Finding Out The Billionaire

Chapter 1 Being Cheated On

“I’m busy right now. You should attend the boy’s parent-teacher meeting at his school.”

At the entrance of Four Seas Corporation.

Alex Jefferson had been standing on duty as usual, when his wife had suddenly rung him up.

Before he could utter a word, the line went dead. It was almost as abrupt as his wife’s tone.

Staring at the phone in his hands, a bitter smile spread across Alex’s face.

His wife’s recent attitude towards him had taken a toll for the worse. Whenever she looked at him, her gaze was always laced with coldness and disappointment.

For others, a relationship usually turned sour, at the age of thirty. Unfortunately, the perils of a failing relationship had arrived at his doorstep, four years early.

Raising his head to glance at the dark clouds that swept across the sky, he realized that there was going to be torrential rain very soon.

Regardless of whether or not he was going to attend the parent-teacher meeting, he still needed to pick his son up from school.

Thus, he put aside his phone and walked toward the manager’s office.

Meanwhile, the manager of the security department, James Langdon, was flirting with the pretty receptionist. He was visibly infuriated, at the sight of Alex barging in without warning, interrupting his romantic advances.

“I didn’t see anything. Do carry on.” Startled, Alex turned to leave.

However, the pretty receptionist was increasingly flustered, as she soon rushed out, before he could even take a step forward.

“Get back here!”

Leaning back on his chair, James pulled out a cigarette and lit it, with much annoyance. Then, he asked impatiently, “What are you doing here? Why aren’t you on duty?”

Alex turned around and replied awkwardly, “Um, Sir, I would like to take a half-day off.”

“Why?” James lazily puffed out a cloud of smoke.

“It’s going to rain any time now. I need to attend my son’s parent-teacher meeting…”

“All you do is laze around, all day at work. Do you think that this is your family-owned company?”

Slamming a fist on the table, James stood up in fury and pointed a finger at Alex, “Look at yourself! A live-in son-in-law of the Jenningses! You bring shame to us men, do you know that? All you do is laze around at work, without doing much. Do you think that this company is the Jennings family, where you can leech off from?”

Alex’s expression darkened, as annoyance crept up in his heart.

Nonetheless, when he thought of the scandal that he had witnessed earlier between James and the receptionist, he realized that the man was simply trying to intimidate him. Hence, he controlled his temper and muttered, “This is the first time I’ve asked for a leave, to attend my son’s parent-teacher meeting…”

at how useless you are. How do you have the audacity

Look at you! You’ve been

“Enough!”

himself, Alex curled his fists into balls, suppressing the urge to punch James and break his nose. “I just happened to witness your scandal, that’s all! What do you need to intimidate me for? You’ll approve

spun around to

of the company today, you’re fired!” James was beside himself with rage. He’s a piece of trash

Alex clenched his fists tighter. Nonetheless, he still pushed open the door and

Alex coming out in a fit of rage, surprise flitted across each

were astonished that this loser from the security department would dare to

gazes, Alex strode out of the lobby. Even the pretty receptionist

drove to his son’s kindergarten

he reached, the dark sky opened up. Plump droplets of rain started to fall. In a flash, the light pitter-patter turned into a heavy torrent, hammering on Alex’s body and dinging

through the unforgiving storm, he

rather

attending the parent-teacher meeting with their children. Heads turned, as all eyes fell

for his child’s parent-teacher

live-in son-in-law of the Jennings family, and the famous parasite

he’s the one who’d made the tabloid

were like him, I would’ve

group of parents gossiped amongst themselves as

please settle down. Let me make the introductions. This is Alex Jefferson, Stanley Jennings’

body and started to walk towards his son, who was sitting in

be mistaken. Shouldn’t Stanley Jennings’ father carry the last name, Jennings? Why is his last name Jefferson instead?”

understood the implied meaning behind her words,

return for its host, okay? The fact remains

heard that. With his eyes filled with flames of

up on the wrong side of the bed today? Why am I

he had faced many insults before, he felt especially

called out,

classroom, a sense of guilt rose in Alex’s heart as

hug him. However, upon realizing that he was completely drenched, he had no choice but to pat the

I’m aware

than most peers his age. However, Alex had not given him a better life or much attention at all. He suddenly felt a pang of remorse

alright? Trust me! After some time, I’ll definitely groom you to become the most enviable rich kid in the

together as if he had made a big

Stanley for not paying attention in class, but Alex

his son’s learning potential better than

Alex’s wife, Heather Jennings, admonished him upon seeing her son drenched by the rain,

cost all that much to call a cab anyway,” Alex’s mother-in-law, Carmen Jennings, née Garnet, spoke

why Stanley was wet, was that he had leaned on Alex on the scooter, causing the rainwater on the latter’s body to seep into his

Alex did not bother to explain; he took Stanley into the house to change his clothes