The Lord Mayor Falls in Love with Me

Hearing this, Paige was grim and moaned for a while, and then she said, "All right, you win. But you have to promise that if you marry Allen, you will not pick on my Lillian."

Thinking of those things Lillian did to Joey, and that Joey soon would be Lillian's step-mother, Paige worried that Joey would retaliate against Lillian. She could only protect Lillian now, not in the future.

Feeling the spoil of Paige to her granddaughter, Joey chuckled and said, "I won't make promises easily now. So, if you want me to guarantee something, sorry, I can't do that, because nobody knows what will happen in the future. All I want to say is, I'm not Yolanda, who can make a plot against a child."

Though Joey didn't answer her question directly, she could feel that Joey was not hostile to Lillian. But when Joey mentioned Yolanda, Paige looked extremely grim.

Paige hated Yolanda so much. At that time, it was her who approved Yolanda to join the Charles family, but what Yolanda did really disappointed her. The most detestable thing was, when they divorced, Yolanda was still trying to hurt her son and granddaughter again and again, which made her never forgive Yolanda. Compared with Joey, Yolanda was more hateful now.

Now, the meeting was no longer necessary to continue. Paige glanced at Joey unwillingly and left the room.

Paige was left, but Joey didn't hurry to go. She took a sip of the coffee at ease and then said to the empty room, "Come out now!"

Then, the closed door of the bathroom was opened slowly, and it was Martha who came out of the bathroom.

At the very beginning, Joey wasn't the only person in the box. Before she called Paige, Joey had called Martha and showed her all the files. Then, she asked Martha to hide in the bathroom and witness the truth.

When she finally knew everything, she looked distracted. She walked to Joey and sat on the seat where Paige just sat. After a while, she said, "I didn't expect that. It turns out that the truth is so dramatic. Why didn't you ask her who was the man?"

"I know the man is important to both you and Allen. But more haste, less speed. I can't push your mom too hard. Besides, even if you know who he is, would you recognize him as your father? You would only make yourself more painful," Joey said sympathetically. Joey knew whom Martha just referred to. He was the biological father of Martha and Allen.

Everything came from the test of DNA Joey collected in the Charlies' three days ago, and the result showed that Zelda's imagination came true. George was neither Allen's biological father, nor Martha's.

Knowing this, Joey was in joy, since she didn't need to worry or hesitate so much.

They were unrelated so that they could be together aboveboard, and Sammy also had a brighter future.

But soon Joey started to worry about Allen. If he knew the truth, how would he feel?

It was not as simple as being painful.

After consideration, she decided to invite Martha and Paige and tried to simplify the thing and minimize the damage.

Hearing Joey's words, Martha smiled bitterly and said, "Yeah, it made no difference. I would rather not know that."

In all these years, she had never been considering that whether George was her real father. She had never doubted, just like she could never believe that her mother would behave something so shameful in today's meeting.

And George, he was not a good husband, but he was a good father indeed. Though he didn't have much time to accompany her and Allen, he loved them as much as Lawrence did. He had never forgotten to give them birthday gifts, and every time he picked those gifts by himself early. She had been very rebellious these years, and even Paige began to prefer Allen, but George's love for her was never changed.

However, apart from shock and grief, she also felt a guilty sense of rejoicing, because she and Lawrence were unrelated and could be together openly. But the rejoicing made her feel evil and foul. She was in a mess now.

Joey held Martha's cold, trembling hand, and said softly, "I know how you feel. I could have not told you, but I didn't have the heart to do it. Because I know you love Lawrence, and he also has some feelings about you. I can't tolerate something like lovers can't be together for some reason. Now you know the truth, and you and Lawrence don't need to suffer anymore, but I have a request for you. Please don't publicize this because Allen doesn't know the truth now. Nobody knows what will happen if it is publicized. But what I know for sure is, that George won't let you, Allen, and Paige get away from his revenge. So, please endure this with Lawrence for a while. When the time comes, we will publicize this, all right?"000☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐