Grandma May came out of the room and instructed her daughter-in-law as she walked outside.
Tania agreed and instructed the maid accordingly.
When the two women arrived at the pool, Zack was still swimming around in the water like a fish.
“Zack York,” Grandma May shouted angrily.
Zack glanced at his nana before swimming to the edge of the pool. Then, he climbed up and sat there.
Grandma May walked around the pool and went to him, saying in distress, “What are you still doing sitting here? Hurry back into the house.”
“I want to relax and calm down, Nana.”
Grandma May scolded him. “If you want to calm down, you can lock yourself in your room. I can assure you that no one will bother you. Why do you need to jump into the pool to do so?”
“It’s quite effective.”
Zack added indifferently, “The cold water cleared my mind and calmed my irritability.”
He was telling the truth.
Grandma May was speechless. “Since you’ve calmed down, put on your clothes and go inside. You’ll catch a cold if you sit here for a long time.”
Zack pursed his lips.
Tania brought his jacket and draped it over him, saying, “If you catch a cold, I’ll go to Serena to settle accounts with her. She caused you to catch a cold.”
“Mom, you won’t do such an unreasonable thing, right?”
Zack was not worried that his mother would go to Serena. His mother was just harsh on the mouth because she could not do something that unreasonable.
Tania choked and said, “A mother will do anything for her child.”
Grandma May added, “Zack, go back to the house and change. I want to talk to you.”
Zack looked up at his nana and said sarcastically, “I thought you would be sick for a long time before getting out of bed.”
When he came back and did not see his nana, he figured that she was hiding. Her usual tactic was to pretend to be sick.
Grandma May had a thick face and was not offended by her grandson’s sarcasm. She said, “I’m old but strong. I won’t get sick easily.
“Hurry and get up. Go back to the house to change your clothes.”
She lightly kicked Zack and said, “I’ll wait for you in the pavilion. I got someone to cook ginger soup for you, so come out after you finish the soup.”
Then, she turned and walked away.
Tania advised, “Zack, go change your clothes or you’ll really catch a cold. You don’t want to get another jab, do you?”
Zack said bitterly, “Mom, the person who forced me to get injections isn’t by my side anymore.”
Tania’s heart sank, and she said heavily, “Zack, it’s normal for Serena to be angry after finding out the truth. Just give her a few days to calm down. It’ll be fine.”
“My deception made her lose all her trust in me. I don’t know how long it’ll take for her to trust me again.”
Zack thought about how he called out to Serena before coming here. Just by calling her name, she was so frightened she wanted to run away. Zack’s heart clenched in pain.
Tania sighed. “You’re still young and have your whole life ahead of you. As long as you don’t give up, so what if it takes more time? You have a lifetime to spend.”
Yes, they had a lifetime ahead of them.
Zack was silent for a long time. With his mother’s repeated urging, he finally got up and went back into the house to change his clothes.
After changing his clothes, Zack drank the bowl of ginger soup under his mother’s gaze. He frowned because the soup was way too spicy.
“Mom, why is there so much ginger? It’s so spicy.”
“Your Nana asked them to add more ginger. If you don’t like ginger soup, then don’t do such stupid things again in the future.”
Zack put down the bowl. “I really was just trying to calm down. I wasn’t trying to do anything stupid.”
“Yes, yes, if you say so. Are you calm now? Go talk to Nana. She’s the one who started it. You wouldn’t have ended up like this if not for her.”
Tania was somewhat resentful of her mother-in-law.
Her son was such an excellent man. It was not like he could not find a wife, but the old woman insisted on him marrying her savior.
At first, they were all grateful to Serena and wanted to thank her, but Serena refused.
Later, Serena and Grandma May got along well, and Serena won the old lady’s favor. Tania secretly wondered if Serena refused their large sum of money because she knew of Grandma May’s identity and wanted more.
Her husband had said, “Let’s wait and see.”
As they watched, Serena eventually became their daughter-in-law.
Serena was in the dark about Grandma May’s identity and she did not know that Zack was the CEO of York Corporation when she married him. If not for these facts that Tania only found out afterward, she would have thought Serena was a scheming woman.
Then, she found out that the couple treated each other like ice. They lived in the same house but rarely communicated and even slept in separate rooms. Her son also told Serena to sign a contract.
Tania had no idea about the content of the contract.
However, she believed her son would not put himself at a disadvantage. The contract must have been more restrictive on Serena’s part.
Alas, at some point, the feelings between the young couple gradually warmed up.
Tania admitted that she had been waiting for the couple to divorce. She had always felt that Serena was not worthy of her eldest son.
She could not care if it was her second son. She would be able to accept it no matter who the woman was as long as her son liked the woman.
However, it was different for her eldest son. Zack was the successor of the family. As the head of the family, how could he have a wife who was an orphan and had a bunch of horrible relatives? No matter how independent Serena was, unless she could rely on her own skills to marry into a wealthy family like Audrey did, not everyone would be able to accept her.
Otherwise, the pressure on Serena would be too heavy.
There were nine sons in Zack’s generation, and it was impossible for all of them to marry a woman with no reputable family background like Zack did.
In the future, Serena’s sisters-in-law would be from rich families. How would Serena, as the eldest, prove her worth?
Tania felt that Grandma May did not consider that for Serena. The old woman liked Serena, so she forced her grandson to marry Serena. She did not think about what Serena would face in the future.
Zack was silent for a moment before saying, “Mom, Serena and I are fated. If we weren’t, we wouldn’t have developed feelings for each other even if Nana wanted me to repay her.”
It was said that fate brings people together no matter how far apart they may be.
Zack believed in fate.
There were many people in this world who were not meant to be and could not become a couple even after knowing each other for a lifetime.
That was why Serena and he were linked by the red thread of fate.
“I don’t regret marrying Serena either. I just feel like I let her down. When she married me, I didn’t give her a betrothal gift or host a wedding ceremony for her. I only made up for our wedding ring afterward. She has suffered a lot because of me.”
If it were an ordinary person signing that agreement at the beginning, they would have felt extremely aggrieved.
However, Serena signed it and kept to the contract.
Instead, it was he who failed to do so.
He asked her not to fall in love with him in the contract, saying that he could not reciprocate her feelings.
In the end, it was he who begged her to love him…
Tania thought about how most people only married once in their lives. Serena married her son, but she did not get anything. It was not strange for her to feel wronged.
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