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 to vent her

no manners. I knew it from the start. When a child isn't your own, you can't expect someone to truly care

his brows together.

a reassuring

Chloe and Charlie back then, and I didn't raise

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

"Enough, Clarisse. Haven't you

snapped,

home,

to

you're so unhappy with

one

her feet, his

is right. If you find the Hoffmans so unbearable, Madam Baker, you can leave. And for the record, no one is allowed to

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