Nina had remained chill the whole time. She gracefully put down her glass after she's through with the water and said, "Just get ready to open the door for your parents."
Their lift should have arrived then.
Cameron gave her a big hug before he went to the door.
And there came the knock when he reached the door. He pursed his lips and opened it.
But to his surprise, the first thing his angry mother did when she entered the door was to slap him in the face. Colleen, his mother, had been a graceful and gentle woman, who and her husband Randall had never hit their son, until then.
His fair and handsome face was soon scarlet with the impression of five fingers, which stirred the fury inside Colleen even more. She raised her hand and pointed her finger at Cameron, shouting, "Cameron Dauster! Is that the way how your father and I have raised you? We taught you to punch people? Even elders you should have shown some respect to?"
It suddenly hit him after his mother's shouting that his parents had found out about his fight with Dominic and Cory.
But principally speaking, if Dominic was to tell on him, he should have done it right after the fight, when he would have looked more miserable with the visible bruises rather than a few days later.
He didn't do it definitely because he didn't have the guts, but he somehow did days later.
Cameron had known the two to be the kind of guys who would only risk provoking him when they were offered stacks of money for it.
Surely, he had done it because he had never been afraid to be found out by his parents.
So he raised his eyes upon Colleen and stated emphatically, "They deserved that."
"What…" She was trembling with rage.
God knew how she felt when she was told by Dominic on the phone that her son had hit the father and son. It flashed across her mind to jump into the sea and kill her herself.
She had been a very proud woman her whole life, so she felt humiliated when she was sworn at by Dominic and was called a failure as a parent.
And he insisted on reckoning with her for that and would bring it to the couple's workplace if she failed to satisfy them. Colleen almost fainted right here.
If he did make a scene of it, how was she and her husband going to face the people?
After she ended the call, she dropped the vacation and bought a plane ticket right to Jamelaton.
And it was Dominic who told her where his son was. She couldn't believe it when she heard that Cameron was living at the same hotel with Nina Sanchez, for she had never expected her son to love Nina so much and had always thought that he had gotten over her long before.
Colleen was not an impulsive and unreasonable person, but what she had just heard from Cameron rekindled the flames of anger through her, so uncontrollably, she raised her arm to give his face another slap.
"What are you doing?" Nina could no longer sit still as she saw Colleen was to hit him again, so she sprang before him and caught the falling hand.
She didn't mean to meddle in the conflict between them, but she hadn't expected her to hit him and it broke her heart to see the finger marks on his face. What's more, she knew that she could not detach herself from that when she heard that she was hitting him because of Dominic and Cory.
As someone who lived off the fat of the land, Colleen couldn't move her wrist since it had been caught by Nina, who was young and agile.
After struggling for a while, she wrested her hand back and glared at Nina, yelling, "What am I doing? If it wasn't for you—"
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