Chapter 69

“Ms. Estrella, please take a seat,” the man gestured to Estrella, then commanded the servant, “Make Ms. Estrella a cup of coffee.”

Estrella settled into her chair with an air of indifference, and the servant soon brought over the coffee. “Ms. Estrella, your

coffee.”

The man then lit a cigar, and smoke began to curl around them. Estrella frowned at the haze, but the man didn’t snuff out his cigar. He looked at Estrella with a smirk. “Ms. Estrella, you take your work quite seriously, don’t you?”

Taking a sip of her coffee, Estrella replied with a nonchalant smile, “So does that mean. you have a case for me?”

The man’s smile slowly faded as he tapped ash from his cigar. “How much do you make. as a lawyer?”

“Just enough to get by,” Estrella responded simply.

As her words hung in the air, the man’s expression darkened, and he crushed the cigar in the ashtray before looking up at Estrella, “Just getting by, huh? I offer you eight million to play ball and you still won’t cooperate?”

His sudden anger was palpable, but Estrella remained cool and composed. She had known what was unt

moment those beefy guys stopped her in the parking lot.

Estrella’s calm demeanor only fueled his rage, and he glared at her, “Young lady, do your have any idea how hard it is to earn three hundred million? Do you know how much time I’ve spent, how many smiles I’ve faked, and how much crap I’ve taken? You just flap your lips, and I’m supposed to hand over half my fortune to Jo? I’ve been supporting her for

thirty years.”

Speaking of his financial loss, veins on the man’s neck stood out in anger. He hadn’t slept well for days, haunted by thoughts of the wealth he’d lost in the breakup.

slightly, calmly setting down her coffee cup, “Richie, if the law has this provision, then it must be

thanks to a well-managed home. Richie understood these things. He knew better than anyone, but it was just selfishness and vanity that made him disregard a woman’s

by giving you a bite to eat, you should be

calculating, and once they’ve squeezed every

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woman to accompany him, to take out his dissatisfaction and

divorce cases, so she didn’t waste her breath on those who tried to outsmart the law and their wives, hiding and transferring

would do her job with integrity.

met someone like Estrella, who was impervious to his charms and wealth. After

help but laugh, “Are you asking me to spit out my commission, Richie?”

first woman who didn’t fear him, and few men dared to do so- unless they were

buckled his belt with a blank face, and said, “You’ve just

shift in tone, “With all that commission, it wouldn’t be too much to ask for you to spend a night with me, to let off some steam, right?”

been an exaggeration, but it wasn’t far from the truth. The moment his transferred and hidden assets were exposed, he felt like his world

and unable to swallow his pride, he concluded that Estrella had set

thought, might alleviate some

of people who want to sleep with me, and I’m

won’t take your eight million, so what makes you

a damn word you say. Since I’ve invited’ you here today, you’re not leaving without giving me something in return.”

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tensed, her voice sharp, “Richie, I’m not someone you

let it slide or not, the influence of her

to go upstairs willingly, or shall we stay here in the living

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