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
“You think you’ve won, Jeanette? You think becoming his wife means anything at all? His family detests you, stupid girl. You’ll get nothing from them, not even in the future!”“Goddamn it, Juliana. Do you want me to sign this or not?”“The Godfreys’ inheritance will never be yours! But the Leightons’… It’s in your hands. If you’re gonna give up your birthright for your mother’s pathetic life, then be my guest!” Juliana bristled.Jeanette’s hand suddenly stopped shy from signing. An abrupt tho
“You’re as illegitimate as they come, Jeanette. And now, ooh, Grace’s son is an illegitimate bast*rd himself! You two are practically two peas in a pod already, aren’t you? I wonder… Now that he’s finally got a son on his own, will Magnus still hand his fortune to you?”Jeanette sneered. “Sorry to disappoint you, but I never wanted any of the Leightons’ fortune anyway.”“Pfft. Everybody can moralize loftily like that when they are privileged enough.”“I really don’t. So let my mother go, and