Chapter 642 - Monster-in-law (3)

11 June, Madam Mo's apartment, City K

After calming down from the call, Madam Mo paused and dialled her oldest cousin Adam, and said "Cousin I need your help."

"What is it?" came the concerned response. 

"The judge Jade thinks will help me.  That b*tch, she has a judge that is controlling what I can do on social media."

"What!" came the shocked response "I thought you had already started your plans."

"I had planned to do that today.  I wanted the news reports to flow through, thinking that the water army that I could hire would then commence posts that started going on about how unfair this was, how it demeaned real victims of s*xual assault, how the charges seemed implausible, and most importantly focusing on the police.  However, someone started posting overnight."

"That can only help you.  That water army can focus on promoting those posts."

"That was my thought, but the lawyers alerted me to a problem, and it goes back to Jade's attempt to help.  On the surface it seems as if Jade helped, but you were right, she is out to screw me over.  The Judge while seeming on my side has a quirk.  She encourages media to report on her cases but punishes them and any defendants who dare comment on their cases."

"That b*tch.  She set you up."

"Had to.  She would have known about that quirk of the judge, yet she had the gall last night and this morning to say that she was doing what she could."

"Yeah, doing what she could to ensure that you are treated like your father.  Her parents drove him to commit suicide.  Not for the truth that they told, but the way that they spun it with lies that made him appear worse than he was.  We all know the rest of our parent were guilty in acting to protect themselves because they knew if your father was targeted, they would soon target each of them."

"I know.  All the rest of my uncles and aunts did what they could to help mother and I, after father committed suicide, and they apologised for their actions.  But that b*tch has taken advantage of my willingness to be kind, trust her and bring her back into the family after her parents' death."

"Forget about her.  The rest of us will deal with her because she will play on your emotions.  But, I know you well enough cousin, you need my help."

"How…"

"Did I know.  Your voice tells me everything that I need to know.  Like your expressions, it has always been honest when it comes to me, and it always will.  And before you ask, I can tell when it comes to you.  I knew the moment you realised your feelings for me and the moment that you realised those feelings were reciprocated.  If the law would have allowed us to marry, we would have, but it did not.  I could tell the moment I broke your heart when I followed the demands of our family and married.  I saw what you did to cope, and it led to you marrying that b*stard that is trying to leave you with nothing when your divorce is finalised."

"Adam …" came the somewhat m.o.a.ning reply.

"I know, I know.  I think I can guess what you need.  You want to have those threads kept in the top 10 searches, and you need my help to do so."

"Mmmm.  I want you…"

"To help, absolutely.  Leave it with me, because then you will have plausible deniability if someone wants to make an issue."

"Not just that…"

"How about I pick you up tonight for dinner with the rest of our cousins who can make it, and then I can take you home afterwards…"

"And stay with me?"

"Absolutely."  there was a pause, before Adam added, "Let me go and deal with what I need to, and I will call you back to confirm the arrangements."

"Mmmm…"

With that Madam Mo ended the call.  As she sat her phone down for a few seconds, a smile passed across her face.  Cousin Adam was so easy to manipulate.  She remembered when she was about fifteen and realised that he was in love with her.  Ever since then she happily played on his emotions to manipulate him into doing what she wanted.  And as he was the oldest in their generation, his word seemed to sway all their other cousins except Jade, who was always suspicious of him.

The irony of his marriage was so funny.  He always felt guilty because he felt he betrayed her feelings, but his wife hated him, and simply used their marriage to escape her family and as soon as she could she abandoned him escaping overseas with her lover.  It took him years to secure a divorce…

Thinking about that, she knew the next thing she needed to do.  She picked up her mobile and dialled a number.  After a few rings it went through to the mobile's message bank, and angrily she left a message "You better immediately return my call daughter.  I am your mother, and you owe me."

As she hung up, Madam Mo sent a text message reading 'Call me back now.  You are my daughter and should respond to my calls.  I do not deserve you screening my calls, nor do I deserve being ignored.'

After pausing a minute, with there being no return call so, she dialled Abigail's mobile number again and on it switching to message bank, she shouted "You ungrateful child.  You have not called me back.  Do not ignore me.  You need to talk to me and do what I need you to do."

Frustrated, as she hung up, Madam Mo continued to dial Abigail's mobile left message after message demanding Abigail return her call.  That ungrateful child should not be ignoring her mother.

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