The servant nodded.
“Did he return with someone else?”
“Yes.” Answered the servant. But she was still confused, “So may I have…”
Before she could finish, Evelyn appeared to be sullen. She walked pass the servant and hurried to go upstairs.
Evelyn started to search every single room regardless of manners. When she opened the door of the last room, she saw there were two sleeping on the bed. Then she strode inside.
“Leigh, you really piss me off!” Evelyn lifted the quilt and kept shouting, “Even if you don’t want a girlfriend, you can’t just cling to Chace all day long! And how dare you announce that you love guys!”
Leigh didn’t even notice what was going on when the quilt was drawn away.
He raised up his head and saw it was Evelyn. He was rendered annoyed, “Mom, what’s wrong with you?”
“What’s wrong with me? I am here to get an answer from you!” Evelyn was burning with rage because of what she heard of last night. When she noticed that there appeared to be someone else inside the quilt, she went madder, “I have never stopped you from falling in love with guys! But how dare you announce it in public! Are you going to dump your business? Don’t you think I need some time to brace for this impact?”
Leigh was rendered so confused, “What? I love guys? What the hell did I announce?”
“Stop pretending!”
Evelyn was about to lift the quilt beside. Leigh hurried to stop, “Mom, she is still sleeping! We can have a talk outside the room.”
“How dare you!” Evelyn had gone so mad that she slapped him on his face for the first time.
Leigh was stunned. Meanwhile, Evelyn took the chance to lift the quilt.
However, she didn’t see a guy lying underneath the quilt. Instead, it was a pregnant lady, whose face was so familiar to her.
“God!” Evelyn screamed and even dropped her handbag on the ground. She stammered while pointing at Jessie, “That’s not a guy? It’s…”
Though Jessie was in sound sleep, she was woken up by now.
“What happened?” Jessie turned around to ask Leigh, still dozing. Then she saw a red swollen slap print carved on his face and also noticed a familiar face—Evelyn.
“Evelyn, what brought you here?”
“Ah…well…” Evelyn was almost rendered speechless. Then she explained, “Last night, I heard from others that Leigh told whoever he met that he loved guys. And someone claimed that he saw Leigh doing nasty things with another guy in the parking lot…Then one of his security guards said that he brought someone back home last night…so that’s why I came…”
Jessie turned to stare at Leigh with her eyes wide open, “You love guys?”
“No!” now Leigh finally understood why his mom came to him in madness.
“I was just joking. I didn’t even expect them to spread out the rumor! And the guy in the parking lot was just a guest in the club. He got his pants stuck in the door. I was just helping him. They even filmed the whole thing? What a group of freaks!”
Not until then did Evelyn breathed a sigh of relief. But then she huffed angrily again, “Stop making jokes like that! When I was having dinner with my friends last night, they even teased me that I was going to have one more son! That really piss me off!”
“That’s the reason you broke into my room and lifted my quilt? I am a grown man!” Leigh touched his own face, gritting out of pain.
“And you even slapped me!”
Evelyn cleared her voice and said, “Ahem, sorry, I was being too mad to control myself. It won’t happen again.”
Evelyn then looked at Jessie and soon noticed her bulging belly underneath the pajamas. She turned to look at Leigh with her mouth open, almost failing to utter, “So…how…how did she show up again?”
Of course, Evelyn knew everything in the past—Leigh was sent to hospital after Jessie fell into the sea. It almost killed him. So Evelyn had been holding a great feud against Jessie.
But now Jessie appeared again from nowhere. She seemed to be choked.
“I have just returned to Yorkshire yesterday.” Jessie looked much more composed when compared to Evelyn. She suggested, “Evelyn, why not go downstairs for breakfast. Leigh and I will join you after washing ourselves up.”
“Okay.” Evelyn also deemed it an awkward moment to stand still in the room.
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