Midnight Bride The CEO's Temptation

"Get out." He ordered coolly.

The secretary looked perplexed. She had no idea why her boss seemed angry at this good news.

Garwood, of course, knew what Dylan was up to. He winked at the secretary and motioned her to go out first.

As the door closed, Garwood approached his young master.

"Sir, Mr. Rowe\'s really good to Miss Schultz…" ventured Garwood, after a time, though he might make the man in front of him more irritated.

Knowing Miss Schultz had already a man beside her, and that man was Dylan Sterling, Mr. Rowe didn\'t hang back but openly paid her attention and sent gifts to please her in front of Dylan.

He was extremely audacious...

Dylan kept silent gravely.

"Sir," continued Garwood with a slight cough, "you\'d better do something to vie for Miss Schultz\'s affections."

Honestly, if he were a girl, he\'d have probably been moved by Mr. Rowe\'s great kindness and care.

After all, Miss Schultz and Mr. Sterling were at war these days, and it\'s easy for a third party to swoop in.

"Do something?" Dylan leered at Garwood coldly.

"Mr. Rowe\'s a strong rival, sir," Garwood could not help saying. His young master, though rich and powerful, lacked experience in running after girls. "Mr. Rowe\'s always gentle, and girls are easily attracted to him. Well, I don\'t mean to say you\'re not a pleasing man, but you need to do something to win Miss Schultz\'s heart back; otherwise, I\'m afraid she will sooner or later be seduced by that guy…"

The last sentence obviously irritated Dylan. He knitted his brows and said roughly, "she doesn\'t want to see me at all. What can I do?"

She didn\'t even give him a chance to do anything. Every time he wanted to explain to her, she would get into a temper for no reason.

He never tried to pamper a girl. This was the first time he thought about how to make a girl happy. But he found it was even more difficult than solving the tough problems in business!

Garwood was silent. He knew Savannah\'s attitude to Dylan was a little unfriendly recently, but he didn\'t understand why.

The cloud of gloom hangs over the two men in the office.

Just then, the phone on the desk rang, interrupting Dylan\'s thoughts. He answered it with displeasure.

"Hello, Dylan?" It\'s Charlotte.

After that housewarming dinner in Royal Villa, Charlotte got Dylan\'s personal phone number from Lionel and called him several times.

Dylan answered every time for the sake of the Rowe group. On the phone, Charlotte asked him about the interesting places in LA or let him introduce some good restaurants to her. She would end the conversation in time when Dylan expressed any impatience.

"What\'s it?" Dylan answered coolly. Obviously, he was completely not in the mood this time.

"Sorry, are you free now?" Charlotte asked carefully, aware of the gloominess in his tone.

Dylan was about to say "no" when an idea came to him. "Well, yes," he softened his voice.

"Oh, I don\'t want to be any trouble to you," Charlotte said sweetly,

"Of course not," Dylan smiled, "by the way, Charlotte, what gift do you like?"

Garwood was stunned. Why did Mr. Sterling suddenly ask Miss Rowe this question?

Over the phone, Charlotte stayed for a few seconds and then said quickly, "I love flowers."

"Flower? So simple?" Dylan frowned.

"All girls like flowers, regardless of age. No woman will refuse flowers." Charlotte said decisively.

"Anything else?" It\'s always good to have more than one solution.

"Hmm…" Charlotte considered a little and said, "girls like to be treated like princesses."

"Well... thanks," Dylan said and was going to hang up.

"Dylan, you busy?" Charlotte bit her lip, not willing to hang up so soon.

"Yeah, I\'m overtaken by events now. We\'ll go some other time." All he was thinking about was another thing now.

Other time? Charlotte could not help smiling. Did Dylan mean he still wanted to talk to her?

She blushed and nodded, "okay."

After hanging up, Dylan mused for a moment and then said to Garwood, "order some flowers and send them to Sterling\'s house."

"Yes, sir," Garwood realized immediately, "you asked Miss Rowe what she likes... for Miss Schultz?"

"For reference," Dylan said dryly. The best way to learn how to win a girl\'s heart was to ask another girl of the same age.

* * *

The Sterling\'s house.

At dinner, Savannah heard from old Sterling that the Sterling group got the contracts of those hot stars from Lionel. It was said the price was very low – virtually free.

Old Sterling looked at her thoughtfully as he mentioned this.

Savannah felt unsettled under his gaze. Did Lionel do this for her? If the answer got to be yes, why?

Why did he treat her so nice and even transfer such a money-opportunity to the Sterling group for her sake? Was she more important than the interests of the Rowe group?

If Lionel really liked her… No, that\'s impossible.

After all, she and Lionel had only seen each other three times. They were on speaking terms, but they didn\'t even have a friendship between them.

After dinner, instead of taking a walk in the garden, Savannah planned to go back to her room and have a rest early.

Maybe it\'s because her belly grew much bigger, she felt tired easily.

She was about to go upstairs when she heard some sound with the footsteps of the servants from outside.

"Miss Schultz, I will go and have a look," Sophie said when she heard the noise outside the door.

After a while, she came back with a surprised look.

"What\'s the matter?" Savannah frowned.

"Miss Schultz, come with me, and you\'ll see," replied Sophie cryptically.

Savannah followed Sophie out of the house to the swimming pool in the backyard. As they walked, Savannah could not help but ask, "what\'s the matter, Sophie?"