A Beautiful Misunderstanding

"Okay, I'll take you home so you can rest. Then we'll go to eat in a French restaurant, okay?" Hanson smiled gently as he made a turn at the next corner.

Essie didn't talk all the way to the apartment. As soon as she arrived, the first thing she did was lie on the sofa.

"I'll get you a glass of juice," Hanson said. Just as he was about to get up, she stretched out her hand to grab his and said, "Don't go, Hanson. Stay here with me."

She knew she was going to lose him again. And this time, she was going to lose him completely. But she couldn't blame him for that. This time, the fate of Bella was at stake. It was about the prospect of tens of thousands of employees, and as the successor of the CEO, he had the responsibility to protect Bella and its employees.

Moreover, this undeserved catastrophe was all because of her.

He sat down beside her and let her rest her head on his lap. "You little fool, I'm just going to get some juice for you. I won't leave you alone." As he spoke, he gently stroked her face.

"I know," Essie mumbled as tears welled up unconsciously in her eyes. She immediately turned her head so that he wouldn't see the tears rolling down from her eyes and onto his pants.

The warmth of her tears made him tremble slightly. He looked down at her and said, "You should be happy since you won the championship. Why are you crying?"

She sat up, her tears streaming down her face like someone had opened the floodgates in her eyes. "Hanson, I know everything about what's going on with Bella."

Trembling violently, he raised his hand to try to wipe away her tears, but there was nothing he could do to get rid of them all. Her tears would not stop streaming down her face. In all her life, her heart had never been this full of despair.

planned on telling you after I've sorted everything out." His voice was low and sorrowful, as if he knew that there was

all my fault. I'll talk to Zac—" Before she could even finish her words, Hanson took her in his arms tightly. "You can't go. I don't want you to go. I've thought it

was

talking about? Are you leaving now? Are you going

for a political marriage that I don't want,

understand." Essie shook her head with a blank look in

is a stubborn person, and my

don't have much feelings for my father, and he feels the same way towards me. Last month, his lawyer told me that he has made a will, leaving half of his shares to me and the other half equally divided among his three daughters. It may seem like I am the biggest shareholder, but the shares of his three daughters, combined with 8% of the shares my stepmother has, still equal to a bigger share than mine. They can veto me at any time, which means that even after my father hands the business down to me, I still won't

to say. Even though she knew that Bella was not in a good situation, she didn't expect that it was that bad.

her shoulder and said, "Back then, you gave up studying in the Instituto Marangoni for me. Now, we're going to Milan so you can realize your dream, okay? By that time, you would go

the nook of his neck. Tears fell down from her eyes again, but this

from her forehead to her eyes and the tears on

like a gentle stream of water. He was so unlike Zac who was crazy, overbearing, full of plunder, and always acting as

disturb her happiness. She quickly shook off the thought. There was no way she was going to let this demon disturb the happiness she was feeling at that moment. She forced

he increased the pressure

while, he