THE LAST MINUTE GROOM : CHAPTERS 51 – 60
BY SIR ZACH
CHAPTER 52
“Miss Youan is right. Ma’am, let’s see how much you have in your account!”
Blue glared at the lady who said that and she immediately shrank her neck, but she had already put the idea on people’s minds.
“We all don’t need to see it. The manager and Youan are enough.” Another fan added.
“Yes, go on, show us the figures in your account!” Almost everyone in the crowd screamed.
Jeslyn looked at everyone speechlessly. Youan was smiling and the manager was almost sweating buckets.
“I will…” Jeslyn paused to look at every one. “On the condition that Your celebrity will show us her account first.”
“Th– that’s not–”
“Your celebrity is scared. She doesn’t have the money yet, she raised the bid so high. Now that I allowed her to go with the clothes, she’s suddenly suspecting me of not having money. I agree that I don’t have money which is why I couldn’t bid higher.”
Everyone stayed silent while some nodded. She was right. They turned to stare at Youan, waiting for her to stop making excuses.
“You are a manipulator! She–” Youan was cut off immediately as Jeslyn continued:
“I don’t care about you, Miss. I have wasted too much time debating irrelevant words with you. I’m leaving now. However, it seems you cannot pay for all the clothes.” Jeslyn picked out the most beautiful clothes she had her eyes on and passed them to the manager.
“I’ll take these three and pay. Deduct the money from her bill.” Jeslyn smiled.
The manager was lost. He didn’t understand nor know how to react to this madness.
“Oh, before I forget. Your salesperson said there’s a 30% discount for every cloth bought, so you said the clothes are 2500–3000 dollars. What price are these? Add them and remove 30% promo each.”
“Wh– what are you talking about?” The manager looked confusingly at Jeslyn.
“Oh, your salesperson said there’s a 30% discount for every sale.”
“What?! Joan!!”
“Manager, I…”
“You are fired! Don’t let me see you anywhere close to this place or you’ll be sorry.”
Jeslyn looked shocked. “Manager, hope you aren’t firing her because of what I said?” It felt like she was regretting her actions. Meanwhile, in her heart, she was laughing.
“No, ma’am. She went against the protocol. We aren’t giving customers a discount.”
“Ok,” Jeslyn shifted her gaze to Joan and shook her head. “That was bad on your end. How did you intend to return the money to the company? Why would you even think of harming the company so? What motivated you?” Although Jeslyn sounded naive, her meaning was clear as day. She was implying that Youan made her do it because Joan was crazy about her.
“What are you saying, my Miss didn’t –” Youan’s assistant wanted to come to her Young Miss’ aid but Jeslyn wouldn’t give her the chance.
“Don’t get me wrong young lady. I haven’t accused your Young Miss, but if you feel I’m telling the truth, then…” Jeslyn glanced at the manager whose face had turned unsightly.
“Manager, it’s not what you think, I’m, I was–” Joan tried to defend herself but was cut off by the manager.
“Security! Throw her out!” The security men rushed in and grabbed Joan who was pleading with everything she had got but the manager was too furious to care.
“If after investigation, it was found that you have been stealing from the company, then be ready to rot in prison… don’t think you can escape because you’ll be watched day and night until this case is over. Throw her out!”
After Joan was dragged away, the manager turned to Youan. “Miss, do you agree for her to take out some clothes?” He didn’t sound happy and if anything, he wanted Youan out of the store.
Youan knew that she had failed. There was no need to continue the drama anymore and secondly, she doesn’t have 100,000 dollars to pay.
“I never had a problem with her buying clothes,” Youan responded ambiguously.
“Then, ma’am will pay the money to you and you’ll pay the $100,000 to the company.”
“Ma’am, please, your card.” The saleslady that was driven away by Joan returned and half-bowed to Jeslyn.
Just when Jeslyn was about to hand out Pink’s card, Rex walked into the store.
“Sisters-in-law, you forgot your card.”
Everyone, including Youan, shifted their gaze to the intruder.
‘So handsome!’ Youan internally screamed.
“Brother asked that I bring it to you.” His smile almost gave Youan a heart attack. His light blue hair, brown eyes, thick brow, and sexy pink lips were so attractive that she wanted to just grab him and ask him to spend a few nights with her.
Jeslyn looked behind him. “Where is he?”
“He’s waiting for you in the car. He felt you were taking too long and assumed your card must have been the problem…Why are these people gathered? Was there a drama?”
“Not at all. It was a little misunderstanding. It has been resolved. Manager, here’s my… card.” Word got stuck in Jeslyn’s throat when she saw the black card.
The manager was worse. He received the card with shaky hands like it was the last egg in the world.
On the black card was written: “unlimited, world elite, and Royal bank.”
Seeing this card and what was written on it, the manager immediately knew that these people were from country M.
Only people from country M could afford the Royal bank’s black card, let alone the ones marked ‘unlimited.’
The unlimited card means that the spender does not have a limit to the amount that they can spend in a day. The minimum amount that the card accepts is $ 1 million with no maximum amount.
Except the bank manager is called, no one can check the balance on the cards, unless they receive an alert for what they spent. Which was why the manager was not able to see the balance even when he wanted to.
Youan and those who thought that Jeslyn was poor were so ashamed that they almost could breathe from the Shame that was choking them, especially Youan.
“Ma–ma’am, yo–your pin.” The manager stuttered.
Jeslyn stared at Rex.
“Hahaha… my sister-in-law has forgotten her pin again. I keep reminding you that it’s your wedding date… a day before your birthday
Jeslyn chuckled dryly. “Whose fault is it?…” Jeslyn gave the pin to the manager before chit-chatting with Rex while waiting for the card.
Meanwhile, Ray was so shocked that he almost tripped on nothing. “Jes– Jeslyn? My Jeslyn?” He mumbled to himself in utter disbelief.
After the manager deducted his money, he handed the card to Jeslyn with both hands.
Jeslyn accepted the card and intended to return it knowing that it belonged to Maverick, however seeing the name boldly written with silver, she choked. ‘L.L Jeslyn.’
She kept the card away to not look suspicious. “Have a nice time paying.” She smiled at Youan before holding Valen’s hand and walking out of the store with the others following behind with her shopping bags.
Along the way, she stopped to buy a few more things she found to her liking before they finally left the mall. Unbeknownst to them that Ray was following them from behind.
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM : CHAPTERS 51 – 60
At the parking lot, Jeslyn spotted her stepmother walking towards her car and laughed villainously. “It seems the Lord wants me to take care of you today.”
“What are you plotting? Fill me in.” Rex beamed.
“You are not a form.” Jeslyn rolled her eyes. “Only forms get to be filled out.”
Rex chuckled and shook his head.
“That’s your husband’s car. I reckon you might not know it.” Rex pointed at a black-tinted car.
“Who said I won’t? Stop underestimating me.” Jeslyn glared at him.
“He just bought the car actually. Hahaha…”
“Ohhh…whatever, he’s got a nice smell, so I could have known.”
“Jeslyn, have you become a dog now? You’ve got a dog nose?” Rex teased.
“F*ck off!”
“Hahahaha…yeah, yeah, I’m leaving… Valen boy, come with me. Nasty things might happen inside the car and it’s not wise for you to be there.”
“I’m not coming with you,” Valen said curtly.
Jeslyn nodded in approval, but when she spotted her stepmother walking towards the road, she immediately changed her mind. “Valen child, please be with uncle Rex, I’m about to do something evil.” With that said, she hurried towards Maverick’s car, missing the two-second pout on Valen’s face.
Getting to the car, Jeslyn knocked on the driver’s window. The glass wound down and Maverick’s cold face popped up from the car.
“Ehm…please, can you get down for a few minutes? I just want your car for a few seconds, please.” Jeslyn looked in the direction of the road and saw her stepmother waiting to cross the road while her daughter, Chi Chi, was left in the car with the guards.
“Why?” Maverick’s hard voice sounded.
“I want to commit a crime.”
“You want to run someone over?”
Jeslyn nodded stiffly. Maverick’s lips curled slightly. “Get in.” He said and Jeslyn hurriedly went through the other side and entered the front passenger’s seat.
Maverick started the car and zoomed out of the garage, driving at full speed toward the road.
“Do you want her dead?” Maverick asked with his eyes focused on Jeslyn to see her reaction.
“No,” she turned to look at him. Their eyes met. He could see the determination in her orb. The wickedness she has been hiding in those cute eyes for so long. For a moment he doubted if she was the cute bunny he knew.
“I want her to suffer… so much that she would be abandoned by her family, she would want death but it won’t come. She would see and know the truth but cannot warn anyone against it. I want to ruin her, Maverick.”
Looking into her clear hazel eyes, Maverick could see the sparkle in them. She was about to cry but was forcing herself to hold it in. “How do you intend to achieve that?”
“Bang!”
Maverick didn’t look at the road. His brown eyes were still holding Jeslyn’s hazel eyes when he accelerated and brushed Madam Chen out of the way.
Jeslyn jolted and turned to look at the road but saw nothing.
“You hit something,” she asked a rhetorical question. She was sure he did.
“Hmm… she’ll be sent to the hospital in a while. Go finish her off in the hospital.” He told her before he turned to face the road and sped off.
While all of that was happening, Ray who rushed out to follow Jeslyn a while back saw everything. He was shocked for a moment before he pieced together all the events that happened today. Then it dawned on him that Jeslyn was seeking revenge.
“Jeslyn,” he called under his breath. Then he pulled out his phone and hurriedly made a call. “Take care of the CCTV footage that captured the accident at City mall.” While saying that, he was hurrying towards his car.
“Should I delete the footage or what?”
Ray stayed silent for a while before he replied, “send me a copy and delete the footage.”
“Ok, Young Master.” The voice replied.
Ray got into his car to go after Maverick’s car.
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM : CHAPTERS 51 – 60
Meanwhile, Rex could be seen in his car rubbing his palms together as he stared at his laptop. “Search all you want, you won’t find anything. Hehehehe…”
Ray’s phone rang a few moments later and he immediately answered the call.
“What do you mean by no footage could be found.” He asked with his voice raising.
“If they are deleted, then certainly a great hacker like you can retrieve them. Do I need to telmach you your job?”
“You can’t retrieve it? Then send me the drama that occurred in the children’s clothing stores earlier.” Ray disconnected the call and focused on driving. He was losing them and if he doesn’t focus, he would miss them.
Soon, the car he was trailing sped up one more time and another black car blocked his path. Before he could focus on it again, the car had disappeared out of sight.
“Damn!” He slapped the steering with his palms, just in time for his phone to ring again.
“Have you sent the videos?” He asked.
“No videos? What do you mean? There was no drama in any stores? Forget it!” Ray remembered that he had taken videos of the drama Jeslyn created, so he took his phone and went to his gallery. However, no matter how hard he tried, no videos showed up anywhere.
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM : CHAPTERS 51 – 60
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