CHAPTER 845: CHAPTER 845: HOW CAN YOU FORCE A DEAL?

The two sat facing each other, and Jasper Sinclair could clearly see Nora Northwood’s slightly trembling eyelashes, allowing him to thoroughly analyze her current state of mind and understand that she was pretending to be calm.

Being stared at by a pair of deep eyes, Nora began to feel restless.

She deliberately avoided mentioning what Jasper wanted to know, waiting for him to speak first.

The latter indeed couldn’t contain his impatience. Jasper didn’t want to play a roundabout tactic, so after half a minute of silence, he spoke first: "Tell me, when did the planning start?"

"Which aspect are you referring to?" Nora began her "playing dumb and clueless" act, pretending to think it over, and answered him with a diversion, "Just happened to meet Vincent in Solara, heard he was coming to Port Calypso, hitched a ride with him, just to relax."

"Relaxing so much that you forgot your husband?"

"Didn’t forget, but... whether he’ll still be my husband is uncertain."

Nora laughed, the meaning in her words couldn’t be more obvious.

She saw the veins bulge on the back of Jasper’s hand, and then casually looked away.

After all, he wouldn’t hit a woman.

"Nora, don’t forget, you signed a marriage agreement with me, there are still five months left."

Nora slightly opened her mouth as if recalling something she had long forgotten and said, "How useless must a man be to have to rely on a piece of paper to keep his woman?"

Undoubtedly, it was a massive blow to Jasper.

"Nora, I’m giving you a chance to come back now. Come with me back to Stanton City, I can act like nothing happened, we’ll still be husband and wife, I’ll still pamper you like before."

Nora felt the lines were familiar; hadn’t she said something similar to Vincent a couple of hours ago?

She stiffly refused: "I’m not interested in this chance, you can take it back."

"No."

"Where’s the reason for forced buying and selling?"

"Nora, you are my wife, I don’t want to use a more forceful approach to keep you by my side."

Nora was silent.

Of course, she knew what this man would be like when he went insane.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have meticulously planned the so-called business trip.

In the prolonged silence of three minutes, Jasper slowly moved closer to her, until there was less than a few centimeters’ gap between them.

The colder masculine aura invaded her nostrils, accompanied by the smell of tobacco.

Nora reflexively frowned and asked: "You smoked again?"

"Yeah, smoked one on the way here to refresh myself."

After Jasper said he smoked to refresh himself, she slowly realized that this journey must have cost him a lot of thought and energy.

But none of that was her concern.

Nora only cared whether she could still peacefully enjoy a month of travel time.

To extricate herself, she had to bring up that annoying name.

"Before picking me up to go back home, over and over again you promised me that the matter with Peach Bell wouldn’t affect our lives, but the facts have shown me you can’t balance between me and her; since that’s the case, why make yourself so tired?"

"I no longer get involved in Peach Bell’s affairs. From now on, whether she lives or dies is none of my business."