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."

upstairs, Clarisse was left seething, unable to vent her

and the others. "Look at the kind of people the Hoffmans have raised! They all have no manners. I knew it from the start. When a child isn't your own, you can't expect someone to

his brows together.

him a reassuring

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 any aunt should

"If you're upset and need someone to take it out on, I won't

"Enough, Clarisse. Haven't you

snapped, clearly

home, not

to leave

so unhappy with

Mateo, you're the one who

all this shouting about?" Henry helped Nancy to her feet, his

unbearable, Madam Baker, you can leave. And for the record, no one is allowed to

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