The water was so hot that she jumped, and her palm missed Melody’s face.

“Who threw hot water at me?!”

Sophia was fuming. When she looked down, she saw Alden holding an empty glass.

The moment she saw him, she threw all caution to the wind and ran over to grab him by the collar. Then, she swung her hand at him.

Adina grabbed her hand midwing, even if it felt as if her bone was about to be crushed.

“Abusing my kids while I’m not around, Sophia? It’s been years since we last met, but you’re as uncivilized as ever.”

Adina flung her hand away and bent down to hug Alden and Melody.

Sophia was so angry that she felt as if she was about to combust.

She pointed at Melody and roared, “Your daughter slapped my son! Either let me slap her, or do it yourself!”

Adina looked over and saw the palm print on Leo’s face.

But Melody never took the first step to hurt others.

“Mommy, it’s not Mel’s fault,” Alden said. “Leo called her a mute and spat at her.”

he was blaming

so he had stepped away from

his fault. He had made his mother worry

Adina heard her son’s words, rage stirred in

she could not tolerate: people calling her

just

Slap!

rang through the living

wide. “You witch, how dare you hit me?! I won’t let

and lunged at Adina like a crazed

coolly, and Sophia missed. She crashed

down her

pathetic state before, and she wanted to

your son has a foul mouth, so that slap was for him!” Adina said while looking

her long, curled lashes fluttered. It looked like she had

hit my daughter?! As long as I’m one of the Xaviers, don’t

the house, too?” Madam Xavier walked out of the study room with her cane and stopped in

anger and said in a quivering voice, “That’s not what I meant, Mother. You saw what happened just now. Adina has no respect for her elders and hit her cousin. She’s too arrogant,

family!” Richard roared. “If you can’t accept Addy, go back to your

after being rebuked by her mother-in-law and husband in front of others, but she did not dare to say

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