CHAPTER 98

“MOM.”

Sam gently calls out and joins Adriella on the balcony while sipping her favorite wine, and looking at the city light up ahead.

“Sam.”

She greeted him with a smile and a look that isn’t hard for Sam to read that she already knew what he is trying to tell her.

“If you are thinking that I will give Catherine a hard time and your presence right now suggests that you are talking me out of it then, you guess it right as I just read your mind.”

Adriella completely shuts Sam’s thoughts off. Knowing him all too well that it isn’t that hard for her to read his mind by just looking at his expression.

“Can I talk you out of it and convince you in a way? I am open to getting what you want for a bribe.”

Sam tries to sweet talk his stepmother, yet Adriella looks at him with an unsatisfied way and dismayed expression.

“Not even a slight possibility, and I am not taking any bribe from you, Sam.”

She firmly said with the tone that she will not budge even a little for the favor that Sam is w