I Slept with My Boss and Ran Away

Gordon came to the office to find Azure drinking. He took the glass from her hand. "Azure, what's wrong?" His voice was gentle and full of concern. Azure never drank during work hours unless she was extremely upset. She had struggled with alcoholism in the past but had been sober for years. Now she was drinking again.

"Is it because Terrence and Meredith are getting married?" Gordon guessed.

Azure leaned against the sofa, eyes half-closed, filled with melancholy. "I have long known he never loved me, but I can't completely forget him."

Gordon sat beside her, letting her lean on his shoulder. "It's his loss not to cherish you. Azure, rest for a while if you're tired. I'm here for you." Azure, exhausted from the day's work and the alcohol, fell asleep leaning on Gordon's shoulder. He stayed still, watching over her. He had been there for her for almost ten years and would continue to be there for the next ten, twenty years. To him, Azure was always a pure and flawless goddess.

...

Meredith returned home, thinking about the sadness in Azure's eyes. She wanted to know what Azure was hiding. Did Stella do something more than just humiliate Azure back then?

"Meredith, what are you thinking about?" Terrence appeared behind her.

Meredith snapped back to reality. "I visited Azure this afternoon. She seemed troubled. Did your mother do something else?"

To make amends to Azure, Terrence never refused her help unless it was a matter of principle.

"Why do you say that? Did Azure mention anything?" Terrence genuinely didn't know of anything else.

Because of Azure, his relationship with his mother had deteriorated and only improved this year.

"She said she would never have children in this life because she doesn't want to find someone again. I think it's not that simple." Women's intuition is often accurate; Meredith felt Azure was hiding something. "But Meredith wasn't easily fooled either."

"If she wants to talk, there's no need to ask. If she doesn't want to talk, asking won't help," Terrence said, placing his hands on her shoulders from behind. "Go out less often recently; it's not safe outside." Meredith asked, "What happened?"

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Terrence replied confidently, "Reginald is almost back."

"Isn't he afraid of being caught? He's globally wanted now; how dare he come back?" Meredith frowned. "Does he have a reason to come to Auroraville?"

"If there's no reason, then create one," Terrence said coldly with a smirk. "With Grandma as bait, he'll definitely take the hook."

Meredith was shocked. "Grandma?"

Terrence and Grandma Sterling had agreed to use herself as bait to lure Reginald back to Auroraville. Of course, Terrence wouldn't let the old lady be in danger; he had already prepared a double as a pretext to get Reginald back. And that pretext was Grandma Sterling's critical illness.

The next day, Grandma Sterling was admitted to the hospital, and news of her critical condition quickly spread across major media outlets.

Grandma Sterling had once been a prominent figure in the business world; her critical condition naturally attracted many visitors to the hospital.

That afternoon, many people from the inner circle came to visit her in the hospital while Terrence and Julian took care of the old lady.

The elderly woman's illness couldn't be treated due to her age; they announced that Grandma Sterling had been hospitalized due to a stroke and that timely rescue efforts had only temporarily saved her life.

Unaware of the truth, Julian and Stella cried their eyes out at the hospital while many members of the Sterling family also arrived, filling the hospital with an air of sorrow.

Photos of Grandma Sterling in intensive care leaked out and trended on social media; many people in the circle felt regretful.

Reginald, who had been keeping an eye on the Sterling family from afar, saw the news about Grandma Sterling's stroke and critical condition.

His expression immediately darkened. "How could she be critically ill? She can't die yet; it would be too easy for her. She hasn't atoned for my parents yet."

Talking to himself while watching the news on TV where reporters said doctors diagnosed that Grandma Sterling might not live for two more days, Reginald wished he could rush back to Auroraville immediately. He wanted to see Grandma Sterling one last time in person.