Unfortunately, a woman that great would never go back into Alex's arms. Just as he reflected on it, the mansion's gate opened and the old man who stepped out was none other than Lenny.
Seeing that Jane was supporting an elder and standing outside his door, Lenny was shocked. "You... Didn't you... Master... Master Alex..."
Jane forced a smile. "Master Powell, you..." She swallowed to calm herself before continuing, "I knew from the first day you took me back, that you... You are a good person. You were kind to me, and did not torture me like Huron did. I... I might be pregnant, but I can still be your companion between the sheets. I don't need a title or your money. As long as you agree t o take me and my mom in and keep us fed, I don't even need to eat that well, so long that there's food every day... Is that okay, Master Powell?" Jane looked a t Lenny in anticipation.
Lenny did not respond for a while. He then sighed and said, "Sigh, little pregnant lady, don't you know that I've just barely escaped death? Had I run even slightly slower, I would have been buried alive along with those people. I've been panting non-stop since I got home."
Lenny wiped the sweat off his face as he spoke and was visibly frightened. In fact, he had spent the last
three hours doing his research. He found that this so-called Master Alex from Kidon City never took the lives of the innocents, and that Alex always kept his promises. If he had agreed to let Lenny go, it meant that Lenny was not in any life-threatening danger. All things aside, Lenny had not done anything that was out of line. He had made a few enormous deals in earlier years and managed to run certain businesses i n White Ocean City, but when it came down to things that were illegal or inhumane, he had never been involved. Therefore, Master Alex from Kidon City would not target him, but at that very moment, Lenny was no longer as interested in Jane as he was before, mainly because she was too much trouble. Jane was someone who had offended Master Alex of Kidon City. Who would dare to keep her? It would have been suicidal.
Lenny glanced over at his mansion purposefully at this point, as he had just taken in an innocent, eighteen-year-old young woman.
The young woman said that she used to be Huron’s, and she was the only survivor after all the other women had died alongside Huron, including Lenny's ninth lady Cindy.
Lenny asked the young woman, "How are you alive?"
"M--Master Alex set me free himself. He said... I was innocent."
Lenny laughed. "You are indeed innocent. You look a hundred times better than my ninth lady. Your skin is so bouncy, too. Very well, you will take the place as my ninth lady. I'll give you twenty thousand a month as pocket money, and if you serve me well, I'll give you a bonus of two hundred thousand by the end of the year, fl
Despite having escaped death just now, the old man had no fear as soon as he saw a young-looking woman. Now that he had a young woman by his side, and with Jane's relationship with Alex considered as well, it was only natural that Lenny no longer wanted Jane.
To his surprise, Jane fell on her knees before Lenny." Master Powell, please take me in. I need nothing but food. Just think of me and my mom as beggars, would you?" 1
Alex watched in silence from the bushes.
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