The Cherished Wife

Chapter 781

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."

Chloe went upstairs, Clarisse was left seething, unable

directed her anger to Mateo, Nancy, and the others. "Look at the kind of people the Hoffmans have raised! They all have no manners. I knew it from the start.

brows together. "Are you

gave him a

turned 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 did what

was physically frail, she was not someone who could be easily bullied. "If you're upset and need someone to take it out on, I

"Enough, Clarisse. Haven't you

snapped, clearly frustrated.

Hoffmans' home, not

to leave

so unhappy with

Mateo, you're the one who

her feet, his eyes filled with disdain as

leave. And for the record, no one is allowed to lecture my wife. Come on, Nancy.

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