Derek Jacobs had publicly announced the news at the Jacobs Group, and Mandy Lawson was currently picking out an auspicious date to host a celebration banquet for that wild girl who had popped out of nowhere!
The Lawson family of three was in a complete panic.
Leonard Lawson couldn’t talk them out of it, so he sent Lana Daniels and May Lawson rushing over to the Jacobs’ villa.
As it happened, everyone else in the Jacobs family was out, except for Mandy, who was immobilized with a cast on her leg.
Seeing the niece she had watched grow up, Mandy was very happy and comforted.
May hadn’t visited much lately, so Mandy pulled her close, asking all sorts of questions.
Worried that her niece might be short on pocket money, Mandy even slipped her a bank card containing a seven-figure sum.
This was a standard reward every time May visited.
She didn’t decline, accepting it with absolute ease.
Feigning innocence despite reaping the benefits, she pouted, “Aunt Mandy, I thought you wouldn’t want Mimi anymore now that you have your biological daughter!”
The three of them were in the villa’s small garden.
Lana pushed the wheelchair while May squatted in front of Mandy, gently massaging her injured leg.
May’s reddened eyes conveyed an unspeakable sense of grievance.
Mandy doted on her the most.
Although Leonard and Lana were always a cause for concern, Mimi was a good child.
“Silly girl, how could that be?
You’re like half a daughter to me!” Mandy said gently.
“You haven’t been around much lately.
Did you run into some trouble?”
May blinked, and strings of teardrops fell down her cheeks.
“Does worrying about you so much that I ended up hospitalized count as trouble?”
“What?
Hospitalized? Visit g.com for the full chapter.
Where are you hurt?
Quickly, let me take a look!”
Mandy truly cared for her niece.
Hearing about the hospitalization made her anxious, and she completely missed the hidden meaning in May’s words.
“No, it’s not that!
I was just worried about you!
Knowing you finally found my cousin, our whole family is happy for you!
But I also heard that you didn’t even do a paternity test and just accepted that girl…
Isn’t that too hasty?
“You live such a sheltered life, Aunt Mandy.
You have no idea that girls nowadays will do absolutely anything for money!”
The underlying implication was clear: the daughter Mandy planned to acknowledge was only after the Jacobs family’s fortune.
May rambled on, completely unaware that the moment she slandered Mandy’s daughter, the older woman’s expression had turned icy.
Even the hand that had been affectionately stroking May’s hair had been quietly withdrawn.
For so many years, no matter what May said or did in front of her, Mandy had never once lost her temper.
Because of this, May had grown spoiled and arrogant.
She pulled a kraft paper envelope from her Hermes bag and continued her disparagement.
“Aunt Mandy, these are the documents my dad got from a private investigator who worked tirelessly for days.
Take a look.”
Standing behind the wheelchair, Lana couldn’t see Mandy’s expression at all.
Assuming Mandy was too afraid to face reality, Lana quickly snatched the envelope from her daughter’s hands.
She feigned surprise.
“Oh my!
I was wondering why you couldn’t sit still even when you were sick!
It turns out you were just worried about Aunt Mandy!
Mandy, Mimi treats you better than she treats her own mother.
I’m almost jealous!”
As Lana spoke, she opened the envelope.
Reading the investigation report on Juno inside, she gasped in utter astonishment.
“Good heavens!
This girl is quite the schemer for her age!
She grew up in a tiny mountain village, yet she managed to hook up with…
ahem, I mean, get to know—she actually managed to get to know someone like Stephen Grant?!
“Mandy!
Stephen Grant’s father is Arthur Grant!
He despises Derek to the core!
Since this girl has known Stephen for so many years, could she possibly…”