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章 3: Chapter 3

  Phoenix Sterling

  "Who?" Angelo asked as he gave me a glass of white wine for us to enjoy. I put my phone on the table and sighed.

  "Lana Castroff." I answered as I swirled my glass of wine.

  "You filed a lawsuit on her company?" He asked me in a curious tone and I nodded.

  "You know what happened so I have to take actions." I said and took a sip of the white wine. "I wonder why didn't you just expose her to the public. You don't seem nice to her."

  "She's the one who called Julie a commoner. I guess she just always hates them." I said and Angelo chuckled.

  "I don't get it either why you're so nice to Julie. I didn't like her when I first laid my eyes on her." I raised my eyebrows looking at him.

  "At least you're not being rude to her."

  "I never thought Castroff Beauty products will have this incident because they're one of the top brands out there for beauty. Somehow it's hard to believe that they have something going on in their products." Angelo said and I glared at him.

  "They do have one of the best brands, that's why I bought it but it turns out like this." I hissed.

  "Hello dicks." I turned to see Adrian walking into the room and he sat down on the sofa beside me. Sometimes I really doubt that this man is a Prince of Denmark. The youngest of all of them too. He's the immature one and will always troll around.

  "Chance and Dean are out of town and I'm bored." He said as he grabbed a new glass of wine on the table pouring himself some.

  "How's the airlines going?" I asked him and he gave me a thumbs up.

  "It was doing okay. We just need to buy more airplanes to expand the business." He said as he sipped his wine.

  "But I thought you already bought 13 airplanes last month." Angelo asked and he shooked his head.

  "I need a bigger airplane for international flights." He said as he put his glass on the table.

  "Interesting." Angelo said, chuckling.

  "How about you? Suing Castroff?" Adrian smirked looking at me.

  "Yeah, you know why." I said simply and Adrian gave me a cheeky look. We all know that he's up for something with that look.

  "Lana Castroff is something and she's the type of woman that I will date or maybe have fun with. She's hot." He smirked looking at me and I shook my head. Adrian is a playboy, just like his brother Carter back in the days before he settled down.

  "She mocked Julie, a commoner." Angelo said and Adrian laughed.

  "That's hot." Adrian said and I shook my head disapprovingly. Adrian suddenly leaned his body forward to me.

  "If you don't want to go after Lana, I'll be.. happy to have her." Adrian said and I raised my eyebrows.

  "Why do you ask me? I don't like her so feel free to.. have her." I said and sipped my white wine.

  "She's your type, Phoenix. I'm quite surprise that you haven't make a move on her yet but I guess it's my time to shine!" Adrian smirked and laid back to the sofa again.

  After that, I went back to the office to continue to work. I have a lot of things to do and I have to go to Spain next week for an important meeting. I guess tomorrow, I'll be seeing Lana again for her to investigate what's wrong with her products.

  The next day..

  I got out from my car and found Lana already standing there in front of the hospital entrance with her team. I told my secretary to showed her team in. I walked towards her and she gave me a polite smile.

  "Mr. Sterling."

  "Ms. Castroff." I gave her a nod. My secretary led her team into the hospital and we both were left alone.

  "Today, we took all the products that might have an unidentified ingredients so people won't get hurt." She said and I was quite surprised to see her pretty professional despite our encounter yesterday.

  "I want to personally apologize to you." She said as her eyes met mine. Another surprise of her apologizing, I thought she won't apologize judging by her attitude on Julie.

  "My team met your lawyers earlier this morning and I was hoping if you could give us time to investigate a little bit more."

  "Very well, I will give you time to investigate and you know that I'm not dropping the lawsuit. I will never." I said seriously especially on my last sentence.

  "I understand completely. Our company should have been more careful and we will discuss about the settlement sooner after we investigate further." She said without taking her beautiful blue ocean eyes off me. She was very professional and I really like her work ethic.

  "For what I know, it contains hydrochloric acid." I stated and her eyes widened.

  "Acid? That's impossible!" She gasped and I can see that she didn't see this coming at all.

  "Why would it contain that? Shit!" She immediately walked into the hospital. "Take me to your employees, please." She turned to me and I nodded before leading her towards my 7 employees that's currently hospitalized.

  She walked into the first room and she gasped seeing the burn on my employee's hand. Lana introduced herself to her and she immediately apologized. She didn't even think twice to apologize and she even told my employee that she will take care of all of her hospital bills and she will give her money for the damage.

  And again.. I was surprised.

  She ended up saying the same thing to the other 6 employees. She felt so bad and never stop apologizing to the victim of her products. As soon as she's done apologizing to every single victims, she called someone and asked them to check on the dangerous chemical on her products that she pulled back to her factory.

  She walked back and forth in her highheels and not to mention that she was wearing a blazer dress that made her look really professional. She has her hair on a ponytail making her look neat and intimidating. Her red lipstick was like a statement to people that you shouldn't mess with her.

  After she finished her phone call, she walked towards me. "We're currently investigating if there's a possibility of acid being inserted in our products and I want to apologize one more time for all the damages. We will contact you further more for the settlement." She said with her eyes looking straight to mine.

  "Very well."

  "I will pay all the hospital bills and give them more money for the damages that they got. I promise you that this-" She stopped when we both clearly can hear her stomach grumbling.

  "I.. I promise you that this won't happen again in the future." She continued as she avoided my eyes completely embarrass.

  "I'm assuming you haven't eat lunch, wanna have lunch together?" I asked and she turned to me blinking her eyes multiple times like I was possessed.

  "Sure."


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章 4: Chapter 4

  Phoenix Sterling

  We ended up picking a seafood boil restaurant for our lunch. We ordered to servings of mix seafood boil. I saw her rolling her sleeves up and then she even clipped her hair into a bun to prevent her long hair from going near her mouth.

  I found her adorable by doing all of these.

  When we first met, she gave this badass attitude and even mocked Julie for being a commoner. I judged her badly because of how rude she was when we first met months ago. Our second meeting, she was pretty cold and not friendly. But our third meeting was rather interesting. She showed me how professional she is, not to mention that she's pretty responsible for all my employees.

  Now, she's acting all adorable and calm. Pretty different from our first encounter.

  She put on the apron to prevent the sauce dripping on her dress. Not only that, she put on the plastic gloves completely ready to eat seafood boil.

  "Why are you.. laughing?" She raised my eyebrows when I chuckled looking at her. I didn't even realize that I was laughing at how adorable she was.

  "You're so ready to eat." I said and she looked down to her apron and she nodded.

  "So.. can you reach your father today?" I asked curiously and she shook her head.

  "I don't think he's running away from this case." She sighed and she looked blankly to the table. I raised my eyebrows seeing her reaction on that statement.

  "Where did he go?"

  "You don't want to know and please let's not talk about my father. If you need anything, just contact me." She said in a sad tone and I nodded. I don't want to be disrespectful to her decisions.

  When I was about to ask her, the waiter came with out order. She poured the seafood on the table and her eyes widen. I can tell that she's excited for the food. She grabbed the potato first and ate it slowly since it was so hot.

  "This is so good!" Her eyes widen after she took a bite. She was looking at me excited and she even squealed before taking a crawfish. I felt a loud thump on my heart seeing it and I couldn't help but looking at her most of the time.

  "Eat up.. it's good." She said as she put a crawfish in front of me. I grabbed it and started peeling it. I took a bite and it was good. The seasoning was so good.

  She started peeling some shrimp and eating it deliciously. I followed her pace and started to eat a lot even more. I saw her struggling to crack the king crab. She was trying so hard to use the scissors to crack the crab.

  I took the scissor from her hand and the crab too. I cut it for her and thanked me while smiling sweetly at me. She ate it slowly and I couldn't stop being amuse by her.

  "How's Finn?" She asked.

  "He's doing good with Julie." I said and she rolled her eyes when she heard Julie's name.

  "His taste in woman is annoying." She hissed as she kept peeling crawfish and shrimp without eating it.

  "Julie is a nice girl, you shouldn't judge her that way." I said as I took a bite of the king crab.

  "Don't tell me you like her too? This is not a disney movie where the commoner just gets the prince." She sighed as she looked at the pile of the pelled crawfish and shrimp. She ended up giving it to me instead of eating it.

  "I don't like her but she's nice. She might not have all the money in the world like you but she's nice."

  "Where did Finn find her? From the streets?" She snapped and I don't really like this side of her. She was judging people really hard.

  "Julie is actually my employee." I said and her eyes widened. She was going to say something but she immediately closed her mouth. She ate the king crab again.

  "I heard that you're one of the Illicit, is it true?" She asked and I shook my head. No one knows who the Illicit are, people know they exist but never know who's a part of it. We rather stay that way instead of going public.

  "Who said that? I mean I wish.. I am." I said pretty much lying.

  "I wonder if Finn is a part of it." Finn is absolutely not a part of it. Finn might be my friend but sometimes I don't like him for some reason. He just makes me mad sometimes.

  "Honestly, I don't really like someone talking bad about someone so I rather not hear you talking bad about Julie and Finn." I said in a nice tone and she looked at me with an unreadable expression. She ended up keeping eating and peeling everything without stopping or eating.

  "I hope we can settle all of this fast, I couldn't stand being in one place with you. We will end up hating and killing each other in the process if we keep meeting up like this."

  "We have lawyers." I said simply responding to her rant about hating on me.

  "I rather speak to you directly to get this settlement fast." She said in a cold tone. There you go again, she really can make people like her in a second and hate her right away.

  "Hello Phoenix." I turned to see Adrian appearing out of nowhere. Some people gasped when they saw him but Lana didn't even react that much.

  "Fancy seeing you here." I said sarcasticly.

  "You got a friend?" Adrian smirked as he turned to Lana.

  "Adrian, this is Lana Castroff. Ms. Castroff, this is my friend Adrian Nielsen." I introduced them both and Lana smiled to him.

  "You want to join us?" Lana offered and I can't believe that she's being nice right away. Adrian nodded and sat beside me. He put the plastic gloves on and started eating the peeled crawfish and I can't believe that he can be this comfortable the second Lana offered him to join.

  "I'm quite surprise to see a prince going around town." Lana said as he turned to Adrian smiling. I guess she can be sweet to other people except me.

  "I was visiting my friend nearby and I saw Phoenix's car." He wanted to see Lana so bad that he stalked me.

  "Nice to meet you, Your Highne-"

  "Please, I don't like being formal. Just call me Adrian." Smooth Adrian.. smooth.


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