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Author: Petite One
If he had not seen the shoes that Jade often wore at the entrance, Zephaniah would have thought that he had gone to the wrong house.

“Mister Owens.” Easton offered his hand for a handshake and smiled at Zephaniah in a friendly manner. “We’ve met in Euphoria Hotel before. I’m Easton Mcdaniel, Jade’s senior.”

When he said that, Zephaniah remembered bringing a client to Euphoria Hotel for a meal. He had met Easton and Jade there. Both of them looked pretty close judging by the way they talked to each other, to the point that their relationship seemed a little more than what was shared between a senior and junior.

Zephaniah felt slightly unhappy, but he still shook hands with Easton out of politeness. “Zephaniah Owens.”

When he saw a little girl sitting on the couch playing with her Ipad, Zephaniah subconsciously cast a glance at Easton and assumed that she was likely his daughter. He somehow felt rather happy but only in secret.

Jade’s mother and Jade were busy in the kitchen. Zephaniah walked over and asked Jade, “Do you need help?”

“No, you’re our guest. Just rest in the living room.”

Zephaniah scowled when Jade did not turn around and look at him at all.

He could feel that this was not a simple dinner.

Very soon, a table full of dishes was ready, and everyone took a seat one after another before they began to eat.

Jade’s mother constantly talked to Easton. From their conversation, Zephaniah knew that Easton was a student of Jade’s father, and he was divorced.

Jade’s mother seemed to like Easton very much, refilling his bowl from time to time. However, she did not even glance at Zephaniah. The atmosphere at the dining table was not good, but it was not silent.

Once they were done eating, Jade made a move.

Jade put a divorce agreement in front of Zephaniah, and she looked calm. “Zephaniah, I hope you can sign the agreement.”

“Didn’t I say we should reconsider divorce?” Zephaniah just knew that it would not be a simple dinner, but he did not expect this to happen. “Tell me, why did you go to my office? And why did you put down your ring before you left?”

By the time he rushed to the office, Jade had left a long time ago. Blanche pointed at the ring on the table and said with a troubled expression, “Zephy, I offered to bring Miss Jade around while we waited for you to come back, but Miss Jade appeared quite pale. She just took off the ring and left. She also asked me to tell you about it.”

He just went on a business trip for a week and did not do anything, so why was she suddenly so determined to take off the ring?

What went wrong?

“You bought the ring, so it’s useless for me to keep it after we get divorced.” Jade did not want to expose those lies. It would just put everyone in an even more embarrassing situation. “I just hope you can sign the agreement for the sake of our three-year-long marriage.”

Zephaniah’s throat was burning. He refused to give up. “Why? You even said our marriage has lasted for three years.”

He thought they would get divorced peacefully four years later, but Jade’s move caught him completely off guard. He found himself unable to accept it.

Yet, he could not explain why he found the outcome unacceptable either.

“I’ve fallen for someone else.” Jade cast a glance at Easton, and her eyes were full of love. “The one I love is willing to sacrifice for me. He sincerely wants to marry me, and there are no pre-marriage agreements either.”

Zephaniah saw her subtle moves, and he understood everything. He remembered how he had asked people to help Jade’s father, but in the end, he learned that someone had already returned all of the embezzled money. Jade’s father had also received his sentence. As a result, his face gradually darkened.

“So, did you also borrow two million from him?”

Seeing that Jade remained silent, Zephaniah became so angry that he laughed. “Jade, I may not have said much about it, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t do anything. I just want you to talk to me about it, but you... you just went and borrowed money from an outsider? Aren’t you amazing?!”

Easton stood in front of Jade just in time. He was afraid that Zephaniah would do something drastic when he was angry.

“Mister Owens, Jade has made her stance clear. I hope you can respect her. Please, divorce her in peace.”

Zephaniah gave Jade, who was behind Easton, a long hard stare with his dark eyes.

The divorce agreement was scrunched up in his hands. Nevertheless, he spread it out reluctantly and gradually flattened it on the coffee table in the end.
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