The Richest Man in Metropolis is My Backer by Dream Searcher

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Chapter 205

Jean asked, “So, how did he take it? It must have been pretty embarrassing to be rejected.”

I shook my head. “I had lunch at the estate. Uh, they invited your head chef just for that.”

Jean Isked. “Dude, he goes above and beyond for you, and yet you rejected him. Amazing.”

I ignored her and continued. “Madame Kenway kept dropping hints during lunch, and I told her… I’m not in the mood to be in a relationship. I just wanda focus on my career.”

“Right. If you start dating so soon after your annulment, everyone will start thinking you’ve been planning this from the start.”

God, it really took a best friend to understand you.

“I know, right?! That’s what I told Soren too! I don’t want people to think he got in the middle of my relationship with Edward!

“And I already have a bad reputation–I destroyed my own family and all that! If they start making up rumors about him having an affair with me, and that somehow being the reason I got divorce… A stain like that could ruin his family’s record and reputation!”

“Have you ever thought that maybe, just maybe… no one would dare criticize them even if they took you in as -law?” Jean asked, blinking.

an

in

I’m not gonna trouble him with anything like this at all! We’re an impossibility–plain and

the most perfect

sighed. “Damn

hell, man. Most women would have jumped at him excitedly. And then

smiled dryly. “You overestimate me. I’m already in Lovey–Dovey

fallen for him

stare made my cheeks burn even more–but I

in love with him, but you

I’m so tormented, Jeannie.” I propped my chin up with my hands as

the bonfire.

this before, and got betrayed in love! The pain was so great… and yet! still fell in love! Goddamn it.

my

and over,” she said. “Also, you can’t say you’ve ever truly lived if you’ve never

was moved. “Thanks, Jeannie. You

just to make you feel good? Please. Soren is the kind of guy who’d make a nun remove her habit. You don’t stand a goddamn

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Thanks for the vote

She laughed too.