Let Me Go, Mr. Harvey

“Mom, do you know how valuable this party is?” Jessica had never been scolded by her family, grievance surging in her mind.

Adeline answered hurriedly, “Of course I do. But no matter how significant it is, you should not come! Everyone knows you are a vicious person who framed friends and furthermore you offended Lawson … Now with you staying here, how shameful your father and I would be!”

Jason also followed up and echoed, “Jessica, you should listen to your mother. You have always been smart and sensible, but why do you become muddled about such significant matters?”

He stood together with Adeline, making Edward look like an outsider. Yet it didn’t matter what he said, and he had been used to it long before.

Jessica was stunned for quite a while before she could respond. She said unbelievably, “Mom, do you think I render you shameful?”

“It’s not about whether I feel shameful or not,” Adeline replied harshly. “Why couldn’t you understand my goodwill? What you need to do now is to recuperate and get ready for a blind date, but not to be here!”

Jessica bowed her head, with her eyes turning red, but she didn’t say anything.Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.

Words were useless.

“All right. You don’t stay here, or your grandfather and others would consider that you are more and more unsensible as you age!” Adeline added, “I have an appointment with my friends, so I have to go now! And you should also leave now!”

Having finished her words, she called a waiter to ask for a glass of wine and went to someone else nearby with a smile.

Jason followed her step by step and lifted a strand of hair by her ear softly. Adeline gave him a flirty scold without refusal.

“Jessica, you are a clever girl, and you know how to make the best decision.” Edward tapped her on the shoulder, “James doesn’t match you. Since he is not the only excellent person in the world, you don’t have to put all your eggs in one basket, even at the price of ruining yourself.”

Jessica looked up at him, “What if I insist? What would you do, dad?”

“I will do the same as your grandfather,” Edward replied. “As you are young, Jessica, you are more than brilliant but too arrogant on the other hand.

“Given your age, you may not understand that people’s fondness is the least reliable thing. And you can always rely on yourself. What is in your hand really counts.”

Jessica replied after a pause, “I understand.”

Precisely, it’s the least reliable of people’s fondness.

Her grandparents, parents, brother as well as her former friends, all shunned her pitilessly. She knew the rule long before, but still got shocked by their rapidity of attitude change!

“That’s good. Go home as early as possible.” Edward tapped her shoulder and moved towards Adeline with a glass of wine in his hand.

As Jessica watched the trio get along well, her lips curled with ridicule.

Dad was right. The only one you could rely on was yourself. As long as you grasped everything in your hand, you could do whatever you want, just like Lawson!

As Janet passed by, she was shocked by Jessica’s look. She said anxiously, “Jessica, Don’t blame me for letting Angela watch the video, since I didn’t expect she would see it on my WeChat! If you had told me you would frame Angela, I … wouldn’t have posted the video on WeChat.”

“Why are you so scared of her?” Nova said with scorn, “She offended Lawson, and maybe she will be more miserable than Angela.”

She dragged Janet to move on.

Janet kept complaining, “But her look was really frightening. If she set me up as what she had done to Angela, I’m screwed!”

“She’s lame and got dumped by her family. Why are you so frightened?”

Their voices faded away.

Jessica took a few deep breaths and told herself to be composed. Still, she failed to restore her calmness. A series of troubles coming overwhelmingly, one after another, almost crushed her completely.

She swept several cups from the table to the ground with her hand, leaving them scattered on the floor.

A few waiters hurried there to clean up the mess.

“Sorry. I felt dizzy just now and hit the table accidentally before knocking the cups off the table.” Jessica crouched down to pick up the debris guiltily.

Denise has her own social hub. She left along with some people coming to get her after advising Angela not to get too close with people like Mrs. Brown.

“Your phone is buzzing,” James said while handling it to Angela. Since she had set that all messages would be displayed on the screen even if the phone was locked, Jame could see the message if he wanted to. But he had managed to restrain himself.

Angela took the phone and unlocked it. Seeing him peek at the screen at intervals and then look away, she felt it quite amusing.

With a look, she said, “It’s from Roland.”

“Oh,” James picked up his glass and took a sip, “you don’t have to tell me that, for I won’t get jealous randomly.”

After looking at his empty glass, Angela burst into laughter, “So, what are you doing now? Drinking the air?”

James cast his eyes at the glass in his hand and put it on the table as if nothing had happened, yet with his earlobes burning.

“Do you want to have a look?” Angela shook her cellphone.

James gazed at the cellphone, and after a hard swallow, he looked away and said, “No, I don’t.”

Since he confessed his love to her, she had got mad at him several times, most of which were for his excessive interference in her life, as well as not showing enough respect for her.

After replying with an “oh”, Angela went on reading the messages and replying to them without talking with him.

James took a glimpse at the cellphone in a hurry. Though he hadn’t seen it clearly, he noticed there were chunks of texts on the screen, indicating both Angela and Roland had typed lots of words.

Why did they have so much to talk about?

Angela replied to the messages, put the cellphone down, and then turned to him. He looked away collectedly and turned to a near crowd.

“Here you are.” Angela handed the cellphone to him.

But James didn’t take it. He said, “You can keep it for a while and give it back to me when we return home.”

Knowing another man was sending her messages, he couldn’t check it and had to give the cellphone to her to let her reply to the man … It didn’t feel good.

He had never thought that he would behave as Sean had said, longing to see a woman’s message, wanting to hide her so that he could watch her by himself!

“I feel my mother’s depression has worsened, so I ask Roland to recommend a doctor for me. That is Dr. Watson. But he happened to have an unplanned business trip, he has to see my mom a few days later. That’s what we were talking about.”

Angela could never see through him, and she could get nothing from the expressions on his face as well. She explained it briefly to him anyway, lest he would misunderstand.

“You don’t need to explain to me, for I’m not an unreasonable person.” James rubbed her on the head, with the corners of his mouth lifted slightly. “Give the cellphone to me. You’d better stay away from it.”

Angela took her cellphone out and handed it to him.

It was quite harmonious when Felix came over with a glass of wine. He said in a voice dripping with sarcasm, “Wow, you are really a couple of intimacy, Mr. Harvey and Miss Chante!”