Chapter 331:
Jake’s POV
Steve and I remained alone in the kitchen at the breakfast table after Julie’s stormy and loud exit. Steve looked at me with highly serious, grim features, and shook his head with regret and helplessness, saying in a brotherly, reproaching tone of blame: "Jake... by heaven’s sake, do not address her in this rude and hurtful manner."
I adjusted my seating over my chair with a grumble and tightness, and raised my eyebrow in disapproval and wonder, saying sharply: "Do you not see her yourself, how she acts crazily and attacks me without a reason, Steve?! She searches for problems with me in a provoking manner!"
Steve took a long breath loaded with worries, and rested his massive palms on the edge of the wooden table, saying quietly in an attempt to calm me: "I know all this and I feel it... it’s just that her nerves are ruined, and you, in your capacity as my friend, must tolerate her just for my sake."
I twisted my lips with a scathing, mocking mockery, shaking my head in an absolute rejection of his offer, saying: "My apologies, my precious friend... tolerating her and bearing this madness of hers is your work and your job in your capacity as her brother, not my work in any case whatsoever."
Suddenly, and without introductions, our futile conversation was cut off by the ringing of my phone with force and a loud vibration. I pulled it swiftly from my pants pocket and directed my sight toward the screen with apprehension, and saw the name of my lawyer. My chest constricted with anticipation, caution, and a sudden hope. I answered instantly with excessive eagerness and placed the phone to my ear: "Hello?"
The lawyer’s voice reached through the line, saying in a cheerful, confident tone that carried good tidings: "Mr. Jake Simon... I carry for you today wonderful and fateful news for your life!"
The features of my face tightened with absolute seriousness and I turned with my entire body toward the wall, saying with breaths imprisoned in my chest from the intensity of tension: "Please, give me what you have... I am in dire need of hearing it now."
The lawyer added with confidence and a decisive tone: "I have already submitted a formal request backed by evidence to unfreeze all your funds and bank assets that you previously obtained from the sale deal of your old scientific invention before your entry into prison."
I urged him with a sweeping tension that consumed my nerves while gripping with iron strength onto the body of the phone: "Yes... and what happened regarding it?"
The lawyer said in a cutting tone that restored life to me: "The request has already been accepted by the judge this morning, and it will be within your capability and power to use and withdraw all your massive wealth very soon, as soon as the routine signatures are finalized."
In that shocking and blessed second, I jolted, standing up from the chair with a sweeping power and violence so the wooden seat rebounded behind me violently and fell to the ground.
My eyes widened with overwhelming astonishment and a shock I didn’t comprehend at the first glimpse, and I shouted in a loud voice that shook the aspects of the kitchen entirely: "Are... are you serious, by heaven’s sake?! Is this real?!"

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