Chapter 242
He acted as if he hadn’t noticed Emily’s probing or suspicion. Glancing around, he added, “This isn’t the place to talk about this. Ms. Harper, how about I treat you to dinner? If you have any questions, feel free to ask.”
Emily knew what kind of person Jeremy was behind that mask, and she didn’t even hesitate before refusing. “No, I-”
“Emily “That deliberately saccharine tone was like a fly landing in a bowl of fresh soup, instantly nauseating. Emily turned her head and, sure enough, saw Lydia standing there.
She frowned, her voice cold. “Ms. Bennett, that ‘Emily’ from you makes me sick.”
Back when Lydia and Lucas used to call her, she didn’t feel anything. But at that moment, unless it was Austin calling her, it just made her skin crawl.
Lydia’s excited expression froze, then slowly turned into a pitiful pout. “Did I… Did I upset you again, Emily? I’m sorry, it’s all my fault… she whimpered, her voice trembling with fake sobs.
Seeing that, Emma, who was right behind Lydia, rushed over and pulled her into her arms, comforting her. “Lydia, don’t cry I will stand up for you.”
Then she turned to Emily, her eyes instantly shifting from concern to accusation. “Emily, why are you bullying Lydia again?
Emily was used to this kind of reaction from Emma and didn’t even bother to lift her eyelids. Meanwhile, Jeremy stood nearby, watching Lydia snuggle pitifully in Emma’s arms, a thoughtful look on his face.
He couldn’t help but feel that this scene was all too familiar. It used to happen all the time back to the Windrose family. But back then. he wasn’t the one getting blamed. It was his brother, Zack.
He turned his gaze back to Emily, a glint of something deep and calculating flickering in his eyes. He and Emily were cut from the same cloth.
Peupe them were born to seize the riches and power fate handed them and spend their lives standing above everyone else. They couldn’t let some bastard from the outside waltz back in and snatch away what belonged to them.
Maybe his predatory stare was just too obvious, because Emily turned her head, only to meet his eyes, locked on her like she was prey.
Emily remembered Zack once saying that with someone like Jeremy, if he ever got his eye on someone, there were only two endings: ending up as a toy or being destroyed by him.
Seeing that Emily kept ignoring her, Emma was even angrier. “I’m talking to you. 1-
Lydia’s always had a weak constitution. I brought her here today for a check-up, and y right in front of me? Don’t forget, if she hadn’t taken your place all those years…”
ou treat your elders?
have the nerve to pick on her
“If she hadn’t spent eighteen years suffering out there for me, her health wouldn’t be this bad. It’s all my fault, right? That’s what you were about to say? Emily cut her off. Her bored, mocking tone hit Emma like a hammer, leaving her speechless.
Emily frowned, her eyes full of undisguised impatience. “I’ve heard this so many times. Mrs. Bennett, aren’t you sick of saying the same thing over and over?
“I wasn’t the one who caused the hospital mix-up all those years ago, so why do you keep putting the blame on me? You raised me for eighteen years, so I never blamed you for all the grievances I suffered during that time. Even…
She paused for a second, then went on, “I don’t even hate you for everything that happened these past two years. Can’t we
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just leave things at that and go our separate ways? Why do you have to keep fixating on me?”
