Son-In-Law Gets an Upgrade
Chapter 142

Chapter 142

That interaction only stunned everyone even further.

They couldn't understand how or why a superstar like Madison would be so deferential towards Alex.

Looking rather miffed, Wade immediately went after her. "Ms. Zucker, we signed a contract..."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Larson. My agency will get in touch with you in regards to the contract. You didn't tell us Mr. Jefferson was going to be here, so we weren't prepared, nor did we run things by him first. So, this is a lapse on your part. We're not at fault here," the manager stated coldly.

Mr. Jefferson?

Wade's expression stiffened. "Just who is Alex? Why are you all so wary of him?" he asked in a lowered voice.

The manager glanced at Wade, then curled her lips up into a sneer. "He's someone even your uncle needs to be careful of."

In reality, Wade's uncle wasn't that high up in the food chain, and there were plenty of people he needed to be careful around. The manager kindly elaborated, "Even the richest man in town needs to be deferent to him. So, you should think about just who Alex Jefferson really is."

With that, she spun on her heels and left with Madison and the rest of their entourage, leaving Wade and Tony frozen in their spots.

Alex noticed that Heather had been gone for a while, so he sent her a text telling her that he was going to leave first.

He then put out his cigarette and headed out the door. He wasn't interested in whatever was going to happen at the gathering after.

The crowd immediately opened up a path for him to pass through and even trailed behind him.

They didn't know why they were doing it, but they instinctively wanted to escort Alex out of the hotel.

Tony and Wade exchanged glances with one another before they followed after Alex too.

Only Harry was left behind. He was still feeling too flabbergasted to move.

He had torn Alex a new one earlier that morning and had even wanted to humiliate him by giving him work.

Yet, Alex suddenly turned out to be someone very influential.

Harry had to admit that at that very second, he was feeling pretty troubled.

Ginny took one look at Harry's ashen face, and she couldn't help but feel a wave of disappointment.

That's the difference!

She shook her head at him before silently making up her mind. She then ditched Harry too and joined the party that was escorting Alex out.

Alex ignored the crowd that was walking behind him and walked straight to his car. Then, he zoomed off into the night, disappearing from everyone's view. Because of the bombshell revelation from earlier, the crowd was no longer too shocked to see Alex driving a luxury car worth a couple million.

Some of them were smacking themselves in the head for not having thought of checking to see what car he had driven earlier.

Right then, Heather reappeared, looking very confused. "Why... Why are you all out here?" She caught a glance

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of an R8 driving off into the horizon, then turned to look back at the crowd all standing outside.

Didn't they say Madison Zucker was coming to sing for us?

Where is she?

Everyone immediately swarmed Heather. "Heather, we're your old friends. How could you keep such a big secret from us? How could you not tell us your husband is actually a big deal?"

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Heather stared at them blankly. She didn't know what they were talking about.

"Exactly! Why did you even lie about marrying down? Your husband is obviously filthy rich. Were you worried we were going to snatch him away from you?"

"I know, right? Heather was the prettiest girl in school then. Of course, she wasn't going to marry a good-for- nothing bum."

"That's right! The part about him 'marrying into the Jennings' was probably Just an inside joke."

The crowd had thronged around Heather the moment she reappeared and lobbed flattering comment after flattering comment at her. They hadn't allowed her a second to process her thoughts, so she was still pretty much in a dazed state.

"Heather, you should've known better and told us that you married such a fine specimen for a husband. Now, you're going to have to treat us to dinner to make up for not inviting us to your wedding reception," the homeroom teacher teased.

Heather stared at the teacher and blinked her eyes at him in confusion. "Mr. Hendrickson, what are you all talking about? Why can't I understand a word you're saying?"

"Still pretending? Are you that afraid that we're going to steal your husband away? Come on now. Your husband is someone even the great superstar Madison Zucker needs to be respectful of. He's not going to spare us even a glance," chuckled one of the classmates.

"So tell us, Heather. Just what does your husband do? He looks so impressive," asked another.

Wade and everyone else turned to look at Heather, waiting patiently to hear her answer.

That was when Heather finally understood what was happening.

So Madison did come. And when she saw Alex, she probably acted very politely towards him. No wonder all of them suddenly changed their attitudes towards him.

But... isn't Alex just the chairman's driver? Why does Madison need to be so wary of him?

Heather recalled the incident that had happened at the amusement park, and that's when suspicion crept into her.

Alex must be hiding something from me.

She had been noticing a lot of oddities about Alex recently. She had even started to suspect that he wasn't actually the chairman's driver.

But she couldn't figure out what was exactly wrong either.

"Sure, of course. I'll spend everyone dinner soon. Oh, I have something I need to do, so I'm afraid I need to run," smiled Heather apologetically. Then, she got into the RS7 that had been gifted to her by Alex and drove off.

There were so many questions running through her mind. She needed to see Alex immediately and get to the bottom of things, or she would continue to feel uneasy.

When the crowd saw Heather driving an RS7, a car that was worth close to two million, they were struck with a sense of envy.

As with everything else in life, some people enjoyed the gathering, and there were people who didn't.

One of those people who didn't was none other than Wade Larson.

His face looked rather green as he watched his classmates leave one after another.