Chapter 13

Knowing Jonathan had made his decision, Roger didn’t add more. It was more accurate to say that Jonathan sought someone he could talk to and confide in, rather than someone assigned to him for a task.

Jonathan was profoundly lonely.

Yet, Roger couldn’t fathom why someone like Jonathan was raping Adela.

But he dared not ask too much.

***

For Adela, happiness sometimes arrived unexpectedly.

Last night, Dominic was beaten up, and her burdensome loan of two hundred thousand USD was easily resolved. And this morning, she received a job offer from the M&N fashion company branch in the internationally renowned Elite Summit City.

Moreover, the annual salary and bonuses exceeded two hundred thousand USD.

Therefore, she deliberately called the HR department of the M&N fashion company’s Elite Summit branch to confirm before daring to believe it was true.

She studied fashion design, deeply passionate and enthusiastic about costume de