Ch. 656..660
Chapter 656
Chapter 656 The group of bodyguards all stared coldly at Thomas.
Upon hearing Sylvia’s words, Jacob’s expression eased, and he said, “Madam, we're here on Master Carter's orders to request Second Master Carter to come with us.”
‘Is this how you make a request with others? It’s clear that you’re here to arrest him.’ She asked directly, “What does he want with Thomas?”
“We're not sure. We're just following orders.” Jacob looked at Thomas and said politely,” Second Master Carter, the show is over. Master Carter has sorted out the mess at Carter Corporation. The people under your instruction have all been dealt with by Master Carter. Please come with us.”
Thomas's gaze flickered, and he said after a moment, “I don’t understand what you're talking about.”
Jacob maintained his polite tone. “That’s fine. You'll understand if you come with us.” Thomas looked around. In addition to Jacob and Ben, there were dozens of bodyguards. Then, he restrained the cold light in his eyes, looked at Sylvia, and said softly, “Maybe Odell needs me for something. Don’t worry. I'll go and come back soon.”
After saying that, he let go of her.
Sylvia’s mind was in turmoil right now. ‘Wasn’t Odell about to be kicked out of Carter Corporation? Why did Jacob say that he’s dealt with the mess at Carter Corporation? Also, why is he suddenly sending his men to take Thomas away?’ She immediately grabbed one of his hands. “I'll go with you.” Thomas’s eyes flickered. He raised his hand to rub her head and pulled her hand away. “Don’t worry. Odell won’t do anything to me.”
Sylvia frowned.
After he spoke, he walked over to Jacob and Ben.
Several bodyguards instantly surrounded him. Sylvia wanted to follow them but was stopped by Ben. She glared at him. However, he merely smiled politely at her.
She could only watch as Thomas was taken into the woods by Jacob and the others. Soon, their figures disappeared. Her expression turned cold as she looked at Ben again. “Can you let go of me now?”
Ben looked behind her and then withdrew his arm in front of her. She immediately wanted to go forward and catch up to Thomas.
Unexpectedly, she heard the sound of whirring from behind her. She hurriedly turned around to look.
To her horror, she saw dozens of large bulldozers driving from all sides of the sea of sunflowers, running the flowers over. The sunflowers that were flattened underneath were all crushed into the mud without exception.
Ablack sports car also drove toward her at this time, its wheels squashing the bright sunflowers. Sylvia's chest tightened, and her legs filled with lead. She could not move at all.
Screech!
The black sports car stopped steadily a few feet in front of her. Then, a tall figure came down from the car. His black suit emphasized his straight and upright posture that was like a devil from hell, and a terrifying and murderous aura surrounded him. He reached her in two or three steps.
Sylvia’s pupils shrank, and she subconsciously took a step back. The bulldozers were still operating, tearing down the sea of sunflowers patch by patch. She looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar and dreadful man in front of her and asked with a frown, “Odell, did you bring these bulldozers here?” Odell looked at her angsty face and raised his brows with an affirmative hum. That short sound was cold and arrogant. Sylvia was instantly furious. “Tell them to stop!” He hooked his finger at her. “Come here.” Her expression was wary, and she stood without moving.
Chapter 657 Odell narrowed his eyes. “If you come here, I’ll make them stop immediately.” Sylvia was somewhat unconvinced.
However, if they did not stop, these bright sunflowers would really all be destroyed, so she asked, “You'll keep your word, won’t you?”
Odell curled his lips. “Of course.” She walked toward him with small steps.
Just when she was a step away from him, a long arm suddenly reached out and dragged her directly to him. She yelped in surprise and immediately tried to push him away. Nevertheless, he pulled her to his body, wrapping his arm around her waist like an iron clamp. Sylvia’s back was immediately pressed against his chest.
“Let me go!” she shouted as she struggled. Odell used his free hand to clutch her face.
She hissed in pain and instantly lost the strength to struggle. He let out a low, sinister laugh. “These sunflowers are very pretty.” Sylvia shivered and said in a trembling voice, “Tell them to stop, Odell! You promised that you would tell them to stop if | came to you!”
He lowered his head, half-pressing his face against her cheek, and said in a low voice, “He specially prepared this for you, didn’t he?”
It was clear that he was not listening to her. Sylvia was furious and annoyed, but she was also scared. She bit her lip and said nothing.
He asked again, “If | had come just one second later, would you two have kissed here?” She paled as all the hair on her body stood on end. “This jerk was spying on us!’ “Hmm? Why aren't you saying anything?” He pinched her face again. Sylvia gritted her teeth. “Odell Carter, we divorced a long time ago. Who | decide to be with is my freedom.”
After thinking of something, she added, “The divorce agreement only stipulates that | can’t remarry. It doesn’t say | can’t date again!”
His voice suddenly chilled. “So, you're really with him now?” She took a deep breath and answered frankly, “Yes. I’m with him
now. The air suddenly went quiet. Sec
After a few seconds, he said gloomily, “Then, what about me? What am I?” Sylvia’s chest clenched, but she said, “My ex- husband.”
He laughed coldly. “So, you want us to end here? Isabel and Liam, the sapphire ring, and everything that happened between us... You don’t care about those anymore?” “| only care about Isabel and Liam. The rest is in the past, so they’re unimportant.” His mood was obviously off, so she softened
her voice and said, “But you’re their father, so | won't stop you from seeing one another.”
He pressed his face against hers and asked in a low voice, “Do you still hate me in your heart because of the things | did to hurt you?”
‘Do | hate him? | think I do. All the pain | suffered was real. How could | not hate him? However, I’ve already chosen Thomas. | agreed to be his girlfriend right here. That’s why, whether | love Odell or hate him, | can no longer be involved with him.’
Taking a deep breath, she said, “I don’t hate you anymore. All those things are in the past. | just want to live a good life from now
on. He said in a cold voice, “I don’t believe you. You're lying.” Sylvia was annoyed for no reason. “Whatever floats your boat.”
He tightened his grip on her waist again and said grimly, “If you don’t tell me the truth, I'll tell them to tear this entire place down!” The bulldozers had already destroyed a third of the sea of flowers.
Awave of anger rushed to Sylvia’s head. She wanted to beat him to death, but her body was pinned beneath him, so it was impossible for her to push him away, let alone hit him.
She suddenly felt powerless and closed her eyes, saying, “Odell, | don’t love you anymore. The person | like now is Thomas.”
Chapter 658
The air instantly fell silent. The atmosphere around her also became oppressive, and the temperature seemed to plummet by dozens of degrees.
Sylvia’s body was tense until the man’s low voice sounded in her ear. “Say that again.”
She took a deep breath and said, “I don’t love you anymore. The person | like now is T—”. Before she could finish, her body was spun around. Then, he pinched her face again. Sylvia stared at his gloomy and intimidating face. Meanwhile, his fingertips rubbed her cheeks. “Look me in the eye and tell me who the person you like is.”
Her gaze trembled. She thought of the nightmare she had had before waking up that morning. The Odell in her dream had almost the exact same look as the Odell in fron
almost the exact same look as the Odell in front of him right now. However, the sun here was shining brightly, and even the wind in the air was warm.
Sylvia’s mind was also very clear. She remembered the things that he had done to her before, and she also remembered that they had divorced a long time ago. Except for the two little ones at home, they had nothing to do with each other at all!
Her tension quickly stabilized, and she met his gloomy gaze, declaring, “I like Thomas.” His expression froze.
After a long moment of stunned silence, he finally spoke. “Fine. | see.” Just when she thought that he would let her go, he turned her back to the sea of sunflowers again. He gripped her waist tightly with one hand and cupped her face with the other, forcing her to face the sea of flowers. A cold voice came from behind his teeth. “Since you like him, I'll let you watch with your own eyes how this sea of flowers he prepared for you turns into rotten mud!”. Sylvia was so furious that her chest hurt, and she could not help but curse out loud, “Odell Carter, you're a lunatic! Let go of me!” ‘I already said | don’t like him. What else does he want? We're already divorced!’
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. However, the man behind her did not move an inch and continued to hold her, not allowing her to struggle.
She could only watch as the beautiful sunflowers were bulldozed and crushed into the mud Her pupils shrank. She did not know if it was because she was too angry, or because her face was in too much pain from being pinched, but it did not take long before tears flowed out of her eyes.
She sniffled and tried to stop the tears, but the more she did, the more her nose stung, and her tears poured out even more furiously.
She gnashed her teeth, forcing herself not to cry out. Her tears rolled along her cheeks and fell onto his hand that was squeezing her face.
Odell released her face and looked at his hand. The back of his hand clearly had traces of water droplets tracing across it. He frowned and instantly turned her back to face him.
Then, he saw her red eyes and the tears that were streaming out.
She was crying her eyes out, but her gaze was fierce. It was as if she wanted to bite him to death. She was like a wild cat who was clearly angry but could not resist. His eyes flickered for a moment.
However, when he remembered her saying that she liked Thomas, a killing intent rushed to his head again.
He raised his hand and wiped her tears while asking with a sneer, “It’s just shoveling some flowers. Do you have to be this angry? Do you care so much about the things that he gave you?
Sylvia gritted her teeth. “Don’t touch me!” Her voice was hoarse, and her expression was full of disgust. It was as if his hands would dirty her face. Odell's hand froze.
The scene of her being here with Thomas flashed in his mind. She had let him hold her in his arms and had even raised her little face, closing her eyes to kiss him.
Chapter 659 The difference in the treatment Thomas got then and the treatment Odell was getting now was like night and day Odell’s expression turned cold. He cupped her small face and directly sealed her lips.
“Mm!” Sylvia was forced to make a sound. She tried to struggle, but he was so strong that she could not even lift her hands. She could only bite his lips fiercely.
However, the more she bit him, the more force he used.
After some time passed to the point that her mouth went numb, he finally let her go. His deep eyes were covered with scarlet, staring at her like a beast.
Sylvia was instinctively afraid, but at that moment, the fire in her heart exceeded her fear of him. She raised her hand and pushed him away, her voice choking as she berated him, “You're a b*stard, Odell! Let me go! | want to leave. | don’t want to be with you—’. Before she could finish shouting, her feet were lifted off the ground, and she was picked up by her waist. She screamed in fear and shoved him.
Odell let her scratch his body like she was a cat as he strode with wide steps.
Ben was not far away. Seeing that Odell was taking Sylvia away, he quickly went up to ask,” Master Carter, should we leave the flowers?”.
Sylvia’s hand that was pummeling him suddenly stopped. Odell noticed her response and ordered word for word in a gloomy voice, “Don’t leave a single one intact.”
Ben’s gaze trembled as he replied, “Yes, sir!” Sylvia immediately looked up and glared at the man in front of her. Odell also glanced at her coldly and continued to carry her through the forest to the open space outside where his car was parked.
The driver was inside the car and immediately opened the back door when he saw them.
Sylvia stopped struggling and let him throw her into the car. She immediately moved to the inside and curled herself into a ball. Odell sat beside her, seemingly not wanting to look at her. After sitting, he fixed his gloomy gaze straight ahead.
The car soon started.
The atmosphere inside the car was silent and depressing.
After a long time, when the car drove out of the scenic area and came to a road with more traffic, she quietly lowered the car window.
The breeze came through, and she opened her mouth to catch her breath. Her stuffy and tense emotions instantly eased considerably.
Then, she took out her phone to send a message to Thomas, asking about his situation.
However, when she turned on the screen, a news notification popped up. The headline was: ” Shocking! Carter Corporation’s crisis was actually part of Master Carter’s plan!”
Sylvia’s eyes flickered, and she immediately clicked on the news. It was a famous financial news column in Westchester City. As soon as she opened the page, she saw a photo of many reporters gathering in front of Carter Tower. However, the most eye-
catching part was not the group of reporters, but the few men who were handcuffed by the police as they were surrounded by the reporters. Some of them were young while some were older.
Underneath that was a caption stating that they were all shareholders and executives of Carter Corporation.
The reason they were taken away in handcuffs was that they had tampered with several of Carter Corporation’s major projects. In other words, the crisis that the company encountered this time was their doing.
The article used a lot of business jargon that Sylvia did not understand, so she merely skimmed through it. Then, she scrolled to the last page of the article where a photo was plastered across the screen.
The photo was inside the tower. It seemed to have been taken in a conference room. The executives had not been handcuffed by the police yet and were all on their knees, begging and crying with ashen faces.
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They all knelt in the same direction, facing a man. The person who took the picture did not capture the face of the man in that seat. There was only a long arm and a pair of straight legs as he leaned back into the chair. However, from the man’s lazy but elegant sitting posture, it was not difficult to figure out that he was Odell, the same person who was sitting beside her at this moment.
Chapter 660 Sylvia’s hand inexplicably shook. She looked down again.
The next two lines did not contain business terminology and were written in plain terms.” According to insiders, the Carter Corporation crisis was a part of Master Carter’s plan. He allowed public opinion to flare up so that he could smoke out the shareholders who were kneeling in the picture. This is both shocking and amazing. | believe that in the future, the management of Carter Corporation will only go further under the hands of the young and
promising Master Carter!” Sylvia’s heart trembled after reading that.
‘The Carter Corporation crisis has always been under control by Odell? So, his drunken fiasco at Lush Heaven before was just an act? He had no problem with the crisis because he wasn’t affected at all!
She thought of how she had brought the children to see him because she had been worried that something would happen to him and had even persuaded him out of kind intentions. She suddenly felt angry and could not help but look up and glare at him. Odell sat with his back leaning against the seat. He seemed to be aware of her gaze and quickly looked at her.
His deep eyes were cold, and there was a penetrating sense of oppression that would make one fearful.
Sylvia immediately looked away and avoided his gaze before snorting coldly. Odell frowned and looked at the phone in her hand. They were not far away, so he could see the headline of the article at a glance. The article was released with his approval, so he knew the contents.
That woman had probably finished reading it. ‘Why is she snorting? Is she angry at me for hiding this from her? Doesn't she like another man now? Why is she angry at me?’
He narrowed his eyes.
Sylvia closed the article after reading it and turned around, afraid that Odell would see. She faced the car door and brought the phone in front of her, holding it with both hands. Her thumbs tapped on the keyboard as she sent a message to Thomas.
She asked, “Thomas, where are you now? Are you okay?” A long time passed since she sent it, but there was still no reply. She frowned. ‘Did something happen to him?” At that moment, Odell’s phone suddenly rang. She warily put her phone away and looked back at him. He opened his phone and looked at the message on it. She did not know who sent it to him, but
his expression turned cloudy after reading it.
The next second, he stared at her with daggers.
Sylvia pursed her lips and glared at him stubbornly. ‘I didn’t do anything. What is he looking at me like that for?” “Do you want to see him?” he suddenly asked. She froze.
“He’s locked up now, and his phone was confiscated, so he can’t see the message you sent him. “He raised his brows and said coldly, “If you want to see him, you can start by begging me.”
Sylvia’s eyes flickered, and she said angrily, “He’s your brother, Odell. | got together with him willingly. If you’re angry, then take it out on me. Why are you locking him up?!” After she said that, his expression darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye. The calm atmosphere in the car was instantly broken.
He tugged his collar and approached her. The door was locked, so Sylvia had no way to retreat and could only watch him warily. He pinched her chin and said gloomily, “Guess what I’m going to do to him now that I’ve locked him up.” Sylvia shrunk her neck and whispered, “You can’t force emotions. | know we had misunderstandings before. Although you hurt me so much before, you were blinded by Tara. | can forgive you, but we're over, Odell. We're done.”