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.
his normally sensible and considerate youngest, for
at manipulating men’s hearts, had shifted his son’s nature. If she continued to influence
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
at the
nurturing mother
did her love become so twisted?
contracted slightly.
would the Dempsey family save face? How would Jason cleanly break with
Nydia bravely met Mrs. Dempsey’s hostile gaze, her voice calm and steady, “Mrs. Dempsey, I’m sorry, but I don’t understand
twisted
the normally gentle and timid woman standing her
did you say?” Mrs. Dempsey stiffened, taken aback by the young woman’s
to be blind to this, trying to
as she took a
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
and Mrs. Dempsey
why
he had, he might now
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
cheeks burning with shame as if
time I hear
expression, his
had always been the quiet one, soft–spoken, like a delicate
through her own limitations, radiant and bold, even casting the shadow
No.
simply herself, the Nydia he adored, unlike anyone
as his wife choked on her words,
young girl–it was beneath his dignity; on the other hand, his wife’s sharp tongue had indeed gone too far. Who wouldn’t snap back at her?
aback, her lips trembling, her mental
speak, it’s as if we, the Dempsey family,
like a fan fanning the flames, how could he resist adding fuel to the fire?
the Dempsey family, might not compare to the Ashbournes, we may be of modest means, but we come from a lineage of integrity. We wouldn’t just let any girl with a questionable past into our home. That’s
clenched in anger, no longer interested in
everyone has forgotten. You say you were forced, but who really knows
if struck at her
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