An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

Chapter 593

On the way back, Dustin could tell that Dahlia had questions for him but was battling herself against questioning him. He smiled to himself at her curiosity and decided to give her an opening. “Shoot away if you’ve got any questions. There’s no need to hold them in.”

“I do not understand why you turned down Terrence’s offer to purchase the site of the abandoned building!” Dahlia blurted out.

“Everyone knows that it’s worthless now, so there’s no point holding onto it. You would have been better off selling it and recovering your loss!” Though she had promised and was determined to

not concern herself with Dustin’s business anymore, she still could not help but feel bad that he

had missed out on a good opportunity to make up for the loss he had made.

“Well, why would Terrence want to buy that piece of land when everyone knows that it’s

worthless?” Dustin asked.

“Didn’t he just say that he doesn’t want to take advantage of you because you’re friends?” Dahlia

retorted.

be so kind?” Dustin smiled meaningfully.

as he claims to be, he would not have

the past few days.

fell deep

even offering to buy back the abandoned construction site, she wavered and started to believe

The reason Terrence offered to buy the plot of land was

It was only because he knew that its value

Dustin chuckled.

been sitting there for almost

wanted anything to do with it. How could it possibly

aloud.

told you that that

a key development? Terrence must have received some

he’d be so kind?” Dustin had

is that piece of land worth now?” Dahlia asked

dollars at least. And that’s a conservative estimation.” Dustin dropped a

wide as saucers. It was bewildering to think that a piece of land could go from absolutely worthless to worth two billion dollars overnight. She had toiled hard for years on end, and in the end, she had not even made as much as Dustin did in a single

to see that the call was from Florence. He paused and gave it some thought before answering the call and putting it on

are you? There’s something I’d like to talk

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