Married a Secret Billionaire novel Chapter 1099

"Zeke, if you... If you don't believe it, I'll prove it to you!" Jesse tugged at Melissa's sleeve, urging her to sit down and eat, but she ignored it and insisted on going into the room to rummage through the cabinets. Soon, she held a thin birth certificate in her hand and placed it in front of Zuko.

"Look, this is Lina's birth certificate!" Melissa's voice trembled as she pointed at the name on it. "Father: Jesse Jenner, Mother: Melissa Jones. What's wrong with that!? The hospital issued this!"

Zuko quickly stood up. "Auntie, please calm down. I never doubted—"

"Stop listening to Mary's nonsense!" Melissa trembled as she angrily scolded and returned the birth certificate to her room, refusing to finish dinner.

After dinner, Zuko made a call to Toph at the entrance of the alley.

"I have a question for you," he said in a low voice. "How would you react if you had a son, but everyone said he wasn't your son?"

"What do you mean, bro?" Toph's tone rose at the end. "You're not hoping I'll be c*ckolded, are you?"

Zuko scoffed. "I'm being serious!"

Toph thought for a moment and chuckled. "I might get angry at first and explain to everyone, but I wouldn't care as much over time. The truth will reveal itself. Besides, my son is mine, and blood ties cannot be changed. Why should I panic?"

"But if your son… doesn't resemble you?"

"Uh, bro, must you put it like that?"

"I'm just saying 'what if'!"

Toph shrugged, wondering why Zuko did not ask himself that question.

"That's impossible. Fathers and sons will always have some resemblance! Besides, even though I don't resemble our father, I look like our grandfather!"

"Like our grandfather... all puffed up and prickly?" remarked Zuko.

He took a deep breath, adjusted his expression to a more natural one, and walked in quickly. He met Melissa's loving gaze.

"Zeke, I heard your young brother's here?"

Zuko froze for a moment before he gently nodded. "Um... yes."

"Then invite him over for a meal! I'll treat him well!" Melissa couldn't stop smiling. "By the way, Zeke, what does your brother like? Write a list tomorrow, and I'll buy it for him! Also, if he's staying outside, wouldn't it be inconvenient? He can also stay here and share a room with Dave!"

"Auntie, no need for the trouble..."

"It's not a bother. We're family! It's my duty to take care of you all!" Melissa's smile was genuine, and Zuko was willing to believe that she was too.

During the time they spent together, Melissa had genuinely been nice to him, not to mention how caring she was toward Lina. Although she nagged and grumbled like all common housewives, her feelings toward her children were pure, without any impurities, like a crystal.