"What's happening here?" Aleigha walked in, pretending to be surprised. She looked at the mess all over the floor.
She felt quite distressed about the valuable objects being smashed to pieces.
"Miss Gardner, well..."
Raquel watched Lauren go crazy, which made the Xiao family a mess. She didn't know how to explain it, and her face turned into a rather embarrassed expression.
"The things are not important. It's good that you two are all right. Why don't I call Mr. Hammond? You can't just stay here and not think of a solution to whatever that got you out of the house in the first place."
Raquel wanted to stop her, but Aleigha had called.
"Mr. Hammond, your wife and daughter are here with me in the Xiao house. Why don't you send someone to pick them up? Having a quarrel is quite normal, you all people should understand that, right? But you do have to work it out sooner or later, with all due respect."
Valentino's tone on the other side of the phone was very gentle. After chatting for a while, he agreed to send someone to bring them back.
Knowing Valentino's response, Raquel thought that he had figured it out. Therefore, she kept on bowing and thanking Aleigha.
However, she still had to pay for the things that Lauren had smashed in the house.
"Mrs. Hammond, you know, these items are all Adrian's personal collections. They're quite expensive."
"I'm afraid there's gotta be an explanation, so to speak, for this."
Raquel frowned and said with a smile, "Of course I'll compensate you."
"Well, I'm sure you will, since you are quite the woman of honor, right? But you and I both know that words don't really mean much and it's not really my decision to make to just let you go. What do you say we set this whole thing down on a piece of paper?'
Raquel didn't have time to think about this. Lauren kept cursing and shouting, all Raquel could bring herself to do was listen to everything Aleigha wanted her to do.
Aleigha had Phoenix calculate how much everything cost in total and wrote it down on a note.
Before Raquel could take a glance at it, the people sent by Valentino had arrived, so she could only leave the Xiao family with Lauren.
Valentino returned home at noon and forced Raquel to sign the divorce agreement. Without giving her a penny, he kicked the two of them out of the house.
Raquel stared at the divorce agreement in a daze, tears rolling down her cheeks.
Lauren was scared to tremble at the sight of Valentino, and her mind, as she was hiding behind Raquel, was also much clearer.
"Valentino, shouldn't our marriage, our marriage that has lasted for decades, at least count for something?"
Valentino, with fierce eyes, gave him a slap and said, "Marriage? How do you dare to bring that up now?"
"Did our marriage flash past your mind for a second when you were riding on some man's c*ck? Ah? Did it?"
"How dare you talk to me about our marriage, you degenerate!"
Raquel was speechless, holding Lauren and sobbing silently.
"Get your things and leave now. I don't want to see you anymore."
Valentino glanced at them and turned to enter the study.
Aleigha gave Adrian, who was on a business trip abroad, a call. Adrian naturally did not care about the collections.
He just reminded her to be careful.
With Adrian's permission, Aleigha called Valentino and told him about Raquel.
Valentino's hand, which was holding the phone, was shaking. He was so angry yet he could not let off the steam on Aleigha. On the contrary, he had to be all polite and humble.
After putting down the phone, he rushed out and gave Raquel a few slaps. Even Lauren, who was standing beside her, was slapped by him.
It was not a big deal for Raquel to be beaten, but Valentino beat Lauren, which made her extremely irritated.
She stood up and began to fight with Valentino.
"Valentino, you f*cking animal. She might not be your real daughter but now that after what you've done to her, what else could you possibly want?"
"If you dare to lay another finger on her, mark my words, I'll take out all your skeletons hidden in your closet! I will!"
Valentino's eyes seemed to spurt fire. "Are you threatening me? Well, then, you asked for this."
Raquel was horrified when she heard that. However, she could not be weak in such a critical moment.
She bellowed in a frenzy, "Go ahead and kill me. Even if you do kill me, there will be people who will do that for me!"
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