I focused on my studies and started looking for internships.


    I wasn''t going to limit my job search to designer assistant roles or anything rted to jewelry, fabrics, or garment manufacturing. I wanted to pursue something directly rted to


    fashion design


    I wasn''t sure if it was just luck, but I eventually managed tond a job as a designer''s assistant. The fashion designer was quite well-known in the industry, though she had an entric personality


    A week into the job, Jack called me again. I had just gotten off


    off the bus and was walking toward school.


    anymore. Why should I


    He asked where I was, and I nced up at the sky before replying, "Jack, have you forgotten? You cut off my financial support.


    1. We don''t have a rtionship an tell you where I am?"


    Jack''s voice was filled with anger as he spoke. "Evelyn, do you want me to take your grandmother out of the nursing home?"


    My eyes narrowed, and my voice turned cold. "Jack, how dare you! She''s your mother!"


    Jack scoffed. "My mother? That old hag never took care of me. I''m already doing her a favor by feeding and clothing her. But you.. she raised you until you were ten. Don''t you care about her life or death now?"


    When Jack divorced my mother, Ka, I was just three, Ka left me without a second thought, and Jack, too preupied with his career, sent me to live with my grandmother in the countryside.


    Until I turned ten, before my grandmother had her stroke, it was just the two of us. Later, when my grandmother had a stroke, Ka, who had been doing well overseas, seemed to have a change of heart and reached out to me. Upon learning how miserable I was, she spoke to Jack, and I was eventually brought back to the Wiley family. When I returned, Jack had already married tvy, and Elene was almost seven years old.


    I stopped walking, my lips pursed. A fire was burning inside me, but I couldn''t let it our


    In my past life, my grandmother had passed away peacefully in a nursing home, so I had assumed it would be the same this time. I didn''t expect Jack to use her to threaten me. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. "I''m at school" As soon as I finished speaking, Jack said, "I''ll give you 20 minutes. Put on something nice ande meet me at Starlight Haven." With that, he hung up the phone.


    Starlight Haven was thergest club in Napel. Since Jack told me to change into something nice and meet him there, I knew right away he wanted me to apany him to a business meeting.This content ? 2024 N?velDrama.Org.


    Thete October wind already carried a hint of chill. After standing on the street for a while, I soon started shivering


    it was barely 9:00 pm, and the streets were still quiet. Only a few people were around, theirughter and yful banter echoing asionally.


    Clutching my phone, I suddenly heard someone say, "Ethan."


    I turned around and saw Leah running out of the school Ethan stood under a streetmp, wearing a ck hoodie and jeans. He was holding something in his hand.


    I hadn''t seen him in over ten days, but somehow the boyish innocence on his face had given way to more defined features.


    Leah ran up to Erhan, a sweet smile on her face and her hands sped behind her back. "You''re so fast," she said.


    Ethan handed her something. His gaze lowered, so I couldn''t see his expression. His voice was gentle as he said, "Don''t run. You might fall. I brought you your medicine. Take it it the paines backter."