Love Strategy: CEO He is Really Scheming！

Coming out of Dominic Seys’s room, Nicole ran into her little niece Iris Seys standing at the door.

”Auntie, I didn’t understand what Grandpa meant,” Iris said, frowning.

Nicole bent down and smiled lightly. ”You don’t need to understand, you’re still so young, you don’t have to think about this.” Her eyes were tinged with quiet desolation, and she suddenly murmured, ”Iris, if you ever get caught up in emotional problems in the future, whatever you do, don’t handle them like your aunt and turn everything into a mess. Your aunt is useless, she doesn’t know how to deal with things. The one who loves you and the one you love—this question has stumped who knows how many people in this world; it’s the hardest multiple-choice question there is...”

Iris pouted. ”I’m going to marry Brother Hanson when I grow up! I just like Brother Hanson!”

Nicole couldn’t help laughing and rubbed Iris’s little head. ”What do you know about love now, you little imp.”

”Brother Hanson said he’ll come back to find me. If he doesn’t come find me, then I’ll go find him. I’m going to marry Brother Hanson and make him my prince!” Iris’s face blossomed with a bright, radiant smile.

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Clearflower Estate.

Jose Floyd and Jorge Saxton were drinking and chatting under a poolside sun umbrella, wearing nothing but swim trunks, their muscular upper bodies and alluring V-lines on full display.

Jose held a wine glass, his gaze unfathomably deep. He thought of everything in Italy, and of the words he’d heard from Celine Sutton that morning when he woke up a few days ago; his heart suddenly felt unbearably heavy.

Clearly, they had just slept together the night before, yet the next morning she managed to quietly fly back home without a sound, without even a goodbye, not even a single text message, making his heart sink like it had dropped to the bottom of the ocean, frozen and terrifying.

Jose’s brows drew together slightly, and he asked his good brother in a low voice, ”Jorge... why are women’s thoughts so impossible to read?”

Jorge took a sip of wine from his glass, his deep eyes resting on Jose. ”You had a fight with Nicole? No, wait, you two have never actually been on good terms.”

Jose paused. ”You really don’t know when to shut up!”

Jorge’s lips tilted up slightly. Thinking of what had happened between him and Lydia Brooke, his gaze also darkened a little. ”We’ve never lost at anything we’ve done, and yet we both lost to two women.”

Jose fell silent for a moment, then downed the wine in his glass in one gulp, his voice low. ”I don’t even know what’s wrong with her. I promised her a lifetime, promised she’d stay by my side for life, but something just felt off about her at the time, though I can’t put it into words. In this life, she’s the only woman I’ve ever said those three words to—’for a lifetime.’ Those three words probably mean nothing to her, like they’re not even worth a second glance.”

”Jose, you really have fallen for Nicole. No matter how much she’s hurt you, you still can’t let her go.”

Jose didn’t respond. He poured himself another glass and knocked it back again. The burn of the alcohol in his throat made him feel stifled and uncomfortable.

That woman, Nicole, was like a deadly poison to him—one he’d never be able to quit in this lifetime!

”Not every woman is as easy to coax and fool as my sister. Look at how much Arlo Seys is getting away with—he’s got her completely under his thumb, and now she’s totally at his mercy. Why is Lydia Brooke so damn hard to handle!”

”How did Arlo Seys manage to marry Ariel Morris?” Jose suddenly asked.

”How the hell would I know! Another day we can go ask Arlo for tips, yeah?” Jorge replied irritably.

Jose’s long fingers held the stem of the wine glass, his gaze deep and bottomless.

She said he didn’t know how to love, that all he could give her was a single line—”my woman.” Was that not enough?

What he’d given her was the only promise he’d ever made to a woman.

In this lifetime, aside from her, who else had he ever said ”for a lifetime” and ”my woman” to? Only Nicole...