A Love Trap novel Chapter 43

"By the way, Ashley, have you noticed that every time we chose the shop and wanted to sign the contract, the owners would change their minds after getting a phone call?" It had suddenly occurred to Ellie and she asked Ashley if she found that strange as well.

"Yes, you're right," Ashley replied after thinking about it for a moment.

For the past two days, they had scoured the city to find a shop to lease for their new cake business. Each owner that they met was nice to them and everything went smoothly. But whenever it came to signing the contract they all had different excuses as to why they had changed their minds and didn't want to lease the shop out to them.

It could be a coincidence if it happened once or twice. But they were rejected every time they planned to sign the contract. It was so strange.

Ashley didn't know why Lena had suddenly popped into her mind.

When Lena first came to the Luo Group, she was anxious to see Ashley leave the company, but before Ashley left the company, Lena seemed to have a change of heart and didn't want her to leave.

Also, both Ashley and Ellie had lived in J City for a long time and hadn't offended anybody. Even if some people didn't like the two, how could they get involved just when the contract was about to be signed? Could they have spied on the two ladies?

After thinking it over for a while, Ashley came to the conclusion that only Lena would be capable of sabotaging anything that they wanted to do. Lena was also the only person who the girls didn't have a good relationship with.

"It must be Lena who is behind it," Ashley suddenly blurted out.

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, Lena can't control everything. J City is so big. Surely we can lease a place to open a shop, somewhere?" Ellie said to comfort her.

"Hmm, forget it. I don't want to think about it any more. I am so tired after these past two days and I have to go on a blind date tomorrow. I need to go to sleep now," Ashley expressed helplessly.

"Do you still dare go to a blind date arranged by the Mu family? Aren't you afraid that they might try and trick you again and then make you marry someone for their own interest?" Ellie asked as she stopped Ashley who was walking to the bedroom.

"What else can I do? I have no choice. I can't disobey them. Otherwise, they will say that I am ungrateful and don't want to repay the Mu family for their kindness."

"The Mus didn't do anything for you except adopt you. They haven't done you any favors. How dare they say that?" Ellie hated the Mu family to the very core.

She had never seen such a stingy wealthy family. They adopted Ashley but didn't care about her when she was growing up. But now that she had grown into a beautiful woman, they wanted to take advantage of her for their own interests and expected her to repay them.

It was only one more mouth to feed and a wealthy family could afford all sorts of luxuries. They made such a big deal out of adopting Ashley.

"All right, Ellie. That's enough. Anyhow, I will go on the blind date tomorrow as Mrs. Mu requested. And she has promised that as long as I go on this date, I can end the relationship with the Mu family. It's a good deal," Ashley spoke indifferently.

After Ashley had started high school, she never addressed Peggy, as her mother in public.

Firstly, it was Peggy's demand because she felt embarrassed if others knew she had such a daughter. She thought Ashley was not graceful enough to be her daughter. Secondly, they thought there should only be one princess, in the family and it should be their biological daughter, Lena. The adopted daughter couldn't possibly be the second one.

Ashley was actually happy with that arrangement. She didn't like Peggy at all and it would only make her feel awkward and uncomfortable if she had to call her 'mom, ' in public.

Ellie nodded and

asked, "Need me to go with you?"

Ashley replied, "No need. It's no big deal, only a blind date. I'll be fine. I'll probably only ever see him once. Besides, the guy may not take a fancy to me, anyway," Peggy had assured her that a man like him was rare to find in the world.

At three o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday, Ashley went out on time. She found the coffee shop as Peggy told her the address before hand.

Ashley dressed in an unusual style today.

She let her black hair down around her shoulders randomly and wore a pair of ugly big black-framed glasses that covered a large part of her face.