Chapter 239

Glynnis‘ ears were ringing, as if she’d been struck by lightning. She was frozen in place.

“Mom, save me! Mom!”

Seeing her daughter being dragged away by the police, Elspeth threw all pretense of a wealthy lady’s dignity to the wind. She even tried to obstruct the police! “My daughter is innocent! How could you, as police officers, handle the case like this? How could you mistakenly arrest an innocent person?!!

Jareth watched the overly dramatic mother–daughter duo with cold eyes, silently hoping the police would hurry up and spare them the noise. “Elspeth, if you don’t let go, we’ll charge you with obstructing justice!” The policeman’s tone was icy towards Elspeth.

“My daughter was framed! By her, by the daughter of the Fairhaven family, Edith!” Elspeth shouted, both terrified and furious, her gaze fixed on ‘Edith with a malicious intensity.

“What does this have to do with me? Even if I did forge the necklace, it’s just a case of copyright infringement. A little compensation and it’s over. But I didn’t get involved in any of the commercial secret leaks!”

Edith’s words were cut short as her heart gave a painful jolt. She slapped a hand over her mouth.

Damn, she’d slipped up! In her haste to distance herself from Glynnis, she’d let the cat out of the bag about the necklace!

She felt like a target, a pair of sharp painful arrows piercing her chest.

Edith slowly turned around, meeting Jareth’s gaze full of anger, shock, and disappointment.

“Mr. Jareth! Your sister is not as innocent as you think! She’s full of deceit and she’s lied to both you and me!”

Glynnis‘ shriek echoed through the Fairhaven estate, chilling as a wailing banshee. “Edith! You used me as a scapegoat. I’ll never forgive you, just you wait!” “Edith! Quick, come to me!” Mrs. Jareth called, clearly frightened by Elspeth and her daughter.

“Mummy!”

Edith, still in shock, tried to run towards her mother, but was forcefully stopped by Jareth grabbing her wrist.

“Jareth.” She was trembling.

“Edith, why did you do it? Was it to get back at Ms. Evadne?” Jareth asked, his eyes red with

anger.

“It’s all Glynnis‘ nonsense!”

“You’re still denying it!”

Jareth bellowed, his grip tightening, making Edith cry out in pain. “Ouch, Jareth, let go! It hurts! Mummy, help me!”

“Jareth! Let her go! Are you trying to break your sister’s wrist?”

Mrs. Jareth rushed over in a panic, prying Jareth’s hand off her daughter and pulling Edith into a protective embrace. “Can’t we talk this out?”

“Talk it out? I gave her a chance to explain, but what was she doing?”

Jareth was seething, staring at Edith’s tear–streaked face, which still held an angelic innocence..

A sharp pain echoed in his chest, spreading through his nerves. “She’s been lying and plotting with Glynnis, trying to frame Ms. Evadne! What did Evadne do wrong? Why are you targeting her? Because she’s Thaddeus‘ ex–wife? Is that your reason?”

Jareth! You’ve watched Edith grow up. Don’t you know how kind and good she

made a bad decision, it’s because she was tricked by that Abernathy girl! How can

private jet before Glynnis and Ada’s contract signing. When I asked her where she was going, she lied about going to a fashion show. If you truly are innocent, why did you

How can you deny it now? If our father knew how low you’ve stooped, he’d be turning

this!” Mrs. Jareth’s eyes welled up with tears at the mention of

taste of her own medicine? You’re so self–righteous now, but you’re just standing up for Evadne! You only have eyes for that woman. I’m nothing to you

“Edith!”

His single utterance of her name was enough to

I believe in Evadne’s character. She may be stubborn, heartless, and vengeful, but she would never

angry

Thaddeus. He likes

her face turned red as a beet, she could feel

apologize to Ms. Evadne with me,

gave his cold command and then turned

Why should I apologize

apologize to her, then I’ll send you back to Aetheria tonight. Without my permission, you don’t even think about

teamed towar

She had heard rumors of her son’s demeanor, but when

the sake of Thaddeus’s

“Jareth, come back!”

hoarse from shouting. But Jareth, who had always doted on her, didn’t even look

midnight, at the

in the VIP room, drinking one shot after

heart achèd so badly that he could feel it pulsating. The liquor churned in his stomach,

then, the door to the room

don’t need any company, get the

his glass and smashed it on

Mr. Thaddeus

and her voluptuous figure moved aside. “Sorry, Mr. Thaddeus,

I’m used to it.” Thaddeus showed no

“Please come in.”

and walked

and closed the door

gotten into

next to Jareth. “Didn’t Evadne dump you already?

it’s funny that I got dumped by Evadne, don’t you?” Jareth took a deep breath,

you don’t deserve

from his pocket and putting it in his mouth. “Evadne never accepted you in the first place, so how could she dump you? At best, you’re just a

a useless tire! With you on, even a Ferrari

calling Evadne a “slut“, and his heart felt suffocated.

any other woman, he

beloved sister. No matter how angry he was, he couldn’t do anything about it. He couldn’t even bear to punish her

cigarette, his eyes

sighed heavily. “The fake necklace that Glynnis used to bribe Ada was

slightly, but he stayed

not surprised at

“I guessed as much.”

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