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 to attend your son’s parent-teacher

You’ve been here for four years, yet you’re still a lowly security guard. Don’t you

“Enough!”

deep breath to calm 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

angrily spun around

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

tighter. Nonetheless, he

fun. When they saw Alex coming out in a fit

security department would dare to talk back to the

the pretty receptionist from earlier was too ashamed to look

on his electric scooter, Alex drove

a flash, the light pitter-patter turned into a heavy torrent,

he did not find a place to take shelter. Rushing through the unforgiving

The storm’s rather bad outside,

Heads turned, as all eyes fell on Alex, who was standing outside the door, completely drenched

for his child’s parent-teacher meeting. How irresponsible is

family, and

so he’s the one who’d made the tabloid headlines previously. He really brings shame to

were like him, I would’ve kicked

amongst themselves as they insulted and

Alex Jefferson, Stanley Jennings’

his body and started to walk towards

Jennings’ father carry the last name, Jennings? Why is his last name Jefferson instead?” A

her words, as the crowd soon

The fact remains that he’s a dog of the Jennings family, used for breeding

his eyes filled with flames of fury, his fists curled into tight balls out

on the wrong side of the bed today? Why

had faced many insults before,

this moment, Stanley called out, from his seat

and isolated at the very back of the classroom, a sense of guilt rose in Alex’s heart as

sorry. I didn’t come late on purpose.” Alex sat beside Stanley, wanting to hug him. However, upon realizing that he was completely drenched, he had no choice but to pat the boy on

work. I’m aware of that,” Stanley

he was already more thoughtful and obedient than most peers his

After some time, I’ll definitely groom you to become the most enviable rich kid in the

if he had made a big

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

his son’s learning potential better than

duo returned home, Alex’s wife, Heather Jennings, admonished him upon seeing her son drenched by the rain, “It’s raining so heavily outside. Why didn’t you send Stanley home by

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

he had leaned

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