She Is A CEO

Jacob's scream had drawn everyone's attention in the cafe.

Jacob!

Lucia turned around with her eyes blazing with anger.

"What? Did I say something wrong?" Jacob snorted when seeing Lucia pissed off.

"Jacob," Lucia took a step forward, stared at Jacob without a blink, and said in a deep voice, "do you really me want to rake up the past and dig up the truth, huh? If yes, I'll fight you to the end!

Lucia's eyes were sharp and cold, and she was ready to fight Jacob and Poppy to the end.

"What damn truth can you reveal?" Seeing everyone looking at them, Jacob raised his voice deliberately, "The truth is you are a dissolute woman! You've seen your lover secretly in the hotel and disgraced the Webb family!"

Some waiters, coming to smooth things over, happened to hear his words. Then they were stunned and stared at Lucia.

Jacob told the old story in this tone and twisted the fact. Lucia was so mad that she clenched her fists tightly, and thundered, "Watch your mouth, Jacob! Be a man!" she declared her bottom line.

"What? You want me to sing the praise of you? Lucia, you are nothing but a..." Jacob pointed at Lucia and cursed her harshly. But he just shut up and fell forward abruptly as if he had been struck. Lucia backed off swiftly and saw Jacob lying in front of her.

"What am I?" Lucia pulled a long face, glared at Jacob, and said coldly.

Jacob was ashamed and angry. He stood up with the help of the chair immediately and turned around to roar, "Who the fuck was it? Who dared to kick me!"

"What a coincidence, Mr. Taylor!" A man took back his leg behind Jacob's back and smiled coldly and disdainfully.

Arthur?

Jacob was shocked and wondered what he was doing here.

Lucia looked at Arthur with gratitude. Jacob was standing with his back to Arthur just now and couldn't see him getting close and raising his leg to give him a hard kick, but she did see everything. "Mr. Davies? What are you doing here?" Jacob's voice trembled a bit. Well, it was quite a hard kick on his waist.

"Mr. Taylor, don't you think you are being too mean on the public occasion?" Arthur said with satire.

"It's not what you think..." Jacob found the onlookers staring at him with accusatory eyes while he was about to defend himself, and he didn't know how to explain it now.

"Are you all right, miss?" Arthur ignored Jacob, bypassed him, and went up to Lucia. He stretched to hold her waist and asked with concern.

"I'm all right. Thanks," Lucia replied.

Jacob glared at Arthur's hand around Lucia's waist fiercely but still had to put on a fake smile, "It's a misunderstanding. Mr. Davies, I gotta go now."

After that, Jacob turned around to leave and pushed the waiters hard to vent his anger.

Arthur didn't take his hand off Lucia's waist until Jacob left. Then he said, "I've told you to be careful."

He wondered what she was gonna do if he hadn't shown up in time just now.

"I didn't imagine he could be so shameless!" Lucia said and smiled bitterly.

Arthur looked at Lucia and wanted to say something, but he suddenly paused and fixed his eyes on her earlobe, only to find the clear tooth marks. Then he touched it without hesitation and said coldly, "Who did it?"

Lucia trembled but said nothing, forgetting to avoid Arthur's touching.

"He?" Arthur added and rubbed her earlobe softly. Then he said with a gloomy face, "Come with me."

Lucia followed him and walked forward. Very soon, they arrived at the underground parking lot.

Arthur pulled her over to the car and fumbled for something in the trunk.

He had a medical kit in his hand when Lucia recovered herself.

"I'm going to sterilize your wound." Arthur shook the medical kit and told her.

"No need. It was only a bite. It's not that serious." Lucia turned him down politely.

"Who knows what kind of disease he's got." Arthur didn't mind being harsh-tongued in front of her.

He opened the medical kit, took out the wound disinfectant and swabs, walked over to her, and sterilized her wound.

He felt the tooth mark was an eye sore to him.

Lucia was amused by his words and simply let him do the sterilization.

The wound disinfectant was cool and Arthur was pretty close to her. And he happened to breathe on her skin.

"OK. Done!" Arthur said with satisfaction after he put the wound disinfectant to her ear, "Call the police if something like this happens again." "OK." In fact, she could deal with Jacob on her own but she couldn't refuse his kindness and still agreed with him.

It was perfect timing. Lucia asked Arthur how he got to know her son, Theodore.

Arthur told her honestly that Theodore ran into his car by accident. Lucia apologized to him instantly. Then they shifted the topic to Theodore. "Does Theodore go to school?" said Arthur.

"Yep. He's in kindergarten," Lucia said with a big smile.

"Kindergarten?" Arthur couldn't relate the poker-faced little boy to the kindergarten and said, "It seems he doesn't enjoy himself there."

Lucia glanced at Arthur and thought he was very sharp-eyed, "Mm. He wasn't used to it at first. Theodore is different from other kids since he was a baby. But I wish he could grow up like any other normal kid." "What's different?" Arthur kept asking.

"I found Theodore was far better than other kids in accepting and understanding new things when he had a conscious awareness of himself. So, I took him to do an IQ test and it turned out that his IQ is over 160. Because of it, he is more precocious than other kids. You also found out he acted like an adult, right?"

Lucia couldn't help smiling lightly whenever she talked about Theodore.

Arthur turned to look at Lucia's smiling face and asked abruptly, "Where is his father?"

Saying it, Arthur saw her frozen for a second, and then she pretended to be careless. Arthur apologized immediately, "Sorry."

Arthur apologized to her in a very low voice. Lucia heard it, turned to look at him, and got complicated feelings.

"It's OK. I just don't want to talk about him." Lucia sighed lightly.

They stopped chatting abruptly. Lucia didn't want to talk about it and Arthur didn't keep asking. Instead, he offered to drive Lucia back to the office. Lucia had no choice but to accept it. When they arrived at the office building, Lucia remembered it and asked, "Mr. Davies, what were you doing there just now?"

Arthur was stunned and said, "I've got an appointment with a client..."

"Sorry..." She didn't expect Arthur would stand the client up for her.

"Never mind. I just dislike Jacob." Arthur shook his head carelessly and added, "Buy me coffee next time if you're really sorry."

Lucia was impressed by Arthur's gentleness and generousness. She smiled and said, "OK."

Lucia returned to the office after parting with Arthur, and Nia was waiting for her.