The next morning, Jade went back to her bedroom to prepare for the day. Arthur had left for work so she didn't meet him in the bedroom. She had her bath and sauntered to her walk-in closet to check for the outfit she was going to wear. After browsing through the closet, she settled for a soft woolen brown skirt and jacket. She looked at the section where a variety of fancy bags were arranged and wondered which bag to pair with her outfit. She groaned as she thought, she wouldn’t be in this position if she had purchased that beige Birkin bag. With a heavy sigh, she picked a nice black clutch and went back to her bedroom. She got dressed and walked out of the bedroom. She went to the dining room and met her daughter seated at the table, eating her breakfast. She joined her in the dining room and waited for the chef to serve her meal. After she was done eating, she kissed her daughter on the cheek and bid her goodbye.Then, her nanny entered the dining room to take her daughter to schoo
26: The Birkin Bag.Jade dropped the phone from her ear and stared at it absent-mindedly. She had thought Julian was going to send the money for the Birkin bag that night. Who would have thought that his account got frozen by his ex-wife?Jade leaned back on the headrest of her bed and scoffed. She had always seen Sydney as a nobody who was only leeching on her brother’s money, but the bitch had had something up her sleeve all the while. Now that her brother no longer wants her, she has decided to get revenge.Jade shook her head and laughed at how Sydney was behaving.Was she a child?Why is it so hard for her to accept that Julian no longer wants her?She needed to pick up her broken pieces and leave her brother alone!Why must she go as far as freezing his account?!Jade gripped her hair. She felt like she was losing her mind, if Julian stopped sending money to her, she didn’t know how she would cope.While she was still deep in thought on how to find the money for the Birkin bag,
Just as Sydney had said, Julian was appointed to the finance department. That morning he had gone to the company very early to pack his stuff from his previous office to his new office. After the news spread through the office that Julian had been denounced by his ex-wife who was also the Steinfeld heiress, many employees started avoiding him like he was a plague. Nobody wanted to be the next target of his vicious ex-wife. After putting everything he owned in a box, he walked toward the desk, looking at a desk plate which had the bold letters ‘CEO Julian' written on it. He picked up the name tag and turned it in his hand. He had taken a huge pride in owning that tag, but now it was nothing but a reminder of what he had lost. He gripped it in his hand and walked back to the box. He took one last look at the tag and dropped it into the box. Then, he picked the box up and made his way out of the office. Two women walking in his direction in the hallway quickly turned and went to the o
Sydney had just finished a meeting with the executives. She walked back to her office on the top floor of the company building, with secretary Ava following behind her. While they were alone in the lift, Sydney asked. “How is the woman’s daughter doing?”“She is adapting quite well.”Sydney had kept to her promise about sending the daughter of the woman who had poisoned her to an orphanage. “Good,” she said.The lift opened and she walked out. She got to her office and paused by the door. She frowned when she saw what was sitting pretty at her desk. “What’s that?"Secretary Ava entered the office and observed the object. “It is a bouquet.”“I know,” Sydney said, moving close to her desk. “I’m asking what it is doing here.”“I have no idea how it got there.”Sydney picked up the bouquet and checked the tag attached to it. Her frown deepened when she saw Julian’s name. They had been married for five years and he had stopped giving her flowers in the third year of their marriage. Rece
Julian’s mother sat before her dressing table, checking her curly black hair in the mirror. She sighed and adjusted it to the side of her face. She looked back at her husband who was reading a magazine on the bed. “Do you think I look presentable?”Her husband looked up from the magazine and smiled. “Honey, you don't need to overthink this. You look good. I am certain that even Sydney’s mother doesn't stand a chance with your beauty.”His mother smiled and looked back at the mirror. Ever since Julian had told her that Sydney was actually the Steinfeld heiress, she had been overthinking how to act and look around the Steinfeld Group madam. She knew she shouldn’t be too worried about her appearance, but due to what Julian had done to Sydney, she was a must to look decent and reassure Sydney’s mother that their family was capable of taking care of her daughter.She picked up her handbag and checked the time. She had arranged to meet Sydney’s mother at a fancy restaurant in Hay City. Th
In a small kitchen at a quiet restaurant, a elderly woman was busy chopping some vegetables on a cutting board. The whole kitchen was full of steam as different dishes were cooked in several pots. The woman had a soft smile on her face as she went to add the chopped vegetables to one of the pots. Another man standing in the kitchen followed her and sniffed the food in the pot..“This smells really nice,” he told the woman with a smile and went to get a plate. He was about to serve the food into the bowl when the woman slapped his hand.“Stop it,” she warned him sharply. “The Pho is for Julian.”The man frowned, looking displeased. “But Honey, isn’t it too much for him?” He attempted to serve himself again. “I mean, there will be no difference if I take some.”The woman went to another pot and served a portion of spicy noodles in a bowl. She stretched it to the man. “Here. Eat this instead."The man picked up the bowl and frowned, looking like he was about to complain. The door leadin