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.

low and sorrowful, as

tightly. "You can't go. I don't want you to go. I've thought it through, and I'm going to go through the process of going abroad so I

shocked. She must have misheard him. He was going to marry Sunny to

Are you leaving now? Are you going to

can do is to sacrifice myself for a political marriage that I don't

Essie shook her head with a blank look

and sighed. "Although I'm the vice president, I have no real power in the group. My father and I have different opinions on managing the company. He is a stubborn person, and my stepmother and her daughters are always picking on me. No matter what I say, my opinions will always be

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 have any real power in the company. I don't want to sacrifice my marriage and love for this company since it is in no way under my control. It would be better for me to leave and be

not knowing what to say. Even though she knew that Bella was not in a good situation, she didn't expect that it was that bad. No wonder he had

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 to school and I will find a job. When you graduate, we'll design our own brand and build

embraced him back and buried her head into the nook of his neck.

in his hands. His fingers trailed down from her forehead to her eyes and the

water. He was so unlike Zac who was crazy, overbearing, full of plunder, and always acting as if he wanted to devour

demon 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.

and he increased the pressure

long while, he