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After everyone got out of the car, Megan noticed Yolanda was staying fairly calm and tried to comfort her. “At least you still have money. Men really are no good.”

Yolanda laughed suddenly. “Don’t forget, Ian’s still here.”

Megan quickened her pace and swiped her card to enter the apartment. “Ian doesn’t count. He’s two years younger than you, still an innocent kid, doesn’t understand all the messy stuff in a marriage.”

Megan was twenty–seven and had married young too.

While pressing the elevator button, she complained to Yolanda, “Most men can’t resist cheating once they have some money. I thought your husband might be different, since you’ve known him so long. And he’s never been short of women, right?”

Yolanda cleared her throat. “Megan, let’s not talk about that.”

Even though Ian was younger, he was still a man. And he was at an age where he could still have romantic illusions–Yolanda didn’t want to poison that.

Megan zipped her lips and opened her apartment door. The place was about 800 square feet, fairly clean. In pricey Beloris, the rent wasn’t cheap either.

Yolanda, used to taking care of everything as a full–time housewife for the past two years, patted the seat next to her and looked at Ian.

“Take a seat,” she said.

He paused for a few seconds before slowly sitting down.

Megan brought them coffee, her eyes shining. “Yolanda, so now that love’s gone, you’re focusing on your career? When we first set up this studio, it was so impressive. Several directors even promoted us on Twitter,”

spoke, the more regretful she sounded. After finishing her coffee in one gulp, she continued, “Look at lan–so young, so talented, and he wasted two years under my watch.

wore his cap, hair tucked

owed Megan an apology. She had promised to fight

and leaned forward to pour coffee

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table, and the pot

reached out from the side

little surprised and

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emotion passing quickly through his eyes. Then he withdrew

I want to focus on my career again. I have some

asked. “Yolanda, I’ll warn you–these past two years, Ian has been holding up the studio. We can’t betray him. He stayed when the

worst.”

his manager,”

a moment, then turned to look at

“So we’ll be working closely

than I do, and doesn’t Charles have an entertainment company under him? You could totally

with conviction. “Better than letting Charles give his resources to

to tell me I’d do the same. Until I finalize my divorce, I’ll try to make up for the losses of these

you going to get a divorce?”

Charles. Men cheat either zero times or countless times. He sleeps with someone else and still

were crude, but they were the truth. Even lying in the same bed as Charles last night, she had

took a slow, deep breath. “I’m not the type to cling to a failed marriage forever, but the Grant family and the Sinclair family are tightly connected in business. I can’t get divorced right

least I can rely on these two families to build some capital for

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first.”