Chapter 218 He's Been Staying With Me

Ursula pulled a pen from her bag and handed it over with a grumble. "Here. I'm basically Edmond's assistant now, and he's so lazy he makes me carry everything." Rosalie jotted a few addresses on the last page and glanced up. "So, you two made up?" Ursula let out a long sigh and leaned against the balcony rail. "I wouldn't call it making up. I need a job at a law firm, and he needs an assistant. We cut a deal. If I stick it out for a year, he'll take me to see my adoptive parents." Rosalie knew her past. After traffickers stole her as a child, a farming couple in a distant village took Ursula in and raised her as their own. Half her courage came from standing up to bullies, the other half from being loved without condition. When they first became friends, Ursula talked more about those easy village days than about any city life. But her birth parents treated that past like a stain and forbade her from seeing her adoptive parents. It had never been fair to Ursula. While her mind w