Don't Be a Tease, Mr. Blackwood

Chapter 121: Chapter 121: Trouble and Revenge

Vianne Kane remained silent, doing nothing but weep.

To "prove his innocence," Damian Morgan immediately pulled out his phone. He made a call, ordering someone to investigate Yara Valentine and bring her to him.

After the call, he pulled Vianne Kane into his arms again.

Vianne Kane was completely taken in by his words, her mind consumed by the pain of her past and her fury at Sophie Shaw’s betrayal.

Tears streamed down her face. Under Damian Morgan’s relentless tenderness, her emotional defenses completely crumbled.

She hugged him back, sobbing uncontrollably. "Damian, have you ever been disgusted with me?"

"Of course not. Darling, I can’t treasure you enough. How could I ever be disgusted with you?"

"Sophie Shaw has gone too far. To think she’d use my past to threaten you."

She remembered it clearly. After her surgery at the hospital, Bianca Kane had her discharged the very next day. The family patriarch then took her to a seaside villa to recuperate. She didn’t return home until nearly a month later, once her body had fully recovered.

Logically, besides Bianca Kane, the patriarch, and herself, no one else should have known about it.

Bianca Kane had paid off all the medical staff from the surgery to ensure their silence. ’So how on earth did Sophie Shaw find out?’

"Vianne, don’t worry. Sophie Shaw won’t be gloating for long. The first chance I get, I’ll drag her down to hell and make sure she can never get back up."

Damian Morgan ground his teeth in hatred.

He truly hadn’t expected Sophie Shaw to go back on her word like this. He’d already given her the Heart of the Ocean, yet she hadn’t destroyed all the evidence. She’d kept a backup.

She didn’t leak it sooner, she didn’t leak it later—no, she had to wait until after he and Vianne Kane were legally married. It was utterly deranged.

He had underestimated just how ruthless Sophie Shaw could be.

"What are you planning to do?" Vianne Kane sniffled, her breath catching. "Don’t forget, she has the rich and powerful Alaric Blackwood behind her."

"I know what I’m doing. You just need to trust me."

——

「At the same time.」

A delivery truck from a furniture company pulled up in front of the Heart of the Ocean building.

Workers in uniform carried a sofa and a cabinet from the truck into the office building.

Sophie Shaw and Ethan Austin had already made several trips to move the old sofa and cabinet to the trash area, clearing out the break room. After signing for the delivery, Sophie calmly wiped down the new cabinet and began putting things away inside it.

Nina Halloway brewed some coffee, bringing one cup to her and another to Ethan Austin.

"Sugar and milk," Ethan Austin said.

Nina Halloway grunted in acknowledgment and rummaged through a pile of items that hadn’t yet been put away. She found sugar cubes, but no milk.

"Is sugar okay?"

Ethan Austin nodded reluctantly. "It’ll have to do."

Nina Halloway held out the sugar cubes, using the tongs to drop one into his coffee. As Ethan Austin stirred with a spoon, he gestured for her to add another.

She dropped another cube into his coffee.

"Another."

She dropped in a third cube. "Isn’t that too sweet?"

"I like it sweet."

Nina Halloway picked up the tongs and added a fourth cube to the coffee, then suddenly realized something wasn’t quite right.

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’Why am I waiting on my bodyguard?’

"Ethan."

The man lazily lifted his gaze. "Hmm?"

"Who’s the boss here, you or me?"

"..."

While he was still processing, Nina Halloway snatched the coffee from his hand and took a small sip. It was so sweet her teeth ached.

She shoved the cup back into Ethan Austin’s hand with a look of disgust, then turned to pour herself a black coffee. She took a large gulp, finally washing away the cloying sweetness in her mouth.

After finishing her coffee, she went to help Sophie Shaw organize the new cabinet. Her eyes fell on the unreliable second-hand coffee machine, and she made a mental note to buy Sophie a new one as a gift when she had the time. freeweɓnøvel.com

As the two of them were busy working, a phone started to ring.

It was Sophie Shaw’s phone.

The caller ID read "Anne."

She swiped to answer and put the call on speaker.

"Sophie, quick, check what’s trending! Someone exposed Damian Morgan for cheating with Yara Valentine."

"It’s blowing up online."

Sophie’s heart sank as she quickly checked the trending topics.

The news about Damian Morgan cheating with Yara Valentine was the number one trending topic, and it was still gaining traction.

The line was still open. Anne asked, "Sophie, was that you? Did you leak it?"

"No, I didn’t keep a copy of the video. Don’t you have the backup?"

"I have it, but I didn’t leak it! You never told me to, so I wouldn’t dare do anything rash."

Sophie had already gotten Heart of the Ocean back, and Anne, fearing that any reckless action would invite trouble and retaliation, had simply saved the video to her password-protected phone. She hadn’t shown it to a single soul.

’If it wasn’t Anne, and it wasn’t me, then who was it?’

——

「That evening.」

「The Kane Residence.」

A tall, burly bodyguard carried a large burlap sack up the stairs, heading straight for the study.

THUD—

The bodyguard threw the sack onto the floor. The person inside struggled and writhed.

"Untie it," Vianne Kane commanded.

The bodyguard nodded, then bent down and untied the sack.

Yara Valentine’s head emerged. Her hands and feet were bound with rope, and her mouth was sealed with duct tape. When she saw Damian Morgan and Vianne Kane sitting on the sofa, along with the bodyguard who had brought her, she was so frightened she immediately burst into tears.

"Mmph... Mmph..."

The woman let out a series of whimpers. Annoyed, Vianne Kane got up, walked over, and ripped the tape from her mouth.

"What... what do you want?"

Yara Valentine looked terrified, her body shrinking away from them continuously.

Having composed herself, Vianne Kane watched her with a cold expression. She gestured toward Damian Morgan behind her and asked Yara, "Do you know him?"

"Yes, he’s my former boss."

"What was your relationship?"

"What do you mean? What kind of relationship could we possibly have? We were just boss and employee."

After answering Vianne Kane, Yara Valentine looked at Damian Morgan. "Boss, what is all this? I haven’t done anything to offend you, have I? Why did you have me kidnapped?"

Damian Morgan remained silent.

"Have you seen what’s trending online?" Vianne Kane continued.

Yara Valentine shook her head.

"It’s causing a huge uproar online. You haven’t seen anything?"

"I haven’t had time to go online. I’ve been busy looking for a job since I lost my last one. What does any of this online stuff have to do with me?"

Yara Valentine’s acting was on par with a professional’s. Her expression was a perfect mix of innocence and fear, and Vianne Kane couldn’t find a single flaw in her performance. It was as if this woman and her husband truly had nothing more than a simple boss-employee relationship.

"What do you want from me? I’ve already lost my job. I don’t have any money to give you."

"Who said anything about money? I’m asking you, have you slept with my husband?"

Yara Valentine shook her head violently.

"Then why is there evidence of you and my husband having an affair all over the internet?"

"How should I know!"

Vianne Kane was silent for a moment, then asked, "What’s your relationship with Sophie Shaw?"

"She’s the one who fired me and made me unemployed. What do you think?"

As she spoke, Yara Valentine’s tone shifted, laced with rage.

Vianne Kane turned to look at Damian Morgan. He just shrugged, his expression saying, ’See? I wasn’t lying to you.’

She sighed, then gave the bodyguard a look, motioning for him to take the woman away.