't promise! Patricia, I will not let you go, let's suffer to death together!"

Patricia rushed out of the door and met Joanne. She glared at her and walked away.

Joanne went into the ward and glanced at the medical record. From the messy handwriting of the doctor, she knew that Steven was fine.

Steven was not willing to let Joanne see how terrible he looked, so he faced the other away, "What are you doing here? You are very happy to see Patricia doing this to me, right?" He saw sympathy from Joanne's eyes which were exactly like her mother's.

"No, I think you are very pitiful," Joanne said.

Every single word hit Steven right in his heart. His face looked terrible, and he couldn't even say a word.

"Now can you answer me a question?" Joanne asked, "why did you cheat on Patricia at that time?"

It was just like how it was difficult to go from extravagance to thrift. Her mother was so good at that time, so she couldn't figure out why Steven would fall in love with Patricia anyway.

Steven smiled and said, "Your mother is very good, with great background and decent manners, but she is just the type that is suitable for taking out. Joanne, you are very similar to your mother."

Joanne heard what Steven was trying to say. "What do you mean?"

"I mean you have to be careful with Brian," Steven said. "He has the largest brokerage company in the country; even a superstar like Rosalyn wouldn't mind to be his mistress. Men want to conquer the world, but they want to conquer a woman more. Brian has conquered the entire business community. Do you think he will be satisfied with only one woman?"

"Don't think that everyone is as filthy as you are," Joanne said it word by word. "You don't deserve to compare with Brian."

"He came to warn me before, that if I dared to hurt you, he would have the Scott Group disappear from this world. It seems that he is really good to you." Steven smiled and continued, "Since you are willing to be so naive, then go ahead and believe that he would always be loyal to you."

For the first time, Joanne felt that she was really naive. Why would she want to visit a person like this?

She turned away from the ward without hesitation. When she reached the door, Steven suddenly said, "Don't think that Brian is so powerful. He is still too young to think about pulling me down, and you trust him too much!"

Joanne was not moved by Steven's words, and she just walked away without looking back once.

Even if one day she doubted the whole world, she would not doubt Brian.

If Joanne turned back, she could find that Steven looked extremely ferocious in the hospital bed, like a desperate person making the final struggle.

Even if he couldn't find hope for survival, he would fight to make a life-and-death struggle.

As what he had said to Patricia: 'Since he was not good, then no one should be good!'

When Joanne returned to the car, Brian saw that her face was not right. He closed the document and asked, "What did Steven say to you?"

"Did you come to visit him before?" Joanne looked at Brian. "When?"

"...A few days before you went to Sanquill Town for a business trip."

Joanne's memory was suddenly pulled back. At that time, she and Brian misunderstood each other and he thought that she liked Shawn. She thought that Brian was tired of her.

So she proposed a divorce, and Brian agreed.

Under such circumstances, Brian still considered that Steven would hurt her in the future, and would like to end her troubles for her?

Joanne's eyes gradually became soft and she held on to Brian's hand without hiding her love at all. She said, "Let's not talk about it! Right, how is the merger going?"

"Joanne, if you..." Brian was ready to give Steven a break, as long as Joanne asked.

Joanne shook her head and interrupted Brian, "I will not sympathize with Steven. The most profitable business of the Scott Group is the foundation laid by my grandfather. The company, which was founded by Steven, was only a small one. After my grandfather died, my mom couldn't take care of it, and gave the company's control to Steven in a silly way. Steven merged his Scott Group into my grandfather's company and changed its name, so he could be so successful very fast."

Brian finally understood. "So your brother wants to acquire the Scott Group?"

Joanne nodded and said, "My brother wants to get back what belongs to my mother. Now he handed it over to you. I think he believes that giving it to you is just like giving it to me."

Brian held Joanne and said, "After the merger, I will auction the original Scott Group independently and leave your grandfather's part."

Joanne did not want Steven's company, so she smiled and said, "Okay!"

However, the change was always sudden and unpredictable.

Scott Group, which was in danger, suddenly received a lot of money for support, and the whole company came back to life again.

Steven first convened the meeting of board of directors, then held a media conference to announce that he was unwell, so he invited a professional manager to be the CEO of the Scott Group. Today, the CEO would start to take care all Scott Group matters for him.

"Mr. Scott, who gave Scott Group investment capital to bring the company back to life?" The media asked.

Steven smiled, "It is an overseas investor who is very optimistic about the future development of our Scott Group. I can only tell you that he has a very unique vision. Please trust that this investor also trusts in Scott Group and our CEO."

On the same day, the stock of Scott Group rose again.

The outside world was still speculating who was so kind to save the Scott Group. Brian had found that the person who paid a large sum to Scott Group was Rowdy.

The so-called CEO was actually a person on his side, or a puppet of Rowdy. Afterwards, he might be the real master of Scott Group.

Brian already knew without guessing that Rowdy would turn the Scott Group into some other company, and Steven probably did not know that he was being used by Rowdy.

Gavin pushed the door and entered in a hurry, "shit, what does Rowdy want?"

Brian leaned slightly against the back of the chair, and there was a force in the deep and narrow eyes that contained everything but calmness. He said, "He wants to pull down Lambert Group."

"... Do people like them just like to daydream?"

Brian slightly raised his lips and replied, "Maybe."

Gavin suddenly felt a chill on his back.

It would be naive to really think that Brian was smiling. That was a typical sign that he had locked on his target and was ready to win.