Filed To Story: A Second Chance with My Billionaire Love
“Damn right it is.”
Flossie tried to contain her laughter and looked at Halston mockingly. “You really are trying everything in the book to get me to withdraw charges, aren’t you? Unfortunately, even though we’ve been married for four years, you still don’t understand what kind of person I am…”
“You think if you say something nice to me, I’ll do anything you say, just like old times?”
Flossie shook her head and laughed at Halston’s arrogance.
“Before, you were my husband. I listened to what you said because I cared about you. But now, you’re just my ex–husband.
Your requests are nothing to me now. Why should I do what you want me to?”
Flossie’s words pierced into Halston’s heart like a sharp knife.
Although it did not make a big wound, the empty feeling it left behind was still unpleasant.
He only realized now that he seemed to have lost a very good woman…
Halston smiled self–deprecatingly. His voice was clear and chilly as he asked, “Am I really that kind of person in your eyes?”
Flossie shrugged, “Obviously?”
“Hahaha! You’re too full of yourself!”
Halston’s eyes became even colder and more aloof. His voice was cold and sharp. “If I want to save Jessanna, I have a hundred ways to save her. The reason I spent so much time negotiating with you is because I hope you can quell your anger. But now… I’m running out of patience. I’m done with this!”
Flossie felt that there were other meaning behind those words, so she said, “I knew it, you really are planning something big in secret. Face me head on if you’re a man!”
Halston did not answer. He opened the document before him and said coldly, “You can leave now!”
“Halston Guajardo, I warn you, you better not play any dirty tricks. I’ll make you pay if you do!”
Flossie’s fist smashed onto the desk in front of Halston to emphasize her fierce warning.
Halston did not say anything else to her. He simply picked up the phone and told the security to come escort her out.
Flossie was fuming. She left reluctantly.
She had come all this way but did not get any useful information at all. What a waste of time!
She desperately needed to vent all the negative emotions, so she opened the chat with the stranger again and sent a row of
כי
angry emojis.
As if that wasn’t enough, she also sent another wall of text.
“I’m so mad! SO MAD! My ex–husband is so annoying!”
“He’s already your ex–husband but he still makes you mad. Maybe you’re still in love with him?”
“Nonsense!”
Flossie gritted his teeth and typed a new message. “My hate for him just hasn’t subsided yet. If I could, I really wanted to chop him into pieces and feed him to the fish.”
“Good idea. I’ll buy you a knife if you need it.”
The guy’s reply made Flossie laugh out loud. “You’re the best, Mr. Moon.”
Looking at the his profile picture of the moon on the sea, she could almost feel the breeze blowing against her hair. She instantly felt less angry. She strode out of the H Group building with light steps.
What Flossie did not realize was that Halston was currently staring at her petite, nimble figure.
He leaned in front of the shiny French window, his deep eyes locked onto Flossie…
She seemed so small, just a tiny black dot in his vision, but he felt like he could not deal with her at all!
The reason why he released her nanny was really because he simply did not want to make her sad. Why wouldn’t she believe him?
At that moment, Halston’s phone rang.
With a slight frown, he said, “Okay, do it!”
Under the night sky, a white private jet was parked in a private hangar a distance away from the city center.
Jessanna, escorted by several strong–looking men, boarded the plane with trepidation.
“Halston, I knew you would save me!”
At the sight of the dignified man sitting inside the jet, the originally uneasy Jessanna excitedly threw herself at him.
However, Halston’s expression was cold, maybe even slightly annoyed.
“Tonight, the jet will send you to Cyseal City, where you’ll stay for the rest of your pregnancy. You will not make any contact with the outside world until the baby is born.”
His voice that was devoid of emotion flustered Jessanna.
“What’s the meaning of this, Halston? Are you trying to hide me away? How’s that any different from going to jail?”
Halston’s handsome face was expressionless as he coldly snorted, “You can choose to go back and go to jail if you want!”
“No!”
Jessanna was very emotional. She immediately transformed into a weak, helpless girl with tears streaming down her cheeks. She said pitifully, “Halston, what’s wrong with you? Why are you being so cold to me?”
“You know I’m innocent! Shouldn’t you help me clear my name? Instead, you’re hiding me out of sight like I’m some kind of embarrassment! Don’t you think this is really unfair to me?”
“Unfair?”
Halston coldly said, “You want to talk about fairness in front of Flossie Ellsworth? Don’t you think that’s the biggest unfairness of all?”
Jessanna was shocked by his cold attitude. She swallowed hard and said cautiously. “I… I don’t understand what you mean.”
She could clearly feel that the man was no longer as easily fooled as before.
“You’re pregnant with my brother’s child. That’s his only descendant. For the sake of his bloodline, Flossie could only compromise unconditionally.”
Halston’s eyes were sharp and piercing. “You use this to usurp Flossie from the position that rightfully belonged to her. You think this is fair?”
“… …”
Jessanna lowered her head and had no reply.
“If you had simply kept to yourself, I wouldn’t have said anything, and you could get everything that you want. Unfortunately…
you’re too greedy, too malicious. I won’t let you do as you please anymore!”
Halston was utterly disappointed with Jessanna.
He could not figure out how his excellent and upright elder brother could have fallen for a woman like her and even had a child with her. Even before he died, his last words to Halston was to take care of Jessanna and their child…
“Enough talking. Just go!”
Halston finished speaking and got up to leave.
Jessanna cried and blocked his path. “You misunderstood me, Halston! I’m not greedy! I just want to give birth to Tristan’s baby safely and give him a legitimate identity! It was your idea to divorce Miss Flossie and marry me! How come in the end, it’s all my
Jessanna’s words made Halston fall silent.
He suddenly wondered, if there was no Jessanna and no baby, would he have divorced Flossie?
He probably would have. After all, the marriage between him and Flossie was only a contractual marriage. There was no love between them. A divorce was probably only a matter of time.
“Halston, I know I’ve made a mistake. I promise you I’ll behave myself from now on. I’ll stay far away from Miss Flossie. All I want is to be with you and raise Tristan’s only child well. Please, give me another chance.”
Jessanna grabbed Halston’s arm and begged hard.
“The baby will be born in a few months. Do you really want him to come into this world in hiding as an illegitimate child? Do you want him to have no father, no legal identity?”
Jessanna’s round of questioning made Halston frown.
His looked coldly at Jessanna’s slightly bulging stomach. In the end, he relented. “We’ll talk again after the baby is born!”
“Okay. I trust you, Halston. I’ll do whatever you ask of me!”
Jessanna knew when to push her advantage and when to compromise. She said pitifully, “I’ll wait for you, wherever I am. The baby and I will be waiting for you!”
The private jet roared into the sky.
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.