Love the Second Time Around Novel

Chapter 39 Compromising Over And Again

“Do you guys know each other?” I asked, slightly baffled.

Looking overjoyed, Benjamin answered, “We’ve met once, and we had a great time chatting. Am I right, Mr. Keaton?”

I only became more bewildered than before. Why does that sound more like a threat even though Benjamin sounded nice?

What was weirder was the trace of panic that I saw flashing across Julius’ eyes.

Something was definitely up between the two. However, I chose to believe Benjamin since he was, after all, introduced by James, and his relationship with Dominic must be pretty close too.

Whatever. As long as I can get a divorce and get all the problems solved, anything’s fine.

“Tell me, what do you want today? Please speak your mind today so that the next time it’ll be at the court when we meet. It’s incredibly annoying to do a meet-up so often like this.”

I had to say it felt different with a professional sitting beside me.

Julius frowned and seemed somewhat infuriated. Nevertheless, he did not say anything else and only pulled out two sheets of paper from his briefcase.

At that instance, I saw what they were. On the heading were two words: Divorce Agreement.

I did not expect Benjamin to guess it right.

As Julius passed me one set, he said, “If there are no issues, then we can proceed to sign the papers and head down to the Registry Office after this.”

In place of me, Benjamin helped to receive the papers from Julius.

There was as though a surge of being snobbish and acting all high and mighty within me, and to be honest, it was a great feeling.

about matters regarding matrimonial assets—cars, housing, and

our marriage, we had stayed in the house Julius bought. As a celebratory act, we had both forked out money to do some minor renovations to the house

it with my dad’s money. Back then, Julius’ faked righteousness and pretense to rely on himself had my parents coaxed and

such, even with his multiple rejections, my dad ultimately still forked out money to buy a mid-range car that looked presentable enough for

fond of me ever since after our wedding night. Thus, we

would also buy some daily necessities at times, but those were small amounts

it right, Julius?” I deliberately questioned him to see what kind of attitude he would

to remember that he had once asked for

at him to find that

of you have said, there aren’t any problems except for one point. Mr. Keaton, as the wrong party in this marriage due to your extramarital affair,

not react in time to Benjamin’s words. Does that mean I don’t have to fork out money,

to it, I was proven wrong. Not only did he not reject that, but he had also agreed to it readily

really Julius in front of me? Or perhaps Benjamin’s authority and

was very contented. Not only did I not have to fork out money for the divorce, I even

a hundred thousand? How about this; I won’t ask for too much either. We’ll settle at five hundred thousand. That’s also the

tables have turned! At that moment, Benjamin was shining so brilliantly in my

had all along felt like a submissive person

pointed at me as he snarled, “Liliana! I’ve agreed to your request

I’m the one who

he thought that way. After all, Benjamin was fighting for my rights. Furthermore, Julius did not seem to feel he was overboard when he had asked me for five hundred thousand

his words, Benjamin lightly tapped my shoulders and calmly replied, “Mr. Keaton, this seems like a huge sum, but for you, who’s a sales director of Yorkshire Corporation, it’s

ask for the whole sum now. We can always sign the papers first, and

would know every detail of Julius so well, including

explanation, Julius’ face

he had clenched into the table too tightly that even his fingers turned

you agree to the terms I’ve mentioned, I can draft two new sets of the divorce agreements

leaving Julius no