There He Is Again My Ex Husband by Emily Jenkins

The conversation between Julian and Roman didn't go very well for Roman knew what Julian had come all the way to see him for.

After they had been at table, Julian raised his glass to Roman and said, "Maisie and David are both my right hands. Now that Caroline is gone, I personally see them as my sister and brother. I would very be grateful if you can go easy on them for my sake."

"Whatever you see her as, and even if you go so far as to tell the whole world that you take her as your real sister, her humble background will still be a permanent fact," said Roman, without trying to conceal his distaste for her, also as if to tell him that he had come over only for his sake.

Chilliness descended on Julian's face.

At that moment Julian strongly hoped that Maisie's baby would be a boy, if so, he would root for her to never let Roman take his grandson back to the family so that the poor old man would be sorry for cutting off his heir.

No pity shall be felt for a man like this.

Until then Julian had actually considered persuading Maisie to him about the baby if after the it was born, Y's health was still bad and Ezra had no other kid, so he wouldn't regret that he did not live to see his grandchild.

But then and there, Julian decided he would not plea for any mercy on him.

He thought of a saying he had heard of: Being pitiful and being hateful are just two sides of the same coin.

It made so much sense in the case of the man he was speaking to.

"Well, you are right, " replied Julian with a faint smile, "It will go on to be a fact. And if you have to be so unhappy with that, you might as well be stricter with your son."

"What do you mean?" asked Roman grimly.

"I mean she does not care to marry your son. She has left behind everything she had earned in the Riverside City only to get away from Ezra. You think she will still want to have anything to do with the Cantillos?"

Roman winced at what he had heard, even appearing to be clenching his teeth a little.

He could see what Julian meant to say-- it was his son who came to Grafstin to find Maisie.

He had sent people to beat up Maisie in order to give Maisie a piece of his mind and scare her off, but it was only because he had presumed that Maisie was the one who was trying to hook up with his son again.

never occurred to him that

that he wished there had been a hole to hide

not the reason for this whole thing. You won't get off so easily if

was a outright threat that he would definitely fall out with his entire

Roman bit his bottom lip and gave him

only close friends, but also business partners, if Julian chose to break things up, all those collaborations would be called off, resulting in massive loss to

the company and its benefits being everything to Roman, any possible loss it could suffer would be too much for him, which was why

very well lately. Shall I give you a word of advice? Take good

from his seat

he had been close to Ezra but that didn't mean

saw

actually

it be fun to see Roman begging Maisie to marry his son? Or pleading for the

wait and

how

great job!" said Emelia, who indeed sounded much

began to feel worried and ask him, "he wasn't being harsh on you, was he?" Although Emelia had never seen Roman before, she had heard so much about him and intuitively

harsh could he be? I knew exactly his soft underbelly. It's

was the fate of the family's company

and then to express her thank-you again, she said in a sweet

on his face, Julian said, " I have never heard you say anything like that or in that way without being asked before. But you just did it because of someone else' s business. I really don't

had done everything she could to get him to help Maisie. As her boyfriend, he sometimes felt the attention he got

you should feel happy because I will say more of

it?" asked Julian,

"Sure," Emelia replied briskly.

nice to me now?" said

There fell silence.