The First Heir

Philip’s voice was not loud. He smiled at them apologetically.

Even so, his words left everyone in the room stunned.

Martha especially looked at him like he was a ghost. She felt terrible all over, and she burst out swearing, “Damn you, Philip, no one asked you! Get the hell out!”

Martha was beside herself with fury.

Philip was such a blabbermouth.

“Compare yourself to Paula’s son-in-law! Do you think you have any right to speak?” Martha roared at Philip furiously.

“If you weren’t so useless, would I embarrass myself in front of my family like this? I must have been blind to accept a useless piece of trash like you as my son-in-law back then!

“Look at her son-in-law, look what he bought for her! What about you? Have you ever bought me anything? How can you say such nonsense on top of that? If you want to go to the party, you can go by yourself! I’m not going!”

As Martha howled at him, Philip lowered his head helplessly.

It seemed his mother-in-law was dead certain that he was a good-for-nothing now.

Next to them, Paula enjoyed the show, chuckling to herself coldly. The irony on her face intensified.

She pretended to say kindly, “Come on, Martha, don’t keep venting your temper on poor Philip like that. You know what they say, a girl is only as good as the man she marries. It’s not Philip’s fault, it’s Wynn’s fault for choosing the wrong man.”

turned the blame to

masterful character in her own right. She was blatantly

only grew angrier when she

make her lose all

who insisted on marrying Philip Clarke, by hook or by

turned out to be

to insist on marrying this useless piece of trash! See what you’ve

screamed like a banshee, her temper boiling over. “I don’t care. If you still think of me as your mother, I want you to divorce this useless Philip right now! It’s

could you not? Why do you have to keep bringing up

felt pretty upset too. It was humiliating for her to have her mother talk to her like that, especially in front of Aunt Paula

to go back first?” Wynn turned to

too and

it was kind

all, he was still an

glanced at Philip who was standing in the

back then had now fallen to such an

Martha threw everything out the window and plopped her behind on the floor, throwing a tantrum as she wailed, “You heartless little witch! Your father and I raised you all those years, and this is how you treat us? Why did you marry that useless thing? What did I do wrong in my past life to deserve a

floor too, so she

to get up. She just pointed at Philip and wailed like she was

was nothing Wynn could do, so she just gave up. “Mom,

really want to spend the

saw it, someone as hopeless as Philip should

stopped them from getting married, if she had found Wynn a good man instead, then she would be