The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife

Chapter 43 Hundred Thousand Dollars

"Miss Jenkins, do you want to stay for dinner?" Julian looked at Charlotte pointedly.

Charlotte was blushing at that point. Then, she said after a long while, "No, I don't think so."

"Then, goodbye," he said abruptly.

"Wait!" Charlotte suddenly bit her lower lip, feeling dissatisfied.

"Yes?" Julian raised an eyebrow.

"Since...since this man is her elder brother, you should have known when I first sent you the photos, so why didn't you tell me?" she asked.

If Julian had told her that from the start, she would not have followed Susan the entire day and made a joke out of herself.

"Why do I have to tell you?" Julian had an evil smirk o n his face. "If I told you, you wouldn't have updated me with her live location, would you?"

"You..." Charlotte almost broke down. Julian had been toying with her!

"Susan is waiting for me to have dinner. Goodbye," he said again, then he turned around and went into the bungalow.

At the Jenkins residence, Charlotte sulked when she

got home.

"Charlotte, come and have dinner,” Madam Jenkins invited.

"Not in the mood." Charlotte threw her bag aside and stormed into her room angrily.

'Susan Shelby, watch out!'

Madam Jenkins was shocked by Charlotte’s anger, so she asked Luke, "What's going on with your sister?"

Luke raised an eyebrow. "I'm not sure, but I'll check it out later."

"You don't have to be too concerned. This girl has been acting strangely nowadays. I don't even know what she's doing. You should focus on your wedding now," Madam Jenkins said softly, "Mandy said you haven't been accompanying these days, have you?" This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

Luke lowered his head and said, "I've been slightly busy with work nowadays."

"No matter how busy you are, you have to accompany her. The Ainsley family only has one daughter, so the entire Ainsley Corporation will sooner or later be yours once you marry her."

"Mom." Luke frowned. The way his mother said that made him feel uncomfortable. "Marriage is not and will never be for gaining benefits like these."

"Alright, alright." Madam Jenkins smiled. "It's not for benefits. It’s the love that you and Mandy have for each other."

The love? Luke's eyebrows twitched slightly and he suddenly put down the chopsticks. "Mom, I want to postpone the wedding."

"Postpone? Why?" Madam Jenkins had a blank expression. "Son, don't fool around with me now. The marriage of both our families was announced a few months ago. You want to postpone the wedding? What will the Ainsley family think? What will the public think?"

"Is what they think more important than my happiness?" Luke looked at her intensely.

"Why aren't you happy about the marriage? Mandy is such a good girl and she's head over heels for you. She will definitely treat you well," Madam Jenkins chided as she looked at Luke’s cold expression. She frowned and asked, "Are you still thinking about...that Susan?"

Her son had always been an obedient child. The only time he had rebelled was because of Susan.

It was a coincidence that he had lost his memory of her after the accident. However, no one would have thought that something unexpected like this would have happened before the wedding.

Luke had previously asked her if she knew Susan and her heart had dropped. She wanted to let it pass vaguely. However, now, he wanted to postpone the wedding and this could not be let go vaguely.

'Susan, you b*tch, do you still have to cause a ruckus now?!’

Luke looked at his mother calmly. "I only want to know the truth."

"Okay, you want the truth? I'll give you the truth.” Madam Jenkins drew a deep breath in.

"Oh?" Luke's eyes contained a hint of surprise.

'Is Mom willing to tell me the truth?’

"Son, I refused to tell you before this because I'm afraid you'd be hurt again." Madam Shaw sighed. "You and Susan were lovers, but that woman never liked you. She loves money more than you."

"That's impossible," Luke subconsciously said as he recalled his impression of Susan. She was clean and pure like a piece of transparent crystal that had no impurities. He did not believe that she was a gold-digger.

"I'm telling you the truth." Madam Jenkins sighed again. "Initially, when you were with Susan Shelby, even though her family background wasn't that well-off and since you were in love with her, I didn’t object t o it. I thought that both of you would be together without any hiccups, but I never expected you to overhear her conversation with her friends whereby she personally admitted that she was with you because of our family’s money.

"You were shocked, and after coming home, you didn’t want to do anything for quite some time. You also didn’t want to tell anyone about it, and after I kept trying only did you unveil the sorrow in your heart.

Sigh, you really were sincere toward Susan. Even after you broke up with her, you couldn't let her go. Eventually, you got into an accident because of that! Son, the only reason you got into that accident was her."

A veil of disorientation flashed across Luke's eyes. 'Is what Mom said real? Why don't I have any recollection of it?’

Madam Jenkins continued to pour oil to fire after seeing Luke's confusion. "After that, guess what this woman did when you were unconscious after the accident?"

"What?"

Madam Jenkins laughed bitterly. "She came to me and said that both of you have been together for a few years. Now that you've broken up with her, she wanted $100,000 as a breakup fee. Otherwise, she would bother you. I was afraid that you'd be sad if you saw her, so I gave her $100,000 to make her leave."

"I don't believe it." Luke clenched his teeth.

"Son, think about it. If she didn't hurt you this much, why did you only forget her and no one else?"

He was somewhat shaken. Yes, among all the people h e knew, the only person he had forgotten was Susan. Could it be...?

"If you don't believe me, you can ask Susan if she took $100,000 from me,” Madam Jenkins said.

Luke gritted his teeth. "I'll verify this, but before that, I’m not going to believe what you just said."

"I'm your mother. Why would I lie to you? You can verify all you want. If that woman had the slightest conscience within her, I believe she will tell you the truth," Madam Jenkins said gently, "But, son, I hope you know one thing. When you were unconscious in the hospital, the person who took care of you every day and every night was Mandy. She loves you deeply. That's why she targeted and treated Susan that way. You have to understand that everything she did was for you, so please don’t let her down."

Luke's heart pounded violently. He had a gut feeling that it was impossible for Susan to be like that.

However, his mother said that with such conviction and the story did not seem to be fabricated.

Now, the key to that matter was the $100,000. Did Susan take the $100,000?

Luke’s gaze became determined as he wanted to verify it.