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Chapter 307 Unwanted Debts

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Lily choked. “Those were all gifts from Paul. Now that Owen’s forcing her to cut ties with him, she has to return everything…”

Oscar let out a coldugh. “If you’d done that from the start, you wouldn’t have embarrassed yourselves so badly. Yunice’s name wouldn’t have been dragged down with you.”

Lily was speechlessb. /b

In the Saunders family, they always med Yunice for ruining the family’s reputation. How did it flip around now?

But she needed something, bso /bshe didn’t dare argue back. All she could do was cry and plead. “Now’s not the time to talk about that. Fengdong, help me out just this once. I’ll pay you back. Just think of it as a loan, please?”

Oscar said bluntly, “I don’t have money.”

His research hadn’t yielded any returns yet–he had nothing.

He looked down at the diamond in his hand. Yunice had taken it off the cakest night and handed it to him for fun.

He could probably bsell /bit for something.

He hesitated, debating whether to bail Lily out.

Lily, sensing that hesitation, tried to steer him. “You and Yunice get along well. Could you maybe ask her for help? She’s with Wyatt now. She must have money, right?”

After all, every time Lily saw Yunice, she was wearing something gorgeous–probably gifted by Wyatt.

What she didn’t realize was that the moment she said those wordsb, /bOscar’s face darkened. He clutched the diamond in his hand and made up his mind not to give it away.

b“/bYunice married up. Thest thing she needs is for us to use her to fund the family. That kind of thing makes a husband look down on his wife. bHave /byou thought about how that might affect her in the long run?”

Lily snapped, “You blockhead. Marrying up means you get to enjoy his money and connections. Otherwiseb, /bwhat’s the point of marrying him?b” /b

bOscar /bsaid, “bEven /bif bit’s /bfor the money, it should be for her to enjoy. You people bnever /bgave Yunice a dimeb–/bwhat right do you have bto /bspend her money nowb?/bb” /b

He hung bup/b.

Lily bstared /bbat /bher now–silent phoneb, /bstunned. Then, two secondster, she burst into btears/bb. /b

b“/bbI /bbgave /bbirth to two kids, bnearly /bcost me my life, and they’re both ungrateful! Not a single one is willing to help me! I don’t believe I bcan’t /bbraise /bba /blousy five million!”

The next morning, Yunice woke up in Wyatt’s bedroom to find him still at homeb–/bsurprisingly, he hadn’t gone to bwork/b.

She nced at her phone. bIt /bwas already ten.

They’d all had a bgreat /btimest night, and since everyone present was someone she trusted, she’d let her guard down and had ba /bbit to drink.

Just a little.

Wyatt had brought her home and tucked her into bed. He hadn’tid ba /bhand on her.

She got up and went into the bathroom. When she looked in the mirror, she realized Wyatt had even helped her take off her makeup.

After freshening up. she went bdownstairs/b.

b4:45 /bPM

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He often stood by the floor–to–ceiling windows, talking for long stretches–ten, fifteen minutes at a time.

So whenever she ran into him, she almost always saw his back first.

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But Wyatt had broad shoulders, long legs, and elegant hands gripping the phone–his arm muscles defined beneath his shirt.

He looked better than any male lead on TV.

Noticing her movement, Wyatt nced back and said into the receiver, “We’ll talkter.”

He pocketed his phone and walked over, sitting naturally across from Yunice at the dining table.

“Freya sent over your birthday gift first thing this morning.”

Yunice perked up and immediately checked out the three shopping bags ced beside the table.

Three bagsb… /bshe had a pretty good guessb. /bFreya, Carl, and Victor.

She opened each one.

A bottle of rare, discontinued perfume–clearly from Freya.

A sleek fountain pen–definitely Victor’s style.

The third box contained only a thin envelope. It was so slim she couldn’t even guess what was inside.

Yunice smiled. “It’s been ages since I’ve gotten this many presents. Feels like opening mystery boxesb.” /b

Wyatt leanedzily against his chair, head tilted as he watched her carefully open the envelope.

She didn’t want to damage anything, so she asked a maid for a utility knife and carefully cut through the bwax /bbseal/b.

Then she held the envelope from both sides and slowly slid the contents out.

As soon bas /bshe bsaw /bthe photograph, Yunice froze.

Wyatt noticed her expression shift and sat up straighter, ncing at the photo.

It was old, yellowed. The people in it looked young and a little awkward.

But bit /bbwas /bbclear /benough–her father Will and Carl, bback /bin their youth,

Yunice bstared /bbat /bher father’s bface /bin the picture. Her lips curved into ba /bsmile, but her

eyes

turned red.

She had been gone for three byears/b, and by the time she came bback/b, almost all of her father’s belongings had been cleared out.

She bnever /bthought she’d bget /bto bsee /ba photo of him again.

At that moment, ba /bmaid approached Wyatt and whispered behind him, “Sirb, /bthe old house bjust /bcalled. They’re asking bif /byou and Madam could visit sometime soon.”

bSend Gifts /b

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