All Chapters of The Don for Rent: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Julie had brought her dogs with her.The two of them were sitting in the seats that were supposed to be where my daughter and I sat.It made it seem as if Nora and I were the ones who didn't belong.When Steven saw me, he immediately stood up and walked over. He opened his arms to hug me. "Kelly."I took a step back. Steven looked embarrassed.After glancing at Julie, he explained, "Julie said her dogs get anxious whenever I'm not around. They bark all night. And she's had enemies trying to assassinate her lately. She needs protection. After thinking it over, our house seemed like the safest place."You don't mind, do you?"I looked at him in disappointment.Julie walked over. Instead of apologizing, she looked pleased with herself. "Kelly, I hired Steven, so you wouldn't mind, would you?"She then started giving orders to the servants. "Put my things in the master bedroom. I looked around the house, and that's the only room with decent lighting."One of the servants picked u

After saying that, Steven called for his men.I collapsed onto the ground. Every movement sent pain through my body, and I could barely prop myself up. My voice came out hoarse. "Steven, my dad treated you like his own son. Have you forgotten all of that?"Steven didn't even look at me. He was busy checking Julie's wrist for scrapes. "Why are you making such a big deal over a dog? Besides, Julie already tried to stop it. What more do you expect her to do?"His men moved efficiently. Two of them grabbed me by the arms and dragged me toward the gate.I struggled desperately with my heels scraping across broken bricks until bloody trails formed behind me. "Let go of me!"Julie crouched down and pointed at a tiny scrape no larger than a fingernail's size on Sunny's front leg. Tears instantly welled up in her eyes. "This is all my fault. Kelly could've just blamed it on me. Why did she hurt my dog?"I was thrown into the interrogation room beneath the docks. The iron door slammed shut

"Miss, this isn't about money." The doctor pried my fingers loose one by one. There was no sympathy in his eyes. There was only fear. "Ms. Ziegler made it very clear. Anyone who stays in that operating room today will lose their jobs tomorrow."No matter how hard I begged, the doctors left one after another. The operating room doors slowly closed.Nora lay alone on the operating table. She could have made it through in another thirty minutes. Instead, she lay there with her chest wide open and waiting to die.My phone vibrated. A message from Julie popped up. She was reclining against the master bed with a damp towel against her forehead. Her complexion looked healthy and rosy. There was fresh lipstick on her lips. Seven or eight doctors surrounded her. There were even two carts full of medical equipment nearby.Steven sat by the bed and personally fed her soup.I could sense her gloating through the message.[Kelly, weren't you the one who wanted money instead of people? How doe

Steven froze.The chat history had reached the day Julie returned.He recalled going to the airport himself to pick up an old friend he hadn't seen in years. From that day forward, the center of his life slowly began shifting toward Julie.His conversations with Kelly became fewer and fewer.They stopped communicating. Whenever problems arose, they argued and blamed each other instead.Kelly was no longer the gentle woman he remembered. She fought with him. She even screamed at him through tears.It was nothing like the Kelly in his memories.The Kelly he had fallen in love with was kind. No matter what happened, she always treated people with gentleness.He truly couldn't understand why Kelly suddenly seemed so hostile toward Julie.Kelly even insisted he stopped seeing Julie.But Julie was going through hard times.They had grown up together. Helping her a little didn't seem unreasonable.Why was Kelly making such a big deal out of it and even demanding him to ignore Juli

Steven's face instantly drained of color."What do you mean? What do you mean Nora's gone?"His entire body trembled as he spoke."You're lying to me, aren't you? Nora is just hiding somewhere, isn't she?"The stuff he had taken from me slipped from his hands and fell to the floor.It was a divorce agreement and a debit card."What is the meaning of this, Kelly?"Steven reached toward me desperately. "This is all my fault. I know I was wrong. Tell Nora to stop hiding. Tell her to come out, okay?"I never loved Julie. I only ever loved you. The only reason I stayed around her was to make money."I snorted after hearing what he said."Money?"I picked up the debit card and threw it at his face. "Money earned with our daughter's life?"Steven, do you have any shame at all?"The money on that card belongs to Nora."Tears streamed down my face while I spoke. "You always said you were too busy making money to spend time with her, so she spent an entire year saving up money hers