The Princess and the Pauper (Arabella and Romeo) novel Chapter 1419

"Mom, what are you doing here?" Diana burst through the door, her anger simmering, but upon seeing her mother, she toned it down a notch, "Are you looking for Martin?"

"Oh, you needed him for something?" Florence, taken aback, confessed, "The staff downstairs said he dashed out, in a hurry, no clue when he'll be back. What do you need him for?"

"Mom." Diana hesitated, biting her lip. She really couldn't stand Serena. Just earlier, her bestie texted her, saying she bumped into Serena out shopping yesterday, flaunting Martin's platinum card, splurging hundreds of thousands like it was nothing.

She was livid, ready to give her brother a piece of her mind.

But she hadn't expected to run into her mother here.

"Diana, has your brother got himself a girlfriend? Were you aware of this?" Surprisingly, Florence was the first to ask.

Diana was caught off guard, "Did he tell you? Or did you find out yourself?"

"I was out shopping yesterday." Florence recounted the previous day's events.

Diana hadn't expected Serena to be so rude, running down the QY brand, insulting the sales staff, indirectly mocking her mother, and snatching away the items her mother had her eye on with Martin's credit card.

"Mom, I can't keep this to myself any longer." Diana came clean about what had happened on Rodeo Drive, including Serena's antics at the botanical garden, and her insistence on a private viewing at the Tower.

Florence was shocked to learn that the reason her son messaged his father about the private event was for a woman.

It was so out of character for her son.

After all, when he started his business, no matter how tough or difficult things got, he never once asked for help.