Chapter 251:
Chapter 251
Maurice walked over to Jordyn.
“Ja.”
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Jordyn nodded. “You’re here?”
Maurice sat down and started working on the puzzle with her while saying, “I went to the movies with my mom just now. I saw your mom there too.”
Jordyn had been concentrating on her puzzle, but when sheard this, she immediately looked up. “You saw my mom? Where?”
“At the cinema ”
Jordyn pursed her lips. “That’s impossible! My mom is super busy right now. She doesn’t have time to go to the movies. You must have mistaken her for someone else.
Maurice frowned, unhappy. “I didn’t. That was definitely your mom.”
“You’re lying.” Jordyn refused to believe him.
Just last night and this morning, she had called her mom, and her mom didn’t even have time to answer. How could she have time to go to the movies?
“I’m not lying,” Maurice insisted. Feeling doubted, he described what he saw in detail, “And your mom wasn’t alone. She was with another kid–about your height, super cute!”
Up until now, Jordyn hadn’t taken Maurice’s words too seriously. But as soon as she heard this, she exploded.
She grabbed a handful of puzzle pieces, jumped up, and threw them forcefully at Maurice. “Impossible! I dare you to say that again!”
Maurice had been telling the truth. He had no idea why Jordyn wouldn’t believe him and was even getting mad at him.
He had been a spoiled kid too and wasn’t one to back down easily. Furious, he grabbed a handful of puzzle pieces and threw them back at her. “I’m not lying!”
“You
“What’s going on?”
Their argument was so loud that even the guests in the living room could hear them.
Queenie immediately walked over.
Maurice, feeling wronged, had tears welling up in his eyes I was just saying-
“Hmph!”
Jordyn’s eyes were also red, her lips trembling. Without waiting for Maurice to explain, she turned and ran toward the living room.
“Dad!”
Seeing her, Trevor had no choice but to catch her as she threw herself into his arms.
After giving a brief word of apology to the guests, he carried Jordyn out of the living room. Once they were a little
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farther away, he asked, “What’s wrong?”
Jordyn was about to repeat what her cousin said, but before he could, the thought of her mom spending time. with someone else someone cuter than her–made her es well up with tears.
Meanwhile, Queenie and Teagan had already gotten the fullstory from Maurice.
Queenie asked Teagan whether she had seen Celeste at the inerna, but Teagan admitted she didn’t notice and wasn’t sure if what Maurice said was true.
After thinking for a moment, Queenie said, “I believe Maurice wasn’t lying. It’s very possible that you really did see your cousin’s mom.
“But it’s also possible that you just saw someone who look like her–It might not have actually been your Aunt Celeste.”
Yesterday, after Lincoln returned, he had noticed that Trever had taken Jordyn to visit Martha at the hospital, but Celeste hadn’t come. Curious, he had asked about her.
Because Jordyn had been there, Trevor had only said that Celeste was busy and couldn’t make it.
Other than Martha, no one in the Fleming family knew that Trevor and Celeste were getting divorced. Over the years, the family had seen how much Celeste cared about Trevor,
So, when Trevor said she was too busy, everyone had assured something urgent had happened with the Rodriguez family, preventing her from coming home.
Now, hearing Maurice’s story, both Queenie and Teagan believed he might have been mistaken.
After all, as far as they knew, there were no young children in the Rodriguez family close to Jordyn’s age.
And if Celeste really had the time, it didn’t make sense for her to go to a movie Instead of coming back to see the family.
It just wasn’t logical.
