Honey You Are My Lucky Star (Callen and Chelsea) novel Chapter 46

The rich always think money solves everything. They look down on ordinary people because their lives are worthless.

I'm not surprised that he knows I need money, but I don't think he knows about the black card.

If he knew, he would have been more certain I was a gold-digger.

"Just curious. How much are you going to give me?" I'm not angry and ask him with a smile.

I can clearly see the disdain in his eyes. He takes out a check and puts it in front of me. It says one million.

I slowly pick it up and give a sweet smile. That's how much I'm worth.

Few people in the world can say no to so much money, right?

Jonah looks at me contemptuously. "I'll take that as a yes."

"What?" I'm confused.

He seems to be pissed off, but he doesn't lost it. "You take my check, you do what I say. No such thing as a free lunch."

I'm kind of amused. I can probably understand why Harrison made friends with him.

This playboy is not annoying. On the contrary, he's a bit simple, just like my friend Sienna.

It's gonna be so much fun if Sienna meets him.

"I'll give you the check back. Please don't come back and ask me to leave Harrison again." I place the check in front of him.

Jonah looks a little helpless. "What do you mean by this? Are you kidding me?"

"This is the first time I've seen a check for so much money. Thank you for blowing my mind. I am poor, but you probably don't know me very well," I say seriously.

"I'm not gonna tell you why I'm with Harrison now, but I promise I'm not a gold-digger. If I were, he would have dumped me long time ago."

I decide not to tell him about the black card. It's a secret between me and Harrison.

I'm not staying with him for money. After paying off my mom's medical bills and debts, I never used that black card again.

But what happened today makes me feel the need to give it back to Harrison.

I see anger and helplessness in Jonah's face.

In fact, he's just worrying about nothing. Harrison and I are not a couple at all.

"It's never gonna work out between you and him. Why don't believe me?" He sighs.

I'm kind of shocked by his tone. Just now, I thought he would beat me up in anger. "It doesn't matter. And we are just friends now."

"Friends? Are you sure?" Jonah asks, "Then why did he come to you last night?"

I nod, but later I realize he can't see it. "You know me well. I don't like the way Jonah's acting, but he's really nice to you."

"You want to know more about my friend?" He seems to have finished his work and starts to chat with me.

I didn't ask him why he came to see me last night until I hung up. He didn't mention it, either.

Unknowingly, we have a tacit understanding.

What I need to worry about right now is work. Originally, I wanted to get some advice from Harrison, but I gave up on second thought. I can't rely on him forever, can I?

I thought about labor arbitration, litigation and so on. To my surprise, my company just releases a list of layoffs.

And I'm on it.

There's no turning back now. I can refuse to quit, but I can't stop the company from laying me off.

My boss won't see me, and my colleagues refuse to talk to me.

I'm kicked out of the company like a rat.

After packing up my stuff, I go to the elevator and see Sean. Instead of going in, I take a step back.

"You're not coming in?" Sean presses the button and waits for me to enter.