Chapter 32 There's a Pretty Boy Close By
Sydney took a deep breath when she looked at the brat's bruised face. After that, she stopped wasting her breath on him and pulled open the car door.
Jayden did not think of himself as an outsider at all and placed his grubby hands everywhere, touching everything he could see.
Sydney's car was a standard model, but Jayden was tall, so he had to cramp his legs under the seat. He even thought that it was a problem with the car." What kind of sh*tty car is this? My legs can't even fit! Hey, don't you know how to ask my brother for a car when you divorced him?"
"If you don't like it, then get out," Sydney spoke bluntly, not wanting to indulge the guy at all. "Go sit in your brother's luxury car!"
Jayden was speechless.
The car soon arrived at Shallow Bay's underground garage.
As soon as Sydney got out of the car, Jayden pushed the door open and followed at her heels. "I heard the housing price here isn't cheap. Did you sell the Azure Heart and use the money to buy this house? "Did my brother really not give you a single penny when you divorced him?
"Hey, are you stupid? No one would talk behind your back if you asked my brother for some money!"
Sydney ignored him and regarded him like he was invisible. When she reached her floor, she pressed her fingerprint on the lock and entered.
Fortunately, Jayden slipped in quickly, or he would have been shut outside.
He went ashen with anger and was just about to scold Sydney. However, upon recalling that he needed a place to stay the night, he merely scoffed and did not bicker with her.
Seeing that Sydney was walking toward the island, Jayden shouted at her, "I want to eat marinara pasta! Two bowls!"
Although he did not like Sydney, she was a good cook and made food to his liking.
In the past, when Sydney was still with the Flint family, his lunch was always prepared by her. After she left, Velma hired another chef who claimed to be from a five-star hotel, but his food was not good at all and not as good as Sydney's.
"Plain pasta. Take it or leave it!" Sydney did not even turn around as she said coldly, "The medical kit is in the second compartment of the locker. You can get it yourself."
UH
What was going on? Why did the woman feel like a different person after divorcing his brother?
Jayden cursed at Sydney in his heart and reluctantly went to the locker to get the medical kit, in which he found the medicinal spray and sprayed it on the wound on his face.
When he saw that Sydney was still fixing dinner, he wandered around and found that one of the guest bedrooms was empty. The master bedroom only had Sydney's clothes and cosmetics, and he could not find any traces of other men.
Did that pretty boy Layden Lowe not live here?
Jayden went to the desk next to the floor-to-ceiling window and saw a laptop, paper and pencil, and an old metal box with its lid half-open. Then, he glanced at the door before sneakily opening the tin box. The metal box was filled with envelopes that were already yellowed.
Jayden could not hold back his curiosity, so he picked up a letter and opened it. After reading it, he found that it was a correspondence between Sydney and a pen pal named 'Buddy'. She shared interesting things that happened in her life and even asked how his grandmother's health was.
After looking at the date at the bottom of the letterhead, Jayden scoffed in contempt. "Hah, that damned woman didn't focus on her studies and had an online relationship instead. How did she not get cheated?"
He wondered how Sydney's personality changed so much after she divorced his brother. It turns out that she was always like that!
"Jayden Flint." Sydney's impatient voice came outside the bedroom. "I'll give you ten seconds. If you don't come down and eat the pasta, I'm tossing it in the trash!"
F*ck, how dare that woman threaten him?
Jayden was furious. He stuffed the letter into his school uniform pocket and muttered to himself, 'I'm going to take this back and show it to Julien. I'll tell him that Sydney used to have an online relationship when she was still in school!'
As soon as Jayden got to the kitchen, he saw a bowl of marinara pasta on the table. Thinking that Sydney was at least somewhat sensible, he sat down and ate the noodles.
Since Sydney did not have much of an appetite, she just made herself a cup of milk tea.
She came back to the sight of Jayden devouring her cooking as if he had starved for days and reminded him, "Slow down and don't choke. I won't be able to sell this house in the future if someone dies here." Jayden choked even more on Sydney's words and glared furiously at her. However, he ate slower.
Sydney sat down opposite him. "Why did you pick a fight with them?"
"That's none of your business!" "That's true." Sydney tapped her fingers on the table and smiled. "I should just call your brother over."
Jayden's eyebrows furrowed at her words. After a while, he said reluctantly, "There's a female classmate in my class whom they often bully. They even cut her hair. I couldn't stand watching, so I beat them up..."
An off-duty offer just so happened to pass by when they were fighting, and then they were all dragged into the station.
"I couldn't tell, but you're quite courageous," Sydney said.
Due to Jayden's bad attitude, he always liked to target her when she was still with the Flint family. Hence, she always turned a deaf ear to his affairs and asked Julien to handle them. Jayden bristled. "I just don't like seeing guys ganging up on a girl to bully her."
After that, pushed the empty bowl to Sydney. "I want more!"
"The noodles are in the pot, and the sauce is in a small bowl. Get it yourself." Sydney pointed at the island, not spoiling him like a child. "Wash the dishes after you're done eating." Jayden's eyes widened in disbelief. "You're making me wash the dishes?"
"You're the one eating. Am I supposed to wash them for you?" Sydney retorted. "Sure, then I'll get rid of the extra noodles and wash the dishes right now."
Seeing that she was about to stand up, Julien hurriedly took his bowl to the island, afraid that she would dump the pasta in the trash for real.
Jayden came back with the bowl and asked while eating, "I wanted to ask this earlier, but isn't that pretty boy living with you?"
"Which one?"
"Layden Lowe!" Jayden rolled his eyes and slurred his words. "I just went up to your room and checked. There are no male clothes."
Sydney was very annoyed to know that he snooped into someone else's privacy when he was a guest.
She rested her cheek on her palm and looked at the kid with a grin on her red lips. "Layden isn't here, but there's another pretty boy close by." Another pretty boy close by?
Jayden was stunned. However, when he saw Sydney staring straight at him, he quickly understood what she meant and choked on the pasta again.
"You're so shameless!" Jayden snapped at her, his face flushed in anger. "I'm only 16. I'm your ex-husband's younger brother! D-Don't you dare have any funny thoughts!"
Sydney asked lazily, "I thought you saw me as the type of woman to flirt with every man I see?
Jayden was choked speechless.
After finishing the pasta, Jayden reluctantly went to wash the dishes.
In his 16 years of life, he had never even entered a kitchen before, much less washed the dishes.
However, not only did he enter the kitchen today, but he also had to wash dishes for that woman!
Jayden pulled a long face as he worked. As soon as he wiped his hands dry, Sydney picked up the school bag on the sofa and threw it at him. "Now that you're done eating, go hail a cab back home." Jayden gnashed his teeth. "I'll sleep on the couch. Happy?"
"No, go back." Sydney refused and pushed him out the door.
Velma valued Jayden more than her own life. If she found out that Jayden was staying here, she would definitely think that Sydney was up to something and come over in the middle of the night to kick up a fuss.