A Love Trap novel Chapter 42

"I only found out about this today. I'm really sorry," the middle-aged woman apologized sincerely.

Ashley and Ellie were displeased with the result, but they had no intention of putting her in an awkward position. After all, the woman was nice to them.

"It's okay. Now that you are going to sign a contract with someone else, we're fine with that," Ellie replied.

"I'm really sorry for wasting your time," the woman continued apologizing, with guilt written all over her face.

Ashley and Ellie bid her farewell and walked out. There was no point in crying over spilled milk.

...

They had come there to sign the contract in good spirits, but neither of them expected this to happen.

"It's so annoying! We have to go somewhere else now to rent a shop. What's going on? We agreed to sign the contract," Ashley whined in frustration as they left the shop.

"Things change, you know. Never mind. We'll find a good place," Ellie comforted. But there was a tinge of displeasure in her voice.

The two girls perked up again and started to look around for another suitable shop to rent.

For some reason, they were having a really hard time finding a suitable shop to rent. Even though they had found a few perfect shops, each time they were about to sign the contract, something would happen and the owners would suddenly back out of the deal.

The owners of the shops would have a different reason for doing so.

One of them said that they suddenly realized that the shop had already been reserved and that she had received the deposit for it.

Another said, that he changed his mind and didn't want to lease his shop anymore.

And one even said that he didn't have time to sign the contract since he was going to his hometown because his wife was due to have a baby.

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Ashley and Ellie got an array of different excuses and reasons but the end result was always the same.

They had settled everything, but when it came to signing the contract, something would always crop up and the owner would give them a reason why they couldn't sign it.

After so many refusals and reasons as to why the owners couldn't or wouldn't sign the contracts to lease their shops out to the two girls, Ashley and Ellie were beginning to be suspicious that something was going on. After all, it was too much of a coincidence that they couldn't find one single shop to lease, even though everything was discussed beforehand between the owners and the girls.

After a hectic day of looking for a storefront, Ashley and Ellie dragged their tired bodies back to their apartment. They trudged towards the couch and collapsed on it. Just then Ashley's phone rang.

She pulled her cell phone out and when she saw the caller ID was, Peggy on the screen, she got upset.

Ashley's foster mother always felt the need to call Ashley and pester her with instructions.

She was unhappy with Peggy's attitude and behavior towards her. After all, she was an adopted child, not a servant. The Mus instructed her to do things all the time as if she was their servant.

Reluctantly, Ashley picked up the phone. She had already assumed the reason for Peggy's call.

"Hello," she said acidly.