A Force Love Contract With GANG LEADER

When the door was finally closed, Kate heaved a sigh.

It was so close. If he had held up her left hand, he would find that she had a pink flash drive in her palm.

If he had come back half a minute earlier, he would see her running out of his study hurriedly.

If he had gone back to his study directly, he would see the screensaver was not on…

They had a few peaceful days.

One afternoon, Max and Daisy showed up.

Tristan was at home too. He was accompanying Kate watching a training video for pregnant women.

The fat cat was sleeping by their feet. She had to be checked from time to time and bathed more frequently to make sure she wouldn’t carry parasites or bacteria that could harm the pregnant woman and the baby.

Tristan wanted to send it away for some time, but Kate did some online research and found that it was not necessary to be so cruel to the cat.

They were wearing lovers’ clothes. The man was gray, and the woman was pink. Their looks matched each other, notwithstanding the age and temperament differences between them.

The scene stung Daisy, and she lowered her eyes. Tristan asked them to sit down naturally, and Laura brought tea and desserts.

Kate was delighted in receiving them. Ever since her fight with Daisy, they had not talked on the phone. She got some information about her through Max, though. Daisy was working in some estate company under the Chasin group.

About the matter that brought them here, Max looked awkward.

Daisy spoke out first, “It was my idea to come to you. We got something going on in our family.”

Kate was startled and asked, “What happened? Mom or dad got sick?”

Daisy asked coldly, “How long since you called them?”

Kate felt guilty. She didn’t like to call her parents since she found out she was pregnant. She called a couple of times, but she always kept the conversation short, as if she worried they could see her bulging belly through the telephone line.

Max continued the subject, “Here is what happened. There were some guys that showed up and said our house belonged to their family one or two generations back. And they produced something like a land title. Our father said our grandpa worked for the landlord of the house as a cook for decades. His sons and daughters abandoned him and went to the big cities. So he agreed to sell the house to grandpa at low cost on the condition that he lived there until he died. That house has belonged to our family since then.”

“So what do they want now?” Tristan asked.

“They want to get it back, with just a little compensation for us to move out. Ten thousand dollars, and we get out of there in a month.” Daisy said. “Our house is worth far more than that. Besides, we cannot buy a house with that money at all.”

“Can’t we take this to court?” Kate asked.

“Our grandpa bought that house way more than fifty years ago, and the landlord was muddled then, and there was no title deed to be found. If this is taken to court, we may get nothing at all.”

Max added, “One of the guys, probably the grandson, owns a big company. He says he wants to build a factory there. Mom and Dad asked them to increase the compensation so that we could buy a small house, but they refused.”

Tristan thought about it and said, “Let me handle this.”

Daisy gave him an admirable look, but Max’s expression was complicated. He looked at Kate.

Kate rejected his help by instinct, but she could not see her old parents become homeless.All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

Tristan touched her hand and said, “Don’t worry about it. It is not a big deal.”

The thing that drained their whole family’s wits out was not a big deal to him. Kate didn’t know what she should think. She was speechless.

After Daisy and Max left, Tristan said, “What is it? You seemed to disapprove of me?”

Kate looked at him and asked, “How are you going to handle it?”

“It is useless to reason with these guys.”

“So you will pay for them?”

“You will just encourage them to ask for a foot if you give them an inch.”

Seeing the nervousness in her eyes, he downplayed it, “It is okay. We will just give them a little heads up and make them get back to their senses.”

“Come on, let’s continue watching the video.”

Kate was still absent-minded after sitting down. Tristan held her shoulders and comforted her. “Don’t worry. I will not cause trouble for your family. Nor to myself. I will have Ed go over there personally. He is good at this.”

At these words, Kate recalled two occasions. She was kidnapped and threatened with a knife on her face; Max was set up and scared to death for four full days.

The doctor in the video was narrating all kinds of scenarios a pregnant woman might encounter, but they could not get into her mind. The person beside her was immersed in it.

Kate sighed. There was too big a gap between them. They were totally different people.