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.

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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.

his mind and didn't want to lease his shop anymore.

one even said that he didn't have time to sign the contract since he was going

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excuses and reasons

signing the contract, something would always crop up and the owner would

contracts to lease their shops out to the two girls, Ashley and Ellie were beginning to be suspicious that something was going on. After all,

hectic day of looking for a storefront, Ashley and Ellie dragged their tired bodies back to their apartment. They trudged towards the

phone out and when she saw the caller ID

foster mother always felt the need to

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

Ashley picked up the phone. She had already

she said acidly.

to take my call, did you? Why did we adopt an ungrateful child like you?

her insults and degradation. 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

just say even more harsh words if

insulted like she usually did when she would call her. But since Ashley didn't say a

at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Do you

Ashley replied

degree and he has studied abroad. He is older than you, but

excellent man? You

have nothing more to do with the Mu family. It doesn't matter if you refuse to admit it. I recorded our conversation. So you can't

learned to threaten me. Rest assured, I wouldn't break my word. You'd better be on the date on time and behave

whether her husband would agree with her. After all, Spencer had only asked her to talk Ashley into going on the blind date, but he never mentioned

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