Divorced CEO's Forgotten Wife Strikes Back (Riley and Bryce) novel Chapter 334

Chapter 334 Just a Friend

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When Carl heard Lara’s voice, he stopped in his track young face still showed traces of panic that hadn’t quite faded.

“Don’t worry!” Lara stepped forward quickly and blocked the two men and the woman.

The woman looked at Lara. “I called dibs on him today. You’d better move right now.”

Lara snorted and turned to look at the manager standing nearby. “So what, does your club force the staff to ‘service‘ clients now?”

The manager gave an awkward smile. “I mean… as long as they both want to, the club stays out of it.”

“And you think he wants this?” Lara shot back.

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“Hmph! If he’s not willing to do this, I’ll make in Washington starting tomorrow!” The woma viciously. “I’m the eldest daughter of the Fairfax family!”

Lara blinked. So this woman was trying to throw her family name around?

“He’s my friend, and my boyfriend is Shawn from the Morris family. Are you sure you want to fight me over him?” Lara said bluntly.

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The woman’s expression changed completely.

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Shawn from the Morris family? Everyone in Washingt society knew who he was.

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“You’re Shawn’s girlfriend?” the woman asked.

“Yeah, that’s right. Should I call him right now and tell him you’re bullying my friend?” Lara waved her phone in the air.

“You’re friends with a male escort? If Shawn finds out about that, you’re the one who’s going to be in trouble!” the woman shot back.

Lara shrugged. “Shawn already knows. He’s even met Carl before. How about I call him right now, and we see which one of us ends up in trouble?”

The woman glared at Lara with obvious hatred, but she wasn’t about to pick a real fight with Shawn over some male escort. It just wasn’t worth it.

“Fine, forget it!” She turned and left with her t

Lara looked over at Carl. “Are you okay?”

llowers.

The panic on Carl’s face finally started to fade. “Thanks for what you did just now.”

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“Do you have time right now? I want to take you out of here,” she said. After all these years of not seeing each other, she had some things she wanted to say to him.

“Take me out?” He looked shocked. Getting taken out of the club usually meant one thing, and that was going to bed with a client.

Lara could tell what he was worried about. “Relax, I’m just taking you out for some late–night food. Nothing else is going to happen.”

She turned to the manager standing nearby. “I’m taking Carl with me.”

The manager’s face changed. “But… but…”

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Lara didn’t care what the manager had to say. She grabbed Carl’s hand and walked straight out of the club.

The manager watched them leave and could only grit his teeth in frustration. He pulled out his phone. It looked like he needed to inform Shawn about this situation.

After Lara and Carl got in the car, she asked, “V… do you want to eat for a late–night snack?”

“Anything is fine with me,” Carl said.

“I’m suddenly craving pizza. Do you eat pizza?” she asked.

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“Sure,” he replied.

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She drove them to a small pizza store. The place was tiny t had been around for years.

Carl looked at the little pizza store, and his expression suddenly changed slightly. He’d been to this place with her before, years

ago.

After they sat down, the store owner came over with menus. Lara ordered two of the store’s signature pizzas. Once the owner walked away, she looked at Carl and asked, “Do you run into that kind of situation a lot?”

Carl paused for a moment before he realized she was asking about what had just happened at the club.

“That was actually the first time. I haven’t been working there very long,” he said awkwardly.

“Why are you working at a place like that?” she asked.

“For the money,” he said with a self–deprecati

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graduated from college but can’t find a good job. someone in my family got sick, and this kind of work pays fast.”

Lara looked at the man sitting across from her. Right now, his face was full of bitter mockery. The young man whose eyes used to be full of righteousness had turned into this.

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“Actually, I should be grateful that I’m decent–looking and can even do this kind of work. Otherwise, I wouldn’t even qualify for this job and I’d have no way to make money at all,” Carl sai

Just then, the store owner brought over their pizzas.

Carl buried his head in his food, using it as an excuse to avoid the awkwardness.

“If you need money, I can lend it to you. I won’t charge you any interest, and you can pay me back slowly. But you should find a normal job and take your time paying it back,” Lara said. She was worried that if she just offered to give him money outright, he wouldn’t accept it.

Carl hesitated. The offer was incredibly tempting to him. “But

I…”

“There’s no ‘but‘ about it. You helped me, didn’t you? If you hadn’t been willing to testify for me in court back then, my stepbrother who tried to rape me would never have gone to prison,” Lara said.

That had been the darkest period of her life. R. nad been on a mission and was completely unreachable, and then Lara had overheard Shawn talking with his friends. That was when she discovered that to Shawn, she was just someone to mess around with and nothing more.

Her father had died, and her stepmother doted on her

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stepbrother. But her stepbrother had been obsessed with her in all the wrong ways.

That night, when he tried to assault her, she fought back wit everything she had and managed to escape. But her stepmother forced her to keep quiet about it and even gave false testimony to protect her stepbrother.

If Carl hadn’t been there as the only witness and testified in court, she never would’ve been able to bring her stepbrother to justice.

Whenever she thought about that time when she had no one to turn to, she remembered how Carl had refused the money her stepmother tried to bribe him with and stood firm in the witness box. She would always be deeply grateful for that.

Without Carl, her life might have turned out completely different.

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“Carl, I’ve always been so grateful to you. Back then I didn’t have the means to repay you, but now I do. I can finally help you properly,” Lara said. “And you mentioned y for work, right? Send me your resume, and I’ll see I can find something suitable for you.”

“Ms. Hayes, thank you,” Carl said. This time, he didn’t refuse.

“Hey, just call me Lara,” she said with a smile.

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“Lara,” Carl said.

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Lara smiled back. She was happy to help someone who’d helped her before, and Carl was definitely a good guy. Maybe they’d

become good friends down the line.

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After they finished their late–night meal, Lara drove Carl back

to his place before heading to her own apartment. But when she reached her apartment door, she froze.

Shawn was standing right there in front of her door with a cigarette between his fingers.

“You’ve been smoking?” she asked in surprise.

“Yeah, I have,” Shawn said coldly. And he’d smoked quite a bit

too.

While waiting for her, he’d been so irritated that he couldn’t stop chain smoking. He couldn’t even remember the last time he’d been this worked up.

“Lara, am I not enough for you? Is that why you went looking for male escorts?” He glared at her.

Lara’s expression changed instantly. She rushed forward and covered his mouth with her hand, terrified he’d say something ridiculous that the neighbors might hear.

“What are you even talking about!”

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Shawn pulled her hand away from his mouth, his face cold. “I’m talking nonsense? That man you took out of the club tonight, isn’t he a male escort?”

“Carl is my friend!” Lara said seriously.

“Friend?” Shawn let out a cold laugh. “You sure have a lot of friends. What, do you think he can satisfy you better than I can?”

Lara rolled her eyes in frustration. This wasn’t the place to have this conversation.

She quickly unlocked her apartment door and pulled Shawn inside. “Stop talking about satisfying or not satisfying, okay? And Carl and I aren’t like that.”

“Then what are you like?” Shawn gripped her chin with his fingers. “Don’t tell me you’re just friends again. Lara, how come I never knew you had a friend like him?”

“That’s because…”

Before she could finish her sentence, his lips c

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on hers hard. His fingers caught her hands and pinned them behind her back.

“Mm…” Lara struggled against him.

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But Shawn only kissed her more fiercely, like he wanted to devour her completely.

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