Chapter 580

Salvatore gave Aubree a curious look and asked, “You know how to fight?”

He thought, I hit hard, and many guys couldn’t block that, let alone a woman.

Aubree pulled her hand back, neither confirming nor denying. She said, “If you’ve got something to say, just say it. Why do you have to get physical?”

Salvatore’s eyes grew even more wary.

He really didn’t dare mess with Aubree. She clearly had some skills, and today probably wasn’t the day to go after Josephine.

Though Salvatore seemed reckless, he was actually pretty sharp and knew how to read the room.

“Fine, I’ll let this bitch off the hook today, for Ms. Miller’s sake,” Salvatore said before leaving with his men.

As soon as he left, Josephine hugged her son and cried. “What did I do wrong?”

She thought in despair, How did my family end up like this? What did I do wrong? Just because my husband died, does that mean anyone can bully me now?

As Aubree didn’t really know how to comfort her, she said, “If you’re willing, I can arrange for you to settle down in Rithol City right away once you sign this relocation agreement. The compensation can be the foundation for you and Mattias to start a new life there.”

She’d been considering this ever since she started helping Josephine. Of course, she wasn’t about to offer her a fancy villa or anything. She could buy a regular apartment and rent it to Josephine at a friendly price. If Josephine worked hard, she could eventually buy the place from her.

Aubree explained all of this to her.

“Really?” Josephine asked, her eyes still wet with tears.

“Really,” Aubree confirmed again.

Josephine knew she was already getting a huge favor. In a place as expensive as Rithol City, even a regular apartment was way out of her reach right now. Even with the compensation, she and Mattias still had to make ends meet.

She’d never been lucky in her life, but now she realized that maybe all her luck in the first half of her life went into meeting her husband, and the rest was spent on meeting Aubree, who was the one who changed her life.

Just then, Aubree’s phone rang, and it was Ethan calling.

Ethan reported, “Ms. Miller, you need to get to the old tree in the village right away. Something’s happened. Alvin somehow got his hands on a consent form with all the villagers’ signatures. He’s with the project manager now. If they verify the form, the project might go to Turner Group.”

Aubree was stunned as she thought, Alvin? I had almost forgotten about him. After he showed up with Jacob at the very beginning, I had never seen him again. He was even less noticeable than the folks from Wilson Group. Did he just pull the rug out from under us?

After hanging up, Aubree’s mood sank as she realized that she had underestimated Alvin. She inwardly sighed, Well, the Turner family was full of schemers, and I was the one who had let my guard down!

Aubree told Vincent what Ethan had said on the phone and reassured, “No matter what, we’ve done our best. Let’s go see what’s going on.”

“Wait a second,” Josephine said, suddenly standing up.

She took a deep breath and added, “If it’s about the consent form, I might be able to help."

When Aubree arrived at the tree in the center of the village with Vincent and Josephine, she saw Alvin, looking unusually sharp in formal clothes, standing next to a man in a suit. It was the project manager for the Ridgehaven Town project.

When he saw her, Alvin gave a faint smirk, “You’re too late.”

Aubree met his gaze and she thought, Is this really the first time we had faced each other so calmly and peacefully since our falling out? Isn’t it funny how things turn out? But still…

“Maybe I’m not too late after all,” she calmly said.