“Zack, are you a liar?” Serena asked Zack.
Zack just looked at her and did not answer her question.
“Zack, are you really a liar?” Serena raised her voice this time.
Then, she woke up.
Even after waking up, Serena was still dazed. After a long moment, she came to her senses and muttered, “So, it was a dream… What did I dream of?”
Turning her head to the side, she noticed the man who had painstakingly lulled her to sleep was no longer there.
“I knew he was up to something, trying to get me to sleep early. No wonder I had a nightmare like that.”
Serena picked up her phone to check the time and then proceeded to go back to sleep.
This time, she did not dream again and slept soundly.
Meanwhile, at Wiltspoon Hotel, Mr. Lowe sat in the lobby on the first floor, waiting for Zack’s arrival.
He had suddenly received Josh’s call earlier, notifying him that Zack was willing to squeeze a little time out to meet him and telling him to wait at the Wiltspoon Hotel for Zack.
Mr. Lowe hurried over right after.
Even after waiting at the Wiltspoon Hotel for two whole hours and still no sight of Zack, he did not dare to even feel a lick of impatience and stayed seated on the sofa, waiting obediently.
He was accompanied by his wife.
From time to time, Mrs. Lowe would look at the time, get up, and walk outside the hotel to look for Zack’s luxury car parade. Not seeing it, she would return to sit back down beside her husband.
“Darling, do you think Mr. York would actually come over?”
“Mr. Bucham was the one who told me, so it has to be true. Mr. York is very much a man of his word. He said he would meet me here, so he definitely will come. Let’s just keep waiting. If Mr. York changed his mind at the last minute, he would inform
He wouldn’t let us wait here the whole night for nothing.”
Although York Corporation was a threat to his company at this moment, Mr. Lowe still trusted Zack’s character.
Mrs. Lowe said anxiously, “We don’t even know how we managed to offend Mr. York in the course of our business. I still remember the last time Mr. York appeared at that dinner and even greeted Shawn. It’s only been two or three months since then but York Corporation has stopped all cooperation with us and even started stealing our business.
“Darling, do you think someone might have turned them against us?”
Mrs. Lowe could not, for the life of her, think of anything they had done that might have offended Mr. York.
Mrs. Lowe was silent for a long moment before saying, “I’ve also tried asking about it. No one’s tried to sow discord between us. We must have unintentionally offended Mr. York somehow.”
“How is that possible? The chances we have to see Mr. York are few and far between. Even when we get to see him, we don’t get to show our faces before him. Even if we wanted to offend him, we don’t even have the chance to.”
Mrs. Lowe still felt that someone must have slandered them in front of Mr. York, resulting in the collapse of their business relationship with York Corporation.
“Could Shawn have done something?”
Mr. Lowe thought of his son.
Following that, he started to complain, “I don’t know what’s gotten into Shawn lately. He’s always absent–minded and doesn’t do things as seriously as before. He keeps making mistakes and the upper–level management of the company is growing dissatisfied with him. I’ve talked to him so many times but he still refuses to change. If this goes on, he might not be able to take over successfully. He’s not the only outstanding son in the Lowe family.”
It was just that Mr. Lowe was currently the head of Lowe Enterprise, and Shawn was his son, so everyone automatically assumed–Shawn would be the heir to the company. Though if Shawn was not qualified, it would not matter that he was Mr. Lowe’s son. What everyone kept in mind was the future of Lowe Enterprise, not family bonds.
Mrs. Lowe’s expression turned ugly, and said, “Right now, he really… I did that fully believing he would give up. I didn’t expect he would turn into pretty much a zombie and handle things carelessly. He doesn’t even talk to me when he gets home as if I’m his enemy when I’m his mother!”
Mrs. Lowe felt incredibly pained to see her son so lovelorn.
Despite this, she continued to forcibly control him in order to stop her son from further bothering Serena.
Her son might be in a lot of pain now, but with the passing of time, he would walk out of the darkness and stop seeking pain.
Time was the best medicine that healed all emotional wounds.
“What on earth happened?”
Mr. Lowe was normally busy due to his work and so he did not know about his son liking Serena.
Mrs. Lowe had thought she alone could control her son and make her son give up thoroughly, so she had not told her husband about this.
Mrs. Lowe sighed and said, “Your son has someone he likes now.”
Mr. Lowe said, uncomprehendingly, “He’s an adult now. Isn’t that normal? Other kids started having crushes on people in their teens but there has never been such news on his end. I was even starting to worry he wasn’t normal. Who does he like? Is the girl’s family background not good? You wouldn’t be objecting to it otherwise:”
What Mrs. Lowe just said indicated to Mr. Lowe that his wife was not happy with his son’s choice of a crush.
Mrs. Lowe once again sighed heavily. “You know the girl too. You’ve even known about her for more than a decade.”
“I know her and I’ve known about her for more than a decade? Shawn usually likes hanging out with Jasmine… That little rascal hasn’t fallen for his own cousin, has he? That scoundrel has wasted all his education! Close relatives can’t get married,” Mr. Lowe protested.
“Where has your mind gone to? Shawn doesn’t like Jasmine–the one he likes is her best friend, Serena Hunt.”
Mr. Lowe was stunned.
Mrs. Lowe continued, “Discarding the fact that Serena’s already married and has a husband, even if Serena was still single, they’re not suited for each other. Just look. at the status of us Lowes and look at Serena’s family background. Even if you take into account that Serena’s aunt is Mrs. Stone, they’re only aunt and niece. That doesn’t account for much.”
Mrs. Stone had her own daughter too.
“And anyway, Serena doesn’t like Shawn that way. She’s always thought of him as a little brother. After finding out he had feelings for her, she’s been very distant and aloof with him. It’s Shawn who can’t give up and keeps bothering her. I could only threaten him with utilizing our connections to make Serena and her sister leave Wiltspoon if he kept seeking her out.
“Only then did Shawn stop to look for Serena, but he’s still rebelling against me in his own way. I’m doing this for his own good! He could have fallen for anybody but he just had to fall for Serena. Isn’t he just making himself the homewrecker then? It’s not like the Lowes are so undesirable that he won’t be able to get a wife. Why does he need to be a homewrecker and try to take someone else’s wife?”
Mr. Lowe was at a loss for words.
It was at this moment that Zack entered, his bodyguards following behind him.
The husband and wife’s conversation halted.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowe stood up to greet Zack who was walking toward them in big strides.
Zack’s bodyguards followed closely behind.
As they watched Zack enter, Mr. and Mrs. Lowe once again sighed with amazement. Mr. York truly had the air of a sovereign.
Every time they saw him appear, it always seemed like a royal had arrived.
“Mr. York.”
The Lowes smiled.
Zack merely glanced at them and directly walked past them, only saying, “Follow me.”
Mr. and Mrs. Lowe agreed in unison and had no other thoughts at that moment. They silently followed Zack.
They could not walk behind him closely either and instead had to follow behind his troop of bodyguards.
Mrs. Lowe saw that Zack’s expression was flinty and felt that it meant nothing good.
It was terrifying. It really felt like they were about to die but had no clue how they would die.
Zack headed straight to his penthouse suite on the top floor of Wiltspoon Hotel.
After a couple of minutes, the Lowe couple knocked and entered under his bodyguards‘ lead.
Zack invited them to have a seat.
“Thank you, Mr. York.”
The pair of husband and wife thanked him. Only then did they dare to sit down opposite him.
After sitting down, they did not dare speak–mainly because they did not even know what they should say.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
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