When They Beg I Rise (Lemira) novel Chapter 752

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Evelina was slapped again, and a flash of impatience flickered in her eyes. “Asher, do you really think landing this deal with PZ Group was that simple? It only worked out because I promised them all those perks—they wouldn’t have agreed otherwise. The Waverlies and the Sinclair family have been after this project too. Why do you think they’d choose the Langston family out of everyone?”

Suddenly, Evelina seemed like a completely different person.

Watching Evelina assert herself, Asher’s anger flared up. “If something shady was going on, you should have told me. You don’t have that much experience—what if someone took advantage of you?”

Kickbacks like this aren’t exactly unheard of.

Asher wasn’t naïve—of course he understood how things worked. But he hadn’t expected Evelina to go behind his back like this.

Since when did Evelina get so bold?

Evelina let out a cold laugh. “If I’d told you, would you have believed me?”

She knew Asher’s personality inside out.

The first time the payment was due, he hovered over her the entire time, making sure she couldn’t do a thing.

For the second payment, he wouldn’t sign off until after she married Evander Langston.

If that didn’t scream distrust, she didn’t know what did.

Asher gave a derisive snort. “And now look what you’ve done. Is this not a mess? I don’t care what you have to do—tomorrow I want all that money back!”

“I can’t get it back right now,” Evelina answered flatly. “The project manager said he’s going to invest it first. In a week, he’ll transfer the money to PZ Group’s account. Everything will be under the radar and no one will notice.”

“Evelina, are you really that gullible? You actually believed that?”

Asher was so furious he could barely stand straight.

Lucian had always known Evelina could be two-faced, but he’d never witnessed this venomous side before.

Meanwhile, Lemira watched quietly from the sidelines. So this is her true face, she thought—the real “two-faced” girl.

Evelina probably acted this smug because she felt she held all the cards.

Evelina sneered, “No decency? Isn’t it you people who taught me that? All your talk about fairness—yet in the end, you force me to marry some hopeless cripple?”

Evander’s heart dropped. “Eve, what did you just say?”

Did she really just call him a hopeless cripple?

Is that all he meant to her?

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