From His Ex-Wife to the World's Most Sought-After Restorer (Jade and Hudson) novel Chapter 140

Chapter 140 The Harassment at the Studio

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Jade didn’t finish cleaning up the wreckage of her apartment until nearly three in the morning before falling into an exhausted sleep.

She didn’t forget her obligations at the studio, waking after only a few hours to eat a quick breakfast and head into work.

She spent the entire morning working with the intensity of a machine, fighting through the haze of fatigue.

But she pushed through; her career was the only thing she had left that was stable and successful.

Under no circumstances would she allow her personal life to sabotage her professional reputation.

Noon arrived.

After a quick lunch, Jade was heading toward the break room for a nap when she spotted Michael, Cindy, and Robert near the entrance.

She pressed her lips into a thin line and marched toward them.

“What are you doing here? This is a place of business!”

Michael didn’t like her tone, but remembering his mission, he forced a smile and pointed toward a nearby restaurant.

“Jade, it’s been a while. Let’s have a family meal and catch up properly.”

Jade stared at him with absolute coldness.

“Say whatever you have to say right here.”

Michael’s face twitched, and Cindy stepped forward, dabbing at her eyes with a look of practiced suffering.

“Jade, I know Robert was foolish last night, and we’re ashamed to ask… but we have nowhere else to go. Your father’s business is struggling an the cash flow is dead. The collectors gave us forty-eight hours. If we don’t have the money, they’re going to break your brother’s legs. He’ll be a cripple for life!”

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Jade listened to the performance with a completely blank expression, not moving a muscle.

Seeing that she wasn’t breaking, Cindy reached out to grab her hand.

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“Jade, it’s just a million. Consider it a loan. We’ll pay you back once the business recovers. We’ve been a family for so long-you can’t just stand by and watch him be mutilated!”

Jade wrenched her hand away and drew out her response with a cold, slow cadence.

“Break his legs, you said?”

Cindy thought she had finally found an opening and nodded frantically.

“Yes! You have to-”

“I think breaking his hands would be more effective,” Jade interrupted, her voice like shards of ice.

“If he can’t use his hands, he can’t gamble. It solves the problem permanently.”

“You b*tch! You actually want to see me ruined, don’t you?!”

Enraged, Robert lunged forward and shoved Jade, his face twisting into a snarl as he raised a fist toward her face.

In the next heartbeat, a powerful hand intercepted his arm mid-air and twisted it behind his back with a sickening crack.

A visceral scream of agony tore from Robert’s throat.

“Argh-!”

The hand released him, followed by a heavy boot to his backside that sent him tumbling down the concrete steps.

From across the street, inside his Maybach, Hudson’s face was a mask of dark frustration as he slammed his hand against the seat.

He was a second too late. Again.

Jade looked at the man in the vibrant silk shirt, taking several seconds for her to place his face from her memory.

“You’re… Julian’s associate?”

She remembered him from the club when Julian had rescued her, and he had been the one driving the car when she left the estate.

“Ms. Merchant, I’m honored you remember me

Jeff offered a sheepish grin and rubbed the back of his neck.

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“In Jeff Mound, Juliuri’s childhood friend.”

Jade’s lips mowed, but the words were a jumbled mess in her mind. She gave a small, confuserd wordt.

She wanted to ask iff Julian had sent him to shadow her.

The answer was obvious.

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But Juliam was supposed to be in Harbor City how did he know her movements so precisely?

She remembered him saying in the car that his protection was unconditional.

She hadn’t expected him to be this serious; even without her asking, he was fulfilling his promise from across the country..

As Jade was processing this, Cindly and Michael had already scrambled down the stairs to help Robert up..

Seeing Robert’s face covered im blood, Cindy maternal instinct turned into a sharp, poisonous rage directed at Jade..

“Your brother only came to you because he was desperate! You offer zero help and then let this thug mutilate him? Are you even a human being?!”

Michael looked at her with a gaze filled with a cold, righteous anger.

“Jade, you have become a massive disappointment to this family..”

Jeff Mond took the cigarette from his lips and flicked the ash, looking at the three of them with a lazy, mocking contempt..

“Your son is a grown man who can’t stop throwing money away at a table, and you try to guilt-trip Ms. Merchant into paying his tab?? Sce whem is being a failure a point of family pride? You’re here making a scene as if you’re proud to have raised a totall degenerate!”

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