Chapter 2

Sure enough, Asher backed down.

We went to a private club where I was a member.

Oh, and Zora came along with her twins too.

Asher and I sat facing each other, while Zora tended to the kids nearby, occasionally glancing our way.

Asher said, "Rachel, I'll pay back everything I owe you, but I don't have that much capital right now. Could you..."

"If you don't have the money, give me the projects you're working on."

Since we were breaking up, might as well make a clean break. My decisiveness seemed to keep surprising Asher. He stared at me in shock.

Zora was the typical stay-at-home mom type, clearly clueless about business matters. But when she heard I wanted to take Asher's projects, she immediately spoke up.

"That's not right! Rachel, those projects are all Asher's..."

I was nauseated just hearing Zora's voice now.

She thought she was helping Asher? Wrong!

I may be cool-headed, but I'm not magnanimous. Her voice was a constant reminder that my relationship ended because of this homewrecker.

"Do you have any right to speak here?"

Zora was immediately silenced, looking wronged and pitiful as if I was bullying her.

Naturally, Asher was unhappy with how I spoke to his beloved ex. "Rachel, Zora doesn't know anything about this. Why are you being so harsh?"

He turned to Zora and said, "Those projects were all negotiated by Rachel herself. It's only fair for her to take them."

I laughed, amused by Asher's naivety.

"Of course I'm taking the projects I negotiated myself. I'm talking about the ones you're working on."

Asher was shocked. "What do you mean?"

I sneered, "You said you don't have capital. So use your projects to pay me back. Is that so hard to understand?"

Asher's expression darkened, as if holding back anger. "Rachel, do you have to be so ruthless? Can't we even remain friends?"

Friends?

A man who abandoned me at our engagement party wants to be friends? What a joke.

I'd like to demand fairness from Asher, but him dumping me at the engagement was an irrefutable fact - and a lesson learned.

I told Vincent very seriously, "I have no obligation to do that."