Chapter 642

Warner froze in his tracks, that all–too–familiar look of impatience creeping back onto his face.

Evadne let go of Thaddeus‘ hand and marched up to Warner with the speed of a tempest.

The next second, her slender arm swung through the air, her fiery blue eyes blazing with fury as she slapped the privileged man across the face–not once, but twice!

The sound resonated, leaving the onlookers, including Thaddeus, in shock.

Warner himself was stunned beyond belief, and it wasn’t until the sting on his cheek flared up and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth that he fully grasped what had happened.

He had been slapped!

“Evadne!” Warner covered his face with his hands, his voice shaking with rage as he struggled to hold back his fury.

Thaddeus strode over with long, determined steps, wrapping his protective arms around Evadne, his gaze upon Warner dark and foreboding.

on his face momentarily

hit him, you hit me. And if you think you can strut around the Ashbourne estate and walk out like nothing happened, those two slaps are

Evadne! I’m so here for this!” Aviana almost

serving up a plate of Lionel’s “Golden Grains” to

brimmed

was ironic,

family he never felt among the Brights, he found within the walls of the Ashbourne residence, filling his cold heart with a solace he had never

home, and Suri is my family. You dare to humiliate her like this? Do you think we’re

defiance was palpable.

with pride yet concerned that her hand might be in

intellectual and industry elite, had never suffered such an indignity.

trembled with rage, pointing at Evadne’s stunning face, his voice shaking, “You’ve benefited from the Bright family’s generosity, and you dare raise your hand against me? You’re ungrateful! The Ashbourne family,

“As you say, it was Suri who sought the medicine for Evadne. The debt of gratitude is owed to

his face as dark as the bottom of

say I owe the Bright family? Fine, then take

“Lunatic!”

a hasty retreat. Chasel took one last deep look at Evadne, no longer

by the railing, and his hands, which were holding

tugged at his heart and

as he went out, Warner couldn’t help it anymore. He spat hard on the ground and spat

seen that Evadne was really ruthless when she slapped him.

saw it in his eyes, and the corners of his lips couldn’t stop rising. Then Warner

hatred, and his teeth were about to break. “When I get home and see

Chasel left the Silverlake Harbor, the atmosphere

when his own wife

to cramp with pain. “He gets himself enemies,

her, “Evadne, don’t be hard

room fell silent.

better than going to work like a common laborer.

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