After speaking, John helped me up and prepared to leave.
However, Ashton rose to his feet, looked straight ahead calmly, and said arrogantly, “I’m fine with divorce. I don’t mind her leaving as well, but she’s still carrying the descendants of the Fullers. I won’t let the Stovall family take them away.”
Why does this sound so weird? Didn’t he want our kids to bear my name last night? Why is he trying to get their custody now?
While Ashton spoke, John, who had been furious, stopped in his tracks with his arm linked with mine. After he was stunned for a few seconds, he suddenly let go of me and turned to walk up to Ashton.
“F*ck!” The unexpected punch made Ashton stagger backward, pushing the chair behind him away.
Zachary hurriedly stopped John. “What are you doing, John? We’re all family!”
“We’re not!” John broke free from him and lashed out at him, “You’re just as horrible! You worked together to cause Letty to lose her first kid! You’re the real family!”
After he was seemingly done venting his anger, he glanced at me and suppressed his rage before leaving with me.
As we left halfway through the meal, we did not know what happened later.
But after coming out of the castle, John had been in a good mood. Sitting on the leather seat with his legs crossed, he clasped his hands and tapped his fingers, looking particularly relaxed.
Seeing this, I understood everything, so I teased him with a smile, “Your acting was too exaggerated just now.”
John was surprised. “You can tell?”
I gave him a tight-lipped smile. “Ashton won’t say something like that. Besides, even if you’re really not happy about him, you’ll still put your prejudice aside and form a united front with him in front of outsiders. Judging from how strange the two of you were behaving, it only proves that you were just putting up an act for Zayne and Ezra.”
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