My Four Miraculous Treasures

Chapter 230 Willow nodded. "That's right, fifty thousand."

She couldn't tell her mother that she'd just been fired from the Hughes Corporation, but walked away with a severance pay of one hundred thousand. Her mother was guaranteed to respond to that news by marching on their headquarters to have a word with them, asking what her daughter had done wrong to get herself fired...

Then she'd find out about how Willow herself had been going around bragging about how she was sure to become Mrs. Hughes soon.

Next, she'd find out about how, when word of this reached Jasper's own ears, he offered her neither marriage nor consolation... he just got rid of her.

Anyone could understand what he'd meant by that:

He didn't want to marry her.

When he heard about her wanting to marry him, he'd responded by kicking her right out the door.

Her mother would not take that news sitting down. She'd definitely seek Jasper out again to give him a good talking-to.

That was likely to get ugly... very ugly, indeed.

that her mother, in a furious tirade, might reveal the existence of her four children.

a risk Willow wished to avoid,

why she was lying to her mother about being picked up by a new employer. She'd have to get to work transforming that lie into the

because half of her severance pay was already going to

with only

told her all that caused Lara to switch from suspicion to jubilation. "Which company is this? They're

that were true... to finally find a good

I'll keep it safe for you." Lara's smile

using it for gambling. Last time, she'd lost eleven thousand of Willow's hard-earned

easily make this fifty thousand vanish over the weekend,

for kindergartens nearby," Willow replied. "I'll bring the kids to apply at one of them tomorrow.

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of them plus living expenses, for

hadn't expected such

aside, and met her mother's gaze dead-on. "Mom, the kids are four years old and still haven't been to school yet. Other kids have been in class

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