Regardless of his 'accident', however, Randy didn't skip out on his 'corporate training' with Samantha, though Mr. White did postpone his morning combat training for next month, once he was fully healed.
Of course, Randy didn't dare tell him how his hand was really broken. What would the man think? Were his bones made out of tofu? Thankfully, Mr. White trusted him very much, and didn't question him or look too deeply at his excuses.
Samantha, on the other hand, seemed to be smiling quite suspiciously, as if she knew something he didn't. "So you're the pipsqueak that dad wants to train?"
Randy smiled at her with some embarrassment. When a cold faced beauty like Samantha smiled, even if it was in derision, the impact was really something else. "H-Hello, sister-in-law—"
The older girl's brow twitched. "Whoa, easy there, tiger. You can save those for when you actually get married to Emilia, IF that happens, alright? Just call me 'boss lady' for now."
Randy nodded, feeling a little awkward. Why did he get the feeling that this girl secretly hated him? That couldn't be right. "B-Boss. I hope to learn a lot from you in the future. Please guide me!"
The girl on the high back leather chair smiled. "Of course, of course. Our White Deer Corporation delves into many fields, and has all kinds of people working for us. So, to start with, you'll be taking on some 'easier' jobs, alright?"
Randy nodded, still not understanding where she was going.
Samantha smiled as she motioned her secretary to make the necessary arrangements. "The 'easiest' job at this location is, of course, the janitor's, and since you're so outstanding, you'll be taking on four people's task on your own. Noelle will guide you to the cleaning room, and our team of cleaners will of course evaluate your 'performance' at the end of the week."
The boy's eyes almost bugged out of his head as he gaped at her in shock. Didn't she see one of his hands was in a cast?!
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Meanwhile, the hero was sitting inside Crystal's restaurant, staring blankly ahead as he stirred his cup of coffee.
His father no longer paid him any attention as he focused fully on multiple direct, crucial confrontations with Mr. White, who seemed to have also rescued the bastard who hit him that day.
His eye had mostly healed already, only being slightly darker than usual, but now his head was in a cast.
It had been almost two hours since he came here and informed a staff member to let the owner's daughter know her friend was here, but no one came to meet him.
He knew that the girl must be shy, and couldn't help but smile in his heart.
Amos would never be lacking patience when it came to the love of his life. So if she wanted him to wait, he would wait.
And as expected, almost four hours after he arrived, Crystal finally did come down the stairs. When she saw him still sitting there, the girl stared at him in shock, and Amos couldn't help but smile at the short haired blonde girl's incredibly cute expression.
The hero thought she must be distressed at his 'injury', but he didn't know what the heroine was actually thinking at all.
Crystal had thought that even if the bastard downstairs was shameless, he wouldn't stay downstairs for so long, right? She fully expected him to have left in embarrassment by now.
She knew by now who he was, of course. She had already heard enough of Amos Black, and frankly, she was getting quite sick of it. 'To think he was once Emilia's fiancé, huh… So what does he want from me, now?'
To reject Emilia, Crystal definitely wouldn't think he was now interested in her 'genuinely', regardless of what feelings he showed her on the surface.
If anything, it made her even warier.
Crystal considered herself to be quite mature when compared to her peers, and knew that the world wasn't just black and white. Just because Amos discarded Emilia did not mean he was fine with someone else taking her.
There were many boys like that, who would consider even their ex-girlfriends getting together with someone else as cheating.
For him to now openly 'show interest' in her, it was definitely related to Emilia. Either he wanted to 'conquer her' to drive her off of his ex-fiancée, or he wanted to simply warn her off by showing what 'unwanted advances' felt like, and how disgusting she must be in Emilia's eyes.
But Crystal wasn't quite willing to just accept that. 'How can I give up on Emilia just because of this scumbag's jealousy? Even if he's all-powerful, so what?! Fine, I don't deserve her, maybe, but do you?! I'm definitely not worse!'
If someone is going to have their own exciting threesome scandals airing on news every day, they should at least have the decency to let their ex-girlfriend have her own love life, right?
Unfortunately, she couldn't quite confront him today, because there was a reason she had come down the stairs, and it definitely wasn't for Amos.
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Emilia generally preferred to keep to her schedule, but she decided to meet with Crystal today to confirm her thoughts after that conversation with Cynthia.
In her mind, the heroine was a diligent, studious girl who preferred to keep to herself, and her number one priority was always her performance. To disturb such a girl too much would just have a negative impact on their relationship, and would make her target of making the girl hate the hero much harder.
Thankfully, the girl didn't seem to mind too much, and readily agreed to meet her that evening.
This was the first time Emilia had come to Crystal's place without Dixie, and she couldn't help but feel that not having her loyal knight by her side was slightly inconvenient. After all, there were many things she didn't need to worry about when with her.
For example, that disgustingly annoying gaze that the hero was aiming at her when she talked to Crystal would definitely have been blocked by Dixie… if she didn't punch the hero's eyes in first.
Crystal, on the other hand, felt that her thoughts had been confirmed as she saw the stinky look that the hero was throwing in her direction as soon as he saw Emilia come close to her. 'I knew it… He doesn't want her, but he doesn't want anyone else to have her either, huh? This fucking sicko…'
Amos didn't want his 'image' to be damaged in front of the love of his life, so even if he hated seeing her together with that whore of the White family, he could only remain silent for now and watch with gritted teeth as the two of them went upstairs, hand in hand.
The hero's eyes were red as he cursed Emilia's 'insidious' nature in his heart. 'This fucking whore definitely knows! She did that on purpose, didn't she? Shit! Just because I don't love her, she wants to take everything away from me, so I have no choice but to love her? Dream on!'