hapter 592
oseph happily pocketed the 50,000 dollars before leaving to buy jenna food. When he came back in high spirits, Jenna was itting there with a long face looking like a kid who got scolded for no reason.
oseph was confused. “Did someone come by and piss you off?”
enna didn’t say a word. She just turned her back toward him, looking all sulky and miserable.
‘Did I do something? Should I just leave?”
oseph really wasn’t in the mood to waste time trying to comfort a woman right now, especially not Jenna, who knew him inside
but.
‘You can’t go!”
enna whipped around, staring him dead in the eye. “You got what you wanted. I should be congratulating you.”
‘Stop talking in riddles. If you’ve got something to say, just say it.”
oseph frowned, wondering if Jenna had somehow found out that he’d had a meal with Cora. But Jenna knew who he really was, o she shouldn’t react like this just over a meal.
‘You used me to look into the Zahn family. Now that you know about Skylar and Yara and made sure neither of them can get way from you, you already have what you want, right?”
oseph hadn’t expected her to bring this up. That had indeed been his plan at first, but she’d never called him out on it before. So vhy bring it up now?
de lit a cigarette and gestured for her to keep going. He wanted to see what else she had to say.
enna just seemed to need to vent. She listed off everything Joseph had been doing, along with everything she’d done for him, before breaking down into pitiful sobs.
der expressions and body language were exactly like Gemma’s little damsel-in-distress routine in front of Skylar before.
she’d gone from being arrogant and bossy to becoming sensitive and fragile. Maybe falling in love really could turn women into
opeless romantics.
He said, “Once my business in Jenton is settled, there won’t be a reason for me to stick around here anymore.
‘If you still want to be with me when that happens, we can skip town, change our names, and just live a quiet life together. Is hat promise enough to pay you back for having my back all this time?
‘If it is, stop crying and smile at me. If it’s not, tell me what you want, and we’ll work it out.”
‘No! I don’t even have the right to ask for that! Yara just called me. She told me to let her have you. She said we can’t be together anymore and need to keep our distance. And she said she’s your real girlfriend now.”
Jenna couldn’t hold it in anymore, blurting out what was really eating at her.
Joseph was caught off guard, but his expression only froze for a split second. He casually flicked his ash, acting like what Jenna just said was no big deal.
“Is that all? Yara didn’t say anything else?”
Jenna went on, “She did. She said she wants to sleep with you before she gets her legs cut off. She told me not to beat her to it because she wants to be your first.”
Joseph seemed to understand exactly what was going on. Yara had taken an interest in him and wanted a relationship with him. But since he was Jenna’s boyfriend, Yara used her status as a daughter of the main family to make the people from the branch
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