The Reclaimed Rose (Annalise and Steven) novel Chapter 826

Gary and Julia froze as they took in Casper's tiny apartment. They never expected their son, whom they had spoiled with the finer things in life, to go from living in a fancy house to such a shabby unit.

Julia's face darkened as she snapped, "Why didn't you rent a bigger place?"

"Because I don't have the money," Casper answered frankly. "Don't stand on ceremony. Sit and make yourselves at home."

Gary was thunderous. "What do you mean you don't have the money? You had plenty in your savings when you moved out, didn't you? Did Jessica blow through all of it?"

"Why are you bringing Jessica into this again?" Casper couldn't help feeling as if his parents were being deliberately unreasonable. "Did you forget that you didn't pay me when I was working at the company? You didn't even give me an allowance! Why would I have any money at all?"

Gary fell silent. Julia interjected, "Then who gave you the money for Jessica's jewelry?"

Casper replied without hesitation, "I used the money I made from the projects I worked on during college. Didn't I tell you that I earned every penny I spent on Jessica while we were married?

"When you kicked me out of the company and put a hiring ban on me, Jessica had to sell jewelry to help me make ends meet. And because I was blacklisted, it took me a lot of time and effort to get a new job."

Unfortunately, for someone like Casper, who had little to no standing since being blacklisted, he was almost always picked on at work. It was especially true given how his parents had the money and influence to make sure he suffered.

When Gary and Julia launched a smear campaign against Jessica and called her a gold-digger with loose spending habits, she didn't say anything to defend herself.

Casper continued, "After that, Jessica told me our family was never actually bankrupt and that you'd made the whole thing up to trick me. She even declared that she'd divorce me if I chose to return home.

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