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.

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

risk Willow wished to avoid, at

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

because half of her severance pay was already going to Jasper's car

her with only

Willow told her all that caused Lara to switch from suspicion to jubilation. "Which

only that were true... to finally find a good job, at

the money to me. I'll keep it safe for you." Lara's smile was taking on

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

could easily make this fifty thousand vanish over

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

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four of them plus living expenses, for one

Lara hadn't expected such a

years old and still haven't been to school yet. Other kids have been in class since two!

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