Love Letters, Divorce Papers (Jared and Amber) novel Chapter 445

"She was indeed the other woman in my parents' marriage," Jared said, rubbing his brow.

Amber's eyes widened. "What? Really?"

"Yes."

"Then why do you treat her..."

"She wasn't a homewrecker, technically speaking. She didn't break up my parents' relationship. Because my parents, they weren't in love, it was a marriage with benefits, and they had me. They were only married because of responsibilities, and after I was born, my parents separated, and then my father met Shonna and fell in love with her." Jared spoke as he leaned against the wall.

Amber nodded. "I see."

His parents weren't in love.

This was the first she had heard of it.

"And after that? When your father was with Shonna, didn't your mother get angry?" Amber asked, looking at the man.

Even if she doesn't love the man, he's still her husband.

You can't expect a woman to be okay with her husband having an affair during the marriage.

Jared, however, shook his head. "She was not angry. My mother was happy to see my father fall in love with Shonna."

"What?" The corner of Amber's mouth twitched.

Happy to see it?

Well... should she say his mother was very forgiving?

"Surprised, right?" Jared looked at her and smiled.

Amber nodded. "I'm surprised. I wouldn't have been so generous."

With that in mind, Jared suddenly remembered those four months ago, he had asked to move her out and give the place to Makenna.

No wonder she didn't ask for a divorce after six years of a loveless marriage, but she did when he tried to take Makenna home.

"What are you thinking?" Amber waved her hand in front of Jared's eyes as his mind wandered.

Jared's eyes flickered, and he looked back, "Nothing."

He didn't want to talk about it, and Amber didn't ask more questions, so she turned the conversation back to what they were talking about.

"By the way, why would your mother be happy to see it? Even though they don't love each other, your father loves Shonna, and Shonna was a threat to your mother's position as Mrs. Farrell." Amber sat cross-legged.

Jared took another bite of the cookie, "Because my mother always wanted to leave the Farrell family, if my father married Shonna, my mother could divorce my father, which was her dream, so my mother was very grateful for Shonna. She even planned to go to find Grandmother and say nice things about Shonna, to get my father and Shonna married earlier."

"Then what?" Amber arched her back, her elbows resting on her thighs, her chin resting on her palms, and looked at him like a good listener.

Speaking of which, she didn't think she'd ever spoken to him in peace like this.

"And then the night before my mother went to Grandmother, my mother committed suicide because of something," Jared said, squeezing the cookie in his hand and making the plastic packaging squeak.

Amber was so shocked that her jaw almost drops, "suicide?"

Ever since she found out that Shonna wasn't his biological mother, she kind of assumed that his real mother was gone.

But she never thought it would be a suicide.

"Yes." Jared lowered his eyelids so no one could see what was behind his eyes.

"Was this because of Shonna?" Amber asked.

Jared shook his head, "She had nothing to do with it. She didn't even know it that my mother actually approved of her being with my father. That was why after my mother's death, Shonna blamed herself as she thought it was her presence that drove my mother to suicide. She felt so guilty about my mother, which is why Shonna consider me as her own child. Even when Logan was conceived, she tried to abort him. But I stopped her."

"I see. Wow, I never really know about Shonna Woodham." Amber raised her eyebrow.

Jared chuckled. "She has a lot of flaws, not a good person, but she's not a bad person either."

Amber didn't deny it.