Chapter 113: You Should Work Hard On Them
In the face of his arrogance, Victoria was unmoved, she looked at his face and answered as calmly as ever.
"Cathryn is not my biological daughter. She couldn't give any blood to her grandpa."
Jordan opened his mouth with no sound and was shocked by the truth.
Victoria picked up her handbag from the chair, stood up, and stared back at the man standing in front of her. For the first time, there was emotion in her tone.
She warned him.
"From this day, don't you ever bother Cathryn again. If I hear anything, I will never let go of you easily. Think about your future; never underestimate the power of a mother who just wanted to protect her daughter."
Victoria left that place and called Cathryn immediately, who answered cheerfully.
Victoria's throat tightened, her eyes went down, and she almost choked with a sob. Thinking about the damage that Jordan Riggs had done to Cathryn, she couldn't help the pain.
"How is it going?" Hearing Cathryn's cheerful voice, Victoria managed to adjust her mood and asked.
"Oh, I'm trying to remember the terms," the daughter complained. "I'd rather practice on the old tests, these books are killing me."
"Yeah." Victoria faintly answered, "You should work hard on them."
"I know," Cathryn said with a smile. "And I do."
After that, the mother and daughter fell silent.
Cathryn noticed that her mom was particularly quiet today. She was a little uneasy and called "Mom" again when Mrs. Riley suddenly broke into tears.
"You see, Cathryn, if there's anything that bothers you, you know you can always talk to me. I'm your mother, I don't have wide shoulders that you can lean on, but I'm your solid and reliable support always."
She was never expressive with emotions, and Cathryn was obviously surprised. She felt touched, of course, but also found herself uneasy. She paused and asked quickly.
"Mom, is everything alright?"
"Of course," She answered with a light laugh. "It's just, little Stella was calling you useless again."
Cathryn clenched her lower lip and said to her mom, "Don't worry, mom. When I become a teacher and have a stable job, everyone will be happy and stop calling you an incompetent mom."
Victoria's smile sounded natural now.
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Jordan left the small restaurant as soon as possible, and he quickly sent Jason to check the truth of what happened fifteen years ago. In fact, he heard everything at his mother's funeral from the bus driver who was working with her, but he refused to accept it. At the age of twelve, he was a susceptible and irritable kid. He was determined to take revenge on Victoria as he heard it was her who argued with his mom. It drove him to understand early the art of patience and took it on Cathryn after so many years.
But unexpectedly, he never imagined that he'd fall in love with her.
It turned out to be true that good and evil are always rewarded.
Jason quickly reported all the facts he gathered through a call.
"It's not hard to find the truth, it was actually the driver's fake bill. He wanted to throw your mother out of the post so his wife could take it. So he changed the paper bill. And there was a record of a complaint from Mrs. Riley. However, that kind of complaint would only give her a suspension for up to two days. But the driver claimed that she needed more money to support you after her husband had died, and according to him, she lied and took the ticket money. That's how the manager fired her. That driver had moved to another city, but his son and daughter are still in Jonathan City, should I check on them?"
"Please do," Jordan answered, "Find them and make them regret their birth."
After a hesitation, Jason sighed, "Jordan, the debt has already been paid by Miss Riley. Do you still want those kids to suffer too?"
He had not finished speaking, and his boss had already hung up. Shaking his head and sighing, the agent went to check the names.
Lying on the sofa, Jordan can't control his tears anymore. He let them flow all over his face as he thought about everything he shared with her, good ones, bad ones, endless tears.
Holding his arms tightly, he screamed like a wild beast and cried out loud.
It felt like an eternity, the pleasant sun rays outside the window had turned to darkness. Jason came back to the office and saw Jordan lying on the sofa and quickly helped him up.
"You scared me," He signed with relief when Jordan opened his eyes, "You have a press conference tonight. Aren't you going to announce your marriage date with Athena?"
The movie star shook his head like a corpse.
"Athena is affectionate to you. You have already failed Miss Riley, and she has now a new beginning. Why don't you just let her go, let yourself go, and live a happy life for both of you?"
Jason had picked him as his artist as early as he was a trainee in the talent company. He chose him because he saw a unique maturity and roughness in this boy. When he was weak, he was restrained by his desires, and when he got power, the ambitions started to show. He followed him, coached him, and walked all the way to what they were now. Jason knew everything he had been through, and he understood that his pain and suffering could be matched with few in this world.
The days ahead were plenty. He didn't want to see him indulged in the memories of the past and be drowned in them.
"I love her," He shortly answered, making Jason speechless.
Once, he remembered a Korean actor who smartly answered in an interview, saying, "I can't let go of someone who brought different kinds of emotions."
Jordan now realized the essence of real love coming from a pure and innocent woman.
The event was canceled, it was useless for Jason to convince Jordan at this moment. He called Athena and could only sigh at her lonely response.