The Ex and Her Riches

Chapter 229

Gwendolyn’s gaze remained determined. “Yes, Old Mr. Jenson. I think Mr. Cedrick and I aren’t a good match for each other. If we could, I’d like to… be friends.”

Valentino was surprised by her decision. “Did he mistreat you, Gwendolyn? Tell me, and I’ll take care of him!”

“No, he wouldn’t dare do that. I just…”

Fifteen minutes later, Gwendolyn emerged, grim-faced, from Valentino’s villa. William was waiting for her at the entrance.

Upon her appearance, he hurried forward. “How did it go, Ms. Gwendolyn? Did Old Mr. Jenson agree?”

Gwendolyn gazed down glumly and shook her head.

Valentino had walked her through the pros and cons. Her engagement with Cedrick was not an ordinary affair, as it concerned many other people as well. In fact, Cedrick had publicized their wedding to also be a business alliance.

If the engagement were to be broken off two days after the reception, Harris Group and Jenson Group would face massive financial losses and negative publicity online.

Needless to say, the repercussions would be huge.

Furthermore, Valentino no longer got involved with the Jenson family’s major affairs. As Cedrick was the new head of the family, she would have to discuss the matter with him.

Knowing him, he would not consent to it even if she pointed a gun at his head.

Gwendolyn was furious, yet she could not think of anything else.

Cedrick has me trapped well and proper this time!

She could finally understand why Treyton and Eloise had been engaged for two years, yet they remained together even though they truly despised her. For the children of a rich family, in particular, an engagement built on a business alliance was not easy to call off.

Forget it.

it all over again soon. For now,

will not entertain Cedrick, his bodyguards, or his subordinates if

“Yes, Ms. Gwendolyn.”

in

file. When they turned the corner, they did not

elegance. “Is that the heiress of the Harris family who’s engaged to Cedrick?” he asked his

Jenson,” the bodyguard replied after

does not seem to be in a good

“Yes, Mr. Jenson.”

returned ten minutes later. “She’s here to back out of her engagement, Mr. Jenson,” he reported upon reappearing

of

was the one who wanted to get married. Apparently, she does not feel the same

said that Mr. Cedrick did not attend her party,” the bodyguard added. “It

on in Cedrick’s head, do you? We’ll find out after

you mean, Mr.

mission,” he said loftily. “I heard it involves a gunfight. What do you think will happen if he finds out his fiancée wants out and that

meaning at once. “Don’t worry, Mr. Jenson. I will make

…

of calling off the engagement remained unresolved,

I’ll bring over the more important artists from Angle, pick a date, and we will officiate

entire day, going over the case file of every artist the company had signed in her stringent selective

end of the workday when a scuffle sounded outside the corridor. It was so

go outside for a look when the office door

found Ezra and Quinton on the ground,

“How dare you

you but they had been rebuffed by those two, so I was forced to

I would not see Cedrick’s people. It must

lowered her voice. “What’s

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