Chapter 244

After all, she is everyone’s precious princess,

She pursed her lips as her features contorted with rancor. The tone in which she spoke to me was especially uncongenial. “I thought you hated Ash? Why are you back here?”

Amusement filled me as I countered, “No matter how much I hate him, we’re still a legally married couple. Besides, I own hall the rights to this house. If I don’t come back, wouldn’t that be an act of surrender?”

She curled her lips in disdain. “Oh, quit the snarky act, I’m not interested in lighting with you over money.”

I raised my brows. “I find that hard to believe. After all, you’ve even set your sights on my husband.”

Faced with her venomous glare, I turned and headed toward the yard before she could say something nasty to me and further dampen my mood. Realizing that it was already autumn in K City, I sighed at how time flew.

Perhaps Ashton had heard our voices outside. After a while, he came out. When he saw Rebecca, he frowned as his lips flattened into a line. “What are you doing here?”

Seeing her lover, a soft smile replaced the angry scowl on Rebecca’s face. “Ash, I heard my father say that you’ll be going to a border town next month to discuss the development project, so he told me to pass the collaboration contract to you.”

Then, she signaled her nanny with her eyes, to which the latter took out a file and respectfully handed it to Ashton.

“Pfft!” I failed to stifle my laughter and ended up attracting their gazes to me.

Ashton pursed his lips as he ordered, “It’s cold. Go in and put on a coat.”

On a CO

and

holding his arm to complain, “You were too rough

tilted my head slightly,

leave a

Rebecca’s increasingly vexed expression, I broke into an incredibly sweet

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his brows before he glanced at Rebecca, “Just get your father to look for me at the company for matters like this in the

here.”

weather’s cold. Go home earlier,” he added after a

to say something but was cut

regards to your mother,” he said in a voice that had

clear. Rebecca instantly tensed up, an aggrieved

living room, but I released his arm at that time and said to him, “Go get me a coat. I’ll send Ms. Larson

His brows drew together.

reminded him, “You promised that you wouldn’t question me no matter

short pause, he relented, “It’s

as he went back into the living room. Then, I turned back to

upset after being given the cold shoulder, and seeing me only made her

the front door to where we

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