Somehow since the last party, Vanessa felt that Ethan had changed a bit, she couldn't tell what it was, but all in all, the two of them got along with each other a bit more comfortably.
Vanessa is a person who likes to save for a rainy day, looking at the attitude of Lily Chambers towards her last time, she knows that Lily Chambers will never give up, so she decides to take the initiative to collect evidence that can make the Chambers family fall.
Money can make a ghost push a ghost's buttons.
Vanessa, being an ordinary and somewhat wealthy person, turned to her informant a few times and finally got in touch with a top hacker.
After she puts her demands forward, the hacker offers five million dollars, and Vanessa almost deletes the person straight after hearing that.
She'd rather Ethan offer to terminate the contract now and she get the remaining one million dollars and go far away.
She figured Ethan should be made to pay a good chunk of the money for this evidence! After all, he should be the one who benefits the most.
It's just that she can't say it explicitly, she's crossed over, he's the male lead in a novel, and now there's a vicious female counterpart persecuting him for his happy life, and he needs to hit him up for 5 million dollars to fix it ....
It's possible that after these words are spoken, she'll end up in a mental institution for the rest of her life!
Vanessa negotiated with the hacker to give a deposit of one million dollars up front and the full amount only after all the evidence was collected.
So for a week, Vanessa was thinking about how to ask Ethan Blackwood, the owner of the money, for the money.
As someone who grew up independent and needed to redeem her allowance by doing chores around the house, she seemed a bit unable to open her mouth.
"A night of eyes that look like stars dotting the sky...."The phone rang.
"Hello?" Vanessa glanced at it, the caller's memo read 'Ava❥(^_-) 'and the caller's address was Los Angeles.
Vanessa guessed it was that this was a friend of the original owner, Vanessa Monroe.
"Hey Miss Monroe, you're under arrest for, well, not contacting your best friend Ava Carter for 2 months straight!" a perky, sweet female voice came through the receiver.
Vanessa didn't recognize her, but somehow from the words she felt familiar, like she had such a sunny and cheerful best friend in her past life.
"Please Officer Carter can make it easy, Vanessa Monroe knows she's wrong!" Vanessa matched her chat.
"Hahaha, Vanessa I didn't realize you've become so cheerful since you went to New York, you used to just chill out with a straight 'hmmm'." Ava Carter uttered in surprise.
Vanessa didn't reply, afraid of saying too much.
Ava Carter on the other side of the phone didn't feel strange when she saw that Vanessa didn't answer back, instead she felt that such a reticent Vanessa was the normal one.
So she shared with Vanessa what she had encountered at work, and was still happy to get a response from Vanessa from time to time.
At the end of the day, the high school reunion was mentioned.
"Vanessa, there's a high school reunion in this Saturday, are you coming? Although John Miller, who bullied you before, will be there, he won't recognize you!"
"Hmph, you're working at the most famous Blackwood Group in America now, you'll be the envy of so many people, so you can hit him hard in the face."
"High school reunion? Let me check the time, I don't know if I have any plans at work this Saturday, so I'll get back to you in advance if I go." Vanessa wasn't interested in this high school reunion, she didn't know a single person, let alone going to punch someone in the face and see them laugh.
"I haven't seen you in a while either, I miss you!" Ava Carter said real sweetly from across the room.
"Okay! I'll try to make time to come back!" Vanessa thought for a moment, but replied with a more affirmative answer, not wanting to disappoint her metrosexual friend inside.
"That's so nice!"
The two exchanged a few more pleasantries and hung up.
Vanessa sits in her office, staring out the window at the high and low buildings in a daze.
Waiting! A high school reunion, a trip to L.A., and finally some time apart from Ethan.
Since Ethan had moved in with her, she needed to run with him in the morning, work with him during the day, and continue to sleep with him at night.
Vanessa feels like he's taking up all of her personal space and is still a little uncomfortable.
She took the day off Friday, attended the reunion on Saturday, and then flew back to New York from Los Angeles on Sunday.
She could also ask him for money on the grounds that she was going to the reunion and needed to buy some things!
What a way to kill two birds with one stone! Heh heh heh!
Vanessa's problem for so many days can finally be solved, some happy circles in the office.
And Ethan who pushed the door in saw her so happy in the circle, can't help but the corner of his mouth also hooked up a smile, leaned against the door with a little bit of doubt and opened his mouth, "Vanessa, is something good happening?"
"Eh? You...Why did you suddenly come in? The coworkers outside didn't see it, right?" Vanessa jumped in shock, then pulled him into the office and closed the door.
"Snort, so sneaky, just like a thief!" Ethan rubbed Vanessa's head, "You still haven't answered the question I just asked?!"
"I have a high school reunion this Saturday, I took the day off on Friday, and I haven't seen my friends in a while, so I'm a little happy!" Vanessa said half-heartedly.
"I'll go with you then." Ethan spoke up.
"No...No need! What are you doing going to my class reunion? Besides our relationship ...."Vanessa was shocked, he was going? Then she might as well not go to the class reunion.
Hearing this, Ethan's gaze grew deep and somber. Yes, their relationship was merely one of financial support and dependency. The person he truly loved was Natalie Rivers.
He had gotten too close to Vanessa Monroe lately, making him forget that Vanessa Monroe was just a substitute lover.