Chapter 10
Just with this move, Grace and Celia, who were notorious like rats crossing the street a few days ago, became the most prestigious ladies of Rivergate City overnight.
No one dared to say that Grace had been a mistress before, and no one dared to say that they were malicious.
It was all thanks to Samuel.
The sky was somewhat gloomy.
I was in the garden, not knowing how long I had been sitting there.
I was told that one couldn’t beat someone who was much stronger than one.
The sun was setting when Samuel came back.
Today seemed to be the last day of the three–year contract.
He was bathed in a dim yellow light. I looked up but couldn’t see his face clearly.
As he came closer, he casually threw a thin blanket over my knees and said, “You know she’s protected. Why humiliate yourself?”
Humiliate myself?
I felt like laughing, but suddenly I coughed up a mouthful of blood.
“Vivian?” Samuel’s expression changed abruptly.
He fumbled to hold me and took out a handkerchief to wipe the blood from the corner of my mouth,
His movements were so gentle, as
as if he had truly cared about me.
my mouth.
My heart was icy cold, but a smile tugged at the corner of my
I said, “Do you know? My mother had a chance to win the Global Jewelry Design Competition that year, but she was pregnant with me and missed the opportunity.
“After I was born, she gave up her career to take better care of Matthew and me, becoming a housewife. She never had the chance to pick up her pen again after she fell ill.
“The championship of the Global Jewelry Design Competition was my mother’s lifelong dream and mine too.”
I looked at my useless hand. “You’ve destroyed my last chance. Are you happy now?”
Samuel’s movements froze for a moment, a flash of panic crossed his eyes, but he quickly regained his composure. “You know everything?”
I laughed more bitterly. “You locked me in a dark room, causing me to develop claustrophobia
“You cut my hand tendons, broke my limbs, and made me a cripple. Now you’ve destroyed my last hope.”
“I’m curious. What else do you plan to do to me for Celia’s sake, Mr. Hartley?” I said the last sentence very loudly.
Samuel stood up and sighed heavily, “I didn’t want to deal with you.”
He raised his hand, and several well–dressed, black–suited bodyguards appeared from somewhere and immediately surrounded me.
I wasn’t afraid at all. Instead, I looked at him and smiled, “Are you going to kill me now?”
He frowned slightly, and after a few seconds, his expression relaxed. “I warned you not to harm Celia.”
With another raise of his hand, the bodyguards took me away in unison.
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I was put into the car along with my wheelchair.
“I’m sending you to a place where you can live life without appearing in front of Celia again,” he said.
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As soon as he finished speaking, the vehicle started and drove away from the familiar villa.
Through the car window, I stared at Samuel, and tears finally fell uncontrollably, for the person I had loved wrong, for my own powerlessness, and for my mother who died unwillingly.
“Sammy, will you go shopping with me?” As soon as Samuel had seen me off, Celia’s call came through.
A faint smile curled at the corner of Samuel’s lips. From then on, there was no more obstacle between them, and no one dared to bully the person he wanted to protect.
He drove to pick up Celia and took her to the mall to buy clothes.
“Tomorrow, what do you think I should wear?” Celia was as excited as a dancing swan.
Samuel smiled indulgently, “You look good in anything. Mr. Hartley will like it all.”
Celia pouted, “You’re just flattering me again. How do you know Mr. Hartley will like it?”
Samuel just smiled without answering.
He wasn’t in a hurry. He was waiting to surprise her tomorrow.
After buying clothes, they went to a jewelry store.
This jewelry store was under the Hartley Group. Before Celia entered the store, the store manager had received orders from above and came to receive Celia personally. “Ms. Sinclair, Mr. Hartley said that you can take away anything you take a fancy
- to.
Celia’s cheeks turned rosy. “That’s too embarrassing. I’ll just pick one.”
Even the store manager thought she was a very modest young lady and couldn’t help but look at her with more respect.
Celia turned back and cooed, “Sammy, you have good taste. Help me pick a bracelet.”
Samuel looked at the ruby bracelet on her wrist. “Actually, this one is quite nice.”
Celia smiled. She knew Samuel had a special liking for this bracelet, which was why she would wear it every time she saw him.
“This one is just a cheap item, only worth a hundred thousand or so. Will it lower my value if I wear it to see Mr. Hartley?” she
murmured.
Upon seeing her shy and eager–to–see–her–crush expression, Samuel’s mood improved a bit. “Of course not. As long as it’s you,
it’s fine.”
It was not until late at night that Samuel drove Celia back to the Sinclair residence.
“Looking forward to tomorrow?” he asked warmly.
Celia nodded. “Yes. Very much so.”
But she didn’t snub this backstabbing lickspittle. So she held Samuel’s hand. “But Sammy, you will always be my good friend and the most important one.”
The most important?
Samuel had been abandoned by his mother as a child, betrayed by his father, and persecuted by his stepmother and half-
brother.
This was the first time someone had told him that he was the most important person. He finally waited for this day.
Even Vivian had never said such a thing, though she had been chasing him for three years.
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Samuel indulgently patted the top of her head.
It seemed that all his past wounds had been healed. His eyes were so gentle they seemed to be dripping with tenderness.
Celia watched Samuel leave.
Grace was puzzled. “Mr. Hartley is coming tomorrow. Why are you still flirting with Samuel? You’re not really interested in him, are you?”
Celia put away her coquettishness and said disdainfully, “He’s just a lapdog of Vivian’s. Anything Vivian likes, I’m going to take
away.
“Mom, don’t you think it’s fun to see Vivian lose the things she values every time?”
She continued, “Her most trusted brother, the man she likes, the championship of the Global Jewelry Design Competition, her mother’s relics, even her mother’s ashes, I’ve got them all.
“She and her mother are both so weak, unable to bear the slightest provocation.”
“I’m glad I had you send those naked photos to her mother and deliberately visit her on her birthday. Look, someone who could have lasted two more years was gone in just three months,” Celia laughed.
Grace was very pleased, “Celia, you’re the best. Vivian and her mother are just too weak.”
Matthew, who had just come downstairs to welcome his beloved sister, quietly withdrew his foot.
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Chapter 11
Chapter 11
Early in the morning, sets of high–end, custom–made clothes were delivered to Samuel’s penthouse apartment.
The assistant, David, had never seen Samuel take something so seriously.
Samuel spent hours just choosing and trying on clothes,
Maybe he wouldn’t even go through such a grand process when he got married in the future.
Once the clothes were settled, Samuel took out a box from the safe.
The gold–inlaid antique box alone was worth a few million dollars.
It was said that it had been specially auctioned for the purpose of holding a piece of jewelry.
One could imagine how precious that piece of jewelry must have been.
Samuel opened the box and took out a sapphire bracelet.
A sapphire bracelet? David, who was knowledgeable, realized that this bracelet was worth no more than a few hundred thousand dollars at most.
Samuel played with the sapphire bracelet in his hand.
Ten years ago today, his stepbrother had brought people to corner him in that alley, intending to break his limbs and cut his hand and foot tendons, turning him into a cripple.
It was that frail and thin lady who had stepped forward and used her wit to scare them away.
When they parted, the lady had given him this bracelet.
The bracelet was part of the Sun & Moon Edition. The one he had was the Sapphire Sun Bracelet, and the lady had the Ruby Moon Bracelet.
When combined, the two would form a Ruby & Sapphire Eternity Bangle.
That day, if she hadn’t saved him at the critical moment, his limbs would have been broken long ago, and he would have been a cripple.
He had asked her what she wanted.
She had said. “Sir, you are so handsome. Why don’t you marry me instead?”)
He knew she was joking, but he remembered it.
However, at that time, he had suffered a severe blow to the head, causing a violent concussion. In the dim alley, he couldn’t see people’s faces clearly and was too weak to talk much.
He had searched for her for many years, and every year on this day, he would go to the place where they had met.
Three years ago, he had been attacked again in the same place and had run into Vivian.
He still remembered clearly that at that time, Vivian had been sitting in the car like a bystander.
He was sure that if he hadn’t been to her taste, she wouldn’t have even gotten out of the car, let alone saved him.
Vivian was different from that little girl.
Vivian’s heart was too dark, unlike the sunny and bright nature of the little girl
Because of this life–saving favor, he had been trapped by her for three years.
But it was also because of this that he had the chance to find the person he had been searching for ten years.
He had seen Celia at the Sinclair family party.
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With just one glance, he had recognized the bracelet.
“Send this to the Sinclair residence,” he had said.
He finally found the owner of the bracelet. By seeing the bracelet, Celia should know who he was.
David respectfully took the bracelet.
When Samuel was leaving, he added, “Also send over the top ten jewelry pieces from this year’s Hartley Group collection and let her choose”
In less than an hour, the jewelry was delivered to the Sinclair residence.
It was only then that Charles and Grace truly realized that their precious daughter had indeed climbed the social ladder and attached herself to the Hartley family.
They were overjoyed and ecstatic.
Only Matthew stood apart, quietly observing everything.
When the eleven pieces of jewelry were laid out in a row in front of Celia, he immediately recognized the sapphire bracelet.
Suddenly, he understood everything, but he didn’t alert Celia or tell anyone about the bracelet.
Celia was dazzled by the top–notch jewelry.
The Sinclair family was wealthy, but she had never worn such expensive jewelry before.
Her hand lingered over the ten valuable pieces, reluctant to leave them.
As for the sapphire bracelet, she didn’t even bother to glance at it.
David, though puzzled by the origin of the sapphire bracelet, knew that Samuel valued it highly and must have had a purpose.
He couldn’t help but remind her, “Ms. Sinclair, don’t you like the sapphire bracelet?”
Celia’s eyebrows shot up, and she felt a bit annoyed.
What did David mean?
Did he look down on her?
Did he think that someone of her status was only suitable for this cheap sapphire bracelet, which was worth only a few hundred thousand dollars?
She decided that once she married into the Hartley family, she would definitely fire David.
But soon she noticed something odd.
Among the ten valuable pieces of jewelry was a sapphire bracelet that was clearly worth much less. She guessed that maybe the heir of the Hartley family was testing her.
Finally, she smiled and said, “No reward without contribution. Take all these pieces of jewelry back. This ruby bracelet is good enough for me.
She shook the ruby bracelet in her hand.
Samuel received the news and was slightly stunned. “You mean she didn’t choose the sapphire bracelet?”
To be precise, she didn’t even take a proper look at it
However, David swallowed his complaint.
Samuel was so protective of Celia. David didn’t want to suffer retaliation for a single word. After all, the example of Vivian was still here.
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“Ms. Sinclair said she did nothing and didn’t want to accept it. She thinks the ruby bracelet she’s wearing now is good enough,” David replied.
So that was how it was.
Samuel picked up the sapphire bracelet, still feeling a bit strange.
How could she not recognize it?
Was it too long ago, and she couldn’t remember?
Samuel didn’t think too much about it.
“Send all ten pieces over. They were meant for her anyway,” he instructed.
He remembered the birthday party when Celia was publicly humiliated by Vivian for wearing her discarded jewelry and then having it taken back.
He understood the feeling of being at someone else’s mercy.
Celia must have endured a lot living under the thumb of someone as domineering as Vivian.
Just then, the man who had sent Vivian to the deserted island called. “Mr. Hartley, Ms. Sinclair has been here for a day and hasn’t eaten or drunk anything. What should we do!”
Samuel frowned. “Without my permission, she is not allowed to die. If she refuses to eat or drink, give her an IV with nutrients. Do I have to teach you everything?”
The man hung up the phone, trembling with fear.
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