Rant at 2 A.M.

"What? That guy already told you to put your property and assets to under his name right after marriage? That was your first blind date! Knowing you, you would've flipped the table from the ridiculous conditions!" Selina took a bite out of the potato chip clipped between her thumb and index finger as she focused on listening to Jessica's blind date experiences.

After sharing what happened for the past months to Jessica, it lifted a huge weight off her shoulders. At first, Jessica really wanted to give Katrina a lesson. However, she couldn't do anything because Katrina was already dead. Hence, she could only swallow her anger and begin telling Selina about her blind date failures. The most recent man she was forced to meet was an extreme mommy's boy. No matter what topic he talked about, it would refer back to his mother.

Jessica crossed her legs when she heard Selina's inquiry. "Nope! I didn't do anything. I waited until his mother walked up to us and politely rejected her. At the end, I only spoke my mind and told the auntie that I felt like my blind date was with her. It felt more like I was meeting, speaking and marrying her. Therefore, I had no interest in such messed up relationships. I am also not the type of girl who would stay home, complete chores and wait for the husband to come home. It's the twenty-first century, not eighteenth."

Subconsciously, Jessica rubbed her kneecap as they continued catching up. Sometimes they'll laugh and other times their eyes would swell from trying to hold in their tears. It's been a while since they've seen each other and many things have happened.

Soon, Selina's eyelids began weighing down to cover up her eyes. Seeing her drowsiness kicking in, Jessica cleaned up the floor and dragged Selina to bed. Although Selina tried fighting by saying she wasn't tired, her random mumbled responses gave her away. Slowly, her breathing steadied and she fell into deep slumber.

On the other hand, Jessica was used to staying up late. After tucking Selina in bed, her cellphone screen lit up once again. Actually, she had noticed her mother's caller ID since the afternoon. Instead of picking up her call, she texted the housekeeper to ask if anything major or minor occurred in the household. As she had expected, her mother only called her to rant about how disrespectful she acted in front of her previous blind date partner.

Pursing her lips, she let out a huge puff of air. Her eyes rolled upwards and watched as her fringe waved in thin air before settling back on her forehead. As the brightness of her screen dimmed and flashed brightly into her eyes once again, she already knew this call was inevitable. Quietly, she stepped out of the room to answer the call.

As soon as she picked up, her mother's chicken scratch voice pierced her ears, making her pull the phone far away from her ear. While rubbing the other side of her ear, her mother's voice sounded loud and clear by the window.

"What kind of children did I raise? Your brother went off with a bodyguard slut! And you? You're here to spill all the rice I've ever spent on raising you!! Why did I give birth to such stone headed children? What was wrong with that young man? You only needed to marry him and be a housewife. You don't need to meet clients nor entertain anyone. How could you be so disrespectful? Now? Barely any mother and son pair would want to meet you anymore!"

While Jessica's mother continued rambling onwards about her disappointment in her and her brother, Selina woken from her sleep. Selina licked the corner of her lips, tasting the leftover saltiness from the snacks she ate before falling asleep. Pressing her top lip against her bottom lip, a frown appeared on her face.

She groaned as if the following task will be a difficult one to complete. "Arghhh, I need to brush my teeth. The after taste is too much. Why did I eat so many snacks? If only someone could brush my teeth in my place...eh...I do have someone. My darling is downstairs. He's too far, though..."

"Mm... Selina! You can't be this lazy!" She managed to reach out to her butt cheeks and slapped against her firm curve with her palm. When patting didn't work, she pinched it. Hissing from the sting she caused on herself, her eyes popped right open. "Nn....hurts...I'll go to brush my teeth...Huh? Where's Jess? Ehh, maybe she went downstairs for some water. I'll look for her after brushing my teeth."

Soon, the sound of running water could be heard in the restroom. Compared to the peacefulness from inside the room, Jessica's call session with her mother almost resulted in hearing impairment.

When Jessica stared at the duration of the call, she decided that being on the call for seven minutes was more than enough. She gave her mother thirty seconds more than the previous rant call from two weeks ago. Carefully placing the phone at a safe distance to her right ear, she interrupted her mother's irritated speech.

"That's a great story you just told me, mom. Is there more? It seems like being a housewife does give you a lot of free time, but I apologize because I don't have such spare time to listen to you. As the CEO of my own company, every second is money. If this is all you have to say, I can only reply with a simple sentence. Forget blind dates or I'll make everyone scram the second they hear my name." Jessica spoke coldly as she opened the window and stared down at the beautiful lit up path in the garden.

Slowly, she brought the phone farther away again and pretended she was losing signal in an elevator. "W..What? He-hell-hello? I- I can't hear you- Elevator sign-"

Beep

Her finger landed on the red button on the screen, hanging up the call. She set her phone on do not disturb mode and continued staring down at the swings in the garden. It only took one glance for her to tell how much time Selina had spent on the flowers. Since she was wide awake now, she decided to go take a walk for some fresh air.

With that thought in her mind, she once again tiptoed her way around the villa to avoid waking anyone up. As soon as she reached the garden, she changed into a different pair of slippers that were prepared for walking through the backyard. What she didn't know was that when she snuck across the living room area, Alfred was awake.