A Love Trap

Chapter 42 A Blind Date

"I only found out about this today. I'm really sorry," the middle-aged woman apologized sincerely.

Ashley and Ellie were displeased with the result, but they had no intention of putting her in an awkward position. After all, the woman was nice to them.

"It's okay. Now that you are going to sign a contract with someone else, we're fine with that," Ellie replied.

"I'm really sorry for wasting your time," the woman continued apologizing, with guilt written all over her face.

Ashley and Ellie bid her farewell and walked out. There was no point in crying over spilled milk.

...

They had come there to sign the contract in good spirits, but neither of them expected this to happen.

"It's so annoying! We have to go somewhere else now to rent a shop. What's going on? We agreed to sign the contract," Ashley whined in frustration as they left the shop.

"Things change, you know. Never mind. We'll find a good place," Ellie comforted. But there was a tinge of displeasure in her voice.

The two girls perked up again and started to look around for another suitable shop to rent.

For some reason, they were having a really hard time finding a suitable shop to rent. Even though they had found a few perfect shops, each time they were about to sign the contract, something would happen and the owners would suddenly back out of the deal.

The owners of the shops would have a different reason for doing so.

One of them said that they suddenly realized that the shop had already been reserved and that she had received the deposit for it.

and didn't want to lease his

the contract since he was going to

...

an array of different excuses and reasons but the end result was always

when it came to signing the contract, something would always crop up and the owner would give them

two girls, Ashley and Ellie were beginning to be suspicious that something was going on. After all, it was too much of a coincidence that

bodies back to their apartment. They trudged towards the couch and collapsed on it. Just then Ashley's phone rang.

pulled her cell phone out and when she saw the caller

foster mother always felt the need to call Ashley and pester her

child, not a servant. The Mus instructed her to do things all the time as

Ashley picked up the phone. She had already assumed the reason for

she said acidly.

Why did we adopt an ungrateful child like you? You..." Peggy's shrill voice resounded from the other end of the line.

Each time she received a call from her foster mother, the latter would always remind Ashley how ungrateful she was and how she owed them so much

for she knew Peggy would just say even

call her. But since Ashley didn't say a word back, Peggy became bored and cleared her throat finally getting to the point.

3 o'clock tomorrow

Ashley replied flatly.

taught to speak to your elders? Where are your manners? Your date has a doctoral degree and he has studied abroad. He is older than you, but he is a promising man.

he is such an excellent man? You made it sound like he is the best man in the world, ' she retorted

nothing more to do with the Mu family. It doesn't matter if you refuse

to threaten me. Rest assured, I wouldn't break my

fact, Peggy wasn't certain whether her husband would agree with her. After all, Spencer had only asked her to talk Ashley

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