Chapter 11 An Early Birthday Gift
Meanwhile, Valarie was performing for Jason. She had her hair tied casually, wore a light green costume, and danced elegantly
There seemed to be tears in her eyes, and she looked stunning.
After she finished performing, Jason couldn’t help applauding. His eyes were full of spoiled smiles.
“That’s brilliant. Anika taught you well.”
“I learned from the best!” Valarie pressed her knuckles.
“That’s right. You’re very lucky, as we have three of the best as our stepmoms,” Jason smiled bitterly and helplessly.
Valarie lowered her eyes and sat next to Jason. Thinking of her stepmoms, including Anika Webb, she was a bit upset.
“Valarie, during the past three years, they have missed you very much. They have asked me many times privately about you.”
“What’s your point, Jason?”
“Valarie, when you left home to work for Doctors Without Borders. abroad, I know you were just angry with Dad.”
Jason raised his arm and gently put it around her shoulder, and there was a trace of sadness buried in his handsome eyebrows. “But that’s who Dad is. We don’t get to choose.
“Besides, no one in this world is without flaws, not even Gavin, whom you’ve loved for years. You have been married to him for three years,
and you’ve found that he has many flaws, right?”
Valaric’s eyelashes trembled, and she held the pearl bracelet on her
The only difference is that you can choose to leave Gavin, but you can never cut your blood ties with Dad. Given that, why don’t you try to accept it?
“Besides, Dad loves you very much, and our stepmoms are all kind women. Over the years, they have kept the home in good order, and none of them has ever overstepped their bounds. I can vouch for them.”
In fact, there was something Jason didn’t know.
Because of a certain thing, as early as two years ago, Valarie had already accepted them deep down.
***
Derek bandaged Gavin’s wound and exited the room.
Gavin got a headache when he thought about Stacey crying, screaming, and smashing things. In his memory, she was always so gentle and delicate, and she would never act so willfully.
He sighed and figured that perhaps everyone would change one day.
Yet one thing he was determined was that Stacey was his childhood sweetheart, and she walked him through some of his darkest and most desperate days. She was his obsession.
He would marry her no matter what.
Gavin held off the pain and read the documents for a while more, and then his eyes fell on the suit on the couch.
He got up, went over, picked the suit up, and looked at it carefully.
Although he was about the same height as Jason, his shoulders were a little broader, and he was beefier than Jason.
It looked like a suit for him.
“It’s so ugly.” Gavin sneered.
A few minutes passed.
He put on the suit.
He stood in front of the mirror to take a look, raised his arms, and found that the suit was extremely fit. Its workmanship was not inferior to that of the high–end brands at all.
He thought, “How come that tacky bumpkin has such a great taste?”
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and Tina Bruce came in to send him some warm milk:
“Mr. Sheppard, you’re wearing the suit Mrs. Sheppard gave you? I’m sure she’ll be delighted after she knows this!” Tina looked overjoyed.
No one from the Sheppard family treated Valarie seriously except for Tina, who raised Gavin.
“What did you say?” Gavin was stunned.
“Isn’t that from Mrs. Sheppard? It is the one, isn’t it? Mrs. Sheppard sent me to the tailor’s to pick it up a month ago. She told me to keep it a secret, saying it was her birthday present for you.”
Gavin froze on the spot.
His birthday was yet to come.
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“Tina, I know that you’re close to Megan, but she’s gone already, and you don’t have to speak up for her when it comes to practically everything.” Gavin’s eyes were cold.
“Mr. Sheppard, I’ve watched you grow up. You are the only person I side with sincerely here.”
Tina walked to him, looking at him, the handsome man in the mirror, and her eyes were meaningful. “Mrs. Sheppard said that it would take a long time to make suits by hand. The stitch and thread of this suit were all sewed by her, and she chose and customized the fabric. Even the buttons were made by her according to the model.
“She was usually busy with chores, so she could only spare a little time every day to go to the tailor’s shop to rush the suit, and she finished it a month before your birthday. She was afraid you’d see it, so she hid it in the closet.”
Gavin widened his eyes in disbelief, feeling as though he had been punched in the chest.
“If you don’t believe me, you can look at the collar, which has your name embroidered on it.”
Gavin quickly took off the suit and threw it on the couch as if it were on fire. “We’re divorced, and I have no interest in knowing what she has done for me. Go back and rest.”
“Mr. Sheppard, why did you divorce Mrs. Sheppard? She was such a nice young woman. And she loved you deeply…”
“She loved me deeply?”
Gavin sneered, “Yes, she loved me so deeply that the minute she left me, she threw herself into another man’s embrace.”
“Why would Mrs. Sheppard…” Tina was shocked.
that it takes at host send years to see through a person It
Gavin cutral how feelings for Valane ruthlessly, and he felt that all his food was nulong to his head “Why did she act like she couldn’t live with me as she had no feelings for me at all? Did she think that by acting. I would fall in love with her?
“Did she think I was a fool, and she got to trick me however she wanted?”
“Mr Sheppard, I’m sure there was some misunderstanding. I know very well how much Mrs Sheppard loved you,” Tina sighed, shook her head and walked over to fold the suit
“Enough, Tina ”
“One day, you’ll be sorry that you let go of Mrs. Sheppard.”
***
Valarie tried to sleep in, but her biological clock woke her up at 5:00
- am.
Usually, at this time, she should make breakfast for the Sheppard family.
And now, she no longer had to cook for a large family while being surrounded by smoke, and she no longer had to walk on tiptoe or care about how they would judge her.
She felt great about the divorce.
After a simple wash–up. Valarie changed into a tight gym suit and went paddling alone in the lake behind the villa.
The lake was surrounded by fragrant flowers and the chirping of birds.
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Valarie swayed her arms, and her figure was graceful and powerful. The boat raced across the mirror–like surface of the lake, leaving ripples
After exercising, having breakfast, and washing up, Valarie headed downstairs in good spirits.
Seeing her, Roger was stunned.
Today, Valarie wore her hair up, and her makeup was exquisite and delicate. She had a beautiful face and watery eyes and was wearing a long black shawl over a red lace dress. Her slender waist and long legs were attractive.
“Hey, watch it. You’re drooling.” Valarie walked up to him and snapped her fingers.
Roger swallowed, his face turning red because of embarrassment. “Ms. Dodson, you’re… so pretty.”
“No matter what, you are Jason’s chief secretary. Can you stop looking silly when you see beautiful women?” Valarie shook her head, not knowing whether to laugh or not.
The Rolls–Royce headed to KS World Hotel
The beautiful Valarie showed up in the dining room out of the blue. She was a top beauty, yet when the staff saw her, they were so timid that they didn’t even dare to breathe out loud.
Having learned yesterday’s lesson, none of them dared to slack off today. The marble floors were polished as bright as a mirror, and all the ingredients were the freshest.
Valarie made a tour, gave a few pointers, and returned to the office.
“Things are good with me here. You may go to Jason, Roger.”
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“Great! Im so glad to work for you. I don’t want much. A slight rise in my annual salary will be great!” Roger joked
“Money isn’t a problem at all. If you do your job properly. I can make you utterly rich. If you fail, I’ll make you a third–hand secretary,” Valarie rested her chin on one hand and curled her beautiful
Roger gasped and quickly reported the current work progress.
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“As you arranged yesterday, all Eli Home’s bedding has been replaced, and we have notified all hotels nationwide belonging to the KS Group that Ellie Home’s bedding must be replaced within a week.”
Just then, there was an eager knock at the door
