"Alex?" There had been a total of a hundred guests in the entire restaurant. No one had dared to call him Alex Poole; even Mister Poole was considered a bold way of addressing him. Most people there referred to him as 'Master Alex', and yet, the pregnant woman went and called him by his first name. She refused to comply when Alex begged her to go back with him earlier, and now she regretted it as soon as he left?
'Ha! She had gone too far by playing hard to get. There isn’t a woman that’s truly that noble and prideful; it was all just for show!' they thought.
Since she had gone too far with her plots, everyone was desperate to see what might happen to the deadbeat pregnant woman.
The pregnant woman ran out frantically, supporting her belly, as the people behind her who were there to welcome Alex followed closely after her. They all wanted to watch her make a fool of herself in the most dramatic way possible. Among those people, ninety-nine percent of them thought that for a man like Alex t o make the decision to leave this woman; he would surely kick her out of the way even if she wanted to go back to him.
"Hmph! Let’s see what happens!" Even Ivy, who was begging for Jane to show her mercy just now followed Jane out with a sneer.
Drenched in his own sweat, Lenny was the only one left in the restaurant. He had been walking on eggshells the past few days, and at that moment, he suddenly felt like he had been lucky. If he managed to get past this safely, he intended on going back to the village where he was born and retire. This world was just far too dangerous, one careless mistake could cause the big boss in Kidon City to turn him into dust. He was almost seventy. Lenny was the only one who did not go out of the restaurant to watch the drama unfold. He stood inside the restaurant silently, glad that he had never laid a finger on Jane. Otherwise, he would have been buried alive as well. Thinking of it, h e chuckled. "A woman like Jane is indeed very attractive. It's no wonder that the big boss of Kidon City fell for her."
Just then, Jane was a few steps away from Alex's car, and the car was slowly starting to move.
"Alex! Alex! Please...! W--Wait!" Jane stumbled with her hands supporting her belly.
Alex's shining black Hummer stopped steadily, and the window dropped open.
The man at the back seat was wearing a pair of sunglasses and wore a cold expression. There was a burning cigarette in between his lips, which was oozing smoke at the moment. The man's cold attitude had everyone at the scene feeling as though the atmosphere had turned cold as well.
'Who is Master Alex? He is the elite of Kidon City! It's already a great honor that he came here himself to look for you and welcome you to his house, but what did you do in the end? You need to see who you are dealing with when playing hard to get! How dare you try to string Master Alex along!' the others thought.
Just then, Alex said, "What..."
"Alex, you..." Jane struggled. She had been determined to follow Lenny, even if he planned on selling her body in the future; she would have accepted it. She really, really did not want to go back to Alex for the rest of her life because she felt that remaining by Alex's side was not a path that she was supposed to go on. She was meant to live her life in the mud, not like an elegant lady. However, her mother was alive. The fact that there would be high expenses for the surgery was not the most difficult matter, as she could at least try t o ask for Lenny's help; on the other hand, what exactly was with the defensive equipment? Why would her mother come into contact with those? They even mentioned that those things were advanced technology that cost a fortune; how could that happen? If everything she heard in the call from the hospital was true, then the only one who could resolve this would be Alex.
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