Chapter 19
Even a slight brush against her clothes from Oliver made her feel like puking. She clung to her pants tightly to prevent Oliver from undressing her, and kicked him hard.
“Oliver, are you deaf or what? I said I was tired, and I don’t want to. Can you just stay away from me?”
She kicked him again. “Are you nuts?”
Oliver, who was kicked away by her, suddenly lost interest. As he was getting up and putting on his pants, he glared at Chloe and said fiercely, “Is that how you treat your man?”
Looking at this fierce man, Chloe couldn’t relate him to the gentle and caring person he used to be.
The old Oliver would prepare pineapple for her during her period to relieve her menstrual pain, help her clean her blood-stained underwear, and listen to her in everything.
And now?
Chloe didn’t know whether it was the seven years of married life that had changed Oliver, Or Oliver was just a jerk to begin with, but it didn’t matter anymore. Anyway, life was already a mess, how much worse could it get?
Facing the man who was accusing her, she didn’t even have the mood to argue. She’d rather sleep a bit more than waste her energy fighting with him. Because she was really tired.
Oliver got dressed and left angrily. He ran into Charlotte in the living room.
Charlotte had already heard the quarrel from inside the room, and seeing her son come out angrily, she asked hurriedly, “Oliver, what happened?”
Oliver looked upset, “I just got back, and she’s already giving me a hard time, not caring about me at all, forget it, I’ll go sleep in the guest room.”
Charlotte immediately went to knock on Chloe’s door.
Chloe got up to open the door.
“Oliver just got back from detention, you don’t care about him and even drove him to sleep in the guest room, how can you be so thoughtless?”
Charlotte’s expression was fierce.
Chloe was already used to it. She wasn’t afraid of being embarrassed, so she just said it, “Your son wanted to sleep with me as soon as he got back. I’ve been taking care of the kids and working at the same time these days, I’m so tired that I have no energy left, can’t I just have a good sleep? Is it me who is thoughtless, or is it him?”
“You have brought it on yourself” Charlotte said angrily, “it’s all your own choice, you deserve to be tired.”
Chloe was almost pissed off. She didn’t want to fight with Charlotte in the first place, but she couldn’t help it. But seeing Charlotte’s fierce look, she felt she probably wouldn’t win. She decided to save her energy, “Yes, I deserve to be tired,”
It was her own choice to marry Oliver, to marry into this family, no one else to blame.
“But I still have to go to work tomorrow, I don’t have the energy to fight with you, I’m going to sleep.” She closed the door and crawled back into bed tiredly
Charlotte outside the door grumbled for a while, seeing that she didn’t open the door, she had to leave in a huff.
Just as Chloe was about to rest, Austin woke up again.
Outside, Charlotte went to the guest room and saw her son lying on the bed laughing at his phone, she asked suspiciously, “Oliver, does Chloe have another man outside?”
Oliver was chatting with that beauty from last time.
“Mom.” He put down his phone and sat up immediately. “Why would you say that?”
“Why else would she not share the bed with you?” Charlotte speculated, “She must have another man outside.”
The one who actually had an affair was Oliver, and he hurriedly said, “Mom, don’t always be so suspicious. Chloe is not that kind of person.”
After the incident in the detention center, Roxanne and Chloe both threw themselves into work.
One day, Roxanne and Chloe went to check out their new house together. There was a crowd around the building site, holding banners Roxanne approached and asked, “Sir, what’s going on? Why are there so many banners? Did the developer fail to deliver the house on time and delay again?”
The man with glasses looked sad. “If only it was delayed. The developer took the money and ran away, and the construction has already stopped. We just found out.”
“This shameless developer, completely disregarding our life and death, all our down payments have been wasted, and we have to pay the bank loan every month.”
“How are we supposed to live? This is our life’s hard-earned money,”
Roxanne felt as if the sky was falling. “Sir, are you sure the developer ran away and construction stopped?”
“The first and second phases are half built, but the following phases didn’t even start. I can’t accept this…”
Roxanne suddenly felt weak in the knees, almost unable to stand. She had put down a down payment of several hundred thousand. That was the money she had worked hard for nearly twelve years at Seraphim Haven. Was the condo she was waiting for just stopped like this?
Chloe didn’t know how to comfort her, “Anne, don’t be anxious, there must be some room for negotiation, it can’t just stop like this, right?”
Roxanne also hoped there was room for negotiation. In the following days, she ran around, inquiring different departments, but even the government confirmed the developer’s run away. The house she made the down payment for, was really wasted.
For several days, Roxanne was in a bad mood, and even Vincent noticed. Vincent noticed that her came back from work very depressed in the evening, and asked, “Anne, are you having any trouble?”
Roxanne looked up and replied, “It seems that you’ll have to continue living in this cramped rental room.”
Vincent frowned, “You said the house would be ready soon, and asked me to help with the decoration, didn’t you?”
Roxanne felt depressed, “The developer took the money and ran away, the construction was halted, and the relevant departments are powerless.”
How could this happen?
“So you still have to pay the mortgage every month, right?”
“Yes.”
“How much a month?”
“More than eight thousand.”
“That’s a lot, you must be under a lot of pressure.” Vincent thought that a regular girl at Seraphim Haven had to pay more than eight thousand a month for mortgage. Indeed it was not easy.
For them, this eight thousand was nothing. But for the entrepreneurial Roxanne, this was not a small amount.
Vincent was trying to figure out how to ease some of Roxanne’s stress. He even went out of his way to research about the real estate property she bought and found out it was from a small-time developer. Turned out that the developer did dupe the buyers and the construction of the property had indeed been halted.
One day, Vincent dressed up in new clothes, ditching his previously shabby look, and headed to Rodriguez Manor. “Good morning, Mr. Vincent”
“Uh huh.” Vincent was in a hurry to see Harrison, and he was striding briskly
Seeing Vincent, Harrison joked, “Dad, shouldn’t you be at home cooking soup for your daughter-in-law? What brings you here?” Lately, Vincent had been dedicated to taking care of his daughter-in-law’s diet.
He said he hoped Roxanne could eat more so she wouldn’t have a hard time when she was pregnant. It was already five in the afternoon, and he should be at home making soup.
“Harrison.” Vincent walked in and said bluntly. “You take over that East Adjacent Estates property, continue to develop it under our brand, finish the halted construction as soon as possible, so the homeowners can move in sooner.”
“What? I’ve never heard of it.” Harrison frowned.
Vincent sat down, “It’s the small property Roxanne bought. The developer cheated the buyers, and the construction was stopped.” Harrison finally got it, he frowned and sneered, “So, you want me to take over the property because the house Roxanne bought has stopped construction, and you’re afraid she’s upset?”
“Do you want to give her a house outright?” Vincent was anxious, “You know Anne’s character, if you really give her a house, she definitely won’t accept it.”
Harrison sat across from Vincent, looking displeased, “Dad, I admit, I don’t dislike Roxanne, I even kind of admire her personality. But what makes you think I would take over a halted property for her sake, using tens of billions, even hundreds of billions of our assets?”
Vincent spoke confidently, “For us, tens of billions or hundreds of billions is just a small matter. Don’t be so petty, just set up an
lement this as soon as possible.”
