“Have you forgotten? You and your mistress beat me up just a few days ago!
“Why should I care about you? You left me behind and ran off with her. We never got married. Who says we’re together?
“How dare you say you’re like Ryan Zack? Did you leave your brain in another country when you came back?”
Max’s face got paler with every sentence I said.
He clearly didn’t expect me to say such mean things, and he looked at me with tears in his eyes.
“Elena, I know I messed up. I see that now. Please give me another chance.
“I was just blind back then.” I’ve come back now, and I’ve made money to marry you!”
Max got down on one knee and slowly opened a ring box he had taken out of his pocket after they talked.
Clara, who was still on the ground, saw the ring she had always wanted being given to me. She got up quickly and tried to grab it.
“Max, you were the one who begged me to leave with you! You said Elena was as boring as watching paint dry and promised to love me forever.”
“I’m warning you: if you dump me, I’ll take you down with me!”
Clara grabbed the ring and gave us a suspicious look.
I laughed and looked at her. “Don’t worry.” No one wants to fight you over things that are so cheap.
“You must have lost a lot of money while travelling if you think that little ring is something special. How sad!”
After that, staff members took me to the CEO’s private lift.
When I got off the lift, I saw Ryan waiting for me at the door.
“So, does that help now?”
I smiled and jumped into Ryan’s arms. “Don’t worry. I only gave him a hard time today. The main event is still to come.”
I smiled as I saw security take Max and Clara out.
I called the secretary’s office after that. “Get all the details about Max’s money matters abroad and send them to our business partners.”
I was sure that this would stop him from doing his scams.
I soon heard that everyone was telling Max to leave. His act was finally over.
He already owed a lot of money in other countries, and now he couldn’t get any money from people in his own country either.
He somehow figured out that I was the one who leaked the information, and he angrily came to the mansion to wait for me.
I was driving home and talking to my best friend on video chat.
“I’ll put all the business deals you offered into savings. Ryan gives me $30,000 a month to spend, and I’m saving it all!”
I saw Max’s face change from a snarl of anger to a smile of affection as I got out of the car.
“Elena, I was wrong. Please give me a chance to show you how sincere I am!”
Max fell to his knees with a thud, pulling on my clothes with both hands.
I was getting impatient and pointed my phone camera at him.
“Do you like me or just my money?”
“Let you prove yourself, and then you run off with my money? Are you dreaming?
“Was it your twin brother who beat me last week? Where’s all that toughness now?”
Max didn’t get mad when I made fun of him. Instead, he hit himself in the face hard twice.
“I messed up. I didn’t see how valuable you were. I’ll hit myself—does that make you happy, Elena?”
Max looked at me carefully, and his voice was full of desperation to please.
He thought we were alone in the dark, but he didn’t know that my best friend was streaming live. In our area, she is a pretty well-known influencer.