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.

asked me about matters regarding matrimonial assets—cars, housing, and

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

and pretense to rely on himself had my parents coaxed and made them

still forked out money to buy a mid-range car that

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

also buy some daily necessities at times, but those were small amounts that I did

all of it. Did I get it right, Julius?” I

one had to remember that he had once asked for fifty hundred thousand as one of the

find that Julius’ expression froze a

there aren’t any problems except for one point. Mr. Keaton, as the wrong party in this marriage due to your extramarital affair, my client has requested compensation for her emotional

to Benjamin’s words. Does that mean I don’t

that, but he had also agreed to it readily and even said he could pay a hundred

surprise! Is this really Julius in front of me? Or perhaps Benjamin’s authority and dominance

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

client is only worth 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 amount you’ve originally asked for, so I deemed it’s

have turned! At that moment, Benjamin was shining so

all along felt like a submissive person

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

he think that I’m the one who

it was no big deal if he thought that way. After all, Benjamin was fighting for my rights. Furthermore, Julius did not seem to

“Mr. Keaton, this seems like a huge sum,

didn’t ask for the whole sum now. We can always sign

could not believe Benjamin would know every detail of Julius so well,

hearing Benjamin’s explanation, Julius’ face

had clenched into the table too tightly that even

mentioned, I can draft two new sets of the

Julius