Love the Second Time Around

Chapter 39 Compromising Over And Again

“Do you guys know each other?” I asked, slightly baffled.

I only became more bewildered than before. Why does that sound more like a threat even though Benjamin sounded nice?

What was weirder was the trace of panic that I saw flashing across Julius’ eyes.

Something was definitely up between the two. However, I chose to believe Benjamin since he was, after all, introduced by James, and his relationship with Dominic must be pretty close too.

Whatever. As long as I can get a divorce and get all the problems solved, anything’s fine.

“Tell me, what do you want today? Please speak your mind today so that the next time it’ll be at the court when we meet. It’s incredibly annoying to do a meet-up so often like this.”

I had to say it felt different with a professional sitting beside me.

Julius frowned and seemed somewhat infuriated. Nevertheless, he did not say anything else and only pulled out two sheets of paper from his briefcase.

At that instance, I saw what they were. On the heading were two words: Divorce Agreement.

I did not expect Benjamin to guess it right.

As Julius passed me one set, he said, “If there are no issues, then we can proceed to sign the papers and head down to the Registry Office after this.”

In place of me, Benjamin helped to receive the papers from Julius.

There was as though a surge of being snobbish and acting all high and mighty within me, and to be honest, it was a great feeling.

After reviewing it, Benjamin asked me about matters regarding matrimonial assets—cars, housing, and savings—in front of Julius.

in the house Julius bought. As a celebratory act, we had both forked out money to do some minor renovations to

Julius’ faked righteousness and pretense to rely on himself had my parents coaxed and made them think he

with his multiple rejections, my dad ultimately still forked out money to buy a mid-range car that looked

for savings, there were none. Julius was not fond of me ever since after our wedding night. Thus, we would only spend our own money

daily necessities at times, but those were small amounts that I did not want

get it right, Julius?” I deliberately questioned him to

asked for fifty hundred thousand as one of the divorce terms

that Julius’ expression froze a

except for one point. Mr. Keaton, as the wrong party in this marriage due

that mean I don’t have to

I was proven wrong. Not only did he not reject that, but he had also agreed to it readily and even said he could pay a

huge surprise! Is this really Julius in front of me? Or perhaps Benjamin’s authority and dominance

have to fork out money for the divorce, I even ended up with an additional hundred

my client is only worth a hundred thousand? How about this; I won’t ask for too much either. We’ll settle at five hundred thousand. That’s also the amount you’ve originally asked for, so I

have turned! At that moment,

felt like a submissive person today,

snarled, “Liliana! I’ve agreed to your request for a divorce, and I’ve

the

was no big deal if he thought that way. After all, Benjamin was fighting for my rights. Furthermore, Julius did not seem to feel he was overboard when

refute his words, Benjamin lightly tapped my shoulders and calmly replied, “Mr. Keaton, this seems like a huge sum, but for you, who’s a sales director of Yorkshire Corporation, it’s nothing but a bonus

always sign the papers first, and you can do the

believe Benjamin would know every detail of Julius so well, including where

hearing Benjamin’s explanation, Julius’ face

into the table too tightly that

agree to the terms I’ve mentioned, I can draft two new sets of the

added on, leaving Julius