Substitute Mother
Chapters 132. Deal
Judith was never this big. Even when they first set foot in Jeanno's office to talk about their employment contract. But this time it was different, his feeling said that the meeting was not a place of peace. Unless otherwise.
Judith shook her head, trying to ignore disturbing negative thoughts. His conversation with Nora on the phone didn't help much either. Nora just said there were important things to talk about, and it couldn't be delivered by phone.
Ding!
Elevator door open. Last time he was here, there was a food box in his hand for Jeanno to eat. Now, his hand is empty. Initially he wanted to make lunch, but was canceled for fear that the mood of his young master was in a bad state.
“Master is waiting inside”
There was something different about Nora. Judith can see it. The beautiful secretary used to welcome him kindly and warmly, despite the pressure on the job. But this time, Nora threw away her face after saying so. The girl drowned again in the somehow-nothing report. As if busy themselves so as to prevent Judith to ask what is wrong.
“Yes. Thanks, Nora”
That was all Judith could say, before taking a few breaths. Gathering the courage to knock on Jeanno's door.
“Masuk”
Whether what's going to happen inside, Judith would rather put it all together.
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“Where's Henry?”
Arjuna shrugged his shoulders. “He was in the hospital accompanying his treated oma. I've asked her to meet but she doesn't want”*
“Alright, just you guys I think it's enough”*
Two thick friends Jeanno looked at each other. “You sure about this, Sharin? What you want to do, it's a serious act. Can take us all to the realm of law”*
Sharin, who had already told Andy her plan, laughed lightly at the man's warning. “Then do as neat as possible. Besides if it gets discovered, my father's name can bring us free from any punishment”*
“So much do you hate Nayara? Well, I'm willing to help because I'm just like you, I don't like that girl. But if you ‘ obliterated’ Nayara, what makes you sure Jeanno will come back to you?”*
Sharin squinted her eyes at Arjuna. “He's my toughest rival. If there is no Nayara, I am the closest woman to Jeanno and her family. I was her parents' first choice to be a son-in-law”*
“So the point, do you want to help or not?”*
“What's the reward?”*
The beautiful girl leaned her back, then folded her hands haughtily. “Unit my apartment in E area, you can have it. It is up to you to sell and then split in two or how, I submit fully”*
Everyone knows the apartment building in the E area is the most strategic and bona fide place, and has an unusually high selling price even for the smallest type. While the Sharin has is the second largest unit.*
Without a second thought, the two men with initials A smiled. “Deal”*
*
“Masuk”
“Sit”
Judith did nothing but do as Jeanno ordered. The man only said a single word, yet an intimidating aura so powerful was oozing out. Makes his opponent not warty.
“My goal here is to tell you a few things”
Judith hates Jeanno's treatment. How the man treated her like a cheap woman satisfied with sheer desire. It was true that he used to be in the night world, but Jeanno had no right to treat him as harshly as yesterday.
Judith hated the fact that she missed Jeanno too. Missed his face, missed his voice, missed his scent. Every part of Jeanno had become an opium to him. His feeling grew warmer because of the innate from his fetus perhaps?
“First. I'm going to cancel our agreement”
It didn't take Jeanno twice to say the same thing to make Judith's eyes look perfect. “A-what?”
“You have breached one of the agreement points. Not to fall in love with me. Didn't I tell you from the beginning?”
If Jeanno had known that Judith had also broken one more point.
“See very clearly, Judith. How you behave. How you look at me. You must be imagining if our play turns into reality, hm?”
Jeanno got up from her seat, stepped around her desk, to stop behind Judith's chair, her body stiffened like a nearly broken wire. “You... once dreamed of becoming Nayara, didn't you?”
The man, still in low intonation full of intimidation and a terrible grin, lowered his body parallel to Judith's head. “Should I wake up ‘places’mu, Aleta?”
A successful name awakens the reaction of the interlocutor. Judith's reflexes turned right away.
“Why? Surprised are you called by a name you haven't heard in a long time?”
“You know, Aleta? I hate lies so much. I don't know what you said to Mark until he dares cover up other facts about you. Makes me like a fool here”
Trying to disguise his nervousness, Judith responded. “Meanour name? I don't understand why we brought Brother Mark's name here”
Jeanno steps back to her desk, grabs a blue map to throw into Judith's lap. “Read”
“Ironis hm? Nayaraku was accused of being a cheap woman because her biological parents had a dirty job. My nayaraku is thought to use his body to seduce me. She was considered a lowly woman during her life”
Jeanno did not heed Judith's body's response, her hands trembling, reading one word at a time.
“Ironis when all this time it turns out ‘parent’ who is considered as his father and mother, with a background of trash, it turns out to be your story! You and your family have put us in trouble before I even knew you”
If Judith had held back so hard not to cry, then this time her tears could no longer be dammed. Her ears were hot, her lips paled and her hands could not stop shaking.
“And you still have the guts to dream of being Nayara's replacement?” Jeanno chuckled lightly. “Even your fingertips are inappropriate, Aleta. You will never be comparable to Nayara”
Call Jeanno already dead empaths, for let alone pity. The man actually scrunched his forehead full of hate when the interlocutor just silently pecked.
“You deserve to go back to where you were, as a prostitute”
**
Hannah snorted for the umpteenth time when the call ended in a voicemail. Judith is not usually difficult to contact. Usually even though long reply, his friend's phone is always active. It makes her feel worse.
“Can you be contacted?”
Hannah looked at her husband, then gave him an answer in the form of a headband. “How about Jeanno?”
“I also can't reach him. My call was always rejected. Something Jeanno never did”
Hannah took a long breath. Not without reason the newlywed couple tried to contact his relatives. This morning Nora calls Mark, saying that Jeanno will hold a board meeting to replace Mark with someone else. Which shouldn't have happened without Mark's knowledge. If it had to be replaced, Sebastian's man wouldn't mind. Isn't it just too sudden and strange? The tempo of the day is all fine. No one bothered Jeanno but the man was forced to take the file to Mark's room alone. But is it because of that then Jeanno decided to replace Mark?
If it is, Mark doesn't think his cousin is this close.
“We go home tomorrow”
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