The Ex and Her Riches novel (Gwendolyn and Maverick)

Although she was speaking to Jerome, she was actually rejecting Kieran.

The look on Kieran’s face changed.

Jerome, who was observant of others’ reactions, immediately jumped to Kieran’s aide. “Inez, an engagement isn’t the same as a marriage. You can still date after getting engaged and only get registered after both of you are willing to. It won’t affect anything.”

“But I don’t want to date. Too many unhappy things happened over the past years. I’m really in no mood to date. All I want to do is to focus on my work and be prepared to take over Mossey Corporation.”

With that, she turned around and left the living room without looking back.

The sound of a door slamming came from upstairs. Once again, silence filled the living room.

Madelyn and Jerome exchanged a look before turning their gazes toward Kieran.

Kieran lowered his gaze. He seemed to be thinking about something, but no one could figure out his emotions.

Madelyn asked carefully, “Do you like Inez, Mr. Kieran?”

“Yes,” replied Kieran gently, “but I have hurt her with my previous action. I understand if she’s unwilling to accept me.”

Madelyn said, “We’ve been spoiling Inez ever since she was a child. She has a very stubborn personality. If you sincerely like her and wish to be together with her, I can help you convince her.”

Upon deliberation, Kieran thought that it was too embarrassing and troublesome. “It’s fine. This is between me and Inez. If you persuade her, I’m afraid she’ll resent me even more. I can wait if she’s unwilling to go ahead with the engagement. She waited a year for me in the past. I can wait another year for her this time.”

Madelyn and Jerome were glad to hear that.

Madelyn said, “Don’t worry, Mr. Kieran. Although I won’t deliberately try to persuade her, I can create opportunities for both of you to meet.”

Kieran raised his head and met her gaze. This time, he did not refuse.

A few hours later, Madelyn knocked on Inez’s door.

“It’s time for dinner. Hurry up! We’re waiting for you.”

“All right!”

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not notice anything strange until she walked to

sitting

Jerome were nowhere to be seen. and on the

chance for

and Dad have nothing

head exasperatedly, turned

to leave, he

tell how much effort Mr. and Mrs. Mossey put into

remained expressionless. “There’s nothing

leave, but Kieran tightened

me farewell. Seeing how sad you were, I wanted to reach out and console you. However, I didn’t even manage to extend

“What’s the point of saying

a serious tone, he said, “Percy isn’t a good man. Now that I have canceled this engagement that you had no say in, you

to him mock me. Are you trying to make a joke out of me on purpose? Do you want me to realize that no other man but you will like me,

tears streamed down her

maintained an image of a strong, independent woman. As time passed, she had become much more stubborn as

when she saw how much Percy looked down on her and the Mossey family. Furthermore,

Having been taught a lesson after smudging her eyeliner the previous time, he was very careful and gentle

taught him a lot beforehand, such

awkward, girls would be happy

one of the lines that

due to his nervousness, he could

console her, all that he could say was,

“What do

didn’t mean anything else. I

Inez was speechless.

playing word

mean by saying that you didn’t mean anything? What exactly do you mean,

at

stunned he was, Inez could not help but burst

went all the way from Fairlake to Lightspring just to pursue me. Then, you secretly went from Lightspring to Salinsburgh. For an entire year, your dad had to repeatedly plead

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