At this time, Kevin had finished eating and was elegantly savoring a glass of wine.
“Your father called?”
He already guessed the caller from Ally’s expression.
Ally was surprised. Still, she nodded sheepishly.
“What did he say?”
Ally felt like going crazy. With a wry face, she said, “He told me to take you home for dinner sometime.”
In the Fowlers’ house.
Just as Zack hung up, Lindsey scurried over and asked eagerly, “What’s up? What did she say?”
Zack looked at his daughter’s mother-in-law and nodded. “They’re together.”
Lindsey was stupefied.
Angie screamed in rage. “No way! How can they be seeing each other! How could she hook up with the boss of the Nixon Group?”
Her remark made Zack’s face fall. With a note of exasperation in his voice, he bellowed, “Angie, you shouldn’t talk about Ally like that. She’s your sister after all!”
Angie’s face turned pale with fury.
Mary was Angie’s mother. Seeing her daughter be scolded, she felt sorry. Thus, she quickly came to mediate. “Enough. Angie is still young. She doesn’t understand this. Why argue with her?”
Then, she switched to another tactic. “But Angie was just being honest. Look, Ally got involved in that kind of disgrace two years ago. How could the noble Nixon family accept her as their daughter-in-law? Alas. Don’t you think so, Zack?”
She looked at Zack with a torn expression on her face. Although she didn’t say it explicitly, everyone in the room knew what she meant.
What she wanted to say was Ally was definitely subpar to be Mrs. Nixon given her status, so she might be Mr. Nixon’s mistress!
Zack was taken aback. He found Mary’s words rather reasonable.
After all, nowadays, young men and women often called each other honey to show their intimacy, even if they were not lawfully married.
Had Ally really sunk to such depths?
Zack’s expression turned stern. Seeing this, Mary hurriedly urged, “Didn’t you ask her where she would stay? She just got back to the country today. If she’s really in a normal romantic relationship with that Mr. Nixon, she ought to come back and stay here.”
It was not until then that Zack thought of this issue. Just now, he was focused on making sure if Ally was with Kevin, so he forgot to ask her where she would stay today.
His expressions altered several times. In the end, he picked up the phone and dialed Ally’s number.
Yet, all he heard was a mechanical female voice saying, “The subscriber you dialed is powered off. Please try again later.”
Because Zack had put the speaker on, everyone heard this prompt tone at once. They all showed a look of disdain and suspicion on their faces.
“See? Ally’s certainly a mistress! If she were a virtuous woman, she would come back home instead of spending the night with a man as soon as she was back in the country!” they mused.
In fact, they’d all wronged Ally.
After taking Zack’s call, she found that her phone’s battery only had 1% energy. Her phone was dead in less than half a minute after she sat down again.
Ally thought that no one would call her again at this time, so she asked the waiter to charge her phone and turned to focus on other things.
She never thought it could incur such a misunderstanding.
But at this moment, Ally had no idea what her family was thinking. She was still wondering where she should go tonight.
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