“What? You’re pregnant!?”Grace took a report from the obstetrics and gynecology department out of her bag before throwing it at Jeanette.The report clearly stated that Grace was truly pregnant. At that moment, Jeanette almost felt as if her vision had gone dark.One of the directors asked, “Ms. Holden, what’s the meaning of all this? Could it be that the child within you is Mr. Leighton’s?” Grace nodded her head. Instantly, the crowd was in an uproar. It was only at that moment when
Jeanette demurred, “Damon, maybe we shouldn’t—”“No. Show a fox too much mercy, and it will bite the hand that feeds it.”Damon told the doctor not to hesitate the moment Grace woke up and swiped a sample from her fetus for the paternity test. To let the woman herself hear him, he even raised his voice.Grace’s eyebrows jolted ever-so-slightly, but her eyes remained close. It did not evade Damon’s stoic, meticulous eyes, though, and it certainly informed Damon enough about what she was going
Nevertheless, he told his butler to welcome the woman, who strode in with a pair of reddened eyes and a question right off the bat. “Where’s Jeanette?”“She’s taking a nap. If it’s not too urgent, please don’t wake her up over it first.”“But it’s hella urgent! Let me—”“If you’re here because you caught wind of Mr. Leighton’s worsening sickness, then I’m the one you should talk to. Not her,” Damon interrupted calmly.Jenny froze.In the end, she relented and followed Damon to the living ro
Jeanette slept all the way to three or four in the afternoon. She opened her eyes to the sight of Damon sitting by her bedside. His keen eyes had been watching her in silence.She rubbed her eyes blearily. “Oof… What time is it?”“Day’s still early. You can sleep a little more,” he said.Jeanette’s hand fumbled with the phone next to her pillow and glanced at the clock on the screen. She quickly sat up straight. “Nope, not doing that. If I nap too much in the day, I won’t be able to sleep at
Damon furrowed his brows.Good at fighting? It looked like they were not dealing with those two-bit thugs and loan sharks this time. Damon had, at first, suspected this was another case of Jenny lapsing back to her spendthrift habits and borrowing money from the loan sharks again. Now, the evidence seemed to have scrapped that possibility off the table.“Don’t make this public yet, please. I’ll send more people to investigate this. In the meantime, you focus on your recovery,” he instructed.
Jeanette slapped her hand over her son’s mouth before Damon could hear him. Then, just as quickly, she swooped the little boy up and bolted toward her room.“Ohh! You think Daddy’s keeping a secret, and he’s not telling you about it, so you wanna listen in! Riiight?” Felix pointed out with frighteningly keen intuition.She rapped on her son’s forehead. “That’s enough, smarty-pants!”“If Daddy is hiding things from you, then he won’t ever tell you anything no matter how hard you try, right? Bu
Adults and their endless troubles and knots and drama! As a kid, Felix was pretty sure the best course of action now was to skedaddle out of there, go to his room, and sleep.Jeanette’s face was already marred with tears. “My mom, Damon! How is she? Tell me the truth, please!”“I was only hiding this from you because I didn’t want you to panic.”“Then what are you going to do? What’s gonna happen to my mom?” Jeanette asked frantically. If Damon’s exhaustive effort had brought him no closer to
The mental institution that could only be reached after a lengthy two-hour drive turned out to be nothing less than a remote and night-deserted place.Jeanette never thought this was what her father deemed fit for Juliana—a building so decrepit it bordered on being abandoned. There were plenty of mental institutions and rehabs surrounded by idyllic landscape and picturesque sceneries nearby, and yet this one was small, outfitted with run-down buildings and an entrance so dilapidated, the paint