Lord Came Back From The Battlefield

“What a promising young man!” Sharon replied politely.

“Thank you,” Jaylee said as she looked up at the building behind them.

“Sharon, isn’t this place becoming dangerous? You should consider getting a new house. You can always get a mortgage if you don’t have the money. It’s not that expensive.” Jaylee suggested.

“Yea,” Sharon took a deep breath.

Jaylee glanced over at Billy who was playing with Tasha and asked, “Who’s he?”

“He’s my dad…” Tasha shouted.

“Oh, Harleen’s husband?” Jaylee asked Sharon. “Well then, why don’t you ask him to pay for your new house? Young people these days can work hard and save up for a down payment.”

Without waiting for Fletcher and his family to respond, she continued, “Alright Sharon, let’s go. The villa community isn’t far from here, we’ll be there in no time.”

“Jaylee, we have something else to do today. Why don’t you guys go check it out yourselves?” Sharon took another deep breath before responding.

“No way! I came here specifically to ask for your help with this matter, you must come with me.” Jaylee insisted.

“Oh yeah! We came in Philip’s BMW, I’m guessing you guys don’t have a car, right? How about taking a taxi? I’ll reimburse the fare later.” Jaylee turned her head towards the young man beside her and said, “Philip, hurry up and bring your BMW over here.”

“Alright!” The man glanced at Harleen and her sister with a smug expression.

“Don’t worry about it, Mrs We have a car,” Billy said with a faint smile.

“A car?” Jaylee was slightly taken aback. “Is it a van? I’m in a bit of a hurry and I’m worried you won’t be able to keep up. Why don’t you just take a taxi?”

“Don’t worry about us, Mrs Norman. We’re not driving a van, you can just lead the way.” Felicia said sarcastically. Then she turned to her mother and said, “Mom, let’s go together!”

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“Okay then,” Jaylee said as she opened the door to get in the car with them all piled inside. “Just make sure you keep up, Philip’s car is pretty fast. Oh, by the way, what kind of car are you driving?”

Billy smiled again as he picked up Tasha and pressed his key twice before a top-of-the-line extended Land Rover sounded off twice from where it was parked nearby.

“That’s our ride right there.” Felicia cooperatively replied after hearing Jaylee’s question earlier on.

“What kind of car is that? I’ve never seen one like that before, is it some sort of knockoff?” Jaylee asked while looking at their vehicle with scepticism written all over her face.

“Mom! Stop talking now and let’s get going!” Phoebe Norman, Jaylee’s daughter, pulled her by the arm towards their vehicle while explaining along the way, “That’s an extended Land Rover Range Rover, worth five or six BMWs!”

Jaylee remained silent for several seconds before finally blurting out three words, “You rented this?”

Half an hour later they arrived at Royal View Villas, an upscale villa community. After parking the car, the group walked towards the sales office.

“Mr Hayward, you’re here!”

As they entered the lobby, a heavily made-up and seductive woman approached them, her eyes conveying suggestive messages to Philip as if she wanted everyone to know that she had something going on with him.

“Madge, hello, my girlfriend, Phoebe and her parents.” Philip shuddered at the woman’s expression and hurriedly spoke up.

“Oh, nice to meet you, Miss Norman, Welcome! Please come inside.” Madge sized Phoebe up before leading them in.

“Thank you!” Phoebe frowned slightly at Madge before taking Philip’s arm and walking towards the architecture model’s display.

“And who are you?” Madge turned to Billy’s family.

“They’re here to help us look at houses,” Jaylee said before turning to Sharon. “Sharon, why don’t you sit down for a bit? We’ll all go see some houses later.”

“Fine,” Sharon replied flatly; she didn’t want to be there in the first place.

“Mrs Knight, since we’re already here why don’t we take a look at the architecture models? We have nothing else better to do anyway.” Billy suggested while holding Tasha.

“I’m not interested, you guys can go ahead.” Sharon waved her hand dismissively.

“Mum, let’s go check it out! Who knows? Maybe someday when we have enough money we can buy one too!” Harleen chimed in.

“Yes, we’ll also buy a villa in the future!” Tasha said with wide eyes.

“Okay then.” Sharon reluctantly followed the group.

“Daddy put me down. There are toys over there and I want to play with them!” Tasha soon turned her head and pointed to a small playground in the corner of the lobby.

“Okay!” Billy put Tasha down. “Felicia, can you take care of Tasha for a while? I’ll check out the villas with your parents.”

“Alright.” Felicia then led Tasha towards the playground.

“Mrs Knight, have you found any that you like?” Billy asked Sharon as they looked at the architectural models together.

“This community is one of Ozin’s most well-known villa communities. Both house design and community planning are top-notch. Each one is great.” Sharon stared intently at the architectural models. It was clear she had been keeping an eye on this villa development for some time now.

“That building looks nice with its little yard where you can plant flowers or something.” Billy pointed to the largest villa in the middle of them all.

“It’s nice!” Sharon looked enviously at it. “Anyone who can live in that villa is a winner in life!”

“What are you doing? Stay away from there!” Just then, a woman shouted, “Can you afford to pay if anything gets damaged?”

At that moment, a child’s cry could be heard as well. Billy turned his head and saw Madge, who was previously showing them around the sales office pointing angrily at Felicia while shouting. Tasha must have been frightened by her because she was crying loudly while hiding in Felicia’s arms.

Billy hurriedly walked over, with Harleen and his family following behind.

“What’s going on, Felicia?” Billy asked.

“Tasha wanted to see this model, so I held her up to take a closer look.” Felicia pointed to an aeroplane model on the table. “We didn’t even touch it, but this woman started yelling. Tasha was scared.”

“Hey, they were just looking at it. Was it necessary for you to yell like that?” Harleen questioned Madge angrily. She then took Tasha from Felicia’s arms and said, “It’s okay, Tasha. Mom and Dad are here. Don’t be afraid.”

Tasha burst into tears and cried out, “Bad woman! Bad!”

“Do you even know how much this model costs? Can you afford to pay for it if they break it?” Madge looked at Harleen disdainfully.

“Isn’t this model here for people to look at? Apologize to them!” said Billy in a harsh tone.