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.

had never occurred to him

mortified that he wished there had been a hole to hide

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

a outright threat that he would definitely fall out with his entire family if Roman did anything like that to

bit his bottom lip and gave him a dirty

only close friends, but also business partners, if Julian chose to break things

being everything to Roman, any possible loss it could suffer would be too much

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

rose from his

was true that he had been close to Ezra but that didn't mean he must take his

he no longer saw him as a friend

thing was actually

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

wait

to call and report to Emelia on how satisfactorily he had performed the mission ordered by her. "Well, mission completed. Warnings are distinctly given. So I guess you feel

great job!" said Emelia,

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

exactly his soft underbelly. It's easy to have him in

was the fate of the family's company that tied

OK then," Emelia said with sigh of relief and then to express her thank-you again, she said in a sweet

" 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.

Maisie. As her boyfriend, he sometimes felt the attention

should feel happy because I

it?" asked Julian, deeply

"Sure," Emelia replied briskly.

say something nice to me now?" said Julian, much

There fell silence.