Chapter 29\u00a0<\/p>\n
1\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n
This was a question Juliet had had in her heart for many years. She didn\u2019t understand why her mother could stand a man like her father.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jolene\u2019s gaze wandered out the window. She sighed long and hard, a sound filled with exasperation as well as acceptance. There wasn\u2019t a single hint of regret, however.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWell\u2026 I fell in love with your father\u2019s looks back when I was young,\u201d Jolene said. A shy, girlish smile appeared on her lips as she reminisced about the past. \u201cThose eyes of his \u2014one look was enough to disarm you for good. I\u2019d get so angry whenever he got reckless. Yet the moment I looked at James, I\u2019d soften up and not be able to stay angry at him anymore.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
James\u2019 face surfaced in Juliet\u2019s mind. It was true that James was a very handsome man.\u00a0<\/p>\n
James had a handsome facial structure, mesmerizingly tender eyes, and beautifully shaped lips. He was famous throughout the region for his looks back in his youth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Even though James was in his 50s now and worn down by both age and addiction, his charming looks were still here to stay. The rogueish charm of his as he snapped at people with a cigarette between his lips still captivated many women.\u00a0<\/p>\n
James had that rugged, mature bad-boy charisma that one could find in many older actors on\u00a0<\/p>\n
screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Not even the blurriest of old photos could obscure the charm of his eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Juliet suddenly recalled the flyer Ariane had shown her a couple of days ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If even plain -looking and fairly unattractive men could make women fall utterly head over heels for them, then it was only a given that the same applied to her father, who\u2019d never lost much of his good looks even with age.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Jolene was a pretty good-looking woman too. She had curves in all the right places. Her good looks were only second to James\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI know James is a scoundrel,\u201d Jolene said, her voice pulling Juliet back to the present. \u201cBut I\u2019m a hopeless romantic, after all. I fell head over heels for James, which I\u2019ve accepted wholeheartedly. That\u2019s just how my life is going to be for me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jolene had so unabashedly admitted her \u201cdelusions\u201d without masking even a shred of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the path I chose to take. I\u2019ve never regretted it, nor will I ever do so,\u201d Jolene added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jolene\u2019s cheeks turned pink suddenly as her eyes lit up. \u201cAll the hardship I suffer feels worth it\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Chapter 29\u00a0<\/p>\n
as long as I get to make love with your father from time to time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
2\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Juliet\u2019s cheeks grew warm. She was stunned speechless by her mother\u2019s incredibly blunt words.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Juliet used to think that Jolene chose not to retaliate against James out of fear and weakness. She never imagined that Jolene only did so because she found joy in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It really did seem like everyone had their own way of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jolene chuckled loudly, as if she\u2019d finally released a great weight from her chest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI used to think you were just like me, Jules-that you married Asher for his looks too. Asher is far more handsome than your father, and richer too. He\u2019s way more powerful than your father ever could be. I thought you\u2019d never be able to give up on Asher for the rest of your life. Turns out you\u2019re much wiser than I am.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve spent so many years earning money to sustain your father, only to neglect you in the process. I was selfish, devoting so much of my love and care to your father instead of you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Juliet didn\u2019t blame Jolene. Juliet wasn\u2019t old school when it came to this regard-she didn\u2019t believe that parents necessarily had to sacrifice everything for their children.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was just that Juliet had experienced a lot of suffering when she was a child without her\u00a0<\/p>\n
mother around.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But what could Jolene have done? She couldn\u2019t have raised Juliet after taking on a\u00a0<\/p>\n
housekeeping job in Navalton. There were simply too many things beyond Jolene\u2019s reach at that point.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s normal for those from an ordinary family to struggle between work and care in order to earn a living,\u201d Juliet said. She was about to become a mother too, so she could understand a little of Jolene\u2019s helplessness.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHumans are complicated creatures. If everyone could balance earning a living and having a good life, the world wouldn\u2019t be divided into the rich and the poor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jolene reached out and caressed Juliet\u2019s hair. There was a curious gleam in the former\u2019s eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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PLAY FREE\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 29\u00a0 1\/2\u00a0 This was a question Juliet had had in her heart for many years. She didn\u2019t understand why […]<\/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-409","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\/409","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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}