Biting her lips, Jessica looked at Charles with the last light of hope in her eyes disappearing and her eyes filled with tears.
Jessica had always thought that she was different from Angela as she was sensible and thoughtful and Angela was just a foppish rich kid who knew nothing about business.
But now Jessica realized that she was no different from Angela as she was abandoned by her families once she became a burden to them just like Angela.
Ignoring Jessica, Charles asked all the other people in a raised voice, "Have you all remembered it?"
No one responded. Charles asked again until all of them responded.
"You said that I did all the stupid things for a man and warned other people here. What about you, Grandpa? You make the whole Lewis family awkward by marrying this woman..."
Charles slapped Jessica in the face before she could finish her words.
"Don't compare me with you. You don't know what I'm doing at all!" shouted Charles who was so emotional that his voice even cracked in the end.
Everyone tensed up.
With her hand covering her face, Jessica was shocked beyond belief and tears welled up in her eyes. However, Charles didn't give her a glance and left with a grim look on his face.
"Damn cripple! Mind your own business!" shouted Timothy and chased Charles while calling him in a affectedly sweet voice.
Seeing that, Adeline changed her countenance and said, "Jessica, how could you speak to your grandpa like that? We have made the decision for the whole family. What a big deal if you are not the finance director?"
"Even if you leave the company, your grandpa, you dad and your brother are still in charge of the company! How could you be so thoughtless today?"
Jessica's father Edward Smith, who was standing aside, pulled the sleeve of Adeline and opened and shut his mouth, unspeaking.
"I'm thoughtless?" sneered Jessica and then wiped away her tears and trotted out.
This was the first time Jessica had a huge fight with her families.
'They don't understand me!' thought Jessica.
'None of them understand me!'
'They have no difference from Lorenzo Chante as they will abandon anyone who is useless to them too! No matter how much I have done and how well-performed I have been, they all choose to ignore it!'
'I'll let all of them regret to have abandoned me. I'll also let Grandpa Harvey regret his behavior and let Angela regret to have schemed against me! They owe me!'
*
In the Sichuan style restaurant, Angela was having meal with James when her phone was ringing. James picked up the phone and handed it to Angela after a glance. With a slight frown, James asked, "Do you still have contact with him?"
The caller was Martin.
"Yes, I have something to ask him for help," replied Angela simply and took over the phone and answered, "Hello, Mr. Martin."
"Okay, like what we have discussed before...okay, thanks. I'll pay the money into your bank account later," said Angela and hung up.
James ate silently and waited for the explanation of Angela. However, after handing her phone to him, Angela just continue to eat and had no intention of speaking.
"Martin has a good reputation as a detective. Gabriela has told me that police, soldiers and detectives are the ideal type to many young girls," said James as he put the food on to the plate of Angela.
Angela gazed at him for quite a while.
Looking away, James wiped the corners of his mouth with napkins and said, "I'm just curious about the ideal type of young girls like you. I haven't known it before. The better we know each other, the fewer the contradictions between us."
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