Chapter 111

I’m not even sure we’re dating.”

“Then what are you both doing? Sleeping around? Fucking? What new term do you youngsters call it these days?!”

“Mum, be subtle,” Jennie whispered with a snap. She looked around the room before giving a silent prayer of thanks to God for not letting anyone hear their conversations. “These things I’m sure take time. He might have his reasons.”

“Sure he does,” the woman laughed mockingly. “A random stranger he doesn’t know can stay at his place but a woman who has been by his side as a friend and a lover cannot. I can see his reasons even more clearly now.”

“You can?”

“Of course I can. You’re his whore,” the woman heaved, settling deeper into the couch. “You are at his beck and call. When he needed you to go to that gathering with him, you were there.”

“Mum…”

“Let me finish,” she said, raising her hand up. “When he needed someone to talk to, you were there. Now all you’re asking for is to see where he lives and be his girlfriend and he hasn’t agreed.”

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