Julien frowned and fell silent.
After a long while, he suddenly hugged her tightly. "No wonder you haven't even shown a great deal of anxiety when the parts have been missing for three days. If my people hadn't found out that Neil had gone to ZX, I wouldn't have known that such a big thing had happened to your company. You mortgaged the Raines family's villa. Do you know what that means? That villa has special meaning to you. You..."
Seeming to know what Julien was going to say, Sydney tilted her head and looked at him with a smile. "It doesn't matter. To me, that villa is just like an ordinary house. In my heart, it doesn't have any special meaning."
"What?" Julien was obviously stunned by her words. "No special meaning? Isn't that your home?"
Sydney smiled, "It was once my home, but it was defiled by some people who shouldn't have stayed there. The stench of those people covered the whole villa and erased the traces of my sweet home long ago. It just remains the appearance in my memory, and it can't give me the feeling of home, so it was okay to mortgage it. Out of sight, out of mind. I think if my mother knew it, she would support me."
Hearing this, Julien was relieved.
It was true that the villa, where Kaylie and her daughter had lived for twenty years, had long since lost the traces left by Leanna.
Then there was no need for Sydney to keep it.
Julien was no longer unhappy at this point, yet he asked, "So you really didn't ask Luke for help?"
Sydney rolled her eyes. "No. I have said so, and you still don't believe me? Then I'm sorry you feel that way."
She shrugged her shoulders.
Julien grabbed her shoulders. "I believe you. It's just that..."
"What else?" Sydney's mouth twitched. She felt a little upset.
Julien's thin lips moved. "You turned to Chaim for help. He's a complete outsider..."
The implication was that Sydney trusted an outsider more than she trusted Julien.
Sydney was speechless.
She thought, 'Does he have to get to the bottom of it?
'So if I'm going to cooperate with others, he will think I ask them, rather than him, for help and then throw a tantrum, right?'
Sydney held her forehead. "Who else but Chaim could I go for a loan? You?"
Julien's thin lips twitched.
As he was about to say yes, Sydney immediately said, "Impossible. At least at that time, I absolutely couldn't do that."
This time, Julien had nothing to say.
Sydney looked at him. "Besides, who said you didn't help me?"
"What do you mean?" Julien narrowed his eyes and stared at her. "Did you come to me for help with this matter?"
He didn't believe it.
Sydney didn't even talk to him about it.
How could she even think of asking him for help?
"Of course not." Sydney shook her head slightly. "I didn't come to you, but you did help me. Chaim told me with the status of Skylight and me, I couldn't convince him to meet me about the loan. He met me because you are my lover. Before agreeing to make a loan to me, he asked if we were in a stable relationship, so if not for you, I would have been unable to meet him and get the loan. Do you feel better now?"
Sydney tapped Julien's chest.
Julien was surprised and cheered up, but he pretended to be calm. "Just a little."
Sydney shook her head resignedly. "Come on. You can't hide the smugness in your eyes."
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