CEO's Reborn Wife-Chapter 183 - 191: No Qualification
After dropping his words, James Black turned to leave, but when he saw the crowd hiding and watching the commotion, he barked at them, "All done with work? Fancy an extra meal tonight?"
At that one sentence, the throng of onlookers scattered like birds and beasts at the mere suggestion.
An extra meal? If it was an addition to dinner on the table, of course, everyone would have wanted it.
But an "extra meal" proposed by their Chief Black was definitely not related to eating.
"Huh?" William King watched as James Black turned and walked away, utterly dumbfounded, pulling on Peter Gingery who was also about to leave, "What’s going on? Isn’t that our sister-in-law outside?"
"Nah." Peter Gingery shook his head, "That lady out there’s got nothing to do with us."
Peter Gingery’s response was serious, without the slightest hint that the girl outside was the younger sister from their sister-in-law’s maternal family. Anyhow, his brother had said that she was not a relative, without the right to enter the guard team, so she was irrelevant to his sister-in-law.
"Then just now when you heard the name Sampton, you were talking about our sister-in-law?" After William King said this, he immediately smacked his head and exclaimed, "Oh, I get it! Our sister-in-law’s surname is also Sampton, so as soon as you heard the young lady outside’s surname was Sampton, you thought it was our sister-in-law coming to find Chief Black?"
"Right." Peter Gingery replied with a smile, ready to leave.
Julie Sampton evidently saw Peter Gingery, which is why she ran over to call out to him directly.
"Peter Gingery! Wait a moment!" Julie Sampton noticed the disturbance over there and saw Peter Gingery, but she didn’t see James Black, unsure if he was at the guard team.
"Peter Gingery, Peter Gingery! Why the yelling? Are we that close that you can call me by my first name?" Turning around, Peter Gingery faced her from across the iron gate and rebuked her without any courtesy, "Call me Mr. Gingery!"
Julie Sampton clenched her teeth in frustration, as all the friends who were close to Jane Sampson acted exactly like Peter Gingery towards her. Fortunately, over the years, most folks from the great courtyard had either gone abroad or worked outside the region, so she had run into fewer people recently.
"Is Chief Black at the guard team?" Julie asked, this time omitting any formalities as she spoke.
"My brother? He’s there." Peter Gingery’s grin pulled wide as he grinned like a blooming flower, "You want to see him? But my brother just came out a while ago, saw you, said you’re not a relative and don’t have the right to enter the guard team, then he went back to his office. Seems like you wanted to see him, but looks like you can’t, huh?"
His "huh?" was extended with a drawn-out and mocking tone, dripping with schadenfreude and sarcasm.
Julie Sampson’s face changed slightly. She was as scared of James Black as Father Sampton and Mother Sampton were; it was a fear that came from deep within their bones. So, when she learned that Father Sampton wanted to replace Jane Sampson with her for the marriage to James Black, Julie’s world felt as though it was collapsing in despair, prompting her to look for many ways out.
Only when Jane Sampson and James Black officially got married did Julie truly breathe a sigh of relief. Before their marriage, she had genuinely been praying in her heart for Jane to marry James Black quickly, so that she could completely avoid the possibility of being swapped by her father to marry James Black.
Julie had driven to the guard team to find James Black, purely provoked by Jane Sampson’s arrogant words that if she didn’t speak up, she was a "dog," and driven by the impulse after not being able to reach Jane by phone for several days.
She couldn’t even step foot inside the Black Residence; Old Master Black didn’t like her, and Julie could feel this from early on. That’s why she thought of trying her luck at the guard team to find James Black.
But now, hearing from Peter Gingery that James had come and gone, and that she wasn’t allowed into the guard team, Julie’s courage from her impulsiveness ran out, and her rationality slowly returned.
If she complained to James Black in front of all these people about Jane Sampson denying on the show that she had a boyfriend, then the issue would inevitably reach her father’s ears. This would instigate trouble in the marriage relationship between Jane Sampson and James Black, and Father Sampton would certainly not spare her, his biological daughter.
