Semua Bab Rich Dad Recovered: My "Broke" Girlfriend Regrets Everything: Bab 1 - Bab 8

After hanging up the phone with my father, Iris Fulton came back with a signed IOU in her hand."Jas, I'm sorry. I owe another ten million this time. I'm completely useless."Her acting was flawless. The confusion that reached deep into her eyes used to always earn the same response from me."It's okay. We'll work hard together and pay it all back eventually."But this time, I just stared silently at the bracelet peeking out from beneath her sleeve. The piece looked plain and unremarkable, but I'd seen it featured in a magazine. It was worth 160 million dollars.Iris owned a bracelet worth 160 million but supposedly couldn't repay a debt of ten million. I was completely broke, yet I'd been planning to borrow from loan sharks for her.My genuine love for her had become the confidence she needed to toy with me without restraint. When she noticed me staring at the jewelry on her wrist, Iris leaned into my arms without the slightest change in expression."It's a fake, Jas. When I ha

Iris knew perfectly well that I needed the money too badly to turn down such a large order. So she'd made those demands on purpose, just to watch me dance to her tune.I almost laughed through my tears at the realization.After I'd gotten home that day, I'd been thrilled to tell Iris how much money I'd made. When she'd bandaged my wounds so tenderly, had she been laughing at me inside? Thinking what a joke I was?I was wiping the tears from my eyes when the agent arrived.Seeing me standing by the door, he asked in confusion, "Mr. Kirk, the landlord's inside. Why aren't you going in?"I stared at him in shock, my eyes still wet. "What did you say? The landlord? Iris?"The agent looked baffled. "Yeah. You didn't know? The entire stretch of Central Street belongs to Ms. Fulton."I looked at Iris' figure in the distance. Painful memories I'd buried deep suddenly rushed to the surface.After I'd paid off her debts the second time, I'd struggled to make ends meet for a long stretch.

I must have looked like a mess because she handed me a tissue without a word. My fingers trembled slightly as I took it, the paper still warm from her hand.The scent was faint, like gardenias.The scent stirred something familiar. When she removed her sunglasses, recognition hit me.Those amber eyes belonged to Summer Clemens. She was Dad's most prized student and a force to be reckoned with in the financial world.I'd met her three years ago when Mom died. She'd stayed with me outside the operating room for a full day and night. She'd also helped me arrange Mom's funeral.The day they buried Mom, Summer handed me Dad's business card. "Mr. Kirk, I won't pry into your personal issues with my mentor, but he asked me to give you this before I left. If you ever need anything, call that number."My parents fell in love 30 years ago. The Kirk family looked down on Mom's background and forced them apart.After Dad was pressured into marrying someone from the right kind of family, Mom

I'd carried her back to the rental, soaking wet, and warmed her frozen hands and feet.Later, she'd joked about it in that group chat. "Just messing around with some slum trash.""Iris, you lied to me for three whole years. You played me for a fool for three years."I'm not your toy. My feelings aren't that cheap."Iris collapsed into the makeup chair, her once tender eyes now bloodshot."It's not like that. I didn't—"During the time she was pretending to be poor, she'd actually fallen for me. But her friends had thrown their arms around her with teasing grins and asked, "Iris, you're not actually catching feelings, are you? When did your taste get so... unique?"Her pride wouldn't let her admit it, so she'd denied everything and joined them in finding new ways to humiliate me."They said my taste was awful. I just got confused for a moment.""Confused for a moment?" I laughed bitterly. "You watched me sell my grandmother's house for you. You let me drain every penny my mothe