Mistaking the CEO for a Gigolo

The man shook his head in response.

She then continued, “Gillian Snow, the lead character in the novel, has been through what most divorced women would go through living with their parents. A phrase in the novel goes ‘a divorced woman living with her parents has no one to depend on.’ That was exactly how I felt.”

“Were your parents not good to you?”

“After my failed marriage, I tried to be more careful about choosing my next partner. I wanted to start again with another relationship, but I’ve never found a suitable one in the past two years after the divorce. My mother would get mad whenever the neighbors mention my failed marriage. Then, she’d ask me to hurry and get remarried soon. I was living in a house that belonged to my parents, so from time to time, my mother would remind me that they planned to move into the house soon. I knew she was trying to drive me out. I haven’t slept well for the past two years because I was sleeping under someone else’s roof. I didn’t have a home, and I have no one to depend on.”

Levant had no right to comment on the woman’s family matter, so instead, he inquired, “Have you not thought about getting your own house? Do you have a job?”

The woman nodded. “I do. When I was six, my mother shut me out of the house when I fought with my brother. I was so scared that she’d never let me in again, so I cried until the sky turned dark. In the end, my grandmother brought me back to her house. When I was sixteen, my mother sent me elsewhere to make money. I’ve known since I was sixteen that I had to depend on myself. I’ve supported myself over the years.”

Her tears started rolling down again when she recalled her painful past.

my children. I don’t earn a lot, and I have to pay for my children’s living expenses, send money to my family, and cover my own daily expenses. What little money I have left isn’t going to be enough for me

but I do now. A woman needs to be financially capable and have her own home. Only then she can start planning her own life. Otherwise, we’ll always

she looked at Levant and asked, “What do you think? Should I listen to my mother and

can’t afford to buy a house, you can always

house after my divorce, but my mother came over,

go on talking. The past was a knife to her heart,

how the woman was suffering, he

a house was nothing to Levant, but it

you stop trying to hurt

her head and

her life had to offer, she wondered if the stranger before her was trying to lend

me money?” she asked