Chapter 260 I Can’t Help You
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“I can’t help you.” The boy rejected her flatly and decisively. He withdrew that cold, distant gaze and walked off without looking back.
“Wait a minute…” Jean’s mouth twitched.
Come on, she thought, I haven’t even said anything yet!
And you’re already telling me you can’t help?
The boy walked past a rusted iron fence and opened the metal door on the second floor.
Bang!
The door slammed shut behind him.
It felt like the world had sealed Jean out. She stood there alone in the alley.
But she didn’t stubbornly chase after him. She turned and walked out of the alley.
Jean was trying to make sense of the boy’s attitude.
Was this just his personality?
Cold and strange?
Or was there-
Some hidden reason…?
He hadn’t exactly been friendly…
Jean frowned as she left the alley and wandered down the side of the street, her mind clearly elsewhere.
Suddenly-
A pure black car sped past her from behind. It brushed right past her ear, and the powerful gust of wind blew her hair up into the air. Then-
The tires splashed directly into a large puddle on the ground, sending water flying everywhere and drenching Jean.
Seriously?!
Jean instinctively jumped back, her eyes blazing with anger.
She touched the soaked side of her clothes. Her face darkened. She opened her mouth, ready to cuss
someone out—-
But unexpectedly, the black car didn’t keep going. It came to a stop up ahead.
The window rolled down–and Jean saw an utterly unexpected face.
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A man whose good look were as sculpted and precise as marble. He stared at her with a sharp, cold gaze- his dark eyes as emotionless as ice.
Jean’s face tensed slightly.
She hadn’t expected to run into Thomas right here, right now.
It had been a long time since she’d seen him.
Now, the man at the center of the Asher case had appeared in front of Jean once again.
“Your driving skills are absolute dogshit.”
Before Thomas could even speak, Jean narrowed her eyes and cursed him directly.
Of course, deep down, she understood perfectly–Thomas had most likely done it on purpose.
Who the hell drives like that? Skimming the edge of the sidewalk, nearly hitting someone, and splashing them with gutter water?
Thomas let out a low chuckle.
“Long time no see,” he said, his voice laced with biting sarcasm.
Jean tilted her head and let out a cold laugh. “If it weren’t for certain circumstances, I’d wish to never see you again in my life.”
Thomas stared at Jean, half–smiling, but his eyes were still ice–cold. “You really don’t know how to read the room, do you?”
Jean–always the one to defy expectations, always doing things that irritated him.
Like that dinner when they first met. She’d secretly set Selena up, and made him lose all face….
And now, she was going against him again–for Asher’s sake.
He had already reached out to nearly all the top lawyers in Blairford, using half–threats and half–bribes to make sure they refused to defend Asher.
He had planned it all perfectly. As long as nothing went wrong, Asher would go down–dragged under the weight of the charges and destroyed for good.
But then Jean–this wildcard–showed up out of nowhere.
All the lawyers had been bought off, but Jean had somehow brought Jolene into the picture.
Of course Thomas knew who Jolene was.
But he hadn’t even bothered trying to reach out to her. She’d been retired for years, and someone like her -Someone with that kind of status–would never lower herself to get involved in something like this.
He hadn’t expected Jolene, the one person who slipped through the net, to stand right against him.
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