Chapter 108
Jonathan didn’t hum down my request, Instead, he asked me, “Where do you want to stay?
Treplied, “A small apartment in the west part will do. I don’t need much space studio is enmigh
He didn’t agree right away, but he didn’t shoot it downrities. He calmly remarked, “A studio la too small for two. I’ll get them in arrange ablecer apartment.”
1 lowered my head in silence. The whole reason I asked for a studio was because I didn’t want to stay with him. If we were moving into a full–done apartment, he expected me to live with him.
Seeing waying anything, Jonathan raised my chiên. “I’ll have them get a place ready. We’ll move in tomorrow after everything is set.”
1 lowered my gaze dejectedly. “Torget about it. Living, he is fine, just don’t let Alicia come around and annoy me”
If he insisted on mending out with me, then them was no point. Living with him outside the Ford residence would have been much worse. We would just be in each
other’s faces all the time.
At last the Ford residence was big enough. It was hard to in loro amone unless it was intentional, if Alicia could stay out of my face, it beat sharing a place with Jonathan outside.
Thad no choice but to give in, jonathimchidn’t say a word and just rubbed my cheeks gently. “just stay put at the Ford residence. Go back to work when you’ready.”
He still belleved 1 would go back to Millenia Corporation and be his secretary. I didn’t say anything, but I felt kind of disheartened
After a moment, I inquired, “Does that mean I can head out tomorrow?”
le stared at me in silence without responding to my question. He didn’t agree, but he didn’t object either. 1 knew that meant he was giving silent approval, but it all hinged on how I behoved
1 paused for a moment before aslong, “What about Asia?”
Jonathan’s expression softened. “I tookcase of that. There was some tension between the Zummers and the Guzmans, but it’s fine now.”
I looked down with a conflicted expression. “Did you cut a deal with the Zimmer family or the Guzman family? No way they would just drop it for nothing.”
He nonchalantly remarked, “I gave something to each of them. They couldn’t swallow their pride, so giving them the right benefics was the only way to shut them
up.”
I was tom. “Honestly, I thought you would side with the Zimmer tamily and come down hard on the Guzman family again, just like before
Jonathan sounded completely like it had nothing to do with him. “We’ll be stuck in this mess endlessly if it keeps up. Aria made the first move, so the Emmer family won’t let her off easy. But knowing her, there’s no way she is apologizing to Alicia ”
Isneered. “You sure low Alicia inside out. I figured with how much you defend her, you would push the Guzmans to give in to the Zimmers.”
He suddenly tomed to me. “Do you think I’m that naiven?”
I didn’t say a word and pursed my lips.
Jonathan suddenly chuckded. “This isn’t as simple as you think, I could porssine the Guzmans to apologize to the Zimmers, but what would I get out of it? It’d just
make things worse between them.
After a pause, the locked eyes with me, like he was trying to teach me something, “When it comes to politics between families, all the talk of right and “wrong” boils down to personal gains. As long as everyone wins, no one is going to be upset or dissatisfied.”
His words left a bitter taste in my mouth 1 looked at him. “Then what about the way you treat Alicia? Is that business only? It sounds like you’re just making an excuse for yourself”
He admitted it without hesitation. “I don’t make excuses. She is special to me. If it were anyone else wouldn’t have gone though all this trouble.
