A Matter of Wife and Love

Chapter 137

Chapter 137

As soon as the duo turned around, they saw Steven taking big strides toward them with a big ladle in his hand. At the same time, he was followed by Toby, who was staggering with his steps along the way. Steven was seen with his eyes wide open at that moment, glaring at Melissa like an angry beast as if he wanted to eat her.

It turned out that he had overheard the duo’s conversation when he was on his way to return the ladle to where it was. Having a strong grudge toward the Alston Family, Steven was even more pissed off upon hearing Melissa’s words. The next second, he angrily walked up to the old lady and questioned her, “What did you just say? Did you just threaten to lay my daughter off? How dare you!” The man raised the ladle as he finished his

words.

Taken aback by the man’s violent reaction, Melissa was prompted by her instincts to step back in intimidation as her face turned pale. “Y-You! You’re unreasonable!” The woman’s anger quickly took over her feeling of humiliation just when she pointed at Steven madly with a trembling finger.

“Me? Unreasonable?! Guess what? No one else on this planet is more unreasonable than any one of you from the Alston Family!” Steven bellowed like a tiger roaring at its prey. Steven had always preferred to avoid rather than engage in conflict even though it rarely ended in his favor, but this time, he was so angry that he could’

barely control his emotions.

Meanwhile, it was Amelie’s second time seeing her father so worked up as she recalled the last time that he got

mad on her behalf.

In the meantime, Steven didn’t strike Melissa with the ladle but instead brandished it in front of the woman to

threaten her. “My daughter gave everything she had to your family, but none of you treated her the way she

deserved. I’ve always put up with that, yet here you are now, trying to stir up trouble. Do I look like some

voice sent cold chills down Melissa’s

from head to toe.

help but recall the time

she reckoned she could just take advantage of.

realized she had been wrong about the man the

the table with the ladle, creating

place. At the same time, Melissa lost her footing and collapsed with her arm hitting

and frozen as if her

by Steven’s response, thinking the latter was about to hit Melissa.

to get physical with Melissa. Judging from that, she

of going easy on the lady who tried to take advantage of his daughter. On the other hand, Melissa was

help but find the sight of that satisfying. After all, Melissa had always treated her less than she deserved, having arranged a small room beside the garage for

the maids received better treatment than me. Soon, she recalled the fact that she was always stopped from seeing Leo

was disgusted by the thought of Melissa’s hypocrisy, feeling sick about her unkind nature beneath her kind pretense in front of others. However, although she found Melissa’s situation ironic, she felt a stab of pain in her

wrong side of the Alston Family, it won’t end well for you.” Amelie heard Melissa’s voice just when her eyes began to

out

to fear them anymore. I’ll always have your back!” Deep down, Steven blamed himself for Amelie’s misery, thinking he could have avoided that if he had interfered with his daughter’s marriage soon enough. Because of that, he wanted to

hearing her father’s words, Amelie could barely fight back her tears as she wrapped her arms around him. “Enough, Dad. You’ve done plenty for me. I’m so touched and happy that you’re always by my side, but you need to stop doing this; you’ll only

and tears off his face. While he could give up the whole world

finger on her, she was still too

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