Arrogant Man VS Unyielding Woman novel Chapter 477

"Okay." Jade nodded. She patted Jean's shoulder and told her,"Take your time, dear. Eat your soup and savour the taste. I'll be back in a while."

"Okay," Jean nodded in affirmative. She kept on drinking her soup even as she glanced at Zed and his mother go into a corner with a smile.

The two of them came into the living room where Sean was sitting on the couch watching TV.

He cast a swift, cursory glance at them and turned his attention back to the TV, without asking them anything.

"What is it, Zed? What do you wanna say?" Jade asked her son directly without any formalities.

"Jean and I discussed about it, and we decided that if Father and you want to stay over for a few more days, then we'll be glad to have you over," Zed replied with his eyes fixed on Jade.

"What made you change your mind? I thought you were worried that we might disturb your privacy?" Jade asked in surprise. It was unusual to see her son change a decision so quickly.

"To be honest, Mother, this is Jean's idea. She wants you two to stay for a few more days." Zed frankly told her the truth. "Look, I wanted you to leave because you kept nagging us about having a baby, and I was worried that it would add to the burden that Jean was carrying in her emotions. But just now, I saw the two of you getting along so well that even I was envious. You know that she lost her mother in her childhood. I think it will be good for her to have you stay and take care of her. And I will feel more at ease knowing that someone is watching out for her."

"I can stay if you want, Zed. But what is going on? Why is this Moore guy staying here too?" Jade said with apparent disapproval. "When your father and I are gone, then Jean will live in this house with him alone. A young woman and a young man alone in one house. Are you sure you're okay with that?" Jade was really worried and suspicious.

"Mother, there is nothing to worry about." Zed burst out laughing. "Moore is a very good friend and we both trust him very much. He is quite a gentleman, if I may say so myself. Besides, Jean's car ran into him and he had to stay in the hospital for a very long time. He just got out of hospital a few days ago and is not really recovered yet. We both thought it was best for him to stay over so that he can recuperate and we can feel less guilty of hurting him by taking care of him."

Hearing Zed's explanation, Jade's face softened. "Nevertheless, son, you've got to be more cautious in today's world. And no! Don't say that I am nagging. The human heart is complicated and hard to understand. Even if you do trust him, you should be more careful."

"Okay, Mother. I will be." Zed smiled helplessly and then changed the topic. "Hey, you know what? I ran across Edna today."

He couldn't have carried on with the subject anymore.

"What?" Just as he had expected, Jade was shocked to hear the news. Her expression immediately changed so many times that even Sean who was attentively watching TV turned around and looked at her with a frown.

"How did you two meet? What happened?" With quite some difficulty, Jade calmed herself down enough to ask for details.

"I met her on the street. She told me to say hi to you." Zed was in no mood to tell the whole story to his parents about the car accident. They would only get worried and he wasn't in a mood to explain.

Between Jean getting pregnant and his mother being prejudiced against Moore, there was enough on their palates already and he didn't have to add to the confusion.

The best way to maintain peace and order would be to entirely omit the incident.

"Say hi to me? She? That hypocrite!" Jade sneered immediately when she heard the sentence. Evidently, for her, such a story sounded implausible.

"Mother…" Seeing his mother get so pissed with Edna, he asked with concern,"What is going on between the two of you? You have been mad at her for years. And every time you hear her name, you get so furious. Why does that happen?"

Zed should have known better than to ask such a question and he was regretting it as soon as he did, because the air between seemed to turn solid the instant he put it forward.

Jade's anger aggravated and her sneer was audible instead of being simply visible. And she wasn't looking at Zed anymore. Instead, she turned her back on him and then suddenly, ran upstairs angrily.

The whole thing happened within a fraction of a minute and Zed was completely astounded to see it.

He had known that his mother and Edna had been friends quite a while back. But then something had happened and their relations had gotten strained. From then on, she never talked about her any more and he had never asked the reason.

This was the first time he had asked why since his childhood, and he hadn't expected his mother to overreact like this.

It seemed as if the problem they had between them was something far beyond his imagination.