Chapter 906 - Saturdays event at Kiani familys villa (5) (1/2)
Jasper came to the sofa and squeezed to sit next to Ellie.
”Mom, what do you mean by me wasting my time?”
”Forget it…”, Lisa sighed and waved her hand dismissively. ”It was just my wishful thinking. Ellie has a boyfriend and…” Lisa stopped talking when she saw that Jasper and Ellie are holding hands. With their fingers interlaced and everything!
Ellie stifled a laugh at Lisa's shocked expression.
”Lisa, allow me to introduce you to my boyfriend.”, Ellie said with teary eyes from holding back her laughter.
”Why didn't you say so right away!”, Lisa asked when she came around.
”I didn't want to say it without him here. And your son SHOULD be the one to tell you that we are dating.”, Ellie elbowed Jasper.
Jasper's grin disappeared when he saw that Lisa narrowed her eyes at him. ”What?”
”What was that last night?”
”Last night?” Jasper knows that he and Ellie had their argument, but everything is fine now. And how would his mother know about that?
Lisa got her phone and opened an online article which was about fashion show from previous night. One photo showed the audience and captured Jasper with Hailey talking to him.
”Who is that woman?”, Lisa asked angrily.
”She was in my seat.” Ellie explained. ”She took advantage of me coming late. Shortly after that, security escorted her out.”
”Oh…”, Lisa awkwardly smiled and kept her phone down.
Jasper looked at his mother and frowned. ”Mom, do you know that I am your son? What if that was not a misunderstanding? What if Ellie does not know about it? You are sowing discord in our relationship!”
Lisa pouted. ”If you are cheating on this sweet girl, you deserve to be exposed.”
Ellie laughed thinking that this mother-son duo is funny.
”So…” Lisa looked at two of them. ”Since when?”
”We met at Jeffrey's wedding.”, Jasper explained. ”And we had our first date the next day.”
”Then that woman in your office which Lily mentioned…”
”That was Ellie.”, Jasper immediately said, cutting of whatever Lisa wanted to say. ”And Lilian's nonsense about Ellie coming to seduce me and who-knows-what is going overboard. I had an unexpected late meeting and Ellie agreed to come to my office and wait until I'm done so that we go out for dinner from there.”
Lisa nodded in understanding, and then remembered that Norman said how last Saturday Jasper didn't come to the party which Cavadini family hosted because he was held back by a woman. ”And that woman in your apartment last weekend…”
”Me again.”, Ellie responded.
Lisa's eyes lit up and she smiled. Her son has a girlfriend. For about a month! A proper girlfriend! And it's Ellie! ”I guess I should leave you two kids alone.”
”What about the baby photos?”, Ellie reminded Lisa.
Lisa was about to stand up, but she went back to sitting with an album already in her hands.
Lisa grinned when she opened the album and the first photo was buck naked baby-Jasper lying on his tummy.
”Aw, this brings back memories… Look at those cheeks!”, Lisa gushed.
Ellie stifled a laugh. ”Which ones? I see two pairs!”
Jasper pulled Ellie up. These two women are making fun at the expense of his baby-butt-cheeks! He will not allow it!
”I will show my room to Ellie.”, he said gloomily while pushing giggling Ellie out the door.
Lisa looked after Jasper and Ellie and didn't try to stop them. She will talk more with Ellie later, and with Jasper as well.
Lisa closed the album, kept it on the table with the others and walked toward the fireplace mantle.
She touched the frame of the photo which has Jasper with his grandfather and said in a soft voice: ”Dad, he is smiling again.”
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