Love My Friends with Benefits

I looked Leonard right in the eye, trying to detect a single trace of reluctance. However, his eyes were completely calm.

"I remember." I sounded casual, but I could not conceal the bitterness in my heart.

Once he was dressed, he threw a bank card on the bed.

"There's a million dollars in there. Take it as my compensation for the past six months. I'm getting married soon, so I hope that we can end things on a clean note." "What? What do you take me for?"

I was not with him for money, but his deciding to use money to resolve this was a low blow.

"Don't take things the wrong way. That's not what I meant."

He sounded breezy, but it still hurt. At the very least, I wanted to preserve some of my dignity.

"I may not be as rich as you are, but that doesn't mean that you can just throw some money at me and use me as you wish. We only started this to satisfy our physical needs!"

I did not want to make my utter defeat so obvious, but I ended up losing my temper anyway. I broke the bank card in half and threw it right at his face.

His lips twitched, but he remained void of emotion. Without another word, he turned and left the hotel room.

After Leonard left, I could not get myself to calm down. It felt like there was a ball of frustration in my heart.

I grabbed my phone to block his WeChat and delete his phone number.

In the following days, I focused most of my attention on work and successfully closed a few huge deals for the company. In my leisure time, I had drinks with May.

I was trying hard to eradicate all traces of Leonard from my heart and to treat our relationship as a small interruption to my life.

May actively searched for a boyfriend for me and told me, "Out with the old and in with the new. Don't waste your time on a man who doesn't care about you and think about the friends who are by your side during bad times!"

It was not that the men that May introduced to me were subpar; in fact, some of them were great as a partner. However, there was just no chemistry.

I was not the type of woman who could just fall in love with any man.

May was a little exasperated by this, but she eventually just let me be.

In the blink of an eye, two months had passed.

Sometimes, there were certain things that one was bound to get caught up in. Perhaps it was my destiny.

It all started when I suddenly received a phone call from my aunt. She told me that my grandmother was sick and wanted to see me.

A wave of sorrow washed over me after hanging up.

If there was anyone left in the Jones family worthy of my concern and gratitude, it had to be my grandmother.

She had been vehemently against my father bringing his mistress and illegitimate daughter into our family, and she had stood firmly by my mother and me.

However, my father was adamant. My parents got divorced, and my mother took her own life due to the humiliation.

With her death, there were no more obstacles in my father's mistress's way, and I was left to fend for myself. If it had not been for my grandmother's protection, I probably would not even have lived to see this day.

Therefore, I had to go back to see my grandmother, even if I knew what I was getting myself into.

I took a day off from work and went to get some nutritional snacks for my grandmother before rushing over to the Jones family's home.☐☐☐☐☐☐☐