Chapter 594

Nydia felt as if she’d plunged into an icy abyss, a hurricane of cold dread rising from her trembling chest. Her cheeks, once flushed with embarrassment, now drained of color, her pallor heartbreaking to behold.

She stared into Mrs. Dempsey’s tear–filled eyes, seeing through the facade of her performance to the disdain she harbored within.

In the past, Nydia might have turned on her heel and fled to a lonely corner to wallow in self–pity and tears.

But this time, a reckless courage surged through her, a daring to confront the Dempsey clan head–on.

All she did was love Jason.

Was love a crime? Why should she bow to them?

If she ran now, tail between her legs, wouldn’t she be admitting that Mrs. Dempsey’s words were true?

“Ms. Nydia, did you understand what I’ve said?” Mrs. Dempsey maintained her frail demeanor, yet her tone was icy.

Jason’s broad shoulders quivered, the veins in his neck bulging as if they might burst, “Why lash out at me? How can you, as an elder, say such things to the woman I love? What has Nydia done to deserve this?”

“Jason, how dare you speak to your mother like this! You’re way out of line!” Dave finally lost his patience and scolded sharply.

This was a first for Dave, feeling both anger and astonishment.

normally sensible and considerate youngest, for this woman,

at manipulating men’s hearts, had shifted his son’s nature. If she continued to influence him, Jason would sever ties with the

you wouldn’t understand. Can you comprehend them? Ms. Nydia, you are the daughter of Chairman Emeric and Myra. Though not born to the main wife like Ms. Evadne, you too are his daughter, raised with a fine education, understanding, and reason.

vision blurring at the sight

this the same nurturing mother who raised him?

did

pupils contracted

too far, but without such measures, how would the Dempsey family save face? How would Jason cleanly

gaze, her voice calm and steady, “Mrs. Dempsey, I’m sorry, but I don’t understand your point.”

twisted in shock!

Jason was stunned, the normally gentle and timid woman standing her ground with

you say?” Mrs. Dempsey stiffened, taken aback

pretend to be blind to this, trying to tear us apart. May

she took a

him. Neither I nor my family would ever shame the Dempseys or be a burden. Moreover, you claim my sister has been using Jason, trampling his dignity, and that my family looks down on him. This is baseless. If it were true, my parents would never have approved of our relationship, and my father would

and Mrs. Dempsey

this happen, and why had Jason never

Ashbourne family himself. If only he had, he might now

disdain stems from my mother being Myra, then I’m sorry for your shallow, opportunistic views,” Nydia’s gentle gaze turned steely, her tone growing colder, “I cannot change my origins, nor do I wish to. I’m not ashamed of my mother. Her

with shame as

time I hear such words

fearless expression, his heart

one, soft–spoken, like a delicate bunny sheltered in

seemed to have suddenly matured, breaking through her own limitations, radiant and bold, even casting the shadow of a lady of high

No.

was simply herself, the Nydia

on her words, finding himself speechless.

dignity; on the other hand, his wife’s

Dempsey was taken aback, her lips trembling, her mental gears grinding to a halt, her authoritative

you speak, it’s as if we, the Dempsey family,

the flames, how could he resist adding fuel to the

anger. We, the Dempsey family, might not compare to the Ashbournes, we may

about?” Jason’s fists clenched in anger, no longer interested in words. He wanted to wring Cedric’s

don’t think just because he’s gone that everyone has forgotten. You say

staggered backwards in pain, as if struck at

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