18\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 25\u00a0<\/p>\n
Juliet\u2019s doorbell rang the next day. Her heart lurched as she thought it might be Zachary\u00a0<\/p>\n
outside her door.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But after glancing out the peephole, Juliet saw that it was just Jesse, Asher\u2019s assistant. There was a stiff and practiced smile on Jesse\u2019s face as he gazed at the peephole.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Juliet didn\u2019t want to open the door for him. She was about to text him to leave when-\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMrs. Greene, it\u2019s me, Jesse.\u201d Jesse leaned against the door as if having anticipated Juliet\u2019s reaction. He even waved at the peephole in a friendly manner. \u201cMrs. Greene? My most gracious lady, the most beautiful and most divine of her name-please open the door!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Juliet was left speechless by Jesse\u2019s little display.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Not wanting her neighbors to complain about the spectacle, Juliet opened the door in the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jesse slipped into her apartment and swiftly blocked the door with his shoulder, keeping it open. He then waved in the direction behind him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Half a dozen men with toolboxes and blueprints instantly flooded into the apartment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One began measuring the living room\u2019s width with a measuring tape, while another took out some color cards and began comparing the shades with the walls. Meanwhile, a bespectacled interior designer began taking photos of the apartment interior.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe wall structure can be modified. Once we knock this wall out, we can open up the kitchen\u00a0<\/p>\n
area more.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lights in here are too dim. We can swap them for AI-powered ambient lights instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on the measurements of the interior, Izzalian minimalist decor would maximise the sense of space. We can install some slab walls on this side too, since we have an unlimited budget.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Juliet\u2019s brows furrowed together. \u201cWhat on Earth are you doing, Jesse?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Greene instructed me to get you an interior designer to help you refurbish the apartment \u2013based on your preferences, of course,\u201d Jesse said with a chuckle, \u201cThere\u2019s no need to settle for less even if you\u2019re living on your own.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Juliet huffed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If Juliet used Asher\u2019s money to renovate her apartment, wouldn\u2019t this space naturally become\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 25\u00a0<\/p>\n
part of his domain down the line?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one\u2019s settling for less here. Better to live in my little hovel than in a gilded cage of someone else\u2019s making. Now stop it, all of you!\u201d Juliet snapped.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her shrill voice made everyone halt in their movements.\u00a0<\/p>\n
2\/3\u00a0<\/p>\n
When the men still refused to leave, Juliet took out the divorce papers she\u2019d kept in a cupboard in the foyer. She then shoved it into Jesse\u2019s hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHave Asher sign this, and we\u2019re even. Tell him I\u2019m giving him seven days to sign this. If he still refuses by the end of the seventh day, I\u2019ll get a lawyer to deal with him,\u201d Juliet said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jesse felt incredibly overwhelmed by the weight of the document in his hands. He nearly fell to his knees in response.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He then hurriedly called for the designer and his team to leave.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, my dear Mrs. Greene-please don\u2019t make things so hard for me.\u201d Jesse\u2019s face had contorted in despair.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just a messenger. Please spare a simple peasant like me from the fallout of your and Mr Greene\u2019s war. Mr. Greene has been out of it for days. He got distracted during meetings and even signed the wrong documents several times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Greene lost a lot of weight too! He\u2019s only a shadow of the handsome and domineering man he used to be. Please, Mrs. Greene. Mr. Greene may be stubborn with his words, but he actually deeply cares about you,\u201d Jesse said in a pleading tone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Any tears shed by him right now would just be icing on the cake.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Greene cares about you, Mrs. Greene. Look-he even transferred some cash to you for fear that you might be struggling out here on your own. It was initially 500 thousand dollars, but then he added another one million yesterday! You have a total of 1.5 million dollars in that account right now!\u201d Jesse cried.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There was no emotion in Juliet\u2019s expression right now. \u201cTransferred some cash to me? I\u2019m pretty sure he sent that to Evangeline, because I haven\u2019t seen a single cent in my account.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s impossible!\u201d Jesse cried. He took out his phone in a panic to verify the account information. \u201cMr. Greene transferred the money to your card, the one ending with 0817!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
0817-17th of August, Asher\u2019s birthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Only then did Juliet recall that she did, in fact, possess said card.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When Juliet\u2019s parents had wanted to join a partnership to start a business, they\u2019d found that\u00a0<\/p>\n
their bank and bad a transfer limit. Since fullet had two cards, she gave the one the rarely used\u00a0<\/p>\n
the one she gave here to her parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She early forget about that\u00a0<\/p>\n
that card is with my parents right now,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Besace paled instantly\u00a0<\/p>\n
18\u00a0 Chapter 25\u00a0 Juliet\u2019s doorbell rang the next day. Her heart lurched as she thought it might be Zachary\u00a0 outside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-save-your-pleas-im-with-your-best-friend-now-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}