She Is A CEO

Nia saw the conflict on Eve's face and felt annoyed that she had to lower herself like this. She decided to play it cool and said, "This was Kevin's idea in the first place. If you feel uncomfortable, forget about it. I won't force you."

Hearing this, Eve said as if she had made up her mind, "Don't worry, Nia. I'll help you." Nia smiled with relief but still looked concerned for Eve.

Later that night at 11 pm, Kevin dropped off Eve at the hotel lobby where Lauren was waiting anxiously with Stoffer.

When their eyes met, Eve felt a flutter in her heart but quickly remembered his secret contact with Lucia and cooled down again.

"Eve! Where did you go?" Lauren yelled angrily when he saw her.

Kevin quickly spoke up for her since she remained silent, "Mr. Osade, Eve missed her sister so she went to visit her at the villa today. Maybe there was bad signal so we couldn't inform you earlier. But now I've brought her back."

Lauren didn't believe these excuses; if she really wanted to see Nia, why didn't she tell him beforehand? He glared at Eve and coldly ordered, "Go back to your room."

Kevin took advantage of this opportunity to leave after dropping off Eve.

Dely returned just then and bumped into Kevin on his way out; he only noticed that Eve had returned when he walked up close enough to see them together.

Dely confronted her angrily, "Miss Davidson! Can you please let our young master know next time before leaving? Do you know how worried he was today? We sent people everywhere looking for you!" "Enough!" Lauren stopped Dely's complaints by taking hold of Eve's hand instead, "Let's talk more inside the room."

As they walked together, Lauren moved fast without considering how difficult it might be for someone else like Eve who struggled keeping pace beside him.

She heard what Dely said earlier but couldn't shake off the feeling of guilt over Lucia's situation deep within herself no matter what anyone else told or did.

Once they were alone in the room after dismissing Stoffer and Dely outside, Lauren stood before Eva asking coldly,

"Why did you run away today?"

The hotel had high-definition cameras monitoring everything. Eva's departure left an ominous impression on him as though something terrible happened while she was gone from his sight all day long without any explanation given beforehand.

Eve just stood in front of Lauren quietly, silent for a long time without making a sound. Lauren got a little impatient, reached out and raised her chin so that she could look at him, and asked again, "Why exactly!"

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After finding out that Eve left, Lauren couldn't contact Nia, so he had to prepare for the worst. But this time, he still had to find Lucia who was familiar with Athegate. At this time, he hadn't told her that Eve had returned, so she was still outside.

How could Lauren not be angry? With her body, what if she fainted outside?!

For the first time, Eve looked directly into Lauren's eyes without any shyness. She could clearly see the worry in his eyes, but for a simple girl, the more Lauren cared about her, the more confused she would be. Whether his feeling was true or false...

"Speak!" Lauren gritted his teeth.

"I just don't want you to think that... being with you is to use you..." Finally, Eve spoke. Unable to point out Lucia's matter, she could only attribute her abnormality to the guilt in her heart. "But... I have to help my sister."

"Before I said that, you are not allowed to think about it!" It turned out that it was because of this. Lauren heaved a sigh of relief, and told Eve his thoughts domineeringly.

He just didn't say it in front of her...

Eve's eyes were bright, and all she was thinking about was what he said to Lucia today.

"I'll take care of your sister's affairs. From now on, you just need to stay by my side obediently and don't run around anymore." Promising what he said he would do, Lauren stretched out his hand and hugged Eve into his arms.

Buried in Lauren's arms, Eve frowned tightly, but finally there was no response.

In the early morning, after taking Lauren's call, Lucia leaned back into Arthur's arms and said,

"Eve's back, Arthur. Let Kyle get everyone back."

Arthur nodded, took out his phone and sent a message to Kyle and said,

"Lucia, you care too much for Lauren."

Arthur was not jealous, but just felt that Lucia had an inexplicable feeling of doting on Lauren. He just called her today to ask for help, and Lucia sent someone to find Eve without saying a word. With this kind of response attitude, even he can't stand up.

Lucia smiled, put her arms around Arthur's shoulders, thought for a while and said,

"I know, but I always want to help him. Before... I treated you like this because of Teddy, but there was no one by your side to comfort you. Although Lauren wasn't in the same situation as you, I always feel like he's another version of you - deeply in love but helpless. Helping him is more like me wanting to make it up to you..."

As Lucia spoke, the smile in her eyes slowly faded away and guilt filled her once cheerful gaze.

Arthur lightly patted Lucia's back, understanding her thoughts and not wanting her to feel guilty.

"I never thought that Lauren would have such an effect on you. But I never felt like I needed any compensation from you. As long as you're by my side, that's enough."

Arthur never asked for anything else from Lucia except for her presence - he was gentle and comforting without any demands.

"You see," Lucia was moved by Arthur's words and looked up at him with admiration. "You sound just like Lauren... you both are people who will do anything for love, so don't be jealous." Seeing a mischievous glint in Lucia's eyes, Arthur couldn't help but laugh.

This little woman...

A month later, Nia and Kevin visited Webbex Group again with three contracts in hand.

Lucia received them in her office and pretended not to know what they were talking about when Nia presented the contracts.

"What are these?"

"Ms. Webb," Nia smiled knowingly. "Kevin and I have considered it carefully. We'll need some special measures against Stand Hill which may affect Webbex Group's reputation just like last time, so we want Stable Growth back so that nothing will harm your company again."