The CEO’s Substitute Lover

Eddison Davi looked at the place that he once loved so much that now felt a little quaint, he had been to Octavia’s house for the past two days and no one was there. He had sent many Facebook messages to Octavia Gills and received no reply. This afternoon, he managed to get up the courage to call her but her phone was switched off. A kind neighbor told him that Octavia Gills hadn’t been back for a while and that she had moved in with her boyfriend, hardly ever coming back!

Ah… a repressed Eddison Davi, shouted out in this noisy place, the glass of yellow liquor swallowed down like plain water.

“You! I thought it was you! I looked over to where that mournful cry came from and realized it was Group Davi’s second prince, Mr. Eddison!” Lilian Drye teased Eddison Davi as she stumbled a little with her glass and took the seat next to him.

“How come you, Ms. Lilian, are such a drinker too? Would Ms. Lilian be interested in having a drink with me as her companion?” Eddison Davi thought it would be nice to have some company to get drunk with.

“Yes, Mr. Eddison, Let’s drink to that!” Lilian Drye gulped down her drink in a single shot. That was good! But it hurt! In the days when Tredan Davi left her out in the cold, she had been drinking alcohol almost every day to make her sleep.C0ntent © 2024 (N/ô)velDrama.Org.

“Ms. Lilian is a woman among women! Ms. Lilian from now on you can just call me Eddison! You feel like a friend already, so if you may call me that.” Eddison Davi looked at Lilian Drye with a smile on his face as he raised his glass, he sensed the same sadness on Lilian Drye, seeing himself in Lilian Drye now!

“Yeah, and you can call me Lilian! You look like you’ve had a failed love affair, did you?” Lilian Drye wanted to pick on Eddison Davi, maybe they could be ‘partners’!

“Eddison, since we have known each other for a long time, how about letting me tell your fortune today? If you don’t, how about having this drink? It’s on me tonight!”

Eddison Davi has been around women for a long time, so how could he not see through Lilian Drye’s little game? So, let’s play it safe and have some fun!

“Ms. Lilian, come on! Whether you speak to my heart or not, I’m buying tonight!”

Lilian Drye hid a smile and took Eddison Davi’s left hand and said to him in all seriousness, “What you’ve got is a love wound, you’ve got a crush on a woman, Octavia Gills.”

Eddison Davi’s brows furrowed and his deep eyes flashed with a hint of sadness that was hard for others to perceive. Smiling faintly in front of Lilian Drye.

“Oh, when Ms. Lilian says that, I rather understand why you’re here tonight to get drunk! Is it because this Gills woman is threatening your feelings for my big brother?”

Provoked by Eddison Davi, it was as if she had been stabbed right where it hurts, Lilian Drye clutched her glass in her hand and looked at Eddison Davi with a grin on her face, “So you knew this bitch was having an affair with Tredan, did you? Does that make you and me the same person?” Oh, Lilian Drye laughed with self-mockery.

“It’s not the end of the world! You’re with your big brother and I’m unrequitedly in love! As for how Octavia got involved with my brother, I don’t know the inside story, but I think there’s something else going on!”

Eddison Davi is particularly puzzled in his mind as to why Octavia Gills would stay with his brother, a prominent man, rather than give him a chance. Where exactly did he lose out to his big brother?

Lilian Drye looked at Eddison Davi with pity as she realizes that he is in denial, a man who is afraid to accept the truth.

“Huh…” Lilian Drye looked at Eddison Davi’s anguish like his heart was cut into pieces and there was nothing he could do about it. Lilian found it particularly funny.

“What are you laughing at?” Eddison Davi looked like he was a little annoyed, he had always hidden his inferiority complex, compared to Tredan Davi, everything Eddison Davi had was always a shadow that his bastard title had granted him, everything his big brother had was rightfully his. While he…

“Sadly, you have to act like you’re happy when you’re sad, that you have to act generously when it’s hard to accept, isn’t it hard for you? I love Tredan, and Tredan should only love me. And you? Have you ever wondered why that bitch Octavia chose Tredan? Why does she have to be Tredan’s lover when you can be her rightful boyfriend and even husband?”

“Octavia, why did you choose Tredan?” yes, Eddison Davi wanted to ask Octavia Gills why was he not as good as Tredan Davi? He looked at Lilian Drye with desperate eyes, hoping Lilian Drye would tell him why!

“The same prince of Group Davi, the same continuing power, but with a difference in social status between you and Tredan, what can you bring to that bitch that Tredan has not brought her. He was able to bring in the world’s top cardiology professor overnight to treat this bitch’s brother who has a congenital heart defect. Just ask, can you do that? Maybe you could give her expensive clothes and limited-edition bags, have you ever considered what Octavia truly wants? What do you have now compared to Tredan? Love? How much is that worth? Can you save his brother’s life? Don’t be silly! For Octavia, who lost her father at a young age, and took on her ailing brother at the age of five, she managed to catch a fish that would keep her family safe and prosperous, what do you think you can save her from?”

Is that so? Indeed, he doesn’t have the same business connections as his big brother. If he was in the same position as his brother, would Octavia have chosen him?”

“You know so well why Octavia chose my brother, have you ever wondered why my big brother chose Octavia? Lilian, you call me pathetic, I look at you and you’re no better, even more embarrassingly pathetic than I am! Aren’t you?” Lilian Drye’s face paled at this and angrily raised her palm to slap Eddison Davi, who grabbed Lilian Drye’s hand that was about to slap his face, a faint smile of satisfaction spread across Eddison Davi’s face, the woman was too smug, he, Eddison Davi, was not for others to slap, and he was not to be ignored at will.

“You know why, Lilian, I’m telling you, no man would like your domineering temperament, Octavia is better, she is gentle and considerate. Lilian, usually the truth is painful to hear, but between good friends, I am willing to remind you that if you want to win my big brother’s heart, you should start at the root. I’m helping you now!”

“Helping me? It seems I underestimated you! But I do agree on one thing, you want Octavia, and I want Tredan, we are allies!”

“Maybe!”

Eddison Davi and Lilian Drye exchanged knowing glances, pursed their lips, and drank a toast to each other!

Office of the Chairman of Group Davi.

Tredan Davi is reporting to his father, Floyd Davi, on the real progress of the big project that was ordered to be rectified.

“It has been strictly enforced to rectify the situation following the notice issued by the relevant authorities. The situation is not optimistic, with the original lack of funds, after the news reports, the company’s stocks have been continuously falling these days, and some shareholders are complaining and even asking to withdraw their shares because of this. As a result, the project cannot be funded, and for every day of delay, our company is losing about $10 million.” The seriousness with which Tredan Davi worked revealed the air of a strong man. The female secretary beside the chairman was mesmerized, no wonder their CEO was given the title of British God of Men, such a powerful manliness, charming thousands of young girls is indeed not an exaggeration!

“Ahem… Ahem… Berenice, Berenice” Floyd Davi looked at his secretary, who was daydreaming and fantasizing about men, and was hopeless! If it wasn’t for the fact that she was Ottilie’s own sister’s daughter, he’s afraid that he would have fired her already!

“Oh, Chairman Dong…, what do you want?” This Berenice although back to reality, still cannot hold back her desires, ah, her thieving eyes just can’t help but look at Tredan Davi’s body.

“Go and make a detailed report combining this report from the president with this funding situation and print it out for the meeting.” Unable to watch her drooling, Floyd Davi shooed the nymphomaniac Berenice out of the room and then had a quiet discussion with his son about how to resolve this capital crisis.

“What’s your best idea to get the company through this.” Floyd Davi had pretty much invested his life’s work in this project, and for that, he was angry with Ottilie for the first time, after all, he owed it to Ottilie to follow him around without a name for over twenty years.

“Chairman, many ways have been thought of and tried, the only thing left that can lift this crisis is, to find new investors, if I can have the funds in place, I have a way to bring this project back to life, but since this engineering project was ordered to be rectified by the relevant authorities in the process of not yet completed, this negative impact is too great and no one is willing to invest. ” Tredan Davi has visited everyone in the business community who can afford to fund this project but has been denied!

“It’s just that I’ve been to all the ones in this business world that we can work with and they just didn’t turn out to be good ones.”

Floyd Davi sat worriedly in the black, upscale leather swivel chair, his eyes closed, trying to search his mind for the only card that seems to be available to him, the Drye Family.

“Then go and ask Uncle Drye to have lunch with me! And call Lilian!” Tredan Davi had guessed that his father must have been eyeing Group Drye, only his heart kept telling him that he must not just use this connection.

“Yes!” But as Group Davi’s president, he had a duty to save the company. As Group Davi’s heir, he also had the duty to look out for the company.

In the five-star hotel of the Hilton Hotel, in an antique VIP room, Grimm Drye arrived with his wife and daughter and was warmly greeted by the Davi Family.

“Sorry to keep you two waiting, father and son!”

“No, no, you’re just in time, take a seat!”

Lilian Drye missed seeing Tredan Davi for a long time, but today she saw that he had less obvious warmth and affection than before.

Grimm Drye was heartbroken to see his daughter in this state, she had been drinking every day for a week, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing, sometimes cursing, sometimes saying with great affection that she loved Tredan Davi and could not live without him.

Grimm Drye was a smart businessman who has been in business for many years, and Grimm Drye knows exactly what Floyd Davi and his son are up to with this invitation. But for the sake of his daughter, it was not a big deal.

“Tredan, it seems you’ve been busy lately, and you’ve lost a lot of weight, my girl talks about you every day. Grimm Drye is a businessman, he’s a man of his word, but he’s right on the money!