Early the next morning. Jolly woke up still feeling groggy, and when she opened her room door, she saw a shadow frying bacon in the kitchen. She yawned. “Chris, please make my omelet fully cooked. I’ve had an upset stomach for the past two days. I don’t even know what I did.”
As she said that, she sat down in front of the kitchen bar counter and took a sip of the squeezed juice. “This juice is tasty.”
“Thanks.” It was a male voice. In the next second, a bowl of mixed salad and a plate of bacon omelet were placed in front of her. Jolly thought she was hallucinating, so she looked up and suddenly saw Justin’s face. “What in the-”
She screamed, and if it wasn’t for Justin’s quick-wit, the cup would have almost shattered on the floor. “What’s wrong?”
Rachel heard the screams and ran out of the bedroom. As soon as she came out, she saw him in the kitchen. On the other side, Jolly stood by the bar with her hair disheveled like a ghost, and she looked so surprised that her eyes were about to fall out of the sockets.
When she saw Rachel coming out, Jolly confirmed that she was not dreaming. “Why is he here?”
“Well, that’s a long story.”
“Then, why is he wearing your pajamas?!” Rachel glanced at Justin and tried her best not to laugh. She had already given him her largest set of pajamas last night, but it still looked a little stretched on him.
At the moment, she coughed dryly. “This… is also a long story.”
Ten minutes later, Jolly came out of the bathroom after washing up. At that point, she was more sober and calm. ‘Tell me. What’s going on here?”
Now that she was alone, she was facing Justin on the opposite side and acted like a tribunal. “Tell me honestly and I’ll go easy on you. How did you end up in my house?”
“He didn’t come by himself; I brought him here.”
“I didn’t ask you.” Jolly turned her head and glared at Rachel. “Just sit on the sofa and turn your head away. It’s none of your business here.”
Rachel didn’t know what to do, so she casted an apologetic look at Justin before she sat down with her head turned away. Her ears still pricked up, listening to Jolly’s questioning. He explained, “I don’t have a place to live for the time being, so Rachel took me in for a while.”
“Bullsh*t! Your summer villa is bigger than the Olympic venues. It’s pure bullsh*t that you don’t have a place to live.” “Someone else took over the place.”
“You mean Ginny Tuscan?” Jolly frowned. “Doesn’t she own only half of the property?” “Half ownership doesn’t mean that the land is divided into two where each person is living on their own. After all, it is not suitable for two opposite genders to live together for a long time.”
“However, isn’t she your fiancée?” “Have you ever seen an engaged couple who were engaged at the age of ten, but have not married yet at forty, and one of us even got married before?”
“Huh…” She nodded. “Wait, no!”
All of a sudden, she became serious. “Though what you said did make sense, you don’t have to stay in my house! Can’t you live in a hotel? What about the many properties that the Burton Family possesses? You can always stay in any one of them!”
Justin looked embarrassed. Rachel couldn’t take it any longer. “His ID card and passport are with Ginny. He can’t live or go anywhere. He’s finally met his nemesis.” Jolly’s eyes widened. ‘Now, what exactly is the situation here?”
Rachel glanced at him. ‘Just like you and Ginny, Jolly owns half of this property too. So if you want to live here, we have to tell her what happened.”
He didn’t hesitate. “Go ahead, then.”
She explained the purpose of Ginny’s return to Riverdale including the fact that the woman drugged Justin. After Rachel explained everything, Jolly was nothing but shocked.
“How can she be so ruthless? Drugging him. too? You must be kidding me.” “Why would I joke about something like this to you?” Rachel spread her hands helplessly. “When I went to the summer villa yesterday evening to talk about Victor and Gloria, I happened to witness everything, so…”
If it wasn’t for this incident, Justin would have never asked her for help. Jolly reluctantly believed it and asked Justin, “If the solution that you came up with doesn’t work, and she still wants to stay in Riverdale, do you still not plan on calling the police?”
He responded lightly, “I can’t answer this question for the time being, because I don’t know how far she will go, but I believe she will leave as long as she gets the right of inheritance.”
“Ugh, so troublesome. Damn, why are you always finding yourself in so much sh*t?”
Jolly walked around the room impatiently. All of a sudden, as if she had just thought of something, she stood still. “How about this? I’ll solve this for you.”
“No need, I guess.” “Don’t worry. You saved Leroy’s life, so take this as me paying you back.” With that, she turned around and left without even eating her breakfast. Rachel called out to her, “Where are you going?”
“Getting a change of clothes to run some errands.” Jolly’s flamboyant personality was just as always. Before the two children got up, Rachel and Justin were the only ones left in the living room.
She glanced at Justin’s stretched clothes and pursed her lips, but couldn’t hold back. “Just laugh if you want.” He was generous and calmly looked at his clothes. “It is a little small.”
“It’s not just a little small. Your elbows are almost showing. I’ll buy you some clothes later.” “Don’t bother. I’ll get Frankie to send some over.”
“Coming from someone who doesn’t want to bother people, isn’t that troubling him too?” Rachel rolled his eyes at him. “If I remember correctly, you got him pretty mad at you some time ago, yet you can ask him to run around like this?”
Justin was at a loss for words. After their meal, Rachel took the car key and went to work. He went to the room and woke the two children up for breakfast.
Charlotte was still groggy from her sleep, and when she opened her eyes and saw him, she immediately thought she was dreaming. “Daddy? Why are you here?”
“You lazy fellow, get up for breakfast.” She yawned, turned over and went back to sleep, muttering, “I must be dreaming.” When he saw her acting this way, Justin felt that he was almost melting from how cute she was.
For a long time, Justin only sat quietly beside the bed without disturbing her. After a while, Charlotte turned around out of the blue and stared at Justin with wide eyes. “Daddy! It’s really you!”
“It’s really me.” At once, she got up and hugged Justin’s neck. “I thought it was a dream! Daddy, why are you here?” Justin kissed her hair. “Because I miss you.”
“I miss you a lot too!”
“Get up; I made you breakfast.” “Wait a minute!” Charlotte blinked. “I’m going to wake Samuel up!” She left Justin behind, jumped out of bed. barefoot and ran to the next room. Samuel was sleeping soundly, but was woken up by Charlotte.
“Get up! Things have changed! My daddy has been saved again.” He hugged the quilt and refused to let go while saying in a daze, “You must be dreaming. Go back and sleep more.”
“It’s true! Get up!” Samuel didn’t believe it until a familiar male voice came from the door. “Samuel, come on, get up. Go wash up and have breakfast.” When he heard the familiar voice, he was stunned for a moment and got up from the bed instantly to stare at the door. This is awesome!
