After Jewel left the washroom, she didn’t return to the president’s office. Instead, she headed straight for Seven Degrees Cafe as Stefanie had instructed. When she arrived, a waiter led her to a private room. Initially, she was a little formal when she met Stefanie and greeted her politely, “Hello, Mrs. Road.”

Stefanie didn’t move an inch from where she was sitting and merely lifted her eyes at Jewel without a word to gesture for her to take a seat. Her unfriendly attitude struck Jewel by surprise as Jewel didn’t understand the reason behind it.

She reassured herself in the next second, though. She’s an elder, after all, and she’s Alex’s mother at that. So for his sake, I shouldn’t pick on her without reason.

It wasn’t easy for his mother to bring Alex up by herself, so Jewel wore a smile and took a seat with kind thoughts in her mind. “Why did you ask me out, Mrs. Road?”

Although she tried her best to sound normal, she still sounded unpleasant to the ears. At least, when Stefanie heard her, her dislike for Jewel’s voice was greater than others.

she replied, “I don’t know why you ended up in this situation that you are in today and I don’t want to know either. Since this is

he’s interested in you. Don’t you

Jewel. In the meantime, Jewel’s brows furrowed tightly. Maybe it was because she had felt the warmth from Ellen before that she reflexively carried the same hopes for Stefanie as well. This was especially so after she

much disgust Stefanie had for her to say such terrible things to her as

She thinks that I want to rise to the

dark eyes as she responded, “I’ve never wanted anything from your son from the beginning until now!” Besides, your son is the one saying all those weird things! she thought

waved her hand in frustration. “That’s enough. You can stop talking. It’s not like I understand what you’re saying, anyway. I don’t care what’s on your mind, but I just want you to get away from my son. You’ll never have my blessing to date him.” Jewel pursed her lips

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