Chapter 10
Chapter 10 Have to Find a Man
The bell rang, and a teacher
walked into the classroom.
She stepped onto the platform and said with a
smile on her face,
“Congratulations to Rosa
Hall for obtaining
recognition from Southern Group and securing an internship offer from them.‘
As soon as the teacher’s
words fell, thunderous
applause erupted.
Rosa couldn’t hide her pride
and smiled.
*****
Grace couldn’t help but
sneer and said, “This is
ridiculous.”
Olivia gently patted her hand and whispered, “Let it go, it’s not worth it.”
The teacher continued, “For
those who haven’t found an
internship yet, please pay
attention. The school will
start collecting information
soon.”
Grace cautiously tugged at
the hem of Olivia’s clothes
and whispered, “Olivia, how about interning at Hunt Group? My family’s
company isn’t big, but it should be able to offer you
an internship.”
“That’s okay. You don’t have to worry about me,” Olivia replied.
Olivia understood that Grace
wasn’t her father’s biological
daughter and their family
situation was complicated.
Therefore, she really didn’t
want to trouble her.
Olivia had been doing well
in school, but recently, right after passing interviews with a few companies, she was
always told later that her
offers were withdrawn.
Their unified response was always that they had found
someone more suitable.
This made Olivia suspect
that someone was
deliberately targeting her. Otherwise, things wouldn’t turn out the way it did.
During the day, Olivia went to the hospital to accompany her mother. Since learning
about her father’s new
family, her mother’s mood had been getting worse.
Olivia was worried that her
mother might do something irrational, so whenever she had time during the day, she would go to the hospital to
be with her.
Something had come up at home for Grace for the past
couple of days, so she hadn’t
moved to the house they rented together.
One day, Olivia dragged her exhausted body back to her
apartment and made some
instant noodles.
Before she could start eating,
she heard a commotion
outside the door.
At first, she thought it was Grace returning and didn’t pay much attention to it.
But upon closer listening,
she became suspicious. It
sounded like someone was
trying to break in.
She cautiously walked over
and locked the door from
the inside.
“Why can’t I open this door? Is this the right room
number?”
It was a strange man’s voice
outside the door.
Hearing this, Olivia was
scared and decided not to
make a sound.
She hurried to the bedroom,
took out her phone, and
called Oliver.
She called several times in a
row, but no one answered.
Olivia pleaded, “Oliver,
please pick up…”
At the Adams villa, a banquet
was in progress.
Oliver went to the restroom,
leaving his phone on the table with the screen lit up.
Alex casually glanced at it
and saw the name on the
screen, [Olivia.]
He thought, ‘Is this the Olivia that I know? Why is
she calling Oliver at this late
hour for?‘
With this thought in mind, Alex pressed the answer
button with a stern face.
“Oliver, can you come over?
I’m scared…”
From the other end of the
phone came a panicked
voice from Olivia.
In Olivia’s heart, the only
person she could rely on in this world was Oliver.
“Olivia, Oliver is already engaged now. It’s not appropriate for you to call
him like this!”
A cold and deep voice came from the phone, making Olivia so frightened that she almost dropped her phone.
She trembled as she said, “Mr. Tres, why are you there?”
Before she could finish her
sentence, Alex hung up the phone with disgust.
Olivia’s heart sank instantly. She tried to call the police,
but her phone had lost signal at the time.
She could only repeatedly
make video calls to Alex.
When Alex answered the
call, he was furious. “Olivia, why do you have to find a man to entertain you?”
*****
At the other end of the
phone, a stranger’s voice
suddenly came, “This is the
right room, why can’t we open the door? Did she lock the door from inside? Just wait. After I open the door, I
am going to show you what I
got…”
Upon hearing this, Alex clenched his hand holding the phone subconsciously,
his face turned serious as he
asked, “Where are you? Share your location with
me.”
Hearing Alex’s words, Olivia
felt a bit relieved.
But the sound of the door being tampered with from
outside grew louder.
Trembling, she shared her
location with Alex.
She lived in an old and
dilapidated neighborhood.
The signal reception here
was not ideal.
Olivia anxiously watched her
phone signal, feeling
extremely anxious as she
watched the person outside attempting to force the door
open.
Her small body curled up on the sofa, trembling
incessantly.
With a bang, the door of the
apartment was kicked open,
and a tall person walked in.
Olivia held her phone
tightly. After seeing that it
was Mica, she was able to
calm down a bit.
“Olivia, what’s going on? Why are you here?” Alex’s face was stern as he looked
around the shabby rental place Olivia had leased, pulling his tie forcefully, exuding a chilling aura.
The door of the apartment
was left in ruins by him.
Milo grabbed the two
suspicious men outside and
moved them to the living
room.
Listening to the men’s furious roar, Olivia’s face
turned pale. Her eyes turned
red with tears swirling in her
eyes.
If she had known this would
happen, there was no way
that she would rent an
apartment here.
Alex snatched her phone and
pinned his own phone
number and WhatsApp
account on her phone, then
said coldly, “In the future,
call me immediately if you
run into any trouble, don’t
bother Oliver.”
Hearing this, Olivia’s body trembled violently.
She thought, ‘That’s right, I
can’t call Oliver now. He is
already engaged. It will be inappropriate for me to call
him.‘
Suddenly, a wave of fear surged through her heart.
“No, don’t come near me…”
Olivia looked at Alex in
extreme fear.
The scene just now brought Olivia’s thoughts back to when she was a sophomore in high school.
At that time, she was afraid
of her brother, Ted, so she
had to lock the door from
the inside every night before going to sleep.
This situation continued
until she went to college and left the Hall family.
The reason she chose to rent
an apartment and move out was also to escape from Ted.
Seeing her like this, Alex’s
stern face softened slightly.
He asked in a low voice,
“What’s wrong with you?”
“Nothing.”
Her small face was pale as tears streaming down her cheeks. Olivia looked pitiful like a frightened little rabbit. She said with a choked voice, “Mr. Tres, thank you very much for rushing over.”
Alex observed her
expression and felt a strange
sense of annoyance in his
heart.
Olivia followed behind Alex
as he walked to the living
room.
Henry and a stranger were kneeling on the ground in the living room.
Seeing this, Olivia suddenly
stopped in her tracks,
“Henry, why are you here?”
Her eyes were filled with
surprise and disbelief.
Half of Henry’s face was
swollen.
It seemed that he had just
been beaten up.
“Olivia, I can explain. This is
all a misunderstanding…”