Is this destiny?

Jasper came to the sofa and squeezed to sit next to Ellie.

"Mom, what do you mean by me wasting my time?"

"Forget it…", Lisa sighed and waved her hand dismissively. "It was just my wishful thinking. Ellie has a boyfriend and…" Lisa stopped talking when she saw that Jasper and Ellie are holding hands. With their fingers interlaced and everything!

Ellie stifled a laugh at Lisa\'s shocked expression.

"Lisa, allow me to introduce you to my boyfriend.", Ellie said with teary eyes from holding back her laughter.

"Why didn\'t you say so right away!", Lisa asked when she came around.

"I didn\'t want to say it without him here. And your son SHOULD be the one to tell you that we are dating.", Ellie elbowed Jasper.

Jasper\'s grin disappeared when he saw that Lisa narrowed her eyes at him. "What?"

"What was that last night?"

"Last night?" Jasper knows that he and Ellie had their argument, but everything is fine now. And how would his mother know about that?

Lisa got her phone and opened an online article which was about fashion show from previous night. One photo showed the audience and captured Jasper with Hailey talking to him.

"Who is that woman?", Lisa asked angrily.

"She was in my seat." Ellie explained. "She took advantage of me coming late. Shortly after that, security escorted her out."

"Oh…", Lisa awkwardly smiled and kept her phone down.

Jasper looked at his mother and frowned. "Mom, do you know that I am your son? What if that was not a misunderstanding? What if Ellie does not know about it? You are sowing discord in our relationship!"

Lisa pouted. "If you are cheating on this sweet girl, you deserve to be exposed."

Ellie laughed thinking that this mother-son duo is funny.

"So…" Lisa looked at two of them. "Since when?"

"We met at Jeffrey\'s wedding.", Jasper explained. "And we had our first date the next day."

"Then that woman in your office which Lily mentioned…"

"That was Ellie.", Jasper immediately said, cutting of whatever Lisa wanted to say. "And Lilian\'s nonsense about Ellie coming to seduce me and who-knows-what is going overboard. I had an unexpected late meeting and Ellie agreed to come to my office and wait until I\'m done so that we go out for dinner from there."

Lisa nodded in understanding, and then remembered that Norman said how last Saturday Jasper didn\'t come to the party which Cavadini family hosted because he was held back by a woman. "And that woman in your apartment last weekend…"

"Me again.", Ellie responded.

Lisa\'s eyes lit up and she smiled. Her son has a girlfriend. For about a month! A proper girlfriend! And it\'s Ellie! "I guess I should leave you two kids alone."

"What about the baby photos?", Ellie reminded Lisa.

Lisa was about to stand up, but she went back to sitting with an album already in her hands.

Lisa grinned when she opened the album and the first photo was buck naked baby-Jasper lying on his tummy.

"Aw, this brings back memories… Look at those cheeks!", Lisa gushed.

Ellie stifled a laugh. "Which ones? I see two pairs!"

Jasper pulled Ellie up. These two women are having fun at the expense of his baby-butt-cheeks! He will not allow it!

"I will show my room to Ellie.", he said gloomily while pushing giggling Ellie out the door.

Lisa looked after Jasper and Ellie and didn\'t try to stop them. She will talk more with Ellie later, and with Jasper as well.

Lisa closed the album, kept it on the table with the others and walked toward the fireplace mantle.

She touched the frame of the photo which has Jasper with his grandfather and said in a soft voice: "Dad, he is smiling again."

…

"Do you care to explain?", Jasper asked when he closed the door of his room.

"What do you want to know?"

"You and my mother.", Jasper clarified. He observed that two of them look very close for someone who met recently, and wants to know how two of them know each other.

Ellie is happy that he asked for details nicely. She can see that he is learning from his mistakes.

"Lisa is a regular EY customer. For more than six years. Whenever she comes she stays longer, and we talk. Mostly about fashion and daily things. She mentioned that she has a son, but I don\'t remember if she ever said your name. I can say that we are close, and we get along well. She always comes to my main office in Seattle, so I assumed that she is from there. I found out that she is your mother about half an hour ago."

Ellie laughed. "Right off the bat Lisa started showing me your photos and telling me how wonderful you are. So, I let her talk because I wanted to hear what she has to say."

"And you let her talk…" Jasper checked his phone which beeped while Ellie was talking. It was a message from Lisa. "Look. She is inviting you to stay for dinner even though you deceived her at first."

"Hey, I didn\'t lie.", Elli defended herself. "As soon as the topic moved to anything resembling a boyfriend, I told her that I\'m taken. And that it\'s serious. I just didn\'t tell her that it\'s you. She loves you very much."

"Yeah. So much that she sold me out as soon as she could. What if I was cheating on you?"

"Are you kidding me?" Ellie was aiming with her fist to punch Jasper in the shoulder, but he caught it and pulled her toward him.

"Ellie, I will never cheat on you.", he kissed her cheek.

His words warmed her heart. "That is something you will need to prove over time."

"What are you doing?", Ellie asked with panic in her voice when she felt that he is unzipping the back of her dress.

"If I don\'t remove it now, it will get wrinkled.", Jasper said matter-of-factly while pulling zipper open all the way to her lower back.

"There are people downstairs. A party!"

"And there is no way we are going to join them." When Jasper thought of Lily and those guys with lecherous thoughts about Ellie, he decided to keep her in his room until people disperse.

"Your parents are here!"

"They don\'t come to my room. But I locked the door, just in case.", Jasper flashed a smile at the sight of her half-removed dress. Her top was covered only by a blush pink colored bra.

"Wait!" Ellie grabbed her dress, not allowing it to fall all the way down. "I think you should check in your closet, bathroom, under the bed…"

Jasper\'s eyebrow arched in confusion. "Why?"

"Just to make sure Lily is not here. That woman is like a burdock… clings to you and it\'s difficult to get rid of."

Jasper remembered how Lily came to him and said that Ellie made her look bad. And based on Lily\'s sour attitude and immature name calling, Ellie was the victor in that confrontation. "Hmm… she is an obnoxious woman. I believe that you gave her some hard time."

Ellie smirked. "I only made a point that she is not important, and I hoped that she can see how easily I can ruin her. But I don\'t think she learned anything. She is so full of herself."

Jasper agreed. "She is a typical spoiled brat. Her parents didn\'t spank her as a child when she needed disciplining."

Jasper kept Ellie\'s dress on the backrest of the chair and enjoyed her slight embarrassment which made her several folds more attractive.

"How about you?", Jasper asked while his eyes playfully examined her body covered only in two negligible pieces of blush pink colored fabric.

"What?"

"Did you ever get a proper spanking?"

Ellie missed Jasper\'s suggestive tone. She was too busy staring at his delicious body which got revealed as he removed his shirt.

Ellie responded honestly: "No. I am a good girl." Well, maybe not a good-good girl, but she never got spanked, alright?

Jasper spoke softly into her ear: "The spanking I\'m talking about is reserved only for good girls."

Ellie realized that her whole face is burning and she is holding her breath as his words sank in, just how two of them sank into the soft mattress of his bed.

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