The Day I Quit Him (Autumn and Mars) novel Chapter 305

Chapter 305

Autumn smiled. “It wasn’t that hard to figure out.”

“Your eye color is identical.”

“And you both have the same birthmark behind your ear.”

“Plus, when you talk to me, you have this strange synergy, like you always glance at each other before answering my questions.”

“So I figured you had to be more than just training partners.”

Ella looked at her with pure admiration.

“You’re amazing, Ms. Lopez. We are sisters.”

Autumn studied the two of them. “Would you mind telling me your story?”

“Oh, please don’t get me wrong. I’m not trying to be nosy. I’m just so bored now that I’m pregnant, I’m always looking for someone to talk to.”

“If you want to know, Ms. Lopez, it’s not a secret.”

Ella had a very good impression of Autumn and didn’t feel offended by the question at all. Instead, she started talking with a cheerful smile.

“Grace and I are fraternal twins.”

“Our parents were in love, but after we were born, our dad cheated.”

Autumn realized this was another sad story.

“Because you were girls?”

“Yes.”

Grace’s blunt response sparked a flash of anger in Autumn.

It was unbelievable that fathers who were so sexist still existed in this day and age. Utterly foolish.

“He’d spent his whole life desperate for a son, so he quickly started seeing other women–and not just one.” “He thought casting a wide net would guarantee a catch, but instead, he just caught a nasty disease. Our mom was disgusted and wanted to divorce him, but he absolutely refused.”

“Once our grandmother realized we might be her son’s only two children, she refused to let them divorce either.”

“But Mom had made up her mind. So those two inhuman monsters locked her in the house, trying to force her

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to get pregnant again.”

“But she was too strong–willed for that. She left us behind and

life.”

rom the seventeenth floor, ending her

Autumn’s heart clenched.

From the sound of it, the sisters must have been very young at the time.

But their once–happy family had been torn apart.

“The two of us were placed in a welfare home. After it shut down, a benefactor sponsored us through high school. But we weren’t really interested in studying, so we decided against college. After graduating, we joined the security company where we work now.”

“We trained there for five years. Even though we were young, we were good, so we always had gigs. We just finished paying back our benefactor last year, so every dollar we make now is our own. We’re planning to buy a place in the city, and once we save up enough capital, we’ll quit and start a small business.”

Autumn was moved by the sisters‘ story.

Although women held much higher positions in the workplace than before, some things were deeply ingrained.

Ella and Grace’s idea to start their own business was a very good one.

Being a bodyguard forever wasn’t a sustainable career.

Especially since the job wasn’t exactly safe.

If they had another option, it was definitely worth trying a different path.

“With a plan like that, you two are sure to succeed.”

After chatting for so long, Autumn started to feel drowsy.

Grace, ever perceptive, noticed her fatigue and offered to stand guard outside.

“Okay.”

Autumn lay down on the bed, and Ella handed her a walkie–talkie. “If you need anything, just press the call button, and we’ll come in.”

Autumn nodded, her eyelids already feeling heavy. She mumbled a faint, “Got it,” and her eyes closed.

Ella and Grace tiptoed out of the bedroom.

“How’d it go?”

The three bodyguards waiting downstairs hurried over as soon as they saw them.

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Grace was clearly not impressed by their eagerness.

“Is everything set up?”

To ensure the client’s safety, they were supposed to install their

around the villa.

ty company’s proprietary alarm system

That way, they would be the first to know if anything was out of the ordinary.

“It’s all set.”

The shortest of the three men scoffed, looking at Grace with a hint of resentment. “We’re all here to protect Mrs. Bennett. Don’t think you’re a class above us just because you’re women and get to stick close to her.”

There was a pecking order even in the bodyguard business.

These male bodyguards clearly looked down on Grace and Ella–or, more accurately, they were jealous. After all, the two sisters monopolized nearly all the high–paying gigs at the company, while the men were stuck at low–end events with various upper–class figures. Of course they were resentful.

They didn’t want to be bodyguards forever.

If they could just get on the good side of some big shot and become their private security, they’d be set!

This job for the Bennetts was their one big chance to get rich and climb the social ladder, and they had no intention of letting it slip by.

Grace and Ella didn’t miss the ambition in their eyes. Grace lowered her voice and warned, “Anthony, don’t treat everyone like an idiot. You really think no one sees what you’re trying to pull?”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Anthony, having been called out, was furio “Grace, you looking for a fight?”

shook a fist at Grace.

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