You Looked Down on Me Once, Now You Look Up. novel Chapter 235

Chelsea had an early shift.

Patricia was up and getting ready to head out at the same time, packing her things as Chelsea did the same. It was the weekend, and like always, Patricia had both days off. Overtime just wasn’t her thing. She had way more important things to do than stay late at work.

When Jackson pulled up to pick her up, he started chatting about Ruby’s stream—how she didn’t go live last night.

Patricia just shrugged. “She’s going to start missing streams more and more. Get used to it.”

After all this time, Ruby should have her prosthetic by now. That kind of pain? Most people can’t make it through. Everything Patricia had suffered—she kind of wanted Ruby to know how it felt, even just once.

“Any news from Mrs. Martin?” she asked.

“Nothing,” Jackson said, sounding frustrated.

When Patricia’s parents passed away, she was still a kid. The only other main heir was her grandma—Jason’s mom. Back then, the Parsons family had tried to talk her grandma into hiring a professional manager to run the company until Patricia was old enough to take over.

But her grandma was a piece of work. She acted agreeable in front of everyone, but behind their backs, she just handed everything to the Emersons.

When Patricia asked what that was all about, her grandma just said, “You’re a girl…”

Right. Just a girl. Like that meant she didn’t deserve to inherit her own parents’ legacy.

Jackson scratched his head. “If Emerson really did send her somewhere, there’s no way he never visited, not once, all these years.”

“You were gone those few years, but I kept an eye on him the whole time,” Jackson went on. “Nothing ever came up.”

Patricia didn’t say anything, so Jackson tried again. “Why not ask Mr. Padilla for help? You’re married now. Whether you love each other or not, it’s time to put that to good use, right?”

“How do you know he’d actually find anything?” she asked.

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