Julian's Stand in Wife

He looked like a miser through and through.

Sue didn’t like him one bit.

“He is definitely not my ex-student!” she cried, aghast.

To make things clear, Sue called her ex-student to ask about his impression of Cecilia.

To her surprise…

“My apologies, Mrs. Chimmery. I didn’t manage to make it to the blind date because I was caught up with something. I’m still stuck in an academic conference right now. I wanted to call you after it ended, but I didn’t expect…”

Sue knew about the academic conference he was talking about. It was an international meeting that only people of relative academic accomplishments could attend.

No one could decide how long the meeting went on for. Everyone at the meeting worked in the same industry, and that was likely the reason that the meeting dragged on longer than expected.

“It’s not your fault,” Sue said understandingly. She didn’t tell him about Cecilia going for the blind date today, and hung up after some small talk.

Sue had always been magnanimous in most things, except when it concerned Noel.

of things and let her daughter choose her own

her mother had always been sensible and reasonable. Thus, she never suspected that Sue would

with that café? They have such good reviews, but they managed to mess up

Cecilia’s photo. He looked so petty,

expressed her

so too quick to judge!” she

clearly a perfect match. How could her mother judge him as being petty

of her hands. She dialed the number of the boss of the café,

I am Cecilia Jarvis’s mother. I’d like to ask, who exactly is my daughter’s blind date? He’s definitely

Cecilia was dumbfounded.

in any school, but she was highly respected in society because many

wasn’t a real teacher, she spoke with

interests, but she was a fully-grown adult. She had a

Sue. Otherwise, she would

either Sue or Cecilia, someone

had put her phone on loudspeaker mode. Cecilia could hear her mother’s