Only Lisette had truly stuck by him, from the very beginning, never once hinting that she’d give up on him.
Valerian looked at Lisette, his heart aching for her. “Lisette, what if she really gives you a hard time? What will you do then?”
He frowned. “Maybe I should go talk to her. Set things straight!”
“Don’t!” Lisette quickly grabbed his arm, stopping him from leaving.
“If you confront her, she won’t listen. I’ll be fine, really. At worst, she’ll just pile on more work. She’s not going to hurt me or anything. She’s not about to hire someone to kidnap me or make my life a living hell, right?”
“A little extra work is nothing. If it helps the company, why not? If it means Horatio can walk again, and Callie stops making things difficult for you guys… isn’t that worth it? I’d rather take the hit myself than have everyone suffer.”
Lisette smiled, her voice light. “Don’t worry about me, really!”
“Lisette, I’m sorry,” Horatio said, looking at her, guilt written all over his face. “We haven’t done a great job protecting you.”
“When Callie’s done helping Horatio recover,” Monty chimed in, “we’ll figure out a way to win the company back. Everything will go back to how it was, and the company will be yours, Lisette.”
“Dad, I don’t care about the company!” Lisette shook her head. “I just want our family to be happy. That’s all I need.”
“Well, I should get back to work. Don’t let me keep you all. While Callie’s around, let’s just keep some distance, okay? If anything comes up, just text me. You guys should spend more time with Callie anyway.”
With that, Lisette slipped out, looking as thoughtful and mature as ever.
“She’s wise beyond her years,” Monty said, shaking his head in admiration.
“Nope. Say it again?” Calliope replied, glancing up.
“Forget it. I’m leaving the food here if you’re hungry,” Valerian said, voice tight with annoyance, and stormed out.
Calliope rolled her eyes, confused. She glanced at the box on her desk—cupcakes, by the look of it—and frowned.
A little while later, someone came in to give her a report. Calliope handed off the cupcakes without a second thought.
The employee all but skipped out of her office, delighted. As luck would have it, they ran right into Valerian, who was still stewing in the hallway.
“Where’d you get the cupcakes?”
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Oh wrestling expert ey? So is this Khamzat Chimaev or Shavkat Rakhmonov? Because Khabib's would be too haram....
Oh no. Million is just mix of Conor McGregor, Islam Makhachev, Mike Tyson, Max Holloway, Anderson Silva... I bet he lands 5sec flying knees like Jorge Masvidal too. Oh nope, 1sec knees. And has faster left hooks than Alex Pereira. Definitely would win UFC championship in every weight division including women. Poor Zhang Weili....
Okay so.... Million is now from East. Arctic wolf from East, modified genetically so he can manage his own Instagram and probably also box like Mike Tyson and snapping left hooks like Alex Pereira....
This is starting to be the same twister of abilities as Cassandra Yates and Tiffany. But question is, why the hell Silas can't just open his mouth and tell Caliope that she's the one whom he has in his heart. He would prevent a lot of misunderstanding. Seems like despite capability of talking with modified arctic wolf, she's not like telepathic....
Oh no, so FL is again another hidden genius with both hemispheres working on hundreds... Ffffuuuu. Cassandra Yates and Tiffany were already enough, ughugh. And Tiffany was even more exaggerated than Cassandra....
That's weird, in the first chapters there was said that her bio parents and bros doteď on Caliope but then they adopted Lisette, but this chapter suddenly says otherwise. Did author forget what he wrote?...
I REALLLYYY REALLLYYYY REALLYYYYYY WANT TO SLAP THE 3 BROTHERS WHENEVER THEY OPEN THEIR MOUTH !!! AND THEIR MOM !!!...
Why has this not been updated ?? there were 5 more chapters which was released and it has not been updated.. Please do update on regular basis......