The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife novel Chapter 382

Susan answered the phone without looking at the screen. "Hello?"

She had no idea who could be calling her in the middle of the night.

"Who is it?" Julian asked.

"Don’t know. There is no voice coming from the other end of the line," Susan mumbled, pulling the phone away from her ear to take a look at the screen. Then, her expression changed. 2

Upon noticing the change in her expression, Julian craned his neck over to peer at her phone. Then, he could not help narrowing his eyes.

Susan took a deep breath and said, "Is something wrong, mom?"

The person who had called her in the middle of the night was none other than Madam Shaw.

On the other side of the line, Madam Shaw squinted and said coldly, "I thought you had forgotten that I'm your mother-in-law. I assume that you have landed in Canada, so why didn't you come and visit me?" 1

Susan's face turned ugly when she heard Madam Shaw's accusative remarks.

Frowning, Julian grabbed the phone away. Just as he was about to end the call, Susan went forward and stopped him. She signaled that she could take care of i t herself and took the phone back.

"What’s the matter? Cat got your tongue?" Madam Shaw's voice wafted over from the other end of the line again, sounding irritated. "Besides, what happened to Julian? I saw on the news that he was caught too and you've just been rescued."

She was pissed. When she had gone out today, other people had told her that Susan and Julian had been rescued and were on their way back to Canada.

What the hell was this?

She was Julian's mother, yet not only had she not known that Julian had been held hostage, but she had also been the last one to know that he had returned to Canada.

She seldom surfed the net, and if no one else had told her about that, she would have still been kept in the dark.

Madam Shaw thought that perhaps Julian had not wanted her to worry about him, so he had not told her anything. Initially, she had reckoned that Julian would give her a call since he had returned to Canada. Unfortunately, she had waited until midnight yet Julian still had not called her.

Eventually, unable to hold herself back anymore, she had tried to call Julian. However, something had crossed her mind and compelled her to punch in Susan's phone number in the end.

She knew her son inside out, so she knew how stubborn he was. After Chessie's incident, Julian had mentioned that he did not want to see her anymore and he indeed had been ignoring her ever since.

Subconsciously, she thought Susan was a softie.

Susan did not say anything and waited until Madam Shaw finished her tirade. After a long while, she responded calmly, "Are you done yet?"

Madam Shaw was even more enraged by her pacifism. She thus snarled, "Is that how you speak to your elders?"

"So you do know that you're an elder?" Susan's chest heaved up and down. "Why didn't you think about that when you took Chessie to do the DNA test?"

Susan could not help clenching her fist tight.

She could not forgive Madam Shaw no matter what. If she had been the only one hurt, she could have let it g o for Julian's sake. However, that was not the case. Chessie was still a baby, and she was innocent. She had not done anything wrong, so she did not deserve any of Madam Shaw’s baseless and malicious speculations or everything that had happened to her. I t was fortunate that she had come out unscathed after being abducted by a man like Joseph, but that was not an excuse for Madam Shaw to have everything her way.

Madam Shaw, who had not expected Susan to fight back, choked for a moment. She soon flew into a shameful fit of rage and snapped, "I didn’t think you could be such a petty woman. It's not a big deal, why can't you just let it go?"