With that, she held out a card to her.
Rowan Keller glanced at it, her gaze growing colder.
“Besides this, I’ll have Zion handle your mother’s treatment,” Serena Sterling continued, laying out her terms.
“If you have any other conditions, they’re negotiable.”
Rowan Keller didn’t understand why she was bringing this up.
“Why?”
“What do you mean, ‘why’?” Serena Sterling was still lost in her own world.
“Zion Hawthorne loves you more than enough.” Rowan Keller looked into her eyes.
She knew a thing or two about her former ‘good friend’.
“So why do you still want me to leave?”
“No one wants to share their beloved, and I’m no exception.” Serena Sterling pulled back the hand holding the bank card, suppressing the emotions bubbling up inside her.
“I can see that Zion has feelings for you.
As long as you’re here, he’ll never stop thinking about you.”
Rowan didn’t believe a single word of it.
‘If that were the only reason, she could have just framed me and ruined my reputation, just like she did in college.
There’s no way she’d just be trying to make me leave.’
“If you think it’s not enough money, you can name a price.” Serena Sterling’s confidence wavered under her gaze.
“I’ll do my best to meet it.”
“I’m not leaving.” Rowan’s roots were here in Kyoro.
She wasn’t the one who had done anything wrong, so why should she be the one to leave?
“Summer has to go to school here, and I need to take care of my mother.”
Serena Sterling looked frantic.
“Rowan Keller!”
‘If she doesn’t leave, sooner or later Zion will discover my secret. Visit novelping.com for the full chapter.
What if, one day, the two of them are together and Rowan asks Zion why he cheated on her?
The moment he tells her, all my secrets will be exposed!
I absolutely cannot let that happen.
Absolutely not!’
“Serena Sterling, what are you so afraid of?” Rowan took in her reaction completely.
“You look exactly the way you did after you framed me back in the day, terrified of being exposed.”
A jolt went through Serena Sterling.
“Are you hiding something from me?” Rowan knew her well enough to press.
“Or perhaps…
what did you lie to Zion Hawthorne about?”
“You’re overthinking it.” Serena Sterling scrambled to compose herself.
“I just don’t want you in Kyoro.
As long as you’re here, Zion’s heart can never be completely mine.”
“When you got together with him, he must have told you about me,” Rowan said, pointing out the flaw in her story.
‘Zion wasn’t the type to hide things.
He must have told Serena Sterling he was married.
The only difference was that she’d refused to let him have his wife at home and his mistress on the side, while Serena had apparently agreed to it.’
“He did,” Serena Sterling admitted freely. Get faster updates on g.com.
“But people are selfish.
I don’t want to share him with anyone.
I want to have him all to myself.”
Rowan took out her phone and tapped the screen a few times.
Serena Sterling instinctively tried to grab it.
“What are you doing?!”
“I’m helping you relay your message to him.” Rowan pulled up the security footage of the area, clipped the video of their conversation, and sent it to Zion Hawthorne.
“You don’t want him overthinking things, and I don’t want him coming to cause trouble for me.”
‘In situations like this, I have to seize the initiative.
Telling Zion Hawthorne directly is much better than having her fan the flames behind my back later.
Right now, she didn’t want the drama.’
“Don’t!” Serena Sterling lunged for the phone again.
‘Zion had warned me time and again to come to him with any problems and not to resort to underhanded tricks.
If he found out I’d tried to use money to threaten Rowan into leaving, he would absolutely despise me.’
“It’s already sent.” Rowan put her phone away and walked inside.
Serena Sterling stared at her retreating back, her fists clenched tightly at her sides.
‘This was between the two of them.
Why did she have to drag Zion Hawthorne into it?’