A Quiet Exit for a Loud Love novel

---- Chapter 1 "Here's 500 thousand dollars. You have one week to leave the country and stay away from my son forever, "' said Tessa Colbert, who sat across from Julia Thalman with overt disdain on her ageless face. Julia's past self would have teared up and claimed that she wasn't with Dylan Schneider for his wealth. But now, all she did was nod quietly. "Sure." Taken aback, Tessa paused for a moment before snickering.

"I'm glad you know your place." She put a heavy emphasis on the words "know your place" as if to remind Julia about the disparity of social status between her and Dylan. With her head hung low, Julia accepted the check from Tessa and left. It was dark when she arrived at the villa, so spacious that she often lost her way there. The only familiar scene was the few photos on the coffee table. In the photos, Dylan held her waist and gazed at her with such warmth.

---- Her fingers brushed across the photos. Memories from the rainy night three years ago resurfaced. That year, she stumbled upon Dylan at the entrance of an alley. He was stained with blood, and his eyes were unfocused. "Who are you?" she asked. "T... forgot." He shook his head, looking lost. The rainwater , mixed with blood, dropped down his hair. That was how she brought home a man with memory loss.

They shared the space in her 300-square -foot tiny apartment, where the walls were peeling and the pipes were leaking. In winter, one had to be wrapped up in layers of blankets for warmth. Yet, the purest love bloomed in the poorest place. They leaned on each other for support and became the most important people to each other. Whenever she worked overtime , he'd wait hours at her workplace just to walk her home. When she suffered from period pain, he'd stay up all night to give her belly rubs.

He'd juggle five jobs behind her back just to buy an expensive necklace she had checked out thrice but never bought. ---- The only thing that exhausted her was that he wanted intimacy every night. She'd blush and ask him to forget about it, but he'd nibble her ear and chuckle." Babe, that's because I love you too much." At the height of their love, Dylan even brought her to a tattoo shop and got a tattoo of her name on his collarbone. The tattoo artist asked if he was averse to pain.

He smiled at Julia. "Pain is good. That way, I will never forget the woman I love." Just when Julia thought they'd be in love for the rest of their lives, he regained his memories. She found out he was not a poor homeless guy on the streets, but the heir of the Schneider family from Havenport, who held power over half of the financial industry. He had only lost his memory in a car accident orchestrated by his business enemy. That was how he ended up on the streets.

After Dylan reclaimed his identity , he brought Julia along to live in a villa that was 20,000 square feet. Even the bathroom was ten times the size of her old place. But Dylan had changed after that. He started wearing haute couture suits of brands she couldn't recognize. He strapped on expensive watches as he negotiated massive business deals. Sometimes , he would be out