Chloe's face showed a cold smile as she replied, "Family? Madam Baker, you're not even one of the Hoffmans, are you?"

"You..." Clarisse's expression immediately changed. "Chloe, how could you speak to me like that?"

"And how exactly do you expect me to speak to you? To me, you're nothing more than a stranger," Chloe sneered, clearly showing no respect for Clarisse.

Clarisse was shocked to realize that both her son and daughter harbored such hostility toward her.

Her face fell. Feeling humiliated, she turned her anger toward Mateo, "Look at the daughter you raised!"

Mateo frowned. "Chloe, is that any way to speak to your mother? Apologize!"

Chloe snorted coldly. "I did nothing wrong. Since I was old enough to remember, I haven't had a mother." Chloe's stubbornness mirrored Charles', and she was not one to back down easily.

"Enough!" Maxwell slammed his cane on the floor and stood up with a scowl. "Chloe, come with me!"

Chloe patted her husband, Jordy, on the shoulder and said, "Take care of Anna."

and Chloe went upstairs, Clarisse was

all have no manners. I knew it from the start. When a child isn't your

his brows

a reassuring smile.

to Clarisse. "That's not quite right, Clarisse. It wasn't me who abandoned Chloe and Charlie back then, and I didn't raise them either. I only

was physically frail, she was not someone who could be easily bullied. "If you're upset and

"Enough, Clarisse. Haven't you

snapped, clearly frustrated. "This

Hoffmans' home, not

free to leave right

so

Mateo, you're the one who

all this shouting about?" Henry helped Nancy to her

Hoffmans so unbearable, Madam Baker, you can leave. And for the record, no one

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