Savvy Son-in-law by VKBoy

CHAPTER 148

After the most horrible day of his life, Jacob didn’t sleep for long and woke up early the next day. He had always been a fighter, and he didn’t let the El Man disaster defeat him. His family expressed their sympathies, which was the only positive thing that had happened in the past twenty four hours.

He began working hard to make things right, but the main actress of the El Man movie came forward and publicly stated that Jacob harassed him both mentally and physically. This led to a chain of confessions from other female actresses from Jacob’s previous films. This whole issue not only made Jacob’s life difficult, it made Selena’s life difficult to the point she couldn’t even attend her shoots. There were some audio leaks of Jacob flirting with the actresses, so whether he actually slept with them or not, Selena didn’t even want to talk about it with him.

After that, nobody in the Sterling villa was talking with Jacob.Selena didn’t even let Kathy go near Jacob anymore. However, what hurt Jacob more than the movie failure and more than his wife’s change of attitude was that his own daughters avoided him.

The loss of money felt little compared to the loss of respect in his daughters’ eyes. Jacob had paid half the people that had financed him for his movies, but there were still half left. Mike was also among them, and they regularly visited the villa and made rude remarks. Mike frankly stated that he wouldn’t even let the movies release until Jacob paid all the money.

As a result, Jacob couldn’t even sleep properly. He began drinking and spending more time with Terry and Langdon, telling them his worries, instead of working extra-time on his movies. Moreover, they made him gamble and lose even more money. Jacob’s wealth dropped by millions with every passing day. He had to secretly sell his illegal properties, too, to get past every new hurdle that popped up.

Terry, Langdon, and David together made sure to put constant pressure on Jacob, Selena, Shawn, and Rebecca.

Sheila, Rebecca’s lawyer, had already taken an advance payment of 3 million dollars for the defamation and fraud case Rebecca filed against her company and its CEO. Rebecca was left with only 32 million dollars after that.

for the house Elizabeth bought. He would have also sold that, but he felt it was necessary since he

prideful man. He could have asked Selena or his daughter for money, but he chose not

auction the villa. He was confident that he could buy a better place once his films were to become box office hits. Nobody other than Veronica objected to selling the villa, and

been trying to find a job so

were still feeding off of the wealth

hand, left the villa and began staying at her friend’s house and

life got so boring and repetitive the past couple of weeks. He would go to work in the morning, then stay at Pure Waters at night and try to talk to Rebecca over the phone. She had asked him to give her some time as she needed to focus on her career, so there was nothing he could do. He couldn’t even give her missed calls, not wanting to disturb her. Since Mina was still guarding Rebecca, he didn’t worry about Rebecca’s safety. If there was any entertainment, it was competing with Damian during the pizza delivery that gave Benjamin some

before picking up a handful of roasted nuts. “They are auctioning the villa tomorrow. Do you want me to… buy it?” Benjamin thought for a second and shook his

“I said ‘what if?…”

me even when I don’t have a big building under my name. Hopefully, she will.” His eyes looked around casually, and he noticed a familiar face in the crowd. It was Jane, dancing with her girlfriend. Jane also coincidentally looked at him, with her semi-drunk gaze. She seemed more surprised than he was. She whispered something to her

Benjamin was devastated just like her after he came to know that Rebecca was having an affair with Donovan. She couldn’t even compare her love with Donovan to Benjamin’s love wit Rebecca.

“Are you still in a relationship with

she snorted and then noticed that Benjamin still had his wedding ring. “Wait, why do you still wear