Willow ate her dinner with Jeffery

    Jeffrey didn’t mention a single word about the Gibson family’s bfinancial /bissues. Instead, he merely talked to her about her day,

    bWillow /bonly felt even more guilty due to him putting on a brave front. She took out a check and ced it on his tidy desk. She had written the amount she had in her savings, totaling around two billion dors.

    jettery looked at the check band /basked softly, “What is this?”

    Willow continued munching on her food. “You can consider that bas /bme trying to give you a hand,”

    Jeffrey slid the check back to her and intoned solemnly. “Willow, that a lot of money. However, thepany owes over 20 billion dors because of this contract We’re still negotiating the terms, but it’s going to be an ardumus process.”

    Besides, he would never allow himself to ept Willow’s money. As for the reason why… Well, there was no need to put things into words.

    Willow had spent years of her blood, sweat, and tears just to save up all that money. Therefore, Jeffrey’s pride and conscience would never allow him to ept the

    check

    He wouldn’t be able to live with himself if he d

    did.

    Willow tell silent. After a while, she eventually said the words that had been

    had been in her mind all this time. “Jeffrey, I’m sorry.”

    Jettrey hesitated momentarily before rattling her bhair/b. “What are you saying? This isn’t your fault “

    bs/b, Willow knew that it was her fault bbecause /bJulian was the mastermind behind this scandal.

    Gibson Group’s scandal remained one of the hottest topics the media loved to bb /babour for the following week

    willow pulled all the strings she had in her hands and rang up all the connections she possessed to bmake /bthings right. Unfortunately, everyone in Brindley knew that Julian was bbehind /bbthis/b, so none of then dared to offer her any help. In the end, Willow still failed to help Jeffrey.

    Yet, Gibson Group bwas /bin dire bstraits /bbecause of her. She couldn’t remain sitting bon /bthe sidelines as things crashed band /bburned.

    As night fell, so did the city’s hastle and bustle.

    Willow stood on her apartment’s terrace as the night breeze blew past her long, dark hair. A faint, woodsy scent wafted alongside the breeze. It was bsoothing /band refreshing, but Willow’s mind was far from calm.

    She had chugged down two cans of beer before eventually biting the bullet and dialing Julian’s number.

    The phone rang for a couple of seconds before he finally answered.

    she didn’t bother beating around the bush. Instead, she sounded weary as she bsaid/bb, /bb“/bJulianb, /blet’s make ba /bdeal. I’ll transfer 10% of Neb Group’s shares over to you I’ll even include two billion dors in cash and one auction house to sweeten the deak, You can have it all as long as you let jeffrey band /bme go. What do you say?”

    Julian let out a bark ofughter on the other bend /bof the line.

    He responded with a question of his own, asking. “Do you hear yourself? bThat’s /ball of your savingsb, /bAre you willing to start from square one just for someone like Jeffreyb? /bbIs /bhe worth it, Willow? is someone like Jeffrey worthy of

    your

    Willow didn’t even hesitate. “Yes, bhe’s /bworth it. I owe jeffrey this much.”

    A pregnant silence seemed to drag out on both sides of the phone.

    It appeared that julian was trying to keep a hold of his temper as he answered in his usual gentlemanly tone, “Willow, bdo /byou think this is what I want? I’m sure you know what exactly it is that I want after all I’ve done. I told you, didn’t I? Come to Yarrowmere if you want to talk things out.”

    Perhaps he was truly angered by her words because he hung up on her right after that. All she could hear pow was the sound of the monotonous beeping of an ended

    ers bas /bshe blinked I in acknowledgement.

    The phone slid from Willow’s fingers as she

    Yes, she knew what he wanted.

    Yet, how could she willingly fall into that trap heid for her? How could she return to julian’s side after all the effort abe put into freeing herselt from bhim/bb? /bbFrom /bwwaping their marriage?