Let Me Go, Mr. Harvey

“Who said anything about equal sharing of property?” James said in a cool voice.

Denise froze for a moment before she heard him say, “You’re seven and he’s three.”

“James–”

“You go back now and he will agree.”

James didn’t linger any longer, tilting his head back to take a sip of his drink and stumbling into the car with staggering steps.

–

Adeline hadn’t been back to the Smith family since her miscarriage. She thought her husband would at least come to see her, but he went to the office and slept like nobody’s business, with no intention of apologising to her.

She went to Jason in a fit of pique and spent all these days with him.

After Adeline’s miscarriage, he wanted to let her rest and then take care of her, taking advantage of the opportunity to win her heart when she was at her most vulnerable.

But she doesn’t want to rest and spends her days pretending to have a chance encounter with Grandpa Smith to prove her femininity to him.

Today Grandpa Smith was showing a client around the Smith family’s mall, so Adeline asked Jason to go with him to the mall and even pointed out a million dollar diamond necklace that he liked after Grandpa Smith went into the luxury shop.

“I’ll take this necklace.” Jason pointed at the diamond necklace and didn’t even blink. The truth was that over a million dollars was really nothing to him.

“Okay.” The waiter responded and prepared to pack the necklace.

Adeline thought that if she had asked Jason to buy her a necklace, Grandpa Smith would at least react, but he was still laughing and joking with his clients and didn’t even look at her.

She grunted in dissatisfaction and said, “Wait!”

The attendant carefully held the necklace and looked at her with a confused expression.

“No need to pack it!” Adeline pointed at Jason and said, “You put it on for me!”

Jason was comfortable doing such things and didn’t think much of it. He happily responded, removed the tag and put it on her.

“Thanks honey.” Adeline cried out sweetly on purpose to annoy Grandpa Smith, then gave Jason a kiss on the cheek with a baring sound.

Grandpa Smith heard the noise, glanced this way and then withdrew his gaze.

Adeline was so angry that she pushed Jason away from her and said, “Pay up and get out of here! Some people are just an eyesore!”

“Okay, okay, good girl, just give me a second, it’ll be ready in a minute.” Jason wrapped his arms around Adeline’s waist for another kiss, but was pushed away.

He wasn’t offended and cheerfully drew out a black card and threw it to the waiter.

The attendant took it with both hands, tried it once and looked puzzled, why was the card frozen? There should be something wrong somewhere, the Harvey family can’t be unable to get the million or so out.

But she tried a few more times and still couldn’t swipe it.

She was about to remind Jason when Adeline couldn’t wait any longer, “I mean, what’s wrong with you waitress? You haven’t finished swiping a card in half a day, you’re working this efficiently because you climbed into the boss’s bed to stay, right?”

The waitress is a university student, she is only here for a part-time job, she is angry and aggrieved at this moment, but she can’t say anything, who let others are customers?

She smiled stiffly and said politely, “Mr. James, why don’t you change your card?”

The main reason for saying this is that these rich people are more concerned about saving face and she was worried that saying the card was frozen would upset Jason.

But Jason had never been in this situation before and didn’t think this way, he just said unhappily, “Why change it? Just use this card.”

“…… Mr. James, this card of yours has been frozen.” He had asked that, and the waiter could only answer truthfully.

Jason froze instantly.

Freeze?

How is this possible?

Adeline sounded upset, “Do you know who he is? How did his card get frozen? Is it because lovers like you who climb into bed by the seat of your pants don’t know how to operate that you think the bank card is frozen!”

“Mrs. Adeline, this card is really frozen. And please, show some respect and don’t bleed.” The waitress was so red-faced and angry at her words that she was on the verge of tears.

She could just quit the job. Who is this person to insult people?

“Hey, what’s with the attitude? Do you really think that just because you’re in your boss’s bed, you’re something?” Adeline was already unhappy, and when the waitress made her face, her anger flared up, “Go, call your manager out! You must give me an explanation today!”

There was another waiter next to him, and seeing this situation, he felt that he could not solve it at all. He hurriedly pulled the waiter, who was wiping his tears, down and went to call the shop manager.

The shop manager hurried over, apologising and saying nice things, “Mrs. Adeline, this is all my shop assistant’s fault, I apologise to you. I’ll give you a 10% discount on this necklace.”

He, like the waiter before him, thought that the Harvey family was not so bad as to be unable to get that kind of money, so something must have gone wrong.

Ninety-five percent off is not much of a discount, but with a base of over one million, that’s a big discount to say the least, and the shop manager was sincere in his apologies.

But to my surprise, this made Adeline even more upset, “Do I look like someone who is short of that kind of money? I don’t need a discount, tell that clerk to come over and apologise on his knees! And I’ve got work to do, so swipe your card and don’t take up my time!”

The main Grandpa Smith had almost finished with his clients and looked like he was leaving.

“Let me swipe your card first for this …….” The shop manager thought it was too difficult to get someone on their knees to apologize, but he didn’t think of any good excuses, so he could only swipe his card first and stall for a bit.

He took the black card, swiped it, his eyes widened, then swiped it a few more times in disbelief –

“Sorry, Mrs. Adeline, Mr. James, the card is indeed frozen and cannot be used. Do you think it would be convenient to change the card?”

Adeline still doesn’t quite believe it, “How can it be frozen? Who could have frozen his card? Is there something wrong with the machine in your shop?”

“If you don’t believe me, you can see for yourself. There was another rich woman who just took a necklace from here, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the machines in our shop.” This attitude of hers made even the shop manager upset.

Adeline was about to say more when Jason stopped her with a scowl, then opened his wallet and pulled out a few more cards, “Try these.”

It suddenly occurred to him that James seemed to have said earlier that he would freeze all his funds, and he had previously thought that James was just saying that.This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

The shop manager tried them all again and said, “…… None of these cards will work.”

Almost as soon as the words left his mouth, Jason’s phone vibrated a few times.

It was a text message from James.

[All funds in your name have been frozen.]

[Go home and get a divorce like my mother says, or you won’t get a penny from the Harvey family ever again.

Jason looked down at the text message on his phone, yet he could still feel the complicated stare of the shopkeeper on the side. He had never encountered anything like this before and his face was on fire for a moment, wishing he could dig a hole and leave the scene.