Chapter 18 – Son, this is your mother. Isn't she beautiful?

"Iris?" Garvin's impatient voice jolted her from her trance.

"Did you call me?"

"I called you four times," Garvin said in annoyance, wondering how she could just trail off like that. Iris felt embarrassed.

"I'm sorry."

Garvin calmed down and said, "I was thinking that even if we are going with your car, my driver should drive us so we can have a proper talk."

Iris did not like the idea. She treated her cars like her third babies. "I don't know..."

"I insist. Let's go," Garvin said and stood up, waiting for her to begin walking ahead before he followed her.

He was concerned about the long drives and couldn't allow her to keep doing it.

Nevertheless, he couldn't enforce it all at once. It needed baby steps to show her how much he cared without forcing it. His driver, Samuel, met them at the car park.

"Samuel, this is Miss Iris Parker, Cooper's mother."

Samuel, who was in his early forties, had his jaws dropping when Garvin introduced Iris and added,

"We are using her car."

Iris forced