Talented Heiress: A Rose With Thorns

A Rose 489

“Yvie, don’t do anything crazy! Calm down!” Adam blurted out, panic in his voice. “It’s gotta be one of Wilson’s men!”

“He’s got the nerve to show up again?” Jake jumped in, fueling the fire. “Boss, he’s the one who trashed our base! We lost so much because of him! You can’t let this slide!”

The longer Adam listened, the more things didn’t add up. Sure, the intel came from Wilson, but wasn’t he the one who destroyed the base?

Still, Adam bit his tongue–he couldn’t risk getting on his little sister’s bad side.

“Yvie?”

Wilson stormed in with a bunch of guards, confusion flickering across his ridiculously good- looking face. He wondered what Yvette was doing here.

Yvette’s eyes, sharp and shimmering, locked onto him. She didn’t say a word, but she was still clearly pissed.

“What’s wrong, baby?”

Wilson picked up on her bad mood instantly, closing the distance in a few long strides, his

hand naturally reaching for hers.

But Yvette’s frustration only grew. She yanked her hand away, leaving his hand hanging

‘awkwardly.

Jake, watching from the side, couldn’t help but silently revel in it, grinning to himself. “Serves him right! Let’s see him act all high and mighty now!”

“Has Yvette already had enough of me?” Wilson thought to himself.

He frowned, his impossibly captivating eyes flashing with a wounded look. He didn’t say a word, but somehow, it still tugged at Yvette’s heart, making him seem pitiful.

Yvette almost laughed, more out of exasperation than anything else. Was he seriously acting

like the victim here?

Seeing the situation unfold, Adam’s guilt hit him hard. He spoke softly, “Yvie, don’t be mad at him. This is really on me! I just never thought you were Master Xev.”

“Wait–Yvette was the underworld boss, Master Xev?” Wilson thought, his frustration evident as his temple throbbed. It all made sense now why she was so furious.

“Holy crap. Ms. Yvette is Master Xev?” Samuel thought, initially stunned. As the realization sank in, he couldn’t help but marvel at the whole situation.

“Wow, just wow. Mr. Quinn went through all this trouble to help Mr. Adam, and now he has

completely pissed off Ms. Yvette. Great job, boss, he mused to himself.

“Baby, I was only trying to help Adam. I had no idea it’d turn out like this…”

Wilson was already devastatingly handsome, and now he was looking at her with such a mix of grievance and innocence that it was impossible to resist.

Yvette’s heart softened just a bit. When he reached for her hand again, she let him hold it this

time.

“Boss, you’re really just going to forgive him like that?” Jake asked, his surprise evident. Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

Since when was their boss so easy to appease?

Yvette pressed her lips together, staying silent. If it were anyone else, she wouldn’t have been so forgiving, but this was Wilson.

“Boss, you can’t just let him off the hook like that-”

Before Jake could finish, Wilson shot him a look so icy and intense it could freeze fire.

Jake shuddered, but he steeled himself against the cold creeping up his spine and glared back at Wilson. “Boss, don’t be swayed by his looks! You can’t just forgive him because of that!”

“What a damn charming fox!” Jake cursed inwardly.

Yvette didn’t want to listen to their argument anymore, so she turned her attention to Adam.

“Adam, why were you trying to capture me?”

She hadn’t used her Master Xev alias in ages, and she’d only just taken back control of the underworld. So why was the military coming after her now? It didn’t make sense.

Adam’s face hardened as the subject came up.

“They needed your help for something big, but your whereabouts were a total mystery. They couldn’t track you down through official channels, so they put the job in my hands.

“And the reason I took out several of your bases was to draw you out. It was the only way we had to find you.”