Chapter 949 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

And even if thanks to Jero she would still have known she had a family, she would never have tried to dig deeper to know it was Aaron and Harry. She never would have even made an attempt to contact them if Jade hadn’t convinced her to.

Here she was now. Seated with these lovely people, enjoying a quiet dinner in celebration of love.

She looked down when she felt Matt trailing a finger on her thigh and then she glanced at him, wondering what he was up to.

“How about we sneak off so you can show me what you’re wearing underneath your beautiful dress?” he whispered to her with a blank face.

“Pervert!” she hissed playfully, trying not to look amused as she caught Sonia’s gaze on them, and Sonia winked at her.

She couldn’t believe that even at this important moment, Sonia was busy focusing on her interaction with Matt. Never had she seen a busybody like Jade and Sonia in her entire life.

Mia was unusually silent as she ate, and Harry did not miss that. Neither did he miss the fact that all evening she had tried not to be within his line of vision. He was going to make sure to have a word with her before leaving.

Unlike the others, Jeff was more interested in eating to his satisfaction, so his whole attention was focused on the meal.

Alicia and Jasmine on the other hand, busied with checking out the videos and pictures they had captured so they could sort them and show it to Bryan and Sonia before leaving.

The plan was to release the news of their engagement that night after they left there.

Once they were done with dinner and were having dessert, Jade cleared her throat so that every other conversation around the table would seize.

“I understand that this is your engagement party, but since everyone involved is gathered here right now do you mind if we discuss Rebekah Miller’s coming interview?” Jade asked, looking at Sonia and Bryan for permission.

Bryan turned to Sonia and she shrugged, “I don’t see why not. It’s not like all the conversations going on around the table was focused on us anyway,” Sonia said with a grin.

“It’s this week, isn’t? I haven’t been paying much attention,” Benne muttered to Harry who was seated next to him.

“We both know you have more important things to worry about. Leave stuff like that to us who don’t have babymama dramas,” Harry whispered back and chuckled when Benne glared at him.

“So, what do we need to know about the interview?” Celsie asked curiously and Jade filled them in on everything that had happened thus far and her plan for the interview. I think you should take a look at

“We still haven’t discussed the possible questions we need to ask her yet,” Alicia reminded them, glancing at Benne.

“That should be the easiest part. We have to come up with questions about motherhood and being the wife of Richard. Just something to keep her occupied with her lies until the police shows up to put the cuffs on her,” Jade said and Sonia smiled.

“You can leave the questions to me. Alicia, I will text you the questions by morning,” Sonia said and Alicia gave her a nod.

“Although I wish Anita would be on that stage with her mother after all she did, but I guess it’s a good thing she turned a new leaf,” Sonia muttered and they chuckled.

“How many of us are going to be attending that interview?” Jade asked curiously.

“Since Anita won’t be there, I’m not sure I’m interested anymore. I’ll rather watch the show from my office,” Celsie said, and Benne nodded.

“Me too.”

“I will definitely be there. I don’t want to miss the drama,” Sonia said with a grin.

“That settles it then. The three of us will be there. Candace, you’ll be joining us, I trust you don’t have an appointment to meet with any friend at that time,” Jade said, and Candace rolled her eyes while Matt chuckled.

“Mr. Jonas?” Alicia called politely since this was her first time interacting with Harry unlike the others.

Harry raised a brow as he turned to her, “How can I help you?” he asked, and Jade grinned at the coolness of his tone.

Harry was obviously not one to just let anyone into his cycle whether or not he was sharing a meal with them at the same table. He had heard all about how nosy Alicia could be and he had enough nosy people in his life already. There was no room to accommodate more.

Alicia cleared her throat, feeling slightly unnerved by his coldness, “I was hoping you would be willing to grant me an interview concerning the issue that has been going on for some time now about Sara Walker being your mother,” she said politely and everyone stopped what they were doing to look at Harry.

Jeff and Mia were the only two people at the table, apart from the gay couple, who had no idea about the relationship between Harry and Sara and they definitely didn’t know about Candace’s relationship with Harry either.

“Alicia, I didn’t invite you here to do this,” Bryan said, when he saw that Benne was clearly displeased by Alicia’s manners.

“We are sorry,” Jasmine apologized immediately she sensed the tension that had taken over the air and pinched Alicia to do the same.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t think before speaking,” Alicia said, wondering if they seemed upset by the subject because it was true.

“I believe you thought before speaking, but you just didn’t think your request would be met with such a response,” Harry said before Benne could speak.

He did not miss the fact that she didn’t seem genuinely apologetic about doing what she did.

“No, I…”

“I will grant you an exclusive interview if only you go can dig into Sara Walker’s life on your own and confirm whether or not the rumors are true. If you’re able to do that and come up with any tangible evidence on your own, I will grant you an exclusive interview and tell you everything,” Harry promised, interrupting Alicia.

“You will?” Alicia asked excitedly.

“I will,” Harry said as he met Candace’s questioning gaze.

He gave her a subtle nod, asking her not to worry. He doubted that Alicia would be able to uncover anything meaningful they didn’t already know about Sara, but if she ended up doing so, then it would be an advantage for them.

As much as he didn’t like Alicia’s nosy personality, he had loved how she handled Celsie’s interview and got her to talk about her past. Maybe Candace would need someone like that too when it was time to introduce her officially to the world as his sister.

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