Chapter 128: To Grovel and Beg

Chapter 128: Chapter 128: To Grovel and Beg

Was Florence Morgan afraid of offending Evelyn Grant?

No, she was afraid something would happen to her son!

But for now, Florence Morgan just wanted to make sure that the "boyfriend" Evelyn Grant spoke of wasn’t her younger son. As long as that was true, it was enough.

As for anything else, she couldn’t bring herself to think about it at the moment.

After hanging up, Florence Morgan worried that her older son wouldn’t be able to accept the outcome. So, after Julian Sterling finished work, she made a point of driving to his apartment herself.

The moment he saw his mother, Julian Sterling assumed there was some new development.

His dark eyes instantly lit up.

"Mom?"

"Oh, are you tired from work today?" Florence Morgan offered a motherly smile as she walked over and patted his shoulder. "Has work been busy? You look like you’ve gotten thinner from exhaustion."

The moment she said that, Julian Sterling understood. It clearly wasn’t good news.

The smile on his handsome face vanished, the corners of his lips turning down.

"Mom, Evelyn Grant still refuses to see me, doesn’t she?"

Florence Morgan froze for a moment, then sighed.

"Julian... look, why don’t you just let it go? The conflicts between you and Eve are many, and they run deep. It’s going to be very difficult to get her to move on. You should try to see it from her perspective."

"What do you mean, ’let it go’? I won’t!" Julian Sterling immediately shot down the suggestion. "I absolutely refuse to just hand Evelyn Grant over to my own brother! The whole world would laugh at me!"

Florence Morgan quickly waved her hands. "No, that’s not it! Eve isn’t with Ryan, either. I already sounded her out for you."

"What do you mean?"

"Today, Eve told me she already has a boyfriend and that I should stop trying to set you two up. I was worried then that the boyfriend she was talking about might be your brother, you know? So I immediately went and asked Ryan to confirm that he isn’t Eve’s boyfriend!"

Only then could Florence Morgan breathe a sigh of relief.

"Ryan told you himself that he isn’t Evelyn Grant’s boyfriend?"

Julian Sterling narrowed his dark eyes.

’Something isn’t right.’

The crucial difference was that Julian Sterling knew who the father of the baby in Evelyn Grant’s belly was. If Evelyn Grant was with another man, would Ryan Sterling really have nothing to say about it?

’Would he just obediently accept it?’

’Let someone else be a new father to his child?’

’That’s impossible!’

"Well, he didn’t say it in those exact words, but it was as good as. You can relax. Your mother already sounded him out."

’Relax?’

His mother was the very person he was worried about.

Because Florence Morgan didn’t know the full story.

"Evelyn Grant is lying about having a boyfriend, Mom. Don’t fall for it! You promised you’d help me figure something out. How can you come back so soon and tell me to give up?"

"I’m out of ideas," Florence Morgan sighed. "At my age, I’ve already gone and humbled myself, begging Eve to give you a chance. What more can I possibly do?"

As the matriarch of the Sterling Family for so many years, she had her pride!

She had humbled herself and all but begged, yet Evelyn Grant hadn’t shown her an ounce of deference.

What else was Florence Morgan supposed to do?

"There has to be another way besides confronting her directly."

Julian Sterling refused to believe that he was out of options when it came to Evelyn Grant.

’And whatever he was going to do, he had to do it fast. He could wait, but Evelyn Grant’s belly wouldn’t!’

’He couldn’t possibly allow Evelyn Grant’s child to be born.’