She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 409:

Ten minutes later, Freya reassured Ashley that she hadn’t been exposed and urged her to remain calm and get some rest.

Earlier, the man had asked Ashley about Kristian pursuing her. If Freya’s instincts were right, he had simply changed tactics. With no clear sense of his new strategy, all she could do was take each twist as it came.

With these thoughts crowding her mind, she finally fell into a deep, restless sleep.

The next morning, she returned to work as if nothing had changed. At Anita International, she was reviewing a few bid proposals when she noticed an unusual expression crossing Melvin’s typically unreadable face.

Freya set the documents aside and asked, “What’s going on?”

“Do I really seem like someone who can be bought that easily?” Melvin asked, straight-faced and serious.

Freya studied him for a moment. “Yes.”

He was too controlled, too perfectly polished.

tried to bribe you?” she asked,

plainly, with no trace of amusement in

Freya was genuinely

To report everything back to him,” Melvin explained, as if recounting a dull weather

asked, leaning in as though watching a

“Nothing.”

“Why not?”

chapters now on

said with a shrug. “If he’d offered fifty million, I might’ve humored

proposals again and said casually, “Next time he shows up, raise

thought the same,” Melvin replied, his voice level, as if discussing

quietly and returned to

his love of money would make him easy prey. But no matter how high the offer—be it fifty million, a hundred million, or more—Freya knew

something. “How’s the charity foundation

completed the final procedures,” Melvin