The CEO’s Substitute Lover

“Tredan, you can’t treat me like this! Do you think I don’t know you just want to be happy with that bitch without having problems with me? I won’t let you live that comfortably! I’m telling you, Tredan, if you do abandon me, you’ll regret it!”

Lilian was resigned to the fact that she had lost to Octavia, who was inferior to her in everything.

Tredan Davi looked at Floyd and Lilian, sneered twice, and got up to leave.

As Tredan Davi was about to walk out the door of the conference room, Lilian Drye said to his back, “If you leave, Group Drye will stop all capital injections into Group Davi and even withdraw our shares from you, as a member of Group Davi. Tredan, think about the consequences!”

Tredan Davi stopped in his tracks at Lilian Drye’s threats, he turned his head and looked expressionlessly at the scowling Lilian Drye, “You know?? she’s really nothing like you, and you know what is particularly attractive to me about her? It’s her understanding, and thoughtfulness to anyone around her, and those are exactly the valuable things that you don’t have!”

“Come back here! Tredan!” watching Tredan Davi’s back as he moved away, Lilian Drye felt defeated!

“Lilian, you’ve been aggravated, go home and rest, and leave the rest to Uncle Floyd. I will make sure this matter is settled once and for all!”

Floyd had mixed feelings because he did owe Tredan Davi a lot because of his mother! But as a father, he gave Tredan Davi everything he could; the boy was unpredictable, and perhaps he spoiled him too much, so he never had a sense of crisis that led to him daring to speak to his father like that today. Floyd is worried that Eddison and Ottilie will be ostracized for not being accepted by Tredan Davi. Floyd also realizes that the brotherly bond between Tredan Davi and Eddison is too weak!

“Wallace, go and find out for me exactly who the woman is that the Grand Prince is hanging around with, make sure you get details of her, the more details the better!” Floyd couldn’t let things go on like this, he had to do something to stop Tredan Davi’s capriciousness and unruliness so as not to worsen the relationship with the Drye Family, and even to cut-off Tredan Davi’s sharp horns.

“Got it!”

“Wait, Wallace, tell the Second Prince to come to the head office today for me. Just tell him I have something important to see him about!”

“Yes!”

That’s right! Floyd is planning to move Eddison back to the head office.

When Eddison heard Wallace tell him that his father wanted him to come to the head office, he thought it was very strange because Floyd seldom let him be present at the head office. What was going on today? Eddison felt it was a bit ridiculous!

“Dad, is there something you want to see me about?” Eddison looked at the chairman’s luxurious and expansive office, which he had visited only a few times because if his father had brought him here, Tredan Davi would have threatened to leave. One of the things his father, Floyd, said to him most often was, “Eddison, you’re a happy boy, you’ve got your father and your mother with you but your big brother doesn’t, so Eddison, be a good boy and don’t compete with your big brother for anything.”

Eddison doesn’t think he’s above or below his big brother! But through the years, he just didn’t want to compete with Tredan!

“Eddison, you’re here! Sit down.” Floyd said, picking up the cup of ginseng tea Ottilie had made for him, it had been hard on her all these years!

“Tomorrow, you will start to report to the head office. I’ve asked someone to clean out an office for you as the new Vice President!” Had Eddison heard it correctly? Did his father just tell him to report for work at the head office?

“Eddison, did you hear me?” Looking at Eddison who had drifted off and did not answer him!

“I heard you, Dad; I’m just surprised you decided to do this and why so suddenly!” Although his mother had been complaining in front of his father many times about his appointment at the Group Davi subsidiary, he hadn’t heard his mother mention it for some time.

“Eddison, are you complaining to me? Is it because your big brother became the CEO of the head office as soon as he joined the company, but I put you in a subsidiary company as a small general manager?”

“No, I’m not complaining because I know why you arranged it that way, Daddy. But why are you so acting so strange today? Did something happen? Tell me and see if you’re not-so-useful little son can help you out!”

When Floyd heard how dutiful Eddison was, he felt especially relieved that there he still had a son who had him in his heart as his father.

At that moment, Eddison’s mobile phone rang, interrupting the conversation between father and son. It was Lilian Drye! Eddison looked at it and put it back in his pocket without answering.

When Floyd saw Eddison’s sheepish look, he thought he was too embarrassed to answer the phone in front of him because he had some kind of mistress or something. It seems that his sons have grown up now making him feel old.

“Go and get busy, tie up all the loose ends at the subsidiary and when you’ve done that, come over here to the head office and report to work. I’ll arrange for someone to hand over things to you tomorrow, Got it?”

After listening to Floyd’s instructions, Eddison suddenly thought of Octavia Gills. “Dad, is it okay if I bring a secretary from there? I’d like to work with someone familiar with the job!”

Floyd didn’t know that the person Eddison proposed to bring with him would be Octavia Gills and went along with Eddison’s wish to choose his assistant.Content © provided by NôvelDrama.Org.

“Daddy, I do love you so much!”

“Look at you, you’re all grown up yet you still act like a child, this must change, behave like a leader! Get busy!”

Watching Eddison treat him warmly in such a close manner always brings back memories of when Tredan and Eddison were very young. However, he felt sad when he realized he only had a few memories of spending time with his two sons, and how few the images he had of them even hugging.

Lilian Drye asked Eddison out to talk about Tredan Davi’s affair with Octavia Gills!

“There you are!” It was the first time for Lilian Drye to wait so long for someone and yet appear to be so good-natured, showing no signs of anger at Eddison’s tardiness. “Congratulations on your promotion to Vice President of Group Davi!”

Lilian was so good-natured that Eddison was taken aback, “I’m surprised you knew about this as early as I did! What’s going on? Tell me!”

Lilian Drye didn’t expect Eddison’s reaction to be so quick, but she did put a little effort into convincing Floyd to make it happen. In Lilian Drye’s eyes, Eddison is the best partner she could have, and they have the same goal in mind: “Lilian Drye wants only Tredan, and Eddison sees only Octavia.”

“Here’s to a successful start to our partnership!” Lilian Drye smiled wryly.

Since when did he and Lilian Drye have a working relationship? Eddison stared thoughtfully at Lilian Drye; this woman is not to be underestimated!

“Have we collaborated? Collaborated on what?”

Lilian Drye told Eddison that this is just the beginning, that if Eddison wants Octavia Gills, he should work with her, and that by breaking Tredan Davi and Octavia Gills apart, the four of them can have a perfectly good ending.

“What are you hesitating about?” Lilian saw the averted look in Eddison’s eyes, and she knew damn well there was a tinge of hesitation on Eddison’s part!

“I’ve always wondered what kind of woman you are. What kind of heart do you possess?” Eddison understands it all too well that the only people in this world who are not to be messed with are villains and women who could have you lying in the danger zone at any moment.

“It doesn’t matter to you what kind of a woman I am or what kind of a heart I possess. Are you planning to take Octavia with you and transfer her to the head office, if I’m right, you’ll make her your assistant or secretary of sorts?”

Eddison almost sprayed the wine he was about to swallow in his mouth.

Lilian Drye guessed it all! She just wants Tredan Davi to see Octavia Gills around Eddison every day, and there’s not a man in the world who could stand being tossed around like that.

Eddison seems to see what kind of game Lilian Drye is playing, and it’s not the most insidious of tricks. Having Octavia Gills working with him every day, with Tredan Davi looking on helplessly, is something no man would want to accept. And every move the two brothers make with Octavia Gills will be under the watchful eye of his father Floyd. One

“Ms. Lilian, a lot of times cleverness backfires, I’d better remind you not to mix your calculations about me into cooperation as well, I have a temper too, and I very much dislike the feeling of being manipulated by anyone in the palm of their hands.”

Lilian didn’t care too much about Eddison’s harsh words at the moment. To Lilian, the Drye Family Group is the trump card in her hands, whether it’s Tredan or Eddison, even Floyd himself wouldn’t dare to touch her, so what if she’s counting?

“Eddison, I’m trying to help you so that you and Octavia can get together soon, what do you take me for when by saying ‘calculate’? I’ve been trying so hard to find all kinds of ways to make this partnership succeed, haven’t I? How can you be so ungrateful!” Lilian pretended to be a little angry.

“I’ve said all I needed to say, and I’ve pretty much heard all I needed to hear. I’m not going to talk to you anymore, I’ll leave it at that, I’ll take your kind words to heart. Besides, I have to go back to the office to deal with the turnover.” Eddison didn’t want to discuss this with Lilian Drye as all his thoughts were on the transfer of Octavia Gills.

Eddison remembers every scene from the celebration that day and the way Octavia Gills looked at Tredan Davi with such affection that made Eddison’s heart flutter with sorrow.

“General Manager, you wanted to see me?” Octavia Gills’ blissful little womanly gesture was revealed on her face. The red and pink blossom on her face and the smile that spontaneously spreads across the corners of her mouth are so beautiful and charming that Eddison can’t help but be mesmerized by Octavia Gills’ every move, smile, and word.

“Yes, there is something I wanted to ask your opinion of? I’ve received a new appointment and instructions from the head office, and I’ll be reporting back to the head office tomorrow. The head office said that I should bring in a staff member who is strong in all aspects to work with me there, and I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, and I think you’re the most suitable one.”

Is it her that the General Manager is talking about? Octavia Gills can’t believe it, is she good in every way? It was a chance to work at Group Davi’s head office, a place very close to where Tredan Davi worked. Octavia Gills felt particularly lucky recently.