Seriously, How Did He Win My Heart
Chapter 438 She Would be My Treasure

The conversation between Julian and Roman didn't go very well for Roman knew what Julian had come all the way to see him for.

After they had been at table, Julian raised his glass to Roman and said, "Maisie and David are both my right hands. Now that Caroline is gone, I personally see them as my sister and brother. I would very be grateful if you can go easy on them for my sake."

"Whatever you see her as, and even if you go so far as to tell the whole world that you take her as your real sister, her humble background will still be a permanent fact," said Roman, without trying to conceal his distaste for her, also as if to tell him that he had come over only for his sake.

Chilliness descended on Julian's face.

At that moment Julian strongly hoped that Maisie's baby would be a boy, if so, he would root for her to never let Roman take his grandson back to the family so that the poor old man would be sorry for cutting off his heir.

No pity shall be felt for a man like this.

Until then Julian had actually considered persuading Maisie to him about the baby if after the it was born, Y's health was still bad and Ezra had no other kid, so he wouldn't regret that he did not live to see his grandchild.

But then and there, Julian decided he would not plea for any mercy on him.

He thought of a saying he had heard of: Being pitiful and being hateful are just two sides of the same coin.

It made so much sense in the case of the man he was speaking to.

"Well, you are right," replied Julian with a faint smile, "It will go on to be a fact. And if you have to be so unhappy with that, you might as well be stricter with your son."

"What do you mean?" asked Roman grimly.

"I mean she does not care to marry your son. She has left behind everything she had earned in the Riverside City only to get away from Ezra. You think she will still want to have anything to do with the Cantillos?"

Roman winced at what he had heard, even appearing to be clenching his teeth a little.

He could see what Julian meant to say-- it was his son who came to Grafstin to replace Maisie.

He had sent people to beat up Maisie in order to give Maisie a piece of his mind and scare her off, but it was only because he had presumed that Maisie was the one who was trying to hook up with his son again.

It had never occurred to him that his son had started it.

Roman was so mortified that he wished there had been a hole to hide him from this.

Looking askance at him, Julian declared, "We were not the reason for this whole thing. You won't get off so easily if you make one more such mistake."

The declaration was a outright threat that he would definitely fall out with his entire family if Roman did anything like that to Maisie again.

Unable to utter another word, Roman bit his bottom lip and gave him a dirty look.

Roman was aware Julian and Ezra were not only close friends, but also business partners, if Julian chose to break things up, all those collaborations would be called off, resulting in massive loss to his company.

With the company and its benefits being everything to Roman, any possible loss it could suffer would be too much for him, which was why he was made speechless.

"I heard that you haven't been very well lately. Shall I give you a word of advice? Take good care of yourself, and live to see something very interesting that would be happening in the near future." With that, Julian rose from his seat and left.

It was true that he had been close to Ezra but that didn't mean he must take his father seriously.

In fact, he no longer saw him as a friend anymore.

That interesting thing was actually referring to Maisie's baby.

Wouldn't it be fun to see Roman begging Maisie to marry his son? Or pleading for the reunion of him and his grandchild?

He would wait and see.

The first Julian did when he had left the restaurant and got into the car was to call and report to Emelia on how satisfactorily he had performed the mission ordered by her. "Well, mission completed. Warnings are distinctly given. So I guess you feel relieved now?"

"Oh great, thank you for the great job!" said Emelia, who indeed sounded much more relieved.

But then she began to feel worried and ask him, "he wasn't being harsh on you, was he?" Although Emelia had never seen Roman before, she had heard so much about him and intuitively thought he was a difficult person.

"How harsh could he be? I knew exactly his soft underbelly. It's easy to have him in my pocket."

It was the fate of the family's company that tied Roman down.

"That's OK then," Emelia said with sigh of relief and then to express her thank-you again, she said in a sweet voice, "Love ya, Julian."

With a grin on his face, Julian said, "I have never heard you say anything like that or in that way without being asked before. But you just did it because of someone else's business. I really don't know whether I should envy or just feel happy about it."

She had done everything she could to get him to help Maisie. As her boyfriend, he sometimes felt the attention he got from her was less than that to her girlfriend.

Emelia laughed and said, "Of course you should feel happy because I will say more of it."

"You mean it?" asked Julian, deeply doubtful.

"Sure," Emelia replied briskly.

"What about you say something nice to me now?" said Julian, much her surprise.

There fell silence.

Just when Julian was about to stop holding his breath with the belief that she would be too shy to say anything, she whispered, "I miss you, Julian."

Her voice was trembling a bit with shyness, but sounding not at all perfunctory.

Julian's heart beat faster, squeezing his cellphone, he said gently, "I miss you too."

Both of them remained silent for some time, during which they felt they seemed to have heard the other's heart beat through the phone, sweet but torturing as well. They couldn't see each other until a few days later.

At the thought of this, Julian said, "I have got the ticket. My plane took off in the early morning."

"Well then have a nice trip." said Emelia softly.

After thinking for a while, she added, "whatever you do, I wish you all the best."

"Everything will be fine." The call was reluctantly ended as Julian arrived home.

Julian went and said goodbye to Grandpa Hughes.

Hughes looked at him resignedly and lamented," You have always made worried about you, but now that you are finally clear about what you really want for a relationship, I can finally stop worrying. A man can do no wrong by listening to his wife."

Julian didn't actually like the things his grandfather had said but knew he said it with good intention, so he thanked him genuinely.

If it had not for his support and his kindness to Emelia, he and Emelia wouldn't have been where they were.

Patting his shoulder, Hughes went on to say," The only thing I expect of you is never to go through what your parents did again, you know, relationship-wise or marriage-wise. Now that you've found your true love, don't lose her. Have a happy life together."

"Just think of your parents..." He was too sad to finish what he was going to say.

Julian helped him sit down and promised earnestly, "Nothing like that would ever happen to me and Emelia. Even if we don't end up happy together, we will have a amicable breakup instead of getting stuck in a anguished relationship like my parents did. "

"Emelia and I were married for 3 years, during which we have had straightened out our feelings towards each other. It's clear to me that she's the love and wife I have been looking for," said Julian, whose expression was mellowed while speaking of Emelia," so I will love her, respect her and cherish her."

She would be his most precious treasure, he thought.☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐