Chapter 143 An Unexpected Turn

(Jack)

When I walked into the living room, a bit late in the morning, my mother was sitting quite stiffly in the living room.

“What’s up, mother?” I asked, pressing a kiss to her cheeks as I waited for our cook to prepare some breakfast for me.

Mother did not say anything and instead, turned to face me and just stared.

“What?” I asked again, my suspicions rising.

Quietly, she slid her phone towards me. Confused, I picked up the phone to see what had made her so weird early in the morning.

What I saw left me a bit slack-jawed.

It was a picture of me leaving the Tiffany & Co. store and then getting into my car. I pressed my lips together and returned the phone.

“So?” I asked her with my rows raised, “I know you want to say something, just tell me what it is.”

“Who is she?” my mother asked, her lips trembling.

I looked at her with a sardonic smile on my face, “Don’t act like you don’t know already. It’s Ruby, who else would it be?”

She bit her lips for a while and then said, “I didn’t kn