True Fated Marriage (Grace and Heinz)
Chapter 775

Candace looked sharply at Heinz and said, "Mr. Jones, you are overly confident. Are you not aware of the storm you have stirred up? And you have the nerves to bring the children into this. You should have known that this was coming from the second you began to lie to Grace. You're not suitable for her. I don't agree with you two being together."

"Aunt Candace, it was Grace who chose to be with Heinz," Zachary defended him. "I don't quite understand where you are going with this now."

"Zachary, you have no place barging in on this conversation right now," Candace rebuked him. "You don't have to say anything."

He frowned and looked at her, who was clearly crossed by his words. He was somewhat dumbfounded by this.

"Aunt Candace, you're right, this is indeed no place for me to be giving opinions. Have you ever stopped to think that you too are being opinionated where it's not needed; in Alice and Graces' affairs." He argued, "Also, riddle me this, it is reasonable that you do not approve of Heinz and Graces' relationship seeing the mess that he caused, but what about Jensen? He's a good man and has a stable relationship with Alice. Why are you against it too?"

"Because he is a policeman," said Candace. "He either poor or prone to die young."

Jensen almost choked.

He was really impressed by the tone and guts of this woman before his eyes.

He was poor, but he wasn't that obnoxious, was he?

Heinz then stood up and said.

"Madam Lowe, if that is all, we'll take our leave."

"Stop!" Candace yelled furiously in an instant. "You haven't agreed to my terms yet!"

"I won't agree to leave Grace," he answered bluntly. "Madam Lowe, have you ever stopped to consider how Grace would feel about you approaching me about this?"

"She's really in no position to be dwelling in her feelings now that her life is a complete mess. Ever since she's been with you, she has become a laughingstock. Everyone around her has been calling her a mistress. Mr. Jones, who do you think you are to be questioning me like this? Have you ever thought about how Grace must be feeling since you deceived her?" Candace criticized him outwardly. "Since you couldn't care less about other people's feelings, it is only right that your feelings are not taken into consideration in return."

After a momentary pause, Heinz's expression became stern.

Every single word that came out of her mouth pierced his heart like the tip of a dagger, causing it to bleed uncontrollably.

He knew for himself how sorry he felt for what he put Grace through.

"Sit down. I'm not done yet," Candace ordered him in a low voice.

Despite how he felt about her approach, Heinz obliged her instructions and complied. It was most likely guilt that motivated this behavior.

He looked at Candace and tried to calm himself down. "Madam Lowe, everything you've said is the absolute truth and I admit to it. I did not care for Grace as I should have and now that all the awful incidents have passed, I will do right by Grace and make up to her for our troubled past in the coming future," Heinz explained himself almost as if making a promise to Candace.

"Whatever that has happened by far is merely just the beginning. There is definitely more to come, and for that very reason, you are not a suitable partner for her," she rebutted once again.

"If you feel so strongly about that, then enlighten me, Madam Lowe, who is a suitable candidate to be Grace's partner in your opinion?" Questioned Heinz.

"Anyone is practically better than you," she answered baselessly.

"Even I, a policeman, am not to your liking. I'm starting to think that there is absolutely no one who will be to your liking," chuckled Jensen.

"You're wrong. It's only the both of you who are not to my liking," retorted Candace.

"I'm sorry, but Heinz and I happened to be of Grace's and Alice's liking. I apologize, but we cannot comply with what you ask of us," replied Jensen.

Candace frowned and mocked impatiently, "You really are a little policeman who has never seen the world."

Her words really got to Jensen. Despite feeling extremely indignant by her words, he was equally amused at the same time.

"That's true. I am indeed just a little policeman who has never seen the world and not as experienced as you are. I definitely do not have the confidence you have in trying to break apart lovers on purpose," he sneered sarcastically.

"You're getting out of line. You simply will not bring upon happiness to Alice, what more with that bad temper," retorted Candace.

"Madam Lowe, if it wasn't for the simple fact that you are Alice's mother I would not be wasting so much time with you here," exclaimed Jensen.

"I did not come looking for you either. It's him I came looking for," declared Candace.

She pointed at Heinz.

Heinz did not expect Candace to be this way.

She had abandoned Grace and Alice before they even became adults. She did not show even an ounce of guilt for all the years of not being in their lives. Instead, she asserted herself as their mother and tried to decide their future.

People like her seem to be naturally confident by birth, but he really couldn't tell how she mustered up the nerves to portray such confidence in the position that she was in.

Heinz stared at Candace intently; his gaze filled with resentment as time passed in dead silence.

He did not speak again after that realizing that he didn't want to waste his breath. He just looked at the woman before his eyes indifferently.

"I'm looking for Heinz, not you, you policeman. You shouldn't have even come to begin with." Candace shrugged rudely at Jensen, "But since you are here, let me make myself clear. You should leave Alice as soon as possible before you bring endless trouble to her in the future."

"I think it is you who brought upon trouble to Alice. Her misfortune was mainly caused by your behavior, wasn't it?" Jensen hissed at her.

Candace did not give in either. Seeing Jensen criticize her like that, she was even more angry and cursed at him, "Officer Charm, please shut up. I didn't even know you were dating Alice to begin with, but now that I do, you're not suitable for her. Your attitude towards me and your profession itself is enough to prove that you are not qualified to be with her."

Jensen shrugged. He, too, was provoked by her beyond control. It seemed that both his and Alice's mothers were the same, overly confident.

"Madam Lowe, you seem to be overconfident. If I'm not qualified to be with Alice, have you checked if you are qualified to be her mother? Where were you when Grace and Alice suffered all these years?" Jensen chuckled as he questioned her, almost as if a burden had been lifted off his shoulders.

"Where were you when Alice needed you the most? Do you know how Alice and Grace got by all these years?"

Upon hearing this, Candace squinted as her face reflected a sense of horror.

"Is there a mother like you in this world? You never do anything for your children, yet you come here to interfere with their marriage and freedom," Jensen continued to rebuke her actions.

"I think the most shameless person in the world is a person like you. You are overly confident for no reason."

"Heinz, I don't think it's necessary for us to meet an irrelevant person like her, what more to let her decide our future," said Jensen to Heinz as he got up on his feet.

"You're right. It's our life and we have our own freedom to get married to anyone we want. We don't need anyone to interfere with our choice of a partner. The choices are on us. I've been meaning to leave, and I think now is the time for it." Heinz nodded and stood up as well.