Chapter 332: She Won't Allow It

Miles Morgan, on the other end of the line, was mortified. ‘Are you just going to ignore the second half of what I said?’

‘Is his name the important part? The point is the scheme! A scheme! Someone is trying to set you up!!!’

‘Hiss… Wait a second… It’s not actually some romantic entanglement, is it?’

‘All this talk of a scheme and evidence… could it all be just an excuse to meet her!?’

‘Getting messed with right after turning eighteen… a pitiful case, really…’

Nina Jennings took a deep breath. “I’m heading over now. Keep him there for me.”

With that, she hung up and flopped onto the sofa.

Yvonne Lowell glanced sideways at the lifeless lump beside her. “So this is what you meant by… ‘heading over now’?”

“Don’t get smart with me. It’s not like a few more minutes will matter. I need to think.”

Nina Jennings hugged a throw pillow tightly, her eyes unfocused as she stared at the ceiling and murmured,

“Owen Ward… just came of age… Could it be a coincidence?”

“Whether it is or not, you’ll know once you see him, won’t you?”

Yvonne Lowell handed her a tablet, which was displaying a live feed from Pluto’s reception room.

‘She knew everything about Nina Jennings’s past, but she never thought that after all these years, someone would actually show up at her door.’

‘What’s more, the guy bore a striking resemblance to Nina Jennings. He couldn’t really be that half-brother she ended up with, the one her mother struggled to carry to term, could he?’

‘The question is… how much of what he says is true, and what does this scheme have to do with that pair of scumbags.’

After taking the tablet, Nina Jennings stared blankly at the security footage.

A moment later, she shot up and ran a hand roughly through her hair.

“Damn it. I’m going to go see for myself just what kind of tricks this little bastard is trying to pull.”

Yvonne Lowell stood up and stretched. “Then let’s go.”

“Huh? You’re coming with me?!” Nina Jennings threw her arms around her.

“WAHHH, Yvonne, you’re the best to me! As I thought, I still have a place in your heart! That Gu fellow is nothing! WAHHH, it’s the same for me! I’m just playing around with Silas Lynch, you’re the only one I’m serious about…”

“Shut up and go get the car!”

‘That Pluto building was a prime piece of real estate she had carefully selected for its excellent feng shui. She was just worried this woman would get carried away and kill someone on her turf, so she wanted to go along to keep an eye on things.’

‘Otherwise, who would want to get involved? Who could be bothered? Did she look like she had nothing better to do?’

‘But no matter what, she had been the one to personally save Nina Jennings’s life back then, so Nina was her responsibility and hers alone.’

‘What anyone else said didn’t matter, including Nina Jennings herself.’

‘So if those people were here to extort her or hurt her again, then sorry, she wouldn’t allow it.’

…

Meanwhile, after hanging up, Miles Morgan deliberately waited more than ten minutes before going to the reception room next door.

When he entered and saw Owen Ward’s face, he was inwardly shocked but kept his composure, calmly walking forward to shake his hand.

“Mr…. Warren? Hello, my name is Morgan.”

‘Good heavens, doesn’t this kid look a little too much like his Nina? He couldn’t be her illegitimate son, could he?’

‘No, that can’t be right. Given Nina’s current age, even an illegitimate son wouldn’t be this old.’

Nina Jennings: ‘…It wouldn’t be against the rules for Pluto’s legal department to sue one of its own, would it?’

“President Miller, hello.” Owen Ward quickly stood up and returned the handshake.

“Have a seat.” Miles Morgan gestured with his hand and sat down across from him.

“Vice Chairman Jennings happens to be in Kingsland today and is on her way to the office now, but it might take her some time. If you don’t mind, you can tell me first.”

Owen Ward replied humbly,

“I’m sorry, President Miller. Since she’s on her way, I’d rather wait and speak to her in person.”

“No problem, I was just curious. But you seem… very young, Mr. Warren. Are you really an adult?”

“I am! I just turned eighteen this year. I’m an incoming freshman at Kingsland University of Industry.”

Miles Morgan nodded in understanding, his mind racing to figure out what to say next.

‘He shouldn’t have come over so soon. He waited over ten minutes before even coming in, and Nina Jennings still wasn’t here!’

‘He actually believed her when she said, ‘I’m heading over now’!’

‘Honestly, he was good at business negotiations and fighting, not making small talk with kids!’

‘And this was some random kid he’d never met before, to boot!’

‘But the look of expectation in the handsome young man’s eyes made him feel bad about giving him the cold shoulder.’

Just as Miles Morgan had wracked his brains and finally found a new topic to discuss with the young man sitting ramrod straight and staring ahead, the door to the reception room was finally pushed open again from the outside.

And along with the sound of the door opening came what was, to Miles Morgan, the most heavenly sound in the world at that moment:

“Heard a handsome guy was looking for me today? Where is he?”

Hearing the voice, Owen Ward subconsciously turned to look.

When he saw the newcomer’s face, he stood up unconsciously, his hands clenching the seams of his pants.

‘It’s her, right? This is the person from his memories…’

Nina Jennings walked up to him and slid her sunglasses down her nose, leveling her eyes with his.

Her tone was a bit flirtatious. “Hey, handsome. You’re the one who needed to see me?”

Yvonne Lowell circled around from the other side, grabbed Miles Morgan by the back of his collar, and dragged him to a corner before letting go.

DING! Claw machine program complete.

Miles Morgan: …?

Owen Ward nervously pressed his lips together.

“Miss… Miss Jennings, hello. My name is Owen Ward. I’m eighteen years old, from Fairfield in the south, and I’m an incoming freshman at Kingsland University of Industry. My father is Ken Ward, my mother is Joanne Cheney, and I…”

“Whoa, hold it right there.”

Nina Jennings took off her sunglasses, tossed them on the table, and sat down across from him.

“Sorry, little bro, but I have a boyfriend, and I’m not interested in younger guys.”

“If you used ‘urgent business’ as a pretext to hit on me or get a blind date, then I’m afraid I can’t help you.”

From the side, Miles Morgan whispered, “Boss, what’s with Nina’s act?”

‘This was like… a completely different Nina from the one he knew. When had he ever heard her talk like this?’

Yvonne Lowell shot him a sideways glance. “Stay out of a beautiful woman’s business. Either shut up or get out, got it?”

Fine… Miles Morgan sensibly zipped his lips.

‘He had to stick around for the drama. No way he was leaving just yet.’

“No, that’s not it!” Owen Ward waved his hands frantically, looking completely flustered.

“Someone really is trying to set you up! I didn’t know how to contact you, so I sent the recording to your company’s official social media DMs. But it kept showing as unread, so I had no choice but to come here myself.”

Nina Jennings’s fingertips, resting on the armrest, curled slightly. She looked at him with growing interest.

“Is that so? Then play the recording for me.”

“Okay.”

Owen Ward opened a locked folder and tapped play on the single audio file within it.