The couple came slowly in as if they had been strolling around in a garden.
But that didn't matter, what mattered was how the intimate they were being to each other.
The Amber camp watched the couple with the fire of hope surging into their heart.
People on Bernardo's side, however, were feeling all the more agitated.
Everybody could see that Jared was being so tender with Amber that he must love her very much.
Even if the conference eventually failed and dragged him into trouble, he would not give her up.
Things could turn pretty ugly if so.
He was so strong and capable a man to be troubled by the mishaps. He would somehow settle them all and reclaimed his power over the Farrell Group.
By then he would have been already available to help Amber out.
And Amber Reed, with his help, could soon take everything back and give her revenge on the people who had been undermining her...
With that on mind, the Bernardo gang all looked at Bernardo with a grimmer face and helpless look.
He tightened his clenched fist and gave no response.
What kind of response could he possibly give?
Who on earth would have expected Jared Farrell to be here?
Jared's presence had rendered his scheme out of control, leaving him completely confounded.
Bernardo had no choice but to play it by ear.
Rubbing his antsy face with hands, he was sitting on pins and needles.
Meanwhile, Jared was stepping onto the platform. As he stopped, he turned around to remind woman behind him, "Be careful of the gap."
Amber laughed, "I can see it. I'm not going to get tripped. I walked here all the time."
During the speech, she walked on the step with Jared's assistance.
Jared then led her onward, "Just in case."
"You worry too much." Amber shook her head, laughing.
The interaction was captured by everyone in the meeting room, leaving some of them all the more relieved, the others worried.
Braylee Reed was an exception for she was jealous.
Her face was distorted in wild envy with her green eyes riveted on the oncoming couple ahead.
She could not understand what the man with such wealth and power was seeing in such a woman as Amber Reed, an illegitimate daughter who didn't even know who her dad was.
"What is the charm of her?" thought Braylee.
Amber had no idea of the ongoing envy.
She proceeded to her seat and bade Sheila, "Get a chair for Mr. Farrell. He will be attending the conference."
"Yes, Miss Reed." Sheila nodded smilingly and obliged as told.
The rest of the attendees got mixed feelings as they heard that Mr. Farrell would be attending, but none of them dared to say a thing.
He was Jared Farrell after all, not the one to cope with.
Besides, more than fifty percent of the company's business cooperation was with the Farrell Group. He was their investor in this sense.
Who would antagonize an investor?
Jared and Amber sat down on the chairman seats next to each other.
Amber was overshadowed by his charisma.
It seemed as if he rather than Amber was the president of Goldstone.
Amber did not stop him from dropping his dominant look.
Because she knew that he was the kind of guys who would deliberately overshadow her whatever the occasion was.
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