A Matter of Wife and Love

Chapter 185

Melissa’s face stiffened.

Leo’s words made her angry and embarrassed

It was embarrassing to be questioned like that, and it ticked her off because she was his mother. It was natural for her to arrange his marriage. What he said meant that he didn’t take the engagement seriously!

But she knew that this wasn’t a time to quarrel with him.

Instead, she took a deep breath and said, “You saw the situation. Elyse was so upset. What if she really went through with it? Plus, all the reporters were here. How would you explain it to them? Either way, it will impact her and her family. I trust that you won’t want that to happen either.”

She couldn’t help but sneak a glance at Leo after speaking. When she saw that he didn’t intend to refute, she discreetly breathed a sigh of relief.

Melissa took a few steps toward him and continued, “It’s just an engagement, not marriage. If you don’t want to be with her, you’ll have chances to break off the engagement in the future. Now is not the time.”

…

Downstairs, Ashton stood in front of Elyse’s bed, pacing in circles.

He couldn’t help but reprimand her, “You know how dangerous that was, Elyse?! Don’t you dare do such dangerous things again in the future!”

Elyse listened to his words indifferently. Her face was a blank mask.

After listening for a while, she muttered, “I’m tired. Come back again tomorrow.”

Ashton stopped pacing as soon as he heard her request. Nodding, he stated, “Okay, I’ll come back tomorrow, then. Listen to me and be obedient. Stop thinking about what you have and don’t have.”

It was when Ashton left that Michael decided to approach his daughter.

He sat closely beside his daughter.

Then, he quietly said, “This Ashton guy really cares about you, so much more than Leo. If it doesn’t work out, don’t get hung up on him. You should consider Ashton.”

Elyse immediately changed her tune and rolled her eyes at her father. “Ashton is just an ordinary guy. Not only is he not the only son, but he’s also not a capable man. Being with him is like throwing myself into a pit of fire!”

Michael was so surprised by his daughter’s outburst that he choked before quickly covering it up with a cough. His fists were clenched tightly.

Leo doesn’t care much about you. If the reporters weren’t there, he would’ve

on her own? She’s

at Elyse. “As expected of my daughter. She’s just as smart as I

he was immediately clouded

in front of the reporters, he isn’t someone who

he would still care about Elie?” Elyse

Michael. “Good.

for a

way, they would

hurriedly told Elyse that she must take good

took out

news of the couple

of her lips twitched into a smile and a cunning

promise of engagement, but it isn’t that

a short

…

Melissa had left the hospital and was driving off in

made an appointment to play poker with her friends but

rubbed her temples and thought about how she could postpone the engagement indefinitely and finally peel off Elyse like

deep in thought,

a long-term friend whom Melissa often played poker

up her chest before answering the phone. “Madam Yancey, I’m so

understand that

was giggling over the

tugged into

reporters had already spread the news of the engagement. However, Elyse was not her choice of daughter-in-law and she didn’t want to talk about it at

everything Genevieve asked with

her and yet, she’s still sitting on

ago was a big humiliation to the Alston Family. Melissa’s expression darkened when

value her reputation as much, she would

took a deep breath to hold back her annoyance before saying calmly, “An engagement seems good. We’ll take things

the Internet will always go too far, talking about this and that. A lot of assumptions will surface. As soon as the news of Mr. Alston and Miss Clayton’s engagement spread on the Internet, the citizens made up a lot of rumors. A lot of people are saying that the Alston Family

hung up the phone, her face was already pale as

was covered with the engagement

of them were as