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

at me and gnashed her teeth

to complain, “You were too rough earlier, so I

my head slightly, revealing

delicate, so he would always leave a

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

fool so ha

-..1….!!

“Just get your father to look for me at the company for

here.”

Go home earlier,”

wanted to say something but was cut

in a voice that had

hidden warning in his words was clear. Rebecca instantly tensed up, an aggrieved

tug me back into the living room, but I released his arm at that time

His brows drew together.

that you wouldn’t

he relented, “It’s cold outside, so don’t take too

room. Then, I turned back to Rebecca with a faint smile. “Let me send

and seeing me only made her

door to where we were standing, and beside it lay

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