Chapter 16
Lance stopped laughing after a while. He had a thin smile as he looked at Madeline with great interest.
"I didn’t expect you to be so quick to call me back. I thought it’d take you at least a month to think about it," Lance said. "Are you that desperate for quick cash?"
"I have enough money in my savings, Mr. Grant," Madeline replied firmly. She was lying, of course. She had drained half of her income from all of her talk shows to pay all the bills and still had to pay the debts in installments.
But the rule of thumb is to always stand your ground and hide your desperation.
"Then why do you call me in less than a day? If you’re not short on money, does that mean you can’t wait to be my girlfriend?" Lance laughed at the idea to ridicule Madeline, but the latter didn’t share a laugh with him.
"Don’t think too highly of yourself, Sir. I’m neither short of money nor so eager to be your contractual girlfriend," Madeline said coldly. "I’m here because I want to keep my relevance. I know I can’t maintain my popularity without any sponsors."
"So you think of me as your only way out? I see," Lance grinned. "You came to the right man, Madeline Rose."
Madeline gulped as she started to feel the pressure. Lance kept on pressuring her to admit that she was desperate, and she was afraid he’d take advantage of it and give her an unfair contract.
Thus, Madeline quickly shifted the topic. "Are we going to talk about the contract or not?"
"Of course, I’m just waiting for the staff to give me the contract I’ve prepared."