My Four Miraculous Treasures

Edith Price was a cunning woman... it was strange that she'd do something so foolish, when she'd all but won already, going to the security room to tamper with recordings. What a brilliant man that Jasper Hughes was!

Willow was in awe at how he'd managed to expose her treachery like that.

Reading on, the following articles were about how Ziegler Corporation had been surrendered to the control of the Hughes family as reparations for losses incurred, along with a penalty of two billion from the purse of ex-CEO Charles Zeigler himself. Without spending a single cent, Hughes Corporation had acquired the Zeigler Corporation, along with an extra two billion in funds!

They'd been absolved of the plagiarism scandal, too! If anything, public confidence in them had now risen to an all-time high! Hughes Corporation had emerged from this mess as far-and-away the overall winner!

Popular admiration towards Jasper Hughes was running rampant across the internet.

Handsome, wealthy, and brilliant too! There was no other man like him in this world!

His countless female fans were screaming their ardent desire to become the lucky woman by his side.

Willow found herself smiling at Jasper's popularity. There certainly were a great many people who'd fallen for his charms.

Although she herself had been caught up in this storm as well, there wasn't a single mention of her name anywhere. She'd been framed, and even arrested, but nobody seemed to have any idea.

No surprise, there. Who cared about a little miss nobody like her? Everyone was a side character compared to the blinding glory of the great Jasper Hughes.

In any case, at least all the drama had come to an end.

Lunchtime at noon, in the main lobby of the Hughes Corporation headquarters...

Lara had arrived. She headed straight for the lift, but a security guard stopped her, and asked her to sign in at the front desk first.

So she turned back and went over to the front desk, where she announced herself politely: "I'm here to see someone. Could you sign me in, please?"

The young lady at the front desk received her warmly. "Who is it, madam? I'll give them a call."

"Oh, so I've got to call ahead, if I'm looking for someone here?" It was her first time in a place like this, so there was a lot of stuff she didn't know.

"Yes, madam," the receptionist explained patiently, "First you call, and if that person agrees to see you, then you'll be allowed inside."

That sounded perfectly reasonable. "My name is Lara Smith. One of your employees, Willow Nason, is my daughter."

With her attention focused upon these unfamiliar new procedures, she didn't notice the CEO's private lift opening.noveldrama

Jasper Hughes stepped out, just in time to hear Lara declaring herself as Willow's mother. He turned to look at her.

"So you're here to see Ms. Nason?" the receptionist asked. Recently, it seemed as though a lot of people had come looking for that woman.

"Nope, not her! I'm here to see her boyfriend, who's her supervisor at work! You know... her direct supervisor, who assigns her daily tasks and stuff." Lara wasn't exactly shouting this information at the top of her lungs... but everyone nearby the front desk heard her

say

that.

Last night, Lara had made up her mind to seek out her daughter's boss, and confirm with him directly whether or not he was in a relationship with Willow. She needed to do this, or else she would only continue to worry.

Jasper tried to remember who Willow's direct supervisor might be...

Aha! Dale White, wasn't it?

Willow had been calling that guy her boyfriend, in front of her own family?

The man's own wife was already on the warpath, calling her a home-wrecker! Meanwhile, Willow's own mother referred to Dale as Willow's boyfriend?

Supposedly, she'd filed a sexual

harassment claim with Tyson

against Dale... but Jasper knew very

well what a cunning vixen that woman was-she was only doing that to leave herself a way out!

She threw herself onto one man after another, always with some convenient excuse to pretend it was just an accident. He'd seen her tricks first-hand, several times already.

He knew all about this sort of woman.

Radiating an ice-cold aura, he made powerful strides through the lobby on his way out the door.

When the receptionist spotted him, she snapped to attention and called out, "Hello, sir!"

Lara turned to see whom the younger woman was greeting...