Ryan's POV
The moment we get to the shade and I help her sit down before sitting across from her, she picks up a paper and throws it at me.
I was expecting a long moment of silence from her before I eventually asks her to forgive me but from the look of things, I have already been forgiven. She is just ignoring me on purpose.
I take the paper to see if it is actually a newspaper. When I drop it over my lap, I see the headlines.
Ryan Lorenzo, the CEO of Multi-Million Company seen with his newly wedded wife having a private dinner at ...."
I look up to see Mother's expression. Still unreadable.
Did my plan work?
"Is it true?" She demands weakly, her hands trembling a little. I notice she isn't as lively as she was the last time we came here for dinner. She seems to be getting weaker e
