That woman had an indignant expression on her face. "I am saying that you're an old man dating young girls! No matter how you look at it, you seemed to be in your thirties! This is called cheating. Do you know that?"
"What...what are you talking about? Do we know each other?" Zayn stuttered.
At that moment, he did see the woman’s appearance clearly. The woman had a bit of grey hair and she seemed like she was not that young anymore. Her features were decent and there was a deep vertical line in between her eyebrows as if she had many dreadfully worrisome matters. The woman looked like a homeless person from afar, but she did not give off a n unkempt feeling to others upon seeing her up close. On the contrary, she was very clean and tidy.
However, her clothes were discolored all over from being washed too many times, and there were also torn places on her sleeve and hem of the shirt. Such a person did not look like an unreasonable woman. She was more like...a fallen princess.
"Ma'am, I...I like you very much. Could you not be this fierce?" Aino was frightened that she hid behind her uncle.
Once the woman glanced at Aino, she became even angrier. "You...even have such a big daughter already? You...Immediately leave my-”
The woman's phone in her pocket rang suddenly as was speaking halfway. She then answered it in a hurry. "I..."
Zayn and Aino could not hear what the person on the other end of the call was saying. The woman suddenly ran away in a panic.
Zayn was bewildered. "Hey, you haven't made yourself clear yet. How could you just leave? What's the matter with you?"
Aino, on the other hand, said to Zayn with certainty," Uncle Zayn, you will still meet her again next time."
"How would you know that I will still be able to meet her the next time? What's going on?" Zayn asked.
“Mm-hmm, I had been coming to my father's company to play a few times these few days. I have seen this woman nearby a few times. Therefore, I know that you might still be able to meet her the next time you come here. You can ask for her number then and buy her a meal. Oh, right, Uncle Zayne. You have to explain to her that I am not your daughter, and tell her there's no need to be afraid."
Aino had already firmly maintained that this woman was to be her uncle’s girlfriend, but Zayn was filled with questions. Who was this woman? She clearly knew him, but they have never met before. She even accused him of being an old man dating young girls. What does that mean? She meant that he was a very old man who had gotten a very young girlfriend, right?
Him and Tessa? Zayn suddenly realized something. Could this woman be Tessa's mother?
When he thought about it carefully, the woman looked like she was forty years old and was down-and-out. That was very similar to the Hana Sharpe that Tessa had described.
With a head full of doubts, Zayn carried Aino and went back upstairs again. He sent Aino to Sebastian's office. After he briefly spoke to Sebastian, he turned around and went to find Tessa. However, Zayn found out that Tessa was not in the office. He asked her colleagues, and they said Tessa had gone to the toilet. She had been gone for a while, so she could possibly b e doing a number two. That was why she had to be there for a longer time.
Had she gone to the toilet for such a long time?
Zayn immediately realized that the person who called that woman earlier must have been Tessa. He guessed that Tessa was crying in the toilet.
This woman! She actually came to Tessa's company to harass her!
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