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.

chill down his spine, the pain on his face

You hit him, you hit me. And if you think you can strut around the Ashbourne estate and walk

so here for this!” Aviana

this jerk now, she’d be serving up a plate of Lionel’s “Golden Grains” to this

eyes brimmed with tears.

ironic,

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

of the humiliation Suri had to endure. “I don’t care about the Bright family’s ridiculous rules. This is my home, and Suri is my family. You dare to humiliate her like this? Do you think we’re all dead? I should have hit you harder.

defiance was

with pride yet concerned that

an intellectual and industry elite, had

shaking, “You’ve benefited from the Bright family’s generosity, and you dare

for Evadne.

his face as dark as the bottom of a pan, stormed off like a ruffled

say I owe the Bright family? Fine, then

“Lunatic!”

red as he made a hasty retreat. Chasel took one last deep look at Evadne, no longer looking back, and walked

stood upright by the railing, and his hands, which were holding

at Chasel’s back, pain tugged at his heart

Warner couldn’t help it anymore. He spat hard

seen that Evadne was

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

with hatred, and his teeth were about to break. “When I get home and see Grandpa and Dad, you’ll

Silverlake Harbor, the atmosphere seemed to lose

his own wife is being harassed?”

gets himself enemies, and he expects who to deal with them if not himself?”

her, “Evadne, don’t be hard

room fell silent.

or even reporting for duty, sounded better than going

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