Unfinished Business with You novel

Chapter 825

'Sure!' Jewel signed with her hands.

After Eugene left, Olivia wrote a prescription and asked Sophia to procure the medication. At the same time, Olivia stared at Jewel. "Out with it. What happened?"

Jewel didn't imagine that Olivia could figure out that she had lied, and she took a while to pacify her emotions before whisking out her phone and typing, 'Alex's mom came to meet me today and told me to have some self-awareness. She said I couldn't be of any help in the company and forbade us from dating, so I should stay away from her son. Not only that, she even didn't allow me to talk and called me shameless for clinging on to her son. God, I was furious! She's bullying me because I can't talk!'

Olivia's face turned solemn. "Why did she say those things about you?"

Jewel shook her head in response. 'I don't know. She called me out of the blue and even told me to come up with an excuse to leave Alex.'

Olivia could feel her fury rising after listening to Jewel's account. She can't even imagine herself in Jewel's shoes, especially when Jewel couldn't speak up for herself at that time. "Didn't you argue with her? Tell her to ask her son who's the one doing all the pestering!"

'I called her hateful and said that Alex will be a bachelor sooner or later because of having a mother like her. Then, she wanted to slap me,' Jewel typed.

listen without defending yourself. So, what if she's an elder? An elder should act like one and not throw their weight around just

that it's utterly twisted for her to revolve around her son

accurate conclusion," Olivia

you have a kind mother-in-law,'

kind too," Olivia said, and they giggled.

she takes me as a woman coveting her son again? I don't want someone to lash out at me while pointing at

but note with concern, "But Alex may not let you

go? His injuries have healed and I've cared for him long enough. I don't owe him anything anymore, and I even gave up the salary that I was owed. Whatever it is, I'm not going back there. Aren't you going to start filming in a

by her suggestion. "Eugene doesn't have to get me a bodyguard, then. With both of us combined,

do you need a bodyguard?'

to my studio today?" Olivia asked.

a word and voiced her concerns, "Why did