One year, one love by Aurora Miller

Chapter 120

Claudia shut the door without offering them a greeting and headed straight to the bedroom.

She immediately called Rupert, her voice filled with irritation. “Rupert, where the hell are you?”

“I’m almost home,” he replied, instantly picking up on her bad mood. “What’s wrong?”

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“What’s wrong? Are you trying to piss me off?” She paced the room. “What’s with your parents? They just showed up out of nowhere. Did you keep this from me on purpose?”

“Wait… my parents are at our place? I had no idea!” Rupert was completely caught off guard. He sped up. “Babe, don’t be mad. I’ll be home soon. Let me handle it.”

“If you don’t handle this properly, I’m done.” She hung up and angrily threw her phone onto the bed.

Sure enough, Rupert arrived home shortly after.

The moment he walked in, he saw Jimmy and Peyton sitting on the living room couch.

He quickly changed his shoes and went over to them. “Dad, Mom… what are you doing here?”

Jimmy’s face was as dark as a storm cloud. “You said you’d bring us over the next day. But what happened? You kept putting it off. A whole week passed, and you didn’t do a thing.

“We saw how busy you were, so we had no choice but to come ourselves. I wanted to see for myself if we really weren’t welcome in this house.”

Rupert knew he was in the wrong and didn’t even dare meet his father’s gaze. “Dad, you could’ve at least called me first.”

“If I had called, you would’ve just found a way to stop us from coming.” Jimmy had already figured out his son’s thoughts.

“Rupert, we borrowed a million dollars to buy you this house. And to pay it back, we even sold our own home.

“We have nowhere else to go. Is it so wrong for us to want to live with our own son? We’ve spoiled you since you were little, far more than your two sisters. All we ask is that you take care of us in return.

“If you can’t even do that, then you don’t deserve to be our son. Ever since you got together with her, we’ve treated her so well–does she not see that?

spend a single cent on this house, so what right does

thought about being blocked at the door, the angrier

to bother you. As parents, we’ve done so much for you two. As our children, don’t you think it’s time you considered us too?

a whole week without even checking in on us. Do

up, finally scolded Rupert. “Rupert, can you really bear to see us out

and I’ll take care of you when you’re older. But this has nothing to do with

forget about

you try to kick us out, I’ll call your second sister and her husband. Think about how

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in the first

felt even more helpless. He had no choice but to keep quiet. This job had been hard to get, and he

so worked up. Here, have some water.” Rupert poured a glass for both Jimmy and Peyton. “Just sit down. I’ll go check on Claudia.” With

crucial moment, Jimmy felt bitter inside. “Peyton, what was the point of raising

let out a sigh.

soon as Rupert stepped into the master bedroom, a pillow came flying at him.

over. “Come on, don’t be mad. You’ll get

change the subject,” Claudia snapped, her expression serious. “Hurry

parents. They’ve already come all this way. How could I, as their son, just throw them out?”

then I’ll leave instead,” Claudia

to the closet and pulled

this, Rupert quickly stepped in to stop her. “Claudia, just give me some time. I’ll find them a nice place to

even for a second, especially your dad,” Claudia said with clear

all this, weren’t

you wouldn’t have had to do

to soothe her. “Claudia, can’t you just try

going to understand me?” Claudia wasn’t letting it go. “We agreed they wouldn’t live

that promise. And now I’m the one

but

to do?” Rupert asked, looking frustrated.

leave, or I do.” Claudia