A Vengeful Ex-Wife

Chapter 342 I'll Help You

Hearing the glee in Maria's voice, James said coldly. "Did I agree to it? What does your unilateral agreement have to do with me? An oral agreement won't stand in court.

You can't sue me." The fifty-one million dollars that Maria had been about to grasp in her fingers seemed to disappear in an instant. In a huff, she threw the quilt over her face again and rolled over, turning her back towards him.

James fondly pulled her into his arms, resting his chest against her back. "Sweet dreams," he whispered in her ear.

Maria was so sleepy that she drifted off without pushing him away or responding to him.

The next morning, James got up on time as usual. When he went to the bathroom to brush his teeth, Maria also got up and followed him.

Leaning against the door frame, she let out a yawn and rubbed her sleepy eyes as she watched him squeeze a dollop of toothpaste onto his electric toothbrush. "You know the charity foundation that Rosa and Colby set up? Can you help me check who else are involved?" she asked tentatively. "I already asked someone to look into it, but they didn't find out much. We can only see what Rosa and Colby want us to see. It's hard to find out what's going on behind the scenes." She didn't want him to think that she was completely relying on him. She would only ask him for help when she couldn't achieve something on her own.

James, who had already stuck the toothbrush inside his mouth, just hummed, indicating for her to go on.

"I want someone to expose their shady business," Maria said. It would be strange if there was nothing unethical going on in the charity foundation that Colby owned.

With toothpaste foaming over his teeth, James glanced at her with interest.

"Colby has set up a lot of charity foundations, but I just want to know about the one that Rosa is involved in." Rosa was her current target. As for the shady business that Colby had a hand in, someone else would stumble upon it sooner or later.

After all, there was no escape from the long arm of the law.

James nodded, pulled the toothbrush out of his mouth, and spit into the wash basin.

Then, he raised his head and said, "Whatever you want me to do, I'll cooperate." In fact, Maria felt a little embarrassed for bothering James incessantly with her problems when he was already busy enough with his own matters.

Seeing him rinse his mouth with her cup, she reminded him, "I bought you a separate cup, use that." She was afraid that he would be unsatisfied with her things, so she bought more expensive ones.

"I know," James said, but he continued to use the same cup.

"Then why are you using mine?" Maria asked. Wasn't he a neat freak? Didn't he think that it was unhygienic to share a cup? Did he use her cup every morning while she was asleep?

Setting down the cup, James wiped his mouth and said, "Kissing you on the lips isn't enough for me." Maria stared back at him in silence, feeling confused.

"I won't miss any chance to taste you," he explained cheekily. After saying that, he walked over, leaned down, and gently pressed his lips against hers.

Maria was speechless. Was he secretly "kissing" her every morning like this?

James turned around and walked back to the wash basin. "Like I said, I'll help you do whatever you want. But keep a distance from Colby." That was his only request.

With a small groan, Maria replied helplessly, "Ever since the day those news articles came out, I've been labelled as your woman. That means that I have to keep a distance from Colby and all other men."

If she didn't, she would be the one to get scolded, instead of Alina.

James nodded proudly, satisfied with her answer. He took out the razor that she had bought for him from inside the drawer and turned on the switch. As he carefully slid the razor over his facial hair, he told her seriously, "It's not easy to expose their secrets. They would have taken a lot of precautions to cover them up." Otherwise, HM Group couldn't have reached the level that it was in today.

"Do you have any ideas?" Maria asked eagerly. Content provided by NôvelDrama.Org.

"It's simple. We have to throw out a bait to lure out the enemy," he said casually, looking at himself in the mirror.

"What do you mean?" Maria still couldn't figure out what his plan was.

"Don't worry, just leave it to me. What's your goal? Do you want Rosa dead, or do you just want to hurt her? Or do you want her to suffer for the rest of her life?" James asked confidently, turning to her.

Maria shook her head. "Forget it. This battle is between me and her, so don't get involved for the time being. I'll ask you for help if I can't defeat her on my own."

Taking revenge on Rosa was something that required patience and careful planning. She couldn't be in a hurry. Of course, she couldn't take too long to strike, either.

She knew that if she let James handle the matter,

Rosa would be dead in a day or two.

"Okay," James replied, putting the razor back into the drawer. As long as she was happy, he would support her in any choice that she made.

After James left the house, Maria went back to bed to continue to sleep.

When she woke up, she groggily looked at her phone and saw that the time was half past nine.

Then, she opened a message that she had gotten from her bank, informing her that she had received a sum of money. She suddenly shot up, pulled her long, messy hair into a bun, and counted the number of zeroes with her eyes wide open.

'Fifty-one million dollars!'

Clutching her mobile phone to her chest, she silently thanked James.

When she had woken up this morning, she had already forgotten about the fifty-one million, because she had just been joking. She hadn't expected him to actually follow through on it.

She was at a loss for whether to laugh or to cry.

Taking another glance at the message, she took a deep breath and decided to open another bank account and deposit all the money into that account, so that she could leave it to Bob in the future.

After all, it wasn't like she was short of money. Even though she often complained to James that her company didn't make money, it was all in good fun, and she still made money in plenty of other ways.

Therefore, whatever money that James gave her, she would save it up for Bob, to compensate him for the lack of fatherly love.

In the past, this thought hadn't occurred to her, so she had just spent whatever James gave her. After opening a new bank account, Maria transferred the money to it bit by bit.

Unlike James, who had the privilege to transfer how much ever money he wanted to at one go, she could only do it gradually, since there was a limit on her account. She could only transfer twenty million at a time, so she repeated the process thrice.

In the CEO's office of HL Group

After Gary finished reporting his work, James asked in a low voice, "Where's Bob?"

"We haven't found him yet, sir," Gary replied sheepishly.

"Hurry up. Use any means to find him." James had never wanted to see Bob more than he did now, not only because he now knew that Bob was his son, but also because, after spending so much time with the baby, he had grown accustomed to his presence.

"Yes, Mr. Xi," Gary replied.

James hadn't ordered anyone to follow Maria, because he knew how alert she was. She wouldn't miss any detail, and she would immediately pick on the fact that she was being followed.

After Gary left, Summer walked in with a brocade box in her hands. "Mr. Xi, this just came from the designer.

"Give it to me."

Summer put the box down on the desk in front of him.

James opened it and saw a key chain with a pendant.

He ran his fingers over the pendant, as well as the letters that were carved on it, spelling out the name "Maria." "Summer, do you think she will like it?"

Summer looked down at the angel-shaped pendant. The wings and the skirt of the angel were studded with diamonds. The angel was sitting on top of a piece of amethyst, where Maria's name was carved.

There was no doubt that it was very expensive. After all, it was made with diamonds and Uruguay amethyst.