Chapter 167

Tessa had no idea that the Jacobson family was ever involved in such a scandal. She had never even heard a whisper about it. They truly had kept it completely under wraps. Stephen continued, "Frankly, that mistress was probably my father's true love. It's just a shame that they would never be together. My grandmother has always despised immoral homewreckers. "Meanwhile, my grandfather is a man of integrity and would never allow my father to marry his mistress and ruin the family's reputation. My father had everyone fooled in the beginning. We all thought that he had made his mistress get an abortion and had cut ties with her for good. "Unfortunately, my mother discovered the truth when I was around five or six. She confronted him, and things had gotten so bad that they were on the verge of divorce. Eventually, both sides of the family stepped in. After all, their marriage wasn't just about the two of them. "Theirs was a marriage that sealed the interests of both the Jameson and