Returning With A Thousand Favors By Flora Isabel

Chapter 12

Marina stared at the words for a moment. Then, with a slip of her slender fingers, she gave a simple reply.

[Yes.]

[Then, I’ll see you at the same old place. I’ll be waiting for you there!] This time, the other party sent a quick reply.

And she seemed to be in a very good mood.

Marina put her phone away and rose to her feet.

“Marina, are you going out now?” As soon as Peter saw Marina acting like this, his heart tickled.

“Are you done with your business already?” Marina gave him a look with her cold eyes.

“Well… not yet.” Peter’s voice was lowered a bit.

“Then, why are you asking this?” The coldness in Marina’s eyes deepened.

“I get it. I’ll stay at the company and do my job.” Peter’s head drooped.

With a serious face, he started flipping through the documents in front of him.

He looked like a wild wolf cub who had been tamed into a family dog.

However, his look might be able to fool the others but not Marina.

“Oscar, you stay here,” Marina instructed.

“Yes!” Oscar immediately answered.

Peter heard the words but felt a little uneasy.

If Oscar stayed, how could he manage to slack off?

“Marina, you only brought Lee and Oscar. You’re not familiar with Solemwood. Let them come with you, so I can feel more at ease.” Peter tried to sound concerned as her older brother.

Marina threw him a glance before she instructed Oscar again.

“If he dares to run away or be lazy at work, break his legs for me!”

“Yes!” Oscar answered loudly.

Peter was speechless.

“Marina, there’s no need for you to go this far, right?” Peter looked at Marina with a look of negotiation.

However, Marina didn’t even spare him a look back at him. She turned around and walked out with Lee.

“Marina…” Peter wanted to chase after her, but Oscar was staring at him with a burning gaze.

Peter suddenly felt a little pain in his knees.

He then picked up the document in front of him again and read it with immense attention.

Oscar and the others treated Marina’s words as if they were holy orders.

Although he was considered something of a master, they were not the ones who would understand the ways

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of the world.

He had to be responsible for his own mistakes.

Peter had to accept the fact that he was an employee of the company.

After Marina came out of the company, she gave Lee an address.

Half an hour later, the car stopped in front of a private club.

“Just wait for me outside,” Marina ordered and got out of the car.

The person she was going to meet was not quite suitable for her to take Lee with her.

The woman had the guts of a chicken at best. Lee and the others gave off too much pressure, which would probably scare her out of her wits and make her unable her to speak fluently.

“Yes!” Lee was a little worried, but looking at Marina’s determined look, he knew it was useless to say anything. So, he answered in a low voice at once.

As soon as Marina entered the clubhouse, she saw the familiar figure sitting in the lobby by the window.

It was a girl who looked very shy.

She wore thick bangs and old-fashioned black-framed glasses.

She had obviously been an adult for a long time but was still wearing a T-shirt and jeans from her student days.

She kept looking at the door since she arrived there, and when she saw Marina enter, she was stunned for a

moment.

Marina immediately took a step toward her and walked over.

She then sat down opposite her.

Jessica was still looking at Marina with a dumbfounded look on her face and didn’t come back to her senses

at all.

“What? Do I look so pretty to you?” Marina raised her eyebrows slightly, and there was a bit of flirtation in her

tone.

“… Huh? I…” Jessica instantly snapped back to her senses, her small face turning red all of a sudden.

She was at a loss for words and couldn’t even utter a complete sentence.

“Oh, well…”

Looking at her like this, Marina sighed as if she hadn’t heard.

“It’s been a year since I saw you, and you are still as shy as ever. You didn’t make any improvement.”

“I… have always been like this.” Jessica’s voice was particularly soft, and her every move suggested that she was timid and introverted.

Still, she couldn’t help but glance up at Marina.

“But you seem to have changed a lot.”

‘Really? And have you ever thought that I might have been like this in the first place?” Marina stretched out

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her hand and beckoned the waiter. Then, she ordered a stiff drink.

“Carol, drinking is harmful to your health. You’d better drink less,” Jessica spoke up in a hurry.

“Carol?” Marina gave a low laugh when she heard this name.

“Ah, I forgot. You’re not called by that name anymore. Sorry, I just called you that out of habit.” Jessica looked at the look on Marina’s face and hastily apologized.

“I’ve said it before. You don’t have to apologize to people for everything. It’s not like it’s a big deal.” Marina used to hate Jessica’s cautious and discreet appearance.

Now that she recovered her memory, she couldn’t stand to look at it even more.

“I…” Jessica’s face reddened again. She grabbed her cuffs uneasily with her small hands, not knowing what to

say.

“Forget it. Let’s eat first.” Marina knew very well that Jessica’s nature could not be changed for a while

She ordered some food so that Jessica could feel relaxed first.

Otherwise, she probably wouldn’t have said a word this entire evening.

Jessica was very careful when eating the dishes.

She was sitting quietly over there while taking small bites of food.

She buried her head as low as possible..

Marina couldn’t help but sigh when she saw her like that.

Jessica was Sophia’s younger sister.

But it was the kind of illegitimate daughter that was despised by everyone.

Her mother was a dancing girl who met her father by chance.

At the time, she saw that he had quite some money, so she hatched an evil plan.

She used some tricks to give birth to Jessica secretly.

She wanted to get rich from it.

However, Alan was shameless to the extreme.

He didn’t want to acknowledge Jessica at all.

Jessica’s mother spent years going back and forth over the matter, but she still couldn’t get any benefit from

it.

In the end, she lost her mind and had a nervous breakdown. She threw herself out of the window.

Alan had no choice but to take Jessica back to the Rodriguez family.

However, Jessica’s life in the Rodriguez family was not good.

Even a servant could bully her at will.

The only reason they became friends was that Marina unintentionally helped her once.

This pure-minded girl took her as a friend for life.

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She always looked for her.

Step by step, the two of them became friends.

It could be said that Jessica was the only warmth Marina had ever felt during the three years that she lost her.

memory.

Later, she regained her memory and broke off contact with all the people she knew in Solemwood, but she

did not block Jessica.

In the past years, the two would occasionally talk.

Perhaps this time, she thought she could persuade her to leave together.

Just when Marina’s thoughts were drifting away, a teasing voice suddenly sounded.

“I was wondering who it was. Isn’t this the */*//// daughter of the Rodriguez family?”