NovelXXXChapter 352 The manager sighed, clearly at his wit's end, and finally told the truth.
"It's Jeanette-Dick's daughter, you know, one of the richest men in Crestwood. Her school's right next to our pool, and she comes by here to swim whenever she's free. She saw you the other day, then ctoin private and toldto fire you for whatever reason I could cup with. Said if I didn't, she'd make sure I couldn't keep my business running in Crestwood." "Jeanette?" Norton suddenly spoke up.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtThe manager's eyes lit up as he nodded. "Exactly. That's the one-Jeanette." He looked at Norton with a helpless smile. "Norton, I swear, I didn't want to let you go. But Dick's girl is impossible to deal with. She threatened to ruinif I didn't fire you. I have a family to support. I really had no choice." "I get it," Norton replied, looking utterly defeated.
He couldn't reconcile the arrogant girl the manager described with the sweet, obedient sister he remembered. In his memories, Jeanette had always been kind-hearted. He couldn't understand how she'd changed so much.
After leaving the pool, Norton didn't go home. Instead, he waited outside the gates of Crestwood University School of the Arts. He needed to get answers tonight-he had to know why Jeanette had done this to him.
He was her brother, after all. He'd always treated her well, ever since they were kids.
That evening, Jeanette cout of the school with a group of friends, all of them laughing and ready to hit the club. They ran right into Norton, who was standing by the entrance, waiting for her.
He called out loudly, "Jeanette!" The group stopped in their tracks.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmA couple of them recognized him. One of the guys strode over and grabbed Norton roughly by the collar. "You again? Are you kidding me?" Norton's mood was already shot after losing his job, and now he was in no mood for this. He shoved the guy's hand away and said coldly, "Get lost." The man's temper flared. "Oh, tough guy, huh? Maybe I ought to teach you a lesson." Jeanette stepped in immediately.
She waved her friends off. "You guys go ahead. He's just the son of our family's driver-always hanging around me. Letdeal with him. I'll catch up with you later, drinks are ontonight." Her friend hesitated. "You sure you don't wantto rough him up a little, Jeanette?" She shook her head dismissively. "No, just go." As her friends left, Norton fixed Jeanette with a cold stare, his voice edged with sarcasm. "The driver's son? Funny, I don't remember ever being your family's driver's kid." Jeanette's expression was one of pure disdain. Her tone was icy. "What, you'd rather I say you're my brother? Please. Look at you-you've got nothing. If people knew you were related to me, it'd be humiliating." Norton almost laughed in disbelief. "Humiliating? You think I'm an embarrassment to you?" Jeanette rolled her eyes, her impatience obvious. "Aren't you?" Suddenly, Norton just felt tired. He didn't want to argue anymore.
He cut to the chase. "Why did you tell the pool manager to fire me?" Jeanette looked away, feigning ignorance. "What pool?"
Norton didn't buy it for a second. "Don't play dumb. You always avert your eyes when you lie." Realizing she'd been caught, Jeanette dropped the act. "Fine, it was me."
She shrugged, looking at Norton with open contempt. Her words were sparp as knives.
"I swim there with my friends, and every tI see you outside handing out flyers, it's mortifying. Because of you, every tI go, I have to wear a hat and a mask." "Norton, your whole family is like a bad penny-I just can't get rid of you." "Don't you get it? We're not the sanymore. I don't ever want to see you again."
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