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…”

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

been here for a year, yet he’s already been promoted to team leader. Look at you! You’ve been here for four years, yet you’re still a lowly security guard. Don’t you feel an ounce of shame, facing your wife and

“Enough!”

James and break his nose. “I just happened to witness your scandal, that’s all! What do you need to intimidate me for?

angrily spun around to

today, you’re fired!” James was beside himself with rage. He’s a

Nonetheless, he

security guards were watching the fun. When they saw Alex coming out in a fit of rage, surprise flitted across each

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

strode out of the lobby. Even the pretty receptionist from earlier was too ashamed to look up

drove to his son’s kindergarten without

he reached, the dark sky opened up. Plump droplets of rain started to fall. In a flash, the light pitter-patter turned

through the unforgiving storm, he headed to the kindergarten as

storm’s rather bad outside, so

moment, a crowd of parents was attending the parent-teacher meeting with their children. Heads turned, as all eyes fell on Alex, who was standing outside the door, completely

He’s even late for his child’s parent-teacher meeting. How

family, and

the one who’d made the tabloid headlines previously. He really

like him, I would’ve

themselves as

is Alex Jefferson, Stanley

the water from his body and started to walk towards his son, who was sitting in the back

carry the last name, Jennings? Why is his last

behind her words, as the crowd soon erupted into

do something in return for its host, okay? The fact remains that he’s a dog of the Jennings family, used for breeding

eyes filled with flames

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

faced many insults before,

out, from his

classroom, a sense of guilt rose in

I’m sorry. I didn’t come late on purpose.” Alex sat beside Stanley, wanting to hug him. However, upon realizing that he

go to work. I’m

peers his age. However, Alex had not given him a better life or much

me, alright? Trust me! After some time, I’ll definitely

clenched his fists together as if he

meeting, the teacher criticized Stanley for not paying attention in class, but Alex

learning potential better than anyone

wife, Heather Jennings, admonished him upon seeing her son drenched by

a useless man! It doesn’t cost all that much to call a cab anyway,” Alex’s mother-in-law, Carmen Jennings, née Garnet, spoke up as

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

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