Charming Lady Hard to Chase After Being Dumped novel Chapter 692

Justin stared into the distance as he hung up the call.

There was a tinge of loneliness in his eyes.

To be honest, he had never believed that his mother had suddenly stopped loving him. When he was a child, he had been so stubborn that he had fainted in rain. When he woke up, he had known right away that it would be useless to approach her again.

Later, as he grew up, he suddenly discovered one day that a servant at home was filming a video of him. After that, the servant had sent it to someone.

At first, he'd thought that the servant must be scheming something, so he'd constantly stayed on guard against him. However, even as time passed, the servant didn't take any action.

After he grew up, Justin quietly studied and learned hacking techniques without anyone knowing. He had then hacked into the servant's phone and discovered his secret.

As it turned out, all the videos of him—from when he was a child all the way until he turned into a young adult —had all been sent by the servant to his mother, who had never shown any concern for him!

He took the opportunity to hack into his mother's cell phone, only to find all the videos of him stored within. Every video of him—from when he was a child until he became a young adult—was in there. None of them had ever been deleted.

And every night, before going to bed, she would watch the videos of him over and over again.

Justin had been thirteen years old then.

Since then, he became certain that his mother was hiding something from him, and that she had her reasons and difficulties for doing so.

It could be said that he had never held any grudge towards his mother.

However, this did not mean that he was not angry about it.

He was indeed furious.

When he was young, he couldn't do anything. Thus, for his own good, his mother had kept those secrets from him. But even as he grew up, was his mother still unable to believe in him?

Besides...

It was undeniable that feelings and relationships were built and developed through daily contact and interaction with one another. The twenty-year-long separation had left him and Iris with nothing much to say to each other.

Thus, later on, he only occasionally visited her at the villa, and never without reason.

He was waiting.

He was waiting for his mother to take the initiative to tell him the truth. But judging from her behavior, was his mother planning to keep it from him for the rest of her life? Just because it would bring him trouble?

Justin lowered his head.

To be honest, there were times when he felt like giving up on the investigation.

So what even if he found out what had happened?

Since she hadn't been by his side as he grew up, why should he accompany her as she grew old...? Besides, sometimes habit really was something awfully scary—he had already grown used to not having her at home.

If there came a day where he suddenly found himself with a mother nagging at him, he might not be able to get used to it either.

Yet when he heard from Sean that she had cried, his heart softened again.

No matter what, they were still mother and son. Even if he was indifferent by nature, and even if he might only care about a few people; the woman was still among the few he cared about.

Moreover—and also the main reason—Nora seemed to share a very good relationship with her.

Upstairs.

Nora entered the room to see Cherry pulling a long face. Although she was sitting on the sofa and playing games, she was not happy.

Pete glanced at her. "What's the matter? Is something troubling you?"

Cherry killed an enemy in the game and then looked up at him. "Is it that obvious that I'm upset?"

"... You didn't rant at anyone while playing your game today," replied Pete with the corners of his lips spasming. The little girl was pretty much just short of blatantly writing the words "I'm unhappy" on her face.

Even Princess Lucy asked, "Cherry, what's wrong? Did someone bully you? I'll get the bodyguards to beat them up!"

As she spoke, she even waved her tiny little fists. She looked just like a Barbie doll.