Misha was indeed in the shopping center when he saw a few men he recognized and they happened to be Jayden's bodyguards, although they were wearing plain clothes that didn't stand out too much to others.

So he thought that Jayden would not be far from them, and sure enough, he saw that troublemaker cousin of his talking on the phone while Apple was in a clothing store.

Even though the girl was wearing a hat and mask, Misha could recognize her well with just a single glance at her posture.

At first, Misha just wanted to skip greeting the two of them and didn't want to bother the two, because there really wasn't anything important that he needed, but when he saw a commotion breaking out until Apple was in trouble, he became interested in stopping for a moment and observing what his cousin would do.

Misha thought Jayden would soon solve the trivial matter, but he was just watching from afar while enjoying what was happening.

It was very typical of Jayden when his pranks were on the rise.

And what surprised Misha even more was how Apple handled the situation. She ordered Jayden to pay for the jacket in her hand, but in a tone as if she were the boss and Jayden were just her goon.

The little girl he used to know had now grown into an attractive woman.

Then when Jayden was about to come forward to deal with the situation after that special order from Apple, Misha found himself going first and approaching Apple.

Misha grabbed Apple's hand and made her walk beside him while he took the jacket in her hand to pay the bill.

"Misha? What are you doing here?" Apple asked in bewilderment.

"Saving you from my cousin's stupidity," he replied nonchalantly and only released his grip on Apple's wrist when they reached the cash counter.

Misha immediately handed over the jacket that was the source of the problem and handed over his card as well.

However, someone had taken the card before the cashier accepted it.

"I think she asked me to pay for this jacket and not you." Jayden held Misha's card and handed the cashier his own card instead.

"I thought you wanted to finish your drink first," Misha replied.

Jayden smirked. "Don't worry, I'm used to doing various things at the same time."

"You'll get involved in new gossip if the media catches a photo of you with this girl," Misha said.

"It doesn't matter, I haven't been in the news for a long time, I'm afraid people will forget about me gradually," Jayden replied lightly. After Jayden finished punching in the pin code for his card and got the jacket Apple wanted, he pulled the girl to his side and said as he dragged her away, "See you at home, brother."

Meanwhile, Misha could only stare at his cousin's back as the latter acted casually while walking away with the girl in his arms.

However, not far from them, the three arrogant men from before along with the manager of this store could only look at Jayden Tordoff and Misha Tordoff with gasping and dumbfounded faces, because they didn't expect that an ordinary-looking woman could be associated with these two businessmen.

Who exactly was that girl?

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"You don't have to act like that toward your own cousin, do you?" Apple asked as soon as they got in the car and as usual, she was behind the wheel, while Jayden was playing some game on his phone.

"Behave like what?" Jayden asked without taking his eyes off the game he was playing.

"Behaving like an asshole," Apple replied in a light tone, she thought Jayden would be angry or offended at her harsh words, but she seemed to be overthinking it, because in fact he was laughing.

"He's an asshole," Jayden said. "Don't be fooled by his cold and uncaring attitude, he can turn into a ruthless person in a matter of seconds."

Apple squinted and looked at Jayden instead. "You mean the same as you? Or are you actually talking about yourself right now?"

Jayden lifted his head and stared intently at Apple. "I think it's a curse in the Tordoff family, we men have a bit more sadistic blood than men from other families."

"The word 'sadistic' seems too light for what you can do."

Jayden shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly. "I'll take that as a compliment."

"I'm not praising you," Apple said curtly, and glared at Jayden, but the man had returned to the game on his phone. He really didn't care about what Apple had to say.

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It seemed that what Misha predicted was right, because where there was a crowd, there was a camera, which would capture every moment, especially the unusual and spectacular moments.

Unfortunately, the incident where Jayden pulled Apple to his side and kept the girl by his side in a slightly intimate way, made it news everywhere.

They said that the bachelor already had the woman of his dreams and went too far until they published misleading information such as, they would get married soon.

"What the hell!?" Apple hissed when she saw the news that morning which showed a photo of her in Jayden's arms with her face covered in a mask and hat.

Because of her covered face, people began to go crazy by making strange assumptions.

They tried to guess who the girl was and began to look for a girl with a similar body posture to hers from the upper class families.

"You should have predicted that," Pyro said, his voice full of concern, as he drank his morning coffee. "I warned you that you should keep your relationship limited to work."

Apple lowered the phone from her face and stared at her father in disbelief. "Look at this!" She then slid the phone right under her father's nose. "I didn't hug him, he hugged me. So you can't blame me."

"I don't blame you honey, dad was just telling you to be careful with Jayden Tordoff."

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