Midnight Bride The CEO’s Temptation

"Joshua," she looked at him wide-eyed, "you care so much about him, which would lead me to believe that there is something between you!"

He stared at her helplessly. "What are you thinking about?"

"Do you know how I feel when you're jealous?" She poked him in his chest.

Joshua's eyes were a little deep. He took her fingers lightly and then pulled her into his arms.

"Joshua..." She was kind of surprised.

"You've been talking to me randomly all the time. Are you still afraid now?" he asked.

Her body froze abruptly. He did find out... Yeah, he had always been so keen. Though it was not the first time she had been gone after, how could she not be afraid of the black gun muzzles and the cars that had been chasing after her?

As she told James, she was scared to death, but she knew that fear was of no use at all, so she kept doing other things to distract herself from thinking about how she was feeling. Joshua had seen through her illusion of bravery, and the fear that had been repressed in her heart suddenly poured out like a flood. However, she felt so reassured in his arms that the overwhelming fear dissipated immediately.

"Of course," she said sadly, trying not to cry.

"It's all right, it's all right." He patted her on the back lightly.

Her body gradually stopped trembling before she leaned quietly in his arms.

"James is a competent man," Joshua said quietly. "He's intuitive and tough, but he is too stubborn to listen to others' opinions."

She frowned. If Joshua was right and James thought there was something suspicious about her parent's death, there must be something. As for his suspicions of Joshua, she didn't believe them at all. She had known Joshua for over half a year, and she knew exactly what he was.

"Can he be trusted to say that the people wanting to kill me are related to the Denmark Group?" asked she, looking up.

"Did he say so?" Joshua was somewhat surprised, and his finger tapped slightly. "If he said that, it must be true. I'll have to investigate Denmark Group directors carefully."

She was slightly relieved that she and Joshua were thinking alike.

"By the way, as for Theresa, did you ask someone to save her?" She asked. She just realized that was the reason she ran out of Denmark Residence and was put in a dangerous situation.

"Yes," said Joshua lightly. "I'll handle all of it later."

"Mm." She nodded repeatedly.

When they returned to Denmark Residence, they saw Theresa, who Jaxson had rescued. She looked very sad, Hazel thought she looked heartbroken.

"Theresa, I'll take you back to your room," Hazel felt sad for her and whispered. "Whatever happened, have a rest first, and then we'll talk."

"No, Sister Hazel." Theresa looked at Hazel as if she had made up her mind. "I don't know how to ask this, but I need another favor?"

"What is it?" Hazel was a little astonished.

"You've been very kind to me these days, but I want to move out," Theresa said very earnestly.

"What happened?" Asked Hazel in wonder.

"Nothing," Theresa shook her head. "I just want to start over."

Hazel looked at Joshua blankly. Theresa didn't have any friends here, so she would always have a heart-to-heart with Hazel. If Theresa wasn't willing to tell her anything more, there was naturally nothing she could do.

Joshua gave her a slight nod, so Hazel said in a soft voice helplessly, "Okay then, but you can come to me whenever you're having trouble."

"I will!" Theresa said gratefully.

After Theresa excused herself to go back to her belongings, Hazel couldn't help but whisper, "What did the Flores family do to her exactly?"

"The Flores family gave Theresa to a rich businessman in his fifties in order to stay in the imperial capital," Joshua whispered. "They tricked her into going out to meet them. They presented her to the old man, she is thoroughly disappointed in her family."

"How can parents do such a thing to their children?" Hazel was irate but also helpless. "Was she taken advantage of?"

"No, Jaxson arrived in time," he said quietly.

"What are you going to do with the Flores family?" she asked curiously.

He looked at her with deep eyes because she didn't just ask.

"What do you want me to do?" He asked.

"Let them go home," she said quietly. She knew that Joshua hadn't intended to let them go simply.

He frowned. "But they bullied you…"

"I know, but they didn't succeed." She shrugged. More importantly, Joshua would have never let that incident go if the Flores family had not been coercing him.

He had always thought that Jughead's death was his fault, so he helped the Flores family and gave in to their requests to ease his guilt. He began to see that Jughead was just Jughead and the Flores family was just the Flores family. They may have been related by blood, but Lanny and Caroline treated their children as items to be sold, they were not worthy of his guilt over Jughead's death.

Therefore, no matter how horrible the Flores family was, Hazel would get Joshua to make them leave.

"All right, I'll listen to you." Joshua's eyes were a little darker. "I'll ask someone to get them home safe and sound."

What kind of life they would live when they arrived home was not part of his promise.

She nodded happily as she took Joshua's hand and started walking upstairs. "Come on, let's go to see my parents and…"

Before she even finished her sentence, she saw Harry and Rachel standing at the top of the stairs looking at them very unhappily. She suddenly felt like a guilty child who had been caught after doing something she was not supposed to.

Rachel's eyes were very sharp, staring at her hand. Hazel, feeling uncomfortable with her gaze, quickly withdrew her hand as if she had touched a red-hot iron. Her parents' faces became a little softer.

"Where did you go?" Harry asked in a deep tone.

"I went to save a little girl," she said, with a look of indignation, as she hurried upstairs. "Dad, Mom, you don't know..."

She wasn't going to tell them she had been in danger, but if she tried to lie to them, she wouldn't be able to hide it from Rachel, so she decided to tell them a half-truth story.

She turned her head around quietly to wink at Joshua, who was feeling a little vulnerable. Why did he and Hazel become Romeo and Juliet after the Crowe family came? Rachel and Harry were not willing to see Hazel and him holding hands, let alone being together as a couple.