You Looked Down on Me Once, Now You Look Up. novel Chapter 543

What good could ever come from Jackson’s birth mom?

If she truly loved her kid, she never would’ve dumped him and disappeared in the first place. Maybe she was young and powerless back then—okay, that’s understandable. But when he was growing up, she didn’t try finding him. Claimed it was too expensive, didn’t want to “waste money.”

Years later, just as Jackson was turning thirty, they caught a glimpse of each other on Riverdale Street. What was her excuse that time?

People can come up with a thousand excuses, but not for everything. There’s no excuse for the time Patricia went to find her. If she never planned to acknowledge Jackson, she should’ve stayed away for good. So why sneak around and secretly reach out?

Patricia started scrolling through Jackson’s phone, flipping from his messages to his bank statements, but didn’t see anything about a transfer. She shot him a sharp look, then pulled out her own phone and called her usual bank manager.

“Hey, can you pull Jackson’s recent transactions for me?”

A few minutes later, a PDF landed in her inbox. When she spotted that five-hundred-thousand transfer, Patricia first went quiet with fury—then let out a bitter laugh.

She tossed her phone at Jackson and, without warning, kicked him in the leg. His knee crashed into the coffee table with a loud thud. Before Jackson could even yell, Patricia was already rubbing her own knee in pain.

“You…” She winced and jabbed a finger at him. “You really are unbelievable!”

Jackson hunched his shoulders and ducked his head. “If you’re gonna hit me, then just hit me—don’t kick! With your bony knees, you’re only hurting yourself.”

Patricia was fuming. She snatched up the magazine Oliver had left out last night, rolled it into a tube, and started whacking Jackson with it. “Go get that money back. Now.”

“Why’d she even ask you for money? Didn’t she tell you to stay away forever and never show your face again?”

“How would I know?” Jackson tried to laugh it off.

Marian heard the nonsense, marched over, and smacked Jackson on the back of the head. “Don’t play dumb. If you upset Miss so much she ends up in the hospital, Mr. Padilla will skin you alive.”

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