Chapter 1410
“How dare your adopted daughter accuse my son of being unworthy when he tried to pursue her back then, Mrs. Montgomery? Your daughter played my son and look where that got her? She’s dead now!”
The woman crossed her arms and smirked in schadenfreude.
“Mrs. Montgomery, you took a heinous and vile woman as your own daughter and in return caused your darling daughter to go through so many sufferings. Wouldn’t you call this retribution?”
“Exactly! It’s probably because of how unlucky the daughter she gave birth to was that she almost tore the Whitman family apart, or so I heard. When the Montgomery family recognized her, their house got burned down. Her mom gets left paralyzed and becomes stupid. What a misfortune! Haha…”
“You’re right! Haha…”
The two women started sneering incessantly.
Seeing this, Karen immediately grabbed an apple from the fruit plate and threw it at them forcefully.
The two women stopped laughing abruptly and dodged in fright. In the end, both their foreheads collided and it was followed by painful screams. The two immediately yelled, “Is this how housewives of rich families act? How can you start hitting people?”
Karen sneered unhurriedly and said, “I don’t think I hit a person, though.”
“…”
“Eloise’s adopted daughter died a long time ago. How could you use a deceased person for the sake of your own entertainment? And you dare to call yourself a person? Do people say such things?”
“…” The two women flushed at the words but they could not say anything to refute.
Karen walked straight up to them and chided with unrestrained anger, “I’m already going easy on you by just throwing an apple considering how you’re gloating in the face of someone else’s misfortune. Leave, before I call the police to have you two arrested!”
“You… Fine!” The woman curled her lips and turned around indignantly, but she had walked too quickly and ended up twisting her ankle. Her heavy body was sent falling to the ground with a thud.
“Ow!”
Madeline woke up In Jeremy’s warm embrace and the first thing her bleary eyes met was the man’s sleeping face. She rolled over and lay down beside Jeremy lazily.
The gentle morning halo scattered over the man’s resolute and refined features. Madeline lifted her finger and began to gently trace the man’s eyebrows.
‘I wish that you’ll be the first thing I see whenever I wake up for the rest of my life, Jeremy.’
She leaned in to kiss Jeremy only for the man to raise his hand and hold the back of her head the moment she inched forward.
Caught off guard, Madeline found her lips pressed against Jeremy’s thin ones. Blood rushed to her face. “So you were awake all along, Jeremy?”
Jeremy curled the corners of his thin lips and smiled. Just as he was about to talk to Madeline, his phone rang.
Madeline helped him reach for the phone and realized that it was from Karen. She immediately picked up the phone. “Why are you calling so early in the morning, Mom? Did something happen to my mother?”
Madeline was worried that something had happened to Eloise, but Karen’s reply astonished her. “What? Really, Mom?”
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