He's my (Former) wife

Young Widow

A flower shop 'Lavender Love' has been open since eight in the morning. Many visitors, both men and women, deliberately buy flowers from Isabelle stores.

Isabelle is also preparing to help Calio after lunch, as she promised last night.

"Excuse me!" A man came in a neat suit from an office employee.

"Please enter! How can I help you, sir?!" Isabelle welcomed me kindly because it was her duty as a shopkeeper.

"Miss Isabelle Aringwyn?" asked the man, Isabelle nodded with a look of wonder.

"I'm the secretary of Xander Group, I have something to talk to you about!" said the man again.

"X-Xander Group?" Isabelle was very surprised, of course she was no stranger to the name. A name that was once his last name.

"Right, we are conducting a land observation for all the shops that are in the Xander Group area," the man replied at length, Isabelle only nodded, but at least she could breathe a sigh of relief from her anxiety.

"Oh so? Please sit!" Isabelle guided her guests to sit on a sofa on the side of the store.

After allowing her guests to sit down, Isabelle immediately served a cup of coffee, as their conversation must have lasted a little longer.

One that Isabelle didn't understand, what kind of land observation did the office man want to talk about? Isabelle only knew she was buying land directly from the bank.

...

Isabelle was agitated because the incident was quite draining her emotions. How the man who claimed to be secretary of the Xander Group said that the land he occupied would be purchased by the company.

Isabelle also asked the elderly Italian-Calio man who had agreed that his restaurant was taken over because they had applied for double the price so that the small shop owners became tempted and sold their store to Xander Group without thinking.

The young widow Isabelle did not want to sell at all because the store was the result of the work of the brother who gave a will so that he took good care of her.

'If you feel any objection, you can meet our director to negotiate.'

The man's words continued to ring, how he could meet the director of Xander Group who was none other than his former father-in-law. That's what Isabelle had in mind.

The anxiety felt by the young woman recalled the scandal of her marriage to the director's son. Isabelle doesn't know if Xander's family knows her? Do they know he's the one who manipulated the marriage with Jake Ryan?

"Oh my God, what am I supposed to do?" murmured Isabelle while rubbing her face with both palms.

"Sister, how's this?" ogre.

The Xander Group gave him a week to think about the offer. Does he have to see the director?

...

Jake returns to see Isabelle's shop from inside her luxury car. A smile was imprinted on Jake's handsome face, surely it was a cynical smile full of satisfaction.

"Prepare to get punished for what you've done to me!" muttered Jake.

"Isabelle Aringwyn I don't even know your face" said Jake, of course he didn't know his ex-wife's face so clearly, because he had only met at a glance in two meetings.

"I also want to see your brother's face, how will he behave if he finds out that his beloved sister is suffering." Jake was still muttering, the man clucked from feeling like he was a mad man as he continued muttering while staring at the closed flower shop.

...

The bright morning did not make Isabelle feel the same way as she did. The young woman stared softly at the situation around the front of her shop.

Calio's Italian restaurant and several other stores have closed because they have been sold to the Xander Group who want to expand their reach and show how strong the company is.

Isabelle was confused, as a man named Chen called her back to make a decision. Even the man offered a price more than anyone else.

Isabelle was not tempted at all, but the problem was that she did not have the power to keep the store of the brother's gift.

Maybe he is not alone, there are still some shops that still survive, but the pressure from the Xander Group can change their thinking, if it continues to raise the nominal bid.

...

"How, Chen?" jake asked the secretary.

"Nearly 80 percent went smoothly, some were still negotiating and one person who gave absolutely no answer even refused outright," Chen replied at length.

Hearing that Jake raised one eyebrow. "really? Who's that?" tanyakanya.

"Miss Isabelle Aringwyn in block 6 rejected this offer" Chen replied.

"Hmm, then did you ask him to negotiate with me?" Jake asked back.

"of course. He said he'd think about it. It seems like he also doesn't know if your father is retired" Chen said. As everyone knows, Jake is the new director for the Xander Group.

Jake smiled meaningfully, who did not know his father. The ex-wife apparently did not know if he was the one who replaced the highest position in the company.

"I can represent you, Sir!" haggle Chen to the superior.

"No need, Chen! For this one I can take my time" Jake replied with a smile at his secretary.

"Good, Master!" Chen bowed then left the director's room.

After Chen's departure, the three-ten-five-year-old fell silent as he stared at the copy of the land ownership file on behalf of his ex-wife.

The man rubbed his face violently. To be honest he didn't like to suppress the weak, but he was still angry and upset over what had happened to him in the past.

"We'll see what happens!" lirih.

"Take it off, it's too easy for you, Isabelle!" continued.

Jake keeps the file and goes immediately to a stock meeting to be led by himself.

...

Isabelle smiled as a friend comforted her with a joke, after deciding to close the shop for a moment she went to visit an old friend.

Isabelle also tells about the problems she is currently experiencing with the company of her ex-husband.

"So so? I don't understand, they don't recognize your name?" ask Isabelle-Mariela's friend.

"Why don't you just meet your ex-in-law! Tell them the truth. After all, that spoiled son must be responsible for you!" Mariela said at length to her friend who was holding a three-month-old baby boy.

"I can't, Mariela! It was my fault" Isabelle said as she stared at the little baby in her lap.

"Then, are you going to let that man take no responsibility for your son?" Mariela held back the anger.

"That's my fault" Isabelle said, looking down.

"Yes, it's your fault and that idiot who's drunk, until you're pregnant and she doesn't know anything, sucks!" Mariela grumbled because of Isabelle's stupidity, according to her.

"Michael Ku is the most precious treasure," Isabelle said as she kissed the tiny baby's cheeks wriggling in her sling.

"Hmm, still she should know about the baby. Michael is his son too."

Isabelle was silent, it turned out that coming to Mariela even added to the burden of her mind. He doesn't want the Xander family to know if he and Jake have a child, even if it's all just a mistake and unintentionally.

TB

Whats? Isabelle and Jake have kids?

How could? There will be a caption ...

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