Captivation: Want Nothing But You

For a moment, the maid was silent.Then she blurted out, "It was Miss Bennet!"

The maid pressed her face into her hands and forced herself to sob even harder.Then she turned her tear-stained face up to Victor and whimpered, "Recently, whenever I go up to Miss Bennet's room, I always hear a man's voice.She so rarely comes out that I started to get worried… I just asked her if there was something wrong, but she started shouting at me.She didn't even give me a chance to speak or explain.She accused me of being nosy and then…"

Rachel cocked an eyebrow as she listened to the maid's nonsense story.But she had to give her credit where it was due; the maid did give a very convincing performance.If she hadn't known that the maid was lying, she would have been inclined to believe her.

Not to mention that the maid had somehow willed herself to be able to sob the way she was.

It made her look even more pathetic.

The maid rubbed her palm across her cheek to try and dry off some of the fake tears, then clasped her hands in front of her body.

"When Miss Bennet came home just now, I asked her if she'd had any dinner.I knew she'd been out the entire day and I just wanted to make sure she'd had something to eat.I even offered to make her some food.I think Miss Bennet misunderstood what I saying, because she slapped me out of the blue.She… She also said…"

Victor's gloomy face pinched in irritation.

"What did she say?" he asked coldly.

"She also said that she is the mother of the Sullivan Group's successor.She told me that if she so wanted, she could have me thrown out the Sue Garden, and ensure that I would never be able to find a job or even a place to stay in Apliaria again."

The maid turned to Rachel and pathetically kowtowed to her.

"Miss Bennet," she started in a trembling voice, "please forgive me! I know I was wrong.I promise I won't interfere again.Forgive me, please…"

Victor's expression had been getting angrier and angrier the longer the maid had been speaking.

By now he was gritting his jaw so tightly that the veins in his neck and forehead were bulging.

His dark eyes were glinting with malice, and he barely seemed to be holding onto his temper.

"The mother of the Sullivan Group's future successor?"

Slowly, he turned his head and sneered at Rachel.

The maid immediately stopped crying once Victor was no longer looking at her.

A sly smile curled the corners of her lips.

Lukas could see that the situation was rapidly becoming sour.

He couldn't let Victor lose his temper with Rachel because of some story the maid had spun, Rachel was pregnant with Victor's child after all.

Lukas felt he had to speak in her defense.

"Mr.Sullivan, there has been a great misunderstanding. Miss Bennet was just-"

Before he could finish his sentence, Victor strode forward and grabbed Rachel by the chin.

did nothing but

to try and explain what had really

Victor wouldn't

you not only want to be the hostess of the Sullivan Group again, but you also want the entire group for yourself.You truly are ambitious! I was right about you from the very start,

like she

trying to put some distance between herself and him.She shook her head to relieve the pain in her chin from

"From now on,"

of the Sue Garden.Her duties are now

stumbled over his words as he said, "Mr.Sullivan, please consider this carefully.Miss Bennet is pregnant.If she works like

tell the doctor to prioritize the baby," Victor said coldly, staring straight at Rachel's pale face

moved out the guest bedroom and into the storage room where she

the middle of the room, taking in the familiar sights,

little one.You're having

at the door silenced any further words

Lukas called from the

through the narrow passage to

"Lukas, what's wrong?"

brought you a heater," Lukas

heating in this room isn't working properly.It gets very cold at night during autumn…

heater out to her.It was very old.He'd been using it for more than ten years

little old, but it works just

help

Lukas, you shouldn't have.This isn't necessary.You

Bennet-" Lukas tried

a look inside," Rachel

you really think this room is big enough for me and a heater? Anyway, I'm sure I won't get cold.A pregnant woman's body temperature is higher than normal.I think I'll be alright if I wrap myself in blankets

push

fruitless; she'd already made

"Miss Bennet, I'm so sorry about this… I'm going to speak to Mr.Sullivan later this evening and see if I can't get him to change

go and speak to Victor anyway, even if she did get him to promise her he wouldn't.She

leave you now.Rest well, Miss Bennet,"

watched him leave down the corridor.She remained standing at the door until Lukas had rounded a corner and was

was sitting contemplatively

narrowed at the wall, and he was

taking him back to what Carson had said

think the hacker is one of your opponents in the business world.If he was, I'm sure he'd be more interested in the group's commercial secrets, rather than something as trivial as a mistress being slapped.Secondly, I think this hacker is a woman.Only women are interested in this kind of

was a woman with a grudge against him and

of Rachel's face flashed

could have been

she'd hacked into the Sullivan

it,

then because the phone had

that incident, Victor had demanded that the monitoring systems be upgraded