Chapter 15

Blake strode over as his expression turned cold.

On the other hand, Jessica gave the man a big thumbs-up for performing sign language perfectly. The man looked at her wide grin with a soft gaze and asked, “How do I sign ‘I’d like to buy you lunch’?”

Jessica did not overthink the situation. She instinctively showed the man how, and while she was at it, she did not realize that Blake was advancing closer.

Before she could finish showing the man the hand signs, a shadow approached her from the side and overshadowed half her body. In a heartbeat, she was pulled behind the person who approached her.

Surprised, she looked at the person with a blank gaze.

‘Shouldn’t Blake be with Kim back at the house, talking about the Spanish consul?’

Blake looked at the man coldly and said, “I’ve heard rumors about the second young master of the Waynes having unusual tastes such as taking a fancy to married women and stuff, but going after a woman with a child? That’s new.”

Jessica was shocked because besides never having seen Blake criticize someone in such a sarcastic tone, what he said seemed surprising.

The man laughed at Blake’s comment, not feeling offended at all. He said, “I didn’t expect Young Master Ferguson to be a follower of the rumor mill.”

Jessica sized up the man before Blake. No matter how she looked at him, with his bright, sunny disposition, he did not look like someone with a strange fetish.

While she might come from an upper-class family and had gotten married into a wealthy and renowned family, she barely understood the world that she lived in. Therefore, it was natural for her to be clueless that the man who had flicked the caterpillar away for her was the second young master of the Waynes.

When Donald, Jessica’s father, started to lose money in his investment, he had bugged her brother, John, about who to ask for help from. One of the considered candidates was the Waynes.

The first son of the Waynes got married a few years ago, and the second son, who was this man in front of Blake, was not the heir that the Waynes were looking for. Therefore, John decided to set Jessica up and sent her to Blake’s bed.

In other words, Jessica could have become Thomas Wayne’s wife if she had not ended up in Blake’s bed.

Blake noticed Jessica staring at Thomas, so he ridiculed coldly, “What’s wrong? Regret climbing into my bed and not his?”

Ever since the Scotts’ family business failed, they did not just go to the Fergusons for help. They also asked the Waynes for a helping hand, but in the end, the father and son duo decided to go with Blake who surely knew a thing or two about what they were up to.

When Blake recalled how warming it was when Jessica and Thomas communicated through sign language, he sneered, “I guess if you guys had gotten together, you might have a common language to communicate in. What a pity.”

Jessica reacted poorly to Blake’s comment, and her eyes started to turn red. She knew that he disliked her and she had never seen his good temper during their conversation, but must he disrespect her in front of someone else?

She gulped anxiously and puckered her lips tightly. Then, she took her phone out and started typing: [It seems like you and I don't share a common language!]

She glared at him and then kept her phone away. Subsequently, she pushed the stroller away angrily.

Thomas crossed his hands and drawled at Blake in a lazy tone, “Are you always this harsh to your wife?”

Blake stared at Thomas before he pocketed his hand and walked away. When he walked past Thomas, their shoulders bumped into each other’s, but it did not stop Blake from walking away.

Blake marched off in a different direction instead of following Jessica. He went left whereas she went right.

Thomas was left standing in the spot. As the sun shed its brilliance on his face, he squinted his eyes slightly at the woman pushing the stroller.

Back when Donald and his wife had jumped off the building, their deaths had seized all the major headlines for days. The victims of the investment failure even gathered in front of the Scotts Tower, raising banners and demanding their money back.

A while later, the mysterious daughter of the Scotts came under the spotlight and was involved in a massive scandal with the Fergusons.

The Fergusons, who had always been the most respectable and proudest family in the city, found themselves in an ugly situation for the first time ever. In the end, they were forced to accept the woman as their daughter-in-law.

‘So, this woman is Jessica Scott, huh?’