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.

to play nice, and Cindy knew that after selling the ruby for

market, and they needed that much to buy it back. And since she did not have the money, she had to stage

not afford the remaining three billion either and had to call Helen, staging

no guarantee Helen could bring the three billion, so Gina sold out Frank as

about him at all anyway, and her family might well

was what she told herself even as she called Frank and told

Screech—

brakes, stopping his Maserati outside one of the abandoned

Ned alighted, managing to arrive quickly thanks

no one in sight ready to

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

Frank said bluntly, having a feeling

Ned nodded again. "Understood!"