Juliana couldn’t breathe, and her chest tightened for several seconds. Her hand trembled as she answered, “Hella?”
The familiar voice on the other mod tror Juliana’s expression, and her eyes betrayed a surge of incontrollable emotion.
She forced out two words, “It’s me”
“Mr. Bennett’s flight lands in Hashbourne at 8:00 pm tonight. He wants you to meet his at the airport.”
Her breath caught hard in her throat. “He’s coming to lashlinume?
So, he did come for her.
She thought about everything she’d bought yesterday using the wrong cand. She hadn’i linaghord he’d find out so quirkddy, let alone arrive even faster.
The person talking to her was his assistant, Liam Blackwell. Despite his respectful tause, he was known to be a bloodthirsty figure feared by everyone in
Fyndale
Even his assistant was enough to make people nervous, let alone the man behind it all, Matthias Bennett, who was on mother level entirely
Liam said, “Yes. Mr. Bennett also said you’d better have a good explanation prepared. Otherwise…”
He didn’t finish the sentence.
Julsana shuddered all over. She had no idea how the call ended.
She was distracted the whole afternoon and couldn’t focus even during meetings.
Matthias Bennett
The man the Larson famine had been so desperate to low about her real family.
The man who ruled both the underworld and the upper crust of Fayndale. Over there, he was a king in the shadows. And to her, he was a curse she could
never escape,
Memories of what happened three years ago, just before she left Fayndale, flashed in her mind. Her eyes welled with tears.
At 6:00 pm, the workday ended.
As soon as the exited the office building, her phone buzzed violently, she picked up in a daze. “Hello?”
“You really blocked my number?”
The fury in Sylvia’s voice was unmistakable as it blasted through the phone, her tone so venomous it sounded like she wanted to devour Juliana whole
Juliana replied, “Since when have I joked with you?”
If there was ever any kind of joke, it was always on the Larson family’s end, and Yvette’s. As for her, she didn’t grow up with them, and yet their expectation for her were sky–high. No matter what she did, it was never good enough. Sylvia had always been strict and critical,
Hoaring Juilma’s cold tone, Sylvia was even angrier, and her temples throbbed. “Amelia is your best friend, right? Did you make her leave the country?“”
Juliana answered, “Yeah. So what?”
“You” Sylvia was about to explode. She thought Juliana would at least deny it, but it seemed that she wasn’t even trying to hide it.
What did that make the Larson family in her eyes?
She had a whole speech planned to interrogate her, and Jullars just flat–out confessed lil it was nothing.
“Did you just
“What’s there to hide? Given everything between me and Yvette, doing something behind her back seems pretty reasonable, doesn’t it?”
Yvette played dirty behind closed doors.
What kind of skill was that? She might as well do it out in the open!
Sylvia was so stunned by her bluntness that she almost faluted.
“You. You..
“What, exactly? Are you hoping I’ll bring Amelia back to treat her illness, Malam Lloyd?”
That “Madan Lloyd” hit like a slap.
It made Syria freeze for a moins.
She only realized now that Juliana had never called her “Mum” since she returned to the Larson residence.
But she’d never called her Malam Lloyd, either. And now that she had, it hit hard.
Sylvia couldn’t help blurting out, “I’m your mother!”
jefterisatied, “Viri. Larson, are trying to something so pointless over the phone
og either Madeen Lord or Mr.
‘she was uning the conversation was pointless
Sylvia delt ka ber chest was being crushed. It was hard to breathe or think. She took several deep breaths. “Bring Dr. Harrison Back,
suanded like a compromise, maybe even surrender.
e only warned Amelia back to save Yvette. The card being reactivated was just a bribe.
Julima leighed lightly: “Are you trying to buy Yvette’s life for 3,000 dollars a month?
Hireny was suffocating.
The Larson family would spend over 10,000 dollars on a single piece of jewelry for Yvette, and her monthly allowance was always in the tens of
But for Juliana? When she first returned to the Larson residence, they gave her 10,000 dollars a month
Then Yvette commented that it was easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but not the other way around
Because of that, Sylvia said that Juliana would only get 5,000 dollars a month until she learned to manage her money.
All it took was a single comment from their precious foster daughter before they slashed her allowance in half
Even 5,000 dollars was too much, apparently, Yvette later claimed that Juliana didn’t really have a social life, and that she need not spend much
So, Sylvia declared, “We already have everything at home. You’re not like Yvette, You don’t need to network or entertain other rich ladies. You don’t need that much t
And just like that, a monthly allowance of 5,000 dollars became 1.000 dollars.
And now, it was all because of Yvette that they deactivated her card.
But did they really think she cared?
Her last remark had Sylvia so furious that she almost had a heart attack. “You You’re unbelievable!
She thought of Juliana es a curse instead of a daughter. Once again, she regretted ever bringing Name your price!”
back into the family. Then what do you want?
She thought she was making the biggest concession she possibly could, but the response was a cold due tone.
The call had been hung up.
When she tried to call again, she found that her number had been blacklisted again. She felt like she was going to explode. She couldn’t even breathe.
