Her Revenge Was His Regret (Shirley and Gilbert) novel Chapter 237

Chapter 237 Lucas’s Protection

His

age

and mindset were worth talking about. Gilbert had every reason to be proud.

He didn’t say it out loud.

But he looked down on Lucas. He thought Lucas was just a kid riding his family’s coattails.

Edward had thought the same thing. He’d thought Lucas was too young. Until Lucas’s eyes glanced at him casually….

In that moment, Edward felt like he was being hunted. His hair stood on end, like Lucas saw right through him. He realized: anyone who could run the Harrison family couldn’t be useless. “What I mean is… can you fire Sherry?”

“Sherry…” Edward paused, then spoke honestly. “She’s good for nothing. I don’t mean to be cruel, but Sherry’s just… an idiot!

“She can’t do anything right except cause trouble. I once asked her to tidy up party stuff, and she messed everything up. She spilled sauce on all the food…

“I asked her to cook, and she burned Teresa, who was just walking by…

“She’s too stupid to get anything done!”

“Doesn’t your Campbell family have maids?” Lucas suddenly spoke up.

“We do.” Edward didn’t get why Lucas asked that.

“The things you just said-those are maid’s jobs. Why make Sherry do them?”

Edward was shocked again. “Huh?” He’d never thought about it that way. “We were just giving her a chance to do something…”

“Has the Campbell family lost all its businesses? You make her do work for housekeepers? Even if she flipped the whole dinner table, I’d cover for her. That’s what family does. Are you trying to raise a maid?”

“That’s not what I mean. I’m just saying she can’t even do these small, easy things. She’ll never be a good assistant for you. So I really think you should fire her. If not, she’ll cause a big disaster…”

Edward was in a hurry. Why doesn’t Lucas get it? The Harrison family will be the one to suffer!

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With Sherry’s stupidity, she’ll definitely mess everything up.

“She’ll ruin things for sure. And she’ll drag the whole Harrison family down with her. Her stupidity is…”

Lucas cut him off. “First of all, Sherry’s brought a lot of profit to the Harrisons. Even if that day comes, I’ll cover for her.

“Any problem with that?”

“I…” Edward had prepared a whole speech.

He’d planned how to reply if Lucas argued and how to calm him down.

He’d been sure Lucas would get mad and fire Sherry after hearing his words.

He’d braced himself. But he never expected Lucas to say that.

Mr. Harrison said he’d cover for her?

“Why would you cover for her?” Edward asked without thinking, not seeing anything wrong with the question.

“Because Sherry is someone I want to protect. She’s the most important person to me. People who don’t protect her aren’t her family.”

Edward froze. His face turned pale instantly.

Family…

His face went deathly white. Everything he’d always believed in seemed to fall apart in a second.

It was like Lucas was saying he wasn’t Sherry’s family.

“That’s not what we meant. We just wanted…”

They just wanted Sherry to do more things and stop embarrassing them. She’d already ruined the Campbell family’s name. Sherry was clearly in the wrong.

They were just trying to make her grow up this way. How was that not being family…

“I think this kind of coddling is bad. People like Sherry need to be punished hard, or she’ll never learn her lesson…”

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Lucas set his cup down on the table, his voice rising a little.

That one action made Edward’s heart race. The air around them felt ten degrees colder.

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