Ch. 166..170: Powerful Papa with Triplet Babies Chapter 166-170

Chapter 166 Without another word, she followed Michelle out. Outside the corridor, Michelle took her sunglasses off and questioned, “Do you know Bianca Faye?”

Anne nodded. “What does that have to do with me?”

“Of course, it‘s related to you! I thought you liked Anthony?” Michelle mocked, “I used to think that he liked you, so I didn‘t think you would be replaced so soon!”

“I will tell you this again: he doesn‘t like me, he just... wants to torture me because of my aunt, ” Anne argued because she knew for a fact that Anthony did not ‘like‘ her.

“Is that so?” Michelle crossed her arms smugly and said, “I already told Bianca that you have slept with him for god knows how many times!” Anne‘s expression darkened. “What did you just say?”

“I finished filming the movie and went home to Anthony to find that woman talking to him about pianos! Oh, that‘s right. I heard that she‘s some famous pianist overseas or something. To me, whoever tries to take Anthony from me is my enemy!” She scanned Anne up and down. “It doesn‘t seem to be a bad idea to use you against her.” Michelle really just thinks she‘s above everyone because of her family. Can‘t she tell that Bianca is not like me? I guess she doesn‘t consider anyone her competition,‘ Anne thought darkly. “So you don‘t intend to go up against Bianca?” Michelle questioned. “I told you that no matter who Anthony sees, I have nothing to do with it.” Anne would rather stay away. “Good. If I find out that you are chasing after Anthony again after I get rid of that woman, I will make sure you suffer for it!” Michelle warned before turning to leave.

Anne watched as she left gloomily.

She had appeared three times before Bianca: once in the Archduke Group, once in a restaurant and another time in the Royal Mansion.

Bianca had not noticed Anne for the first two times, but Anne had likely ruined Bianca‘s plan to seduce Anthony back at the Royal Mansion. Michelle mentioning Anne‘s relationship with Anthony placed Anne in an extremely difficult position.

However, she did not think that Bianca would come after her. After all, Anthony had made himself clear from the beginning. Two days after Michelle had come looking for Anne, Anne overheard her colleagues in the Aesthetic Clinic gossiping while staring at their phones. “Did she really have surgery? I‘m new, so I didn‘t even know!” “I‘ve been here like forever, and I don‘t know either! Look at the before and after photos, though. I look better than her before the surgery!”

Lucia saw Anne stepping inside and said, “Morning!” “You all seem excited.” Anne chuckled. “We are talking about Michelle Grainger‘s recent scandal.” Surprised, she asked, “What scandal?” “About her getting plastic surgery! See here...” Lucia passed Anne her phone and showed her the article on it.

She took one glance and saw the words ‘plastic surgery‘ in large fonts along with two photos of Michelle; one when she was in high school, and the other was taken recently, and there was clearly a large difference in her looks. Anne knew that apart from an epicanthoplasty, Michelle had not had any other form of plastic surgery.

No one knew who released the photos, but the name ‘Michelle Grainger‘instantly became the most searched result on the internet.

Being associated with plastic surgery was Michelle‘s one true fear, and Anne could imagine that she must be livid at the moment.

At noon, Anne and Lucia went out for lunch, and a red car turned around, almost hitting Anne on its path.

She stumbled backward and looked up to find Michelle storming up to her. Her sunglasses were enough to conceal the anger inside her eyes. Snap!

A slap landed on Anne‘s cheek, and her head felt dazed at the impact. Had Lucia not been there to hold her, she would have fallen to the ground. “Who the h*11 do you think you are to do this to me?” Michelle roared angrily.

Chapter 167 A burning sensation instantly spread across her cheek. As soon as she managed to balance herself, she shot Michelle an icy glare. “How… How can you just hit people like that?” Lucia questioned sharply.

“Who are you to interfere?” Michelle mocked.

Humiliated, Lucia bit her lip in silence.

Michelle walked closer to Anne in rage. “I hit you, but so what? I wish I could just kill you! I wouldn‘t be swarmed by all these negative comments about me if you hadn‘t posted those photos of me! Anne Vallois, good for you!”

“I have nothing to do with it.” Anne‘s hand dropped, and the palm print on her cheek came into sight.

“Nothing to do with you? Who else knows about me getting surgery? You should at least own up to what you did! i knew sl*ts like you have no sense of decency or virtues whatsoever!” Michelle pointed her finger at Anne‘s nose, and just before her finger was about to come into contact with Anne‘s face, she shoved Michelle away forcefully.

Not expecting the sudden movement, Michelle stumbled backward, which enraged her even further. “You b*tch! You are just like your aunt, Sarah. You two know nothing apart from seducing men and doing nasty things. I guess that‘s just in your genes. If you have a daughter in the future, she‘s probably going to be a sl*t like y...” Before she could finish, Anne slapped her across the face with hier might. With no one there to support her, Michelle fell onto the ground. “Ugh! Anne Vallois! I‘m going to kill you!” Anne stared down at her expressionlessly. “Where are your manners, Michelle?”

“Why you...”

“I don‘t pick fights with anyone, but I am not afraid to fight back, so stop barking like a dog in heat! I said I didn‘t do it.” Anne was absolutely livid that Michelle had cursed her daughter as well.

Michelle crawled up from the ground and tried to strike Anne once again. Anne glanced at the streets, and with her hands around her mouth, she shouted, “Come look, everyone! Here‘s the big star, Michelle Grainger! Pretty and sexy! Come see!” When the passer–by heard the words ‘big star’ and ‘Michelle Grainger‘, they immediately gathered around curiously. Startled, Michelle did not dare to fight back and hastily put her sunglasses back on before running back into her car and leaving. Anne turned to leave, and Lucia followed closely.

“Anne, are you okay?”

She felt fine, apart from the mild pain on her cheek. “I‘m okay.”

“Michelle is horrible. What do you have to do with all this?” Lucia said in confusion.

“Who knows...” Anne muttered. If she were Michelle, she would come for her as well when something like this happened. After all, Anne had mentioned that she knew about the epicanthoplasty Michelle had. However, Anne knew that she did not spread the rumors about it, so it had to be someone else. She immediately thought of Bianca because Michelle had recently confronted Bianca. However, Michelle was far too short–tempered and had more enemies than she could count, so it was hard to tell who the culprit was.

Anne could foresee how Michelle‘s resentment for her had deepened.

At five in the evening, the manager came looking for her just when she was about to get changed and head home.

She went over in confusion, and the manager scanned her up and down.

“I can see that your sales this month aren‘t half bad, but because you haven‘t been professionally trained and there have been complaints about you... You know that we fire employees that get three complaints in a row, and you‘ve gotten more than three just today alone. I‘m sorry.”

Anne froze. She had not known about the complaints.

Aesthetic Clinic had an online system for people to file complaints, so she immediately realized what had happened. Michelle had her own fans and could easily use them to file complaints about Anne. She understood the situation her manager was facing and simply said, “I understand.”

Chapter 168 “You can go to the human resource department to get your salary for this month. They will calculate the commission for your sales in the past month as well.”

“Thank you.” Without protesting at all, she left the manager‘s office before heading to the human resources department.

She knew well enough that protesting would not mean a thing Without Anthony‘s protection, she could receive three hundred complaints and still remain in the clinic. He had told her not to appear before him again, so he did not see a point in providing her a job any longer

Without another word, Anne received every penny of her salary and left after informning her team leader and Lucia. Both of them were shocked, but neither could help her.

Anne did not have much to pack from work, so she left and got onto the subway that took her home. She glanced at the subway route and got off in the city center.

She had just received sixty thousand dollars from her company, so she intended to buy her children something better to eat.

She headed to a high–class restaurant and ordered steak and desserts for take–away.

As she was waiting for the green light on her way back to the subway station, she stared blankly at the traffic and spotted the black Roll Loyce. Countless people who walked past stared enviously, wondering how powerful and wealthy one could be to own a car like that. Her eyes widened and before she could turn away, the car window rolled down, and the people inside seemed to be conversing.

Bianca turned her smiling face toward the window, and Anne immediately snapped out of her dazed state. She turned around frantically out of fear that Anthony might spot her.

“I feel better now.” Bianca rolled the window up and leaned her head against Anthony‘s shoulder, before closing her eyes.

“Get some sleep. I will wake you when we arrive at the restaurant.”

“Okay.”

He gazed up and spotted a familiar figure on the street through the car window, but he remained expressionless.

The road light turned green and Anne followed the crowd as they crossed the street, all the while keeping her head low and pretending like she had not noticed anything. Once she arrived at the subway station, she finally relaxed and realized that her palms were sweaty.

She went home and opened the door...

“Mama!” the triplets shouted as they threw themselves into her arms. All the misery and worry of the world left her the moment she saw them. “Voila! Look what I bought!” “It smells so good, Mama!”

“What is iliat. Mama?”

“Meat!”

“Hahaha, your noses are as sharp as puppies. It‘s meat!” She set the bars on the coffee table

ind opinen tie boxes before them.

The three surrounded the table eagerly, Anne could imagine how their ears would twitch, and their tails would wipple if they really were puppies.

She chuckled endearingly. She had bought enough food for four, and the family sat around the coffee table while enjoying their feasi cheerfully. The sight of how her children munched away filled her heart with contentment. At that moment, she know all the pain and hard work was worth it.

It was okay for her to lose her job because she coulil always find another one since Anthony had not forbidden her from leaving Luton. At eight, Anthony returned to the Archduke Group to continue working.

Chapter 169

Oliver followed him into the office as he reported all the updates.

Anthony took off his jacket and casually laid it on the couch before walking toward his desk while loosening his collar. Oliver took it that Anthony was satisfied with the company‘s progress since he had not raised any questions.

After a pause, Oliver added, “Ms. Vallois has quitted the Aesthetic Clinic‘s side. Michelle Grainger wanted her gone, so I agreed to her request.”

As soon as he said those words, he began to panic at Anthony‘s silence. Though Anthony remained quiet earlier, Oliver was still anxious as he sensed the tension inside the office.

Just as he thought that he had done something wrong, he heard Anthony‘s emotionless voice saying, “Alright.” Oliver nodded carefully before leaving the room. He did not notice his heart racing until the door

was closed.

He realized that he had been overthinking since Anthony did not seem to care about Anne any longer.

Oliver had meant to save Antliony tlie trouble. Since Anthony had started seeing Bianca, it was only natural that Anne disappeared from their sight.

Anne did not have to go to work, so she stayed home to search for jobs on her phone after sending lier children off to school.

If she wished to survive in Luton, she would need a job. No decent job would accept her because she had only graduated from high school, and there was not a single company that would hire someone who had not graduated from college. On top of that, she needed a job that would not require her to work overtime because she needed to take care of her children.

She could not leave her children at school every single day like orphans.

Knock! Knock! Knock!

Startled, Anne jumped, and her phone dropped onto her lap.

“Anne, I know that you‘re at home. Open the door!”

She sighed a breath of relief, not knowing why she was that nervous.

Anthony had made himself clear that he would not appear before her ever again.

She got up to open the door, and Sarah, who seemned agitated, went inside immediately.

Anne closed the door, and Sarah turned around to look at her from the living room. “I heard that Anthony was seeing another woman and got you fired from your job. Is that true?” “Didn‘t I tell you to stay out of

this?” Anne felt like what she said had no effect on Sarah, and Sarah was still doing whatever she wanted.

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“Does he really think that no one will take your side when he bullies you like that? Does this mean that he is letting you go?” Sarah said sarcastically.

“He told me not to show up in front of him ever again, but I‘m still not allowed to leave Luton.

“What should you leave? It‘s not like Luton belongs to him...” Sarali stopped abruptly as she realized that Luton was completely under Anthony‘s control.

Tension filled the air.

Anne went to sit down on the couch and held onto one of the pillows. “I can liandle this myself. You need to stay out of it.”

Saral sat down next to hier. “No way! Now that you know, I liave to care for you.” “Mind your own business.”

“Are you referring to the divorce? Ron has recovered from the initial shock, and he‘s moved back now, so we are not going to get divorced. I‘m just worried about you, Anine. What are you going to do next?” Saralı said confidently. “Nothing much.”

you need some,” Sarah said as she shoved a bank card into

“Don‘t go to work. I have mo Anne‘s hand.

Anne instantly refused it in annoyance. “Leave.” “What do you feel like eating? Let‘s go out to eat together.” “No, thanks.” Anne got up and returned to her room, closing the door behind her.

Chapter 170 Sarah stepped toward the door hesitantly but did not go inside. “Anne, I‘ll let you rest, then. I‘ll be on my way.” By the time Anne came outside, Sarah was gone, and the card was sitting on her coffee table. She stared dazedly at the card. Anne did not resent Sarah. She cared for her ‘aunt‘, after all; she simply wasn‘t used to considering her as her mother‘. In the end, Sarah was still her mother, and she could not bring herself to hate her when she herself was a mother of three as well.

Her phone inside the room started ringing and disrupted her sulking.

She got up to find her phone and realized that it was a call from Tommy. She did not want to answer, but he refused to give up and kept calling until she picked up.

“What do you want?” she answered in frustration.

“I heard you lost your job?” Tommy drawled. His tone was an odd balance between mockery and sympathy. Before Anne could respond, lie continued, “Come to work at the Marwood Group!” “What? No way,” she refused without hesitation. “Why not? I can give you a relaxing job where you can come in late and go home early to take care of your kids. Where else can you find a job like that?”

She pursed her lips at the question. Anthony was a member of the Marwood Family, and he owned part of the shares of the company. If she worked there, she was bound to run into him, and she did not have a deatlı wish.

Tommy saw right through her thoughts and said, “Anthony never really cared about the shares Elder Marwood gave liim, and he has never shown up in Marwood Group so far. You are not there to be some top–ranked manager; you are just going to be a normal employee. No one will notice you, and you don‘t exactly have a choice.” Anne‘s expression darkened, and she hung up immediately.

‘He is trying to blackmail me with the kids! What should I do? I am desperately trying to get away from Anthony, and I would kill to be as far away from him as possible. What would he think if he found out that I work in the Marwood Group?” she thought.

However, Marwood Group was located a distance away from Archduke Group and there was a high chance that he would notice her amongst all the other employees in the office. All things aside, Anthony did not want the share for Marwood Group to begin with and had only accepted it out of respect for Elder Marwood, so Anne did not doubt that Tommy was telling the truth when he said Anthony would not appear in tlie Marwood Group office.

She tried to convince herself because she did not want Anthony to find out about the children. After considering it for ten minutes, she grabbed her phone and called Tommy. “I’ll do it.” “That‘s a good gir...”

Before he could finish, she hung up again.

“Good girl?! I wouldn‘t go if you weren‘t blackmailing me!‘ she thought to herself. Anne stared outside the balcony, her eyes slightly hurting from the sunlight that pierced through.

She wondered if she would be able to find out more about Cheyenne‘s death if slie remained close to Tommy.

She had to find out.

After sending her children off to school in the morning, she received another call from Tommy and stepped onto the street to find a black Lanborghini outside. ‘He is so flashy,‘ she thought as she got onto the passenger‘s seat. Along the way, all the other cars moved out of their way out of fear that a scratch on the expensive car would cause them everything they owned. “What will I be doing?” She turned to look at him. “My personal assistant.” “What?!” She straightened her back in shock, and the seatbelt

instantly tightened on her, outlining the curves on her chest and around her waist. Tommy could not help but pause for a moment when he glanced over.