Xo Novel
Chapter 58
BREAKING NEWS: SECOND SON OF HATTON GROUP JACKSON HATTON GETS ENGAGED TO BILLIONAIRE
HEIRESS BLAIR LAWRENCE
The headlines were bold and glaring in Jackson’s face as he stared at his phone which still kept buzzing constantly in his hands. He looked up at Emily who mirrored his expression, a shocked stare gazing back at him, her brows raised questioningly.
“What’s going on?” she asked, confusion brewing in their midst “You’re engaged? How are you engaged?”
“I don’tknow” he said back “I have no idea what’s going on”
“How can you have no idea what’s going on?” Emily sprang up from the bed, she had so many emotions brewing within her and she had no idea which one to address first but in everything she felt betrayed, and it was evident on her face when Jackson grabbed her suddenly.
“Emily listen to me, I have no idea what’s going on you have to trust me”
“Trust you?” she repeated with a sordid expression
“You have to tell me the bloody truth, how the hell are you engaged?
“I don’tknow!!” Jackson yelled
“How do you get engaged without knowing??” she asked as she began to search for her clothes around the room, the blanket still wrapped around her chest as Jackson followed her around while he tried to figure out what was going on, he didn’t understand how could he explain it to her that he really had no idea without sounding like a sleazebag.
“Emily can you stop moving around for one second and listen to me” he said and she whipped around suddenly to face him, an angry look on her face
“I was finally going to leave Ethan for you, to be with you and -”
“Emily-”
“No Jackson, not a word, not a single word from you” she said walking out of the room to find her shoes with Jackson frantically walking behind her, when he stopped and she turned back to look at him
“Well then maybe you should go be with him” he said, a pained expression on his face and Emily paused but tshe was done fighting. She looked at him hut Jackson seemed to he looking ever where else but her face and her heart seized but only for a split second before it started pounding rapidly, and it felt like her vision blurred
“Maybe I should” she choked back tears before sprinting out the door and she let the tears flow freely down her face as she thought of the night before as their body intertwined in what felt was magical, it was indeed magical, an experience she had never had, while would he do all that, make her feel that way when he knew he was engaged.
How could he not know? Engagement involves two people consenting to marry each other, how could he not know? She repeatedly asked herself as she walked down the building complex until she finally decided to use the elevator. She walked in and thankfully it was empty as it mirrored the feeling within her. She let the tears stream down her face, Jackson’s last words to her imprinted in her brain.
He was sending back to Ethan, after sleeping with her? She scoffed angrily, ready to scream in anger when the elevator pinged and the doorslided open when a tall handsome guy walked in. He gave her a look that mirrored confusion, then he smirked.
“Walk of shame huh?”
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Meanwhile Jackson paced anxiously around the house after Emily left, wondering what the hell was w. His mind reeled in different motions, trying to put different angles together on why he was engaged without knowing when his phone suddenly started ringing and it was father calling, he picked without hesitation.
“I’m sure you’ve seen the headlines already” his father spoke first before he even had a chance to say anything and for some reason his anger doubled.
“What’s goingon dad? Why am I suddenly engaged” he asked immediately hoping his father would go straightto the point and not beat around the bushContent held by NôvelDrama.Org.
“Well I tried to talk to you about it at dinner last night before you all sprinted off, why do you think I called for dinner?” his father said and Jackson paused for a second, his head spinning in circles.
“What do you mean?” he said suddenly
“It’s time for you to get married son and in the Hatton family, marriage is business”
“Dad!!” Jackson velled angrily “How could you do this without speaking to me first, I don’t even know her, I’ve never met her. You expect me to get married to someone I’ve never met?”
“I married your mother just a week after meeting her and look at -”
“I’m not you dad, and I’m not doing this. Break off whatever business deal you have made, I don’t care, it is none of my business” he said, interrupting his statement.
He paced around the room angrily, yet he still thought about Emily, what did this mean for them?
“The Lawrence family is willing to partner with us to make Hatton group of companies a global project and selling in the global market, do you know what that would do to our stocks?”
“I don’t care, break it off!!” Jackson yelled, the veins ripping on his neck but he could feel his father being adamant, the finality to this arrangement and it only made him boil.
“So what? You want to keep being useless and pining after your brother’s wife?” his father said and Jackson went silent, Emily coming to mind again.
“That is none of your business” he said
“It is my business when my company is in the link, we need this partnership and you’re getting married to Miss Lawrence whether you like it or not”
“No dad-”
“Yes Jackson, this isn’t just about you. it’s for the company. Everything I have done, I have done for the company so that you boys can have a better life and what? A marriage partnership is too big a deal?”
“Yes it is!” Jackson said back defiantly “I don’t even know who she is”
“You’ll meet her at your engagement party tonight!”