CHAPTER 188: CHAPTER 188: SIR, MISS JACOBS DOESN’T WANT YOU ANYMORE

At this moment, a Maybach pulled up beside them.

Evan Grant stepped out from inside...

Inside the business car, the situation suddenly changed.

The three men were tied up like worms, their faces unhurt, but their bodies in bad shape.

Raine Kane leaned against the car door and said to Juliana Jacobs, "There’s one left who can still talk. Ask whatever you want."

Juliana exchanged a look with her, and Raine understood, swiftly retreating to a spot five meters away, maintaining her distance yet keeping them in sight.

Juliana nodded at her, a gesture of thanks for the unspoken understanding.

"Are you one of Mrs. Langley’s people?" she asked.

Nathan Chapman was being held down by two burly men, breathing heavily but with resolve.

"I will never betray my boss."

Juliana took off her shoe.

The sharp heel was raised high, poised at his eye.

"Answer seriously."

Nathan swallowed, "I’m just following orders. If I weren’t reliable, I wouldn’t have lasted until now."

Alright, that’s an indirect admission.

"Then..." Juliana paused, "Are you his most skilled bodyguard?"

"Of course."

Juliana raised the shoe again.

Nathan panicked, "It’s the truth this time, I’m not lying."

"I’ve seen that assassin, tall and thin, his build doesn’t match this chubby guy." Raine said from five meters away.

Juliana turned her eyes towards her.

The reason she stood far was so she wouldn’t hear the conversation, but her ears were too keen...

Raine closed her mouth.

Juliana’s gaze returned to Nathan, "Besides you, does Leona Sheridan have anyone else she can use?"

Nathan sighed, "No, with her standing, she knows the more people involved, the more likely mistakes will happen. People she can trust are too few, and even fewer she dares to use. She always contacts me directly, never through a third party."

Juliana frowned slightly at his words.

"Miss Jacobs, her malice towards you isn’t that deep, she just wants you away from the young master for a while. Why don’t you... take a vacation?"

Juliana laughed at his words, "Your young master is right in this restaurant. How about I send you to him and let them turn against each other?"

"Don’t!" Nathan was a bit flustered, "The Madam will kill me."

"Then convince him to find someone to take the fall for Adrian Langley’s situation."

Nathan was a bit stunned.

"The shell company that tricked him into signing the contract, don’t pretend you don’t know."

Nathan opened his mouth, seeming to want to agree but was troubled.

Juliana gestured to Raine.

Raine walked over.

"Is there any way to make him more confident in convincing his Madam?"

Raine looked at it as a small matter, "Leave it to me!"

The next second, the car door closed.

Nathan’s wailing was completely muffled inside the car.

A few minutes later, Raine opened the car door and jumped out.

Inside, Nathan was stumbling through a phone call.

Raine dusted her hands and said to Juliana, "No big problem."

Juliana nodded.

Evan Grant, having grown impatient, got out of the car and approached.

"When do we leave together?"

Juliana’s gaze was indifferent, "I’ll go say a word to Jared Langley."

Evan chuckled with a sneer.

Juliana turned her eyes to Raine, "Once everything is settled, please send Leona Sheridan’s dog back to her."

Raine didn’t refuse, "But are you going with him?"

She glanced at Evan Grant.

Juliana nodded and headed towards the restaurant’s back door.

Before she could reach the spot where she was kidnapped, Jared Langley found her.

"You’ve been gone so long, where did you go?"

Juliana didn’t have a chance to respond before Jared’s face darkened.

Because Evan Grant appeared behind her.

Evan said nonchalantly, "We were chatting outside for a bit. You only thought to find her now. If I were a dangerous person, would you be preparing to clean up her corpse?"

Juliana cast a glance at him, not speaking.

Jared lifted his chin, arrogantly retorting, "I’m not like you, keeping a murderer’s brother and a ruthless stepsister around, letting them abuse your wife. She’s safe with me."

Evan’s smile didn’t reach his eyes, "It seems President Langley is different from before; you didn’t use to be so full of yourself."

Jared didn’t want outsiders seeing the flaws in his fragmented memory, so he looked at Juliana, "Once you’re done talking, let’s leave."

But Juliana remained where she stood, "It’s not over yet. He’ll take me to the office, and we’ll talk on the way."

Jared’s expression subtly changed, repressing his emotions, "Remember whose fiancée you are now!"

Evan raised a playful brow.

Juliana remained calm, even coldly retorted, "I’m just talking to him, is that something shameful? Does it have to make you this tense?"

Jared was choked by her words, his face turning more unsightly.

Juliana feared he might have an episode, so she quickly stepped forward and patted his back, "I know what you want to say to me, but let me think about it. I have something to do today; I’ll go now."

Saying that, without waiting for his reaction, Juliana left the restaurant with Evan.

Things went smoothly on Raine’s end, but not long after, Elias Langley’s call came through.

After hearing Elias’s question, Raine looked at the departing Maybach and reported directly, "Sir, Miss Jacobs doesn’t want you anymore; she left with her ex-husband."

Elias Langley, "..."

In the Maybach, Juliana sat leaning against the car door, gazing out the window.

Evan smiled faintly, "I know Jared hurt his brain, but I didn’t expect Elias Langley actually agreed to make you his fiancée. Are women shared in the Langley Family?"

Juliana turned her eyes, her gaze at him void of warmth, "Jared saved me. I’m cooperating with his treatment. Even if there’s something between us, it’s none of your business. Didn’t you say developments are happening on your end?"

Evan’s gaze darkened as he shifted back to the main topic, "The woman who was protecting you earlier, she was also at the abandoned factory that day."

"So what?"

"She was present when Summer was killed, but didn’t intervene. There’s something else; the lab that Mr. Shaw found in Kingsford, capable of cultivating heart cells, guess who’s in charge?"

Juliana furrowed her brows, an unidentified unease rising in her heart.

Evan’s smile deepened.

"It’s the Sinclair Family’s second daughter, Florence Sinclair. Which means, the day we were desperate over Summer Shaw’s heart, devastated, Elias Langley knew of the Sinclair Family’s shortcut but watched you in despair, saying nothing. Do you know what that implies?"

Juliana clenched her fingers, dispelling the wavering in her heart.

But Evan answered for her, "Juliana, if you were his beloved, your matters would be his, but if he only sees you as a substitute, he has no reason to bother. Do you still believe..."

"Enough!" Juliana shouted at him.

Those words were like a cold key unlocking the Pandora’s box named "uncertainty" in her heart.

The little wife he pampered for over a decade, even willing to marry just her memorial tablet, and the authority to let the so-called "sister-in-law" roam around his hotel in a short nightdress.

This was the unease she felt being with Elias Langley these days.

Evan keenly sensed the crack in Juliana’s emotions, believing the time was right.

He reached out, wanting to gently caress her cheek as he used to,

However, before his fingertips could touch, Juliana, as if approached by a wild beast, forcefully slapped his hand away, shouting fiercely: "Don’t touch me!"

"Juliana, the danger around me is resolved, we can re..."

Evan was about to assertively approach again.

A Hongqi suddenly overtook from the side, forcing their car to a halt.

The car door opened, Elias Langley stepped out and looked at the pair in the backseat through the Maybach’s windshield.