Because You Are My Lady novel (Sharon and Stanley) novel Chapter 840

Upon hearing the amount of the money, Lorenzo blinked in shock with a hint of excitement. "One million? Really?"

"Yes! Why would I lie to you?"

Mrs. Jacob was so excited that she blushed gleefully. "Maybe we can extort more money from him. If he refuses, he can't take Elaine with him!

It was obvious that the man had feelings for Elaine.

Nodding in acknowledgement, Lorenzo patted his wife's hand and called for Zoe. "Take your mom to the sofa."

Zoe came over and helped her mother up. "Let's sit over there."

Sitting not far away from them, Mrs. Jacob ordered, "Zoe, go and buy some food and ask Elaine to stay for dinner. We will be a family soon!" Pouting in dismay, Zoe whined, "Why should I? I don't want to! Let Elaine go! She's always the one to go to the market and then cook for us."

Her mother glared at her and chided, "Shut up! Just do what I tell you to do!"

Lorenzo added, "Your mom's right. Just go, hurry!" Usually, Elaine was in charge of all the house chores and Zoe had never done anything at home. Now that she was forced to do it, it annoyed her.

However, she did not dare to confront Elaine now like she always did as Elaine had a strong support.

As her parents glared at her with a hint of warning, Zoe reluctantly went to the stairs and even glared at Elaine when she passed by her.

Elaine just pretended that she didn't see it.

On the other hand, Vincent looked at Zoe with his frigid and intimidating gaze.

However, Zoe failed to sense the emotions behind those gaze but only noticed that he was looking her way, so she blushed and hurried downstairs.

As soon as she went downstairs, she was shocked to see the people coming to her house and quickly rushed up the stairs. "Dad, Mom!"

As soon as she entered the house, the people behind her caught up. "B*tch, shut up!"

The same group of gangsters came again.

In a blink of an eye, two men caught Zoe, and one of them muffled her mouth and asked fiercely, "Is Lorenzo home?"

Frightened, she nodded profusely.

"He's upstairs?"

"Hmm..."

Zoe continued to nod.

Bob spat in disdain and urged, "Boys, keep your voice down! We don't want that old fart to run away this time!"

"Okay!"

Then, they tiptoed up the stairs.

Scared, Zoe wanted to scream but she couldn't make a sound.

Meanwhile, her parents were hatching a secret plan in their mind.

The man seemed to be a wealthy man, so they wanted to extort as much money as they could from him!

"Ahem!"

Clearing his throat, Lorenzo started, "Elaine, you haven't introduced him to us yet. What's his name?"

Before she could say anything, a few people suddenly rushed up to the second floor.

Sensing the commotion, Vincent's first reaction was to pull Elaine to his side and frowned.

Astounded at first, Elaine looked down and found that he was holding her hand.

She struggled and tried to pull her hand out of his, only to find that he was holding her very tightly.

Persevering, she tried again and Vincent glared at her fiercely. "Stay still! You'll hurt yourself!"

It was the first time that she had seen him like this. She moved her mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end, she held it back.

Looking up at the group of people who came up the stairs, she recognized them as the same gangster from yesterday.

Seeing them, Lorenzo's first reaction was to run, but he suddenly thought as something crossed his mind, and he turned to them with a smile. "Hey, Bob! Come, sit down!"

Donning a cunning smile, Bob wrapped his arm around Zoe's shoulder and smirked at Lorenzo. "Don't you want to run just now? Run! What's stopping you?"