Joy Quinn was up all night, trying to contact Howard Lynch.
It wasn’t until exactly ten in the morning that Howard’s phone could be reached.
"Cousin, last night..."
Wanting to ask if anything happened between Howard and Willow Young, Joy suddenly didn’t know how to begin.
Unexpectedly, Howard said, "Your friend isn’t bad."
The words sounded strange.
Fearing that Howard would fall for Willow, Joy quickly said, "Willow is not a good girl, cousin, don’t fall for her tricks."
"Joy, don’t get involved in these things. You just need to practice your Meridia language skills well, and after the New Year, go with me to study in Meridia."
As for the rest, Howard said nothing more.
Soon, he found an excuse to end the call.
Although she didn’t manage to get any information from Howard, Joy had the feeling that whatever shouldn’t have happened between Howard and Willow, had already happened.
So, she busied herself with looking for Willow.
But when she found Willow, her suspicions grew even more.
Because Willow was covered in injuries, with several slap marks on her face.
Each bruise was more shocking than the last.
"Willow, what happened to you..."
Joy was at a loss for words.
Willow, on the other hand, seemed like a soulless puppet, only gave her a quiet glance and then, without saying a word, went straight into the dormitory.
As soon as Joy left, Willow hid under the blanket and cried her heart out.
She thought everything went according to her plan last night, not knowing she had fallen into Howard’s trap.
The experience last night was truly terrifying.
In the future, she dared not dream about Howard again; better to live well with her sizeable fortune.
But Willow hadn’t figured that her sizeable fortune would also slip from her hands.
This is what happened: Today, after she covered her bruises with concealer, bought a luxury bag to soothe her mood, upon returning to school, she received a court summons.
It turned out that Nora Cole, citing that Franklin Yates used joint marital assets while keeping Willow and other women, took them to court.
And as adjudicated by the court, the situation was true. Therefore, it was ordered that Willow and others should return all the money given by Franklin Yates.
Other women had to return around a few million, as Franklin hadn’t taken them abroad for shopping. Official source is novel·fıre·net
In Willow’s case, because of the enormous expenses of going abroad, and because the house Franklin purchased for her was the best one, the amount soared to as much as twenty million.
Receiving the order to return twenty million, Willow was utterly dumbfounded.
To make matters worse, she sold the house at a price below market value, and now only had a few million at hand.
Where was she going to find over ten million to return to Nora Cole?
Even worse, the contents of the summons became public knowledge at school.
Everywhere Willow went, she was the subject of pointing and gossip.
Look, she had just entered the school cafeteria, and already a lot of women were discussing right in front of her.
"That’s her, kept for a while, and in the end, she has to return twenty million to the wife, as if she was taken for nothing!"
"Serves her right, for willingly being the other woman."
"No wonder even the bag she used to carry textbooks was a new Hermès worth over a million. Turns out she was being kept!"
"Such a person is a disgrace to our school. We should petition to get her expelled."
Listening to their gossip, Willow couldn’t even eat.
Just then, she saw Joy Quinn...