Chapter 2

Eliana hung up the phone and watched intently at the surveillance footage.

Dean put a dazzling necklace around Erin's neck. "It's beautiful, Sweetheart. I want to wear it at our wedding. What do you think? You look great with it."

Eliana had seen that necklace long ago.

She had believed that it was a surprise from Dean and never asked him about it.

Unexpectedly, it was for Erin.

Erin raised her eyebrows charmingly and tugged Dean closer by his tie. "But I think it suits me better when I'm naked. "Amy is already asleep. Do you want to see me with the necklace, naked?"

Dean's throat tightened, and he had blazes in his eyes.

He eagerly carried Erin into the bedroom and stripped off their clothes quickly.

They had sex passionately.

He chuckled softly and whispered in Erin's ear, "You are right. You indeed look better without any clothes."

As the sounds of heavy breathing came again, Eliana immediately turned off the surveillance.

She rushed to the bathroom and threw up.

Soon after, she contacted a real estate agent, Gerry Mason. "I want to sell that house as soon as possible. No one is living there now. You can bring those who want to buy it there right away. If you sell it within two days, I'll give you an extra commission."

Gerry was delighted and immediately agreed.

Eliana had already given Gerry the door code.

When Gerry opened the bedroom door with the clients, Dean and Erin were caught in passionate sex.

They were suddenly surrounded by strangers. Erin screamed and shrank tightly into Dean's arms.

Dean snapped out of his passion instantly and grabbed a blanket to cover their naked bodies. "This is my house. How can you break in?"

Gerry and the clients looked visibly disgusted.

But thinking of the double commission, Gerry held back his discomfort and kindly reminded Dean before leaving. "The owner of the house has already put the house up for sale. You'd better move out as soon as possible."

Gerry would surely bring other clients to check the house tomorrow. He didn't want to encounter such an eye-opening scene again.

Erin asked, "Dean, what's going on?"

Dean's face was grim as he called Eliana, but she didn't answer.

He quickly got out of bed, picked up his scattered clothes from the floor, and put them on.

Erin trembled and hugged him from behind. "Honey, I'm scared. What if those people come back again?"

Amy woke up, frightened. She ran out of the room to hug Dean's leg tightly.

His heart softened, and he planted a kiss on Erin's cheek to comfort her. "Don't worry. I can handle it."

When Dean returned home, Eliana was asleep in the bedroom.

Her phone was charging on the sofa in the living room. There were several missed calls shown on the screen.

Most of his anger dissipated instantly.

"Didn't you have work at the company? Why are you back so soon?"

Dean pursed his lips and asked coldly. "Did you put our wedding house up for sale?"

Eliana nodded innocently. "I had an expert check the house, and it will bring us bad luck. I'm planning to change another one. Since our wedding is temporarily canceled, there's plenty of time to buy a new house. Besides, the house is unoccupied now, so it doesn't matter if the real estate agent brings people to see it. Oh, I just listed the house. How did you find out so quickly?"

Her words were logical and left Dean speechless.

He didn't dare tell her that Erin and her daughter were living in that house, so he lied casually. "I happened to pass by the wedding house and went in to take a look. And I bumped into the real estate agent."

Eliana smirked to herself and recognized his flimsy excuse.

The house and his company were in opposite directions.

His excuse was truly flimsy.

"By the way, I brought you a gift. It was compensation after the canceled wedding." Dean took a maroon velvet box from his suit pocket.

He opened it, and there was a bracelet in it.

Eliana's lips curled into a mocking smile.

He gave Erin a necklace worth millions of dollars. But he gave Eliana a promotional item.

It was ridiculous.

"What's wrong? Don't you like it?"

Eliana nonchalantly closed the box. "It's nice."

Dean changed the topic. "Erin and I are going to get married, and it's inconvenient for Erin to keep living outside. I think she'd better temporarily move in until after the wedding."

Eliana's lips curled into a mocking smile.

So that was why he gave her the promotional item.

"Let her move in. I have no objection."

After all, Eliana would leave this place for good in three days.

She didn't want to engage in pointless arguments with Dean now.

But unexpectedly, her concession didn't earn respect.

Instead, it made Erin and Amy even more audacious.