Filed to story: Dumped by Scumbag Adored by Billionaire
“Do I need a reason to like someone?” he asked her, causing her heart to skip a beat the second time.
A blush crept up Ailee’s face. God, why was she being this way?
“Well….” she didn’t know what to say.
“Have dinner with him,” he helped her out with a response.
“Huh?” Ailee felt everything was suddenly going too fast.
“I’m not asking you to date me immediately but conversation over dinner would be a good way to get to know me more. Don’t you think so?”
Ailee pulsed her lips, thinking over it. The truth is that she was enthusiastic to speak spend time with him but she had to be reserved. Her mother often told her that it was much better a man had more feelings for the woman he likes than a woman having more feelings for the man – Men often take such privilege for granted.
“Sure,” She said and received one of his spellbinding smiles as usual. Ailee couldn’t wait for the evening to come.
On the other hand, Neon went outside to answer that woman who hasn’t stopped hassling him for the past few days.
Thanks to her constant texting him, he has become anxious and paranoid that he often deleted her messages as soon as he read them. With Ailee on his tail, he wouldn’t leave any evidence he could use to set him up. But now, he couldn’t take it anymore, so he called her for the first time.
“What do you want from me, Jennifer?”
The third point of view:
“What do you want from me, Jennifer?” Neon asked her as soon as she answered the call.
“How funny,” She said and Neon didn’t know how to feel upon hearing her first voice for the first time after so many years.
Neon tried to conjure what she looked like but the details were quite vague. The result was quite funny judging from the fact she had never once escaped his memory, yet, he couldn’t even remember a detailed profile of what she looked like previously. The memories with her were also distant and blurry as if they were slowly slipping from his memory.
It made him realize that he had taken the Sparkss as a family and they were the ones who filled in the parental care he was missing. He could never forget the day Isabella and Pedro saved him from the claws of his mother after she lost it.
Although, there came a time when he had grown up that he resented Niles. Neon had blamed Niles for whatever happened to her mother, Jennifer, thinking his mother became that way because he broke off their engagement to be with Reina.
However, that was until he read the doctor’s diagnosis on his mother. Jennifer’s mental health disorder did not begin when Niles broke off the engagement rather when her husband died. She didn’t have a family member who could help her?through her
Mania and hypomania episode.
She became better when Niles took her in or rather the symptoms were subtle or just maybe, none of them were attentive enough to notice the changes. It wasn’t until Rein threatened the so thought safe haven his mother thought she had created and then the symptoms flared up. She attempted murder.
“Up to ten years ago, you called me mother,” Jennifer pointed out bitterly.
“That was until I realized you don’t deserve the title,” Neon retorted with no remorse in his heart. He couldn’t forget the abuse he went through as a kid in her hand.
“We should meet,” Jennifer said, evading that very topic.
“Who let you out of the mental asylum?” Neon asked instead, causing the woman to get annoyed.
“Were you hoping that I rot in there?”
“I wasn’t just hoping so,” Neon said to her, “I was praying so. Please, my life’s getting better, don’t come and ruin it,”
“You only think the worse of me, don’t you?”
“The fact that you escaped the hospital only means that you’re up to no good. Unlike the others, I know you well enough to know that you don’t give up on what you want,”
“Really?” She was amused.
“Wasn’t that why you kept pushing me beyond my limit when I was young to keep up with Niles’s expectation?”
“At least you know now that everything I did was for your own good,” Jennifer claimed.
“No,” Neon refuted, “It was for your own selfish gain and I was nothing but your pawn. But you know what?” he laughed sarcastically, “All those expectations you wanted from me, I’ve met them now. I’m smarter, and better now, and it wasn’t because of you. I did it for myself because I deserved it!”
“Good for you then, it makes everything easy,” she said to his confusion.
“Everything easy?” Neon’s brows furrowed, trying to understand what his mother was up to.
“I’m back now to take what Niles owes me and that includes you,”
Neon gritted his teeth, “I told you not to cause any trouble!”
“Sorry but you’re my son and don’t get to command me,”
“I’ll stop you then, none of your plans would work. As soon as Niles gets wind of your disappearance, he would hunt you down and send you to where you belong,”
“Ooh, I’m scared,” Jennifer mocked before releasing a villainous guffaw, “Sure, go on ahead. Tell him! Once he’s informed, I’m sure he would understand why I’m back and we would then see who would get laid off first, me or you to protect his children?”
At once, Neon’s blood ran cold as he realized his mother’s word was true. Once Reina and Niles hears of his mother’s re-emergence, they would have to let him go for the safety of their family,”
He can’t let them know yet, at least, until he figures out his mother’s plans and stops her.
“Go to hell,” Was all he said and hung up on her.
Neon didn’t go inside immediately, rather he stayed outside and collected his thoughts. After making sure his emotions was well controlled, Neon placed a smile on his face and went back to the hallway where he was sure to find Ailee with….
What in the name of God was that asshole doing here? Neon’s face distorted at once as soon as he laid his eyes on Theodore. He prayed to God that he wasn’t trying anything funny with Ailee else….
“Neon!” He was roused from his thought when Ailee called his name and waved him over.
“You know him already, right?” She said to Theodore and gestured to him, “Yeah, I know,”