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CHAPTER 237
When the red-haired woman pulled her hair over her ear, Steve as well as Jane felt their hearts skipping. She briefly glanced in their direction, and her striking eyes set Steve’s soul on fire. As if magic had captured his heart, he couldn’t look away even though he wanted to. Jane felt the same way. As if bound by some supernatural force, she found herself drooling at the red-haired woman’s beauty.When the red-haired woman shifted her focus back to Benjamin, they breathed better, though Jane’s heart still ached for Rebecca.“Whew…” Steve found himself sweating. “This must be what they call exotic beauty. She looks like she’s from another world.”“What?” Jane squinted her eyes. “You mean she’s better-looking than I am?”Steve’s shoulders jerked. “O-Of course not. You’re ten times prettier than her.” Just then, he noticed the drool on her face. “Wait, why are you drooling?”“W-What?” Jane quickly wiped her mouth. “I was drooling because of the sandwich, you idiot!” she threw a mild pu
CHAPTER 238
Rebecca took the shortest route to the Bergh restaurant, a place which she hadn’t even visited once before. Or maybe she did, but she didn’t remember.Either way, she couldn’t sit still as she drove her mother’s silver Audi S6. Selena bought the car the day after Jacob auctioned the villa, probably to piss him off. If not, to at least irritate him by reminding how she could buy whatever she wanted because she still had hundreds of millions sitting in her bank account.Even though Jacob and Shawn told Selena numerous times to invest her money somewhere else, Selena was too cautious of a woman to believe private companies. She was happy with earning fixed deposit interests or through bonds bought in reliable banks.Rebecca was driving in this car for the first time, but she wasn’t in the mood to enjoy this luxurious car.Her whole concentration was on what might be happening at the Bergh restaurant, so much so she even forgot to concentrate on the road ahead of her. She subconsciously d
CHAPTER 239
Benjamin skated through the city streets and was having fun, but his thoughts were still on what he should name the company he wanted to start with Rebecca. “I think R&B would be good. I’ll ask her opinion first.”As he was passing by a school, he saw a familiar person. The old guard at the main gate was picking up a cigarette off the ground. “Damn these kids. I told a few of them to not smoke inside the school, so they’re leaving cigarette butts right where I sit.” He shook his head and was about to sit back in the shade, but Benjamin swiftly came to a stop before him. He recognized Benjamin.“Devon… what are you doing here?” Benjamin asked. “I made a fixed deposit for you, and even gave your son some money. So why are you here, working as a watchman?”Devon, the old butler who had worked in the Sterling villa for decades, lowered his head in shame. “They took the money from me, Benjamin, and kicked me out.”Benjamin had already expected it, but still, hearing it from Devon’s mouth
CHAPTER 240
Steve hoped Donovan didn’t leave the apartment yet, even though he had warned both Donovan and Jasmine to leave within 24 hours. However, when he went to their room, it was still locked from the inside. He kicked the door open. He and Jane then entered the room together. Both Donovan and Jasmine were having sex in the bedroom, even though they were sick with chickenpox.While Jane felt disgusted by it, Steve grabbed the broom and started beating the crap out of Donovan, not even giving him any time to talk. Donovan caught the broomstick at one point and tried to gain the upperhand, but then Steve took his gun out.“You’re not gonna shoot me,” Donovan confidently said, swinging the broom at Steve, but the bullet hit Donovan’s arm first.Jasmine started screaming, still in bed and having covered her nakedness with the blanket and pillow.Donovan jumped on both feet and cringed in pain. Steve put the gun away and implemented his shadow-boxing routine on Donovan until he went down on the
CHAPTER 241
Rebecca was in the shower, cooling her head for the past fifteen minutes. She was thinking about her mother.“She lies, tricks, and does cynical stuff at times, but she still cares for the family.” Rebecca thought. “She’s close-fisted, but when it matters, she spends money without worrying.”She remembered how Selena paid for the hospital bills and also hired bodyguards and nurses and even began overseeing the meal preparation when Selena generally didn’t like stepping into the kitchen because of the smells. Selena also believed that someone like her shouldn’t cook in the kitchen, and so Rebecca also didn’t learn cooking until recently.“She’s much more selfish than me, but there’s still a sense of warped love hidden behind her actions,” Rebecca murmured to herself. “Of course, I’m not the one who’s supposed to forgive her for what she keeps doing to Benjamin, but I can, maybe, forgive her for keeping all my money with her.”Since Selena was taking responsibility for her family when n
CHAPTER 242
In Selena’s room.Selena had just come to her room, and she was trying to get some sleep before dinner-time, but she was struggling because her nose wasn’t healed yet, and she was finding it hard to breathe, especially when lying down on the bed. Whenever she didn’t get sleep, she would generally read a book until she slipped into asleep, but tonight, she was just talking to herself.“The nose surgery will be perfect, I’m sure, and it’ll look more beautiful than before,” Selena briefly remembered how she was born with a slightly upturned nose, and her childhood friends used to call her Pug all the time, even though she was the class representative. They used to poke her with the pencils from back benches, steal her items, and mistreat her a lot in many different ways. One day, she fought with the entire class during recess, and she ended up smashing a girl’s face into the window and breaking her nose. Her friend later got their nose repaired, and that made Selena want to change the wa
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Selena was sleeping, and someone patted her hard and fast. Multiple times. She woke up in startlement, only to see her daughter and her son-in-law standing behind her, wearing hard faces. “Rebecca?”“Why did you kill him?” Rebecca straightforwardly asked.“Kill whom?” Selena asked back just as fast.“Devon. Why did you get him beaten to death?” Rebecca demanded an answer right in front of Benjamin, which Selena didn’t like and made her face scrunch.“Nonsense. Devon left his job long ago,” Selena stated confidently. “It’s been a while since I last saw him.”Rebecca took Benjamin’s mobile and showed her mom the camera recording from the villa’s footage. It showed Devon getting beat up by the bodyguards.Selena frowned, but she quickly said, “I can’t even see his face clearly, but even if it’s Devon, and he got beaten to death by the bodyguards, why are you upset about it? He’s just a useless old guy who has become a slave to his habits.”Rebecca ground her teeth. She wanted to throw th
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Only Rebecca, Benjamin, and Delle didn’t eat dinner because of the same reason: Devon’s death. Delle had a good relationship with Devon, so her conscience didn’t let her eat that night, either.Delle was taking care of Jacob until Selena entered the room and told her to leave.Selena closed the door and sat next to Jacob’s bed.A minute passed silently.“How are your eyes?” asked Jacob, wearing a poker face.Selena sucked in a breath through the gap between her teeth. “You must be feeling quite happy inside.”“She’s your daughter first,” Jacob was able to slightly move his arms and legs now. A good night’s sleep would be enough for him to get up, he thought. “But throwing orange juice in the eyes? Just what did you do to piss her off that much?”She harrumphed. “You already know everything, yet you ask me like an innocent child.”“Well, you took her hard-earned money and kept it with you,” Jacob frankly said. “She didn’t do anything at that time because she’s not money-minded, but she