The Girlboss Begs for Remarriage by Chu

"By the way, you have to be careful," Gina warned the Talnamese. "He's a martial artist or something."

It only left the Talnamese laughing.

"Don't worry, we're all martial artists too!"

"Hell, Talc is Ascendant rank!"

"Oh, we're really not worried about some Draconian martial artist. Not many people can best Talc in a fight, save for the Lord of the Southern Woods!"

For some reason, Gina felt a gnawing sense of foreboding as she watched the Talnamese joke among themselves confidently.

"You're so smart, Aunt Gina!" Cindy praised.

"Shut up! It's all your fault!" Gina snapped, and Cindy awkwardly turned away.

not about to play nice, and Cindy knew that after selling the ruby for just 500 million and

to squeeze Cindy for five billion when they learned about the ruby falling to the black market, and they needed that much to buy it back. And since she did not have the money, she had to stage her own kidnapping to lure Gina to South Morhen, while getting the two billion dollar check Helen brought over for the mansion

afford the remaining three billion either and had to call Helen, staging yet another kidnapping like Cindy

the three billion, so

about him at all anyway, and her family might well have a lot less

she told herself even as she called Frank and told him

Screech—

jammed his foot on the brakes, stopping his Maserati outside one of the

alighted, managing to arrive quickly

was no one in sight ready to ambush them, so

nodded solemnly at Frank. "My people are coming. They'll hang back and jump in if

allowed to escape," Frank

Ned nodded again. "Understood!"