The moment Caleb Summers spoke, everyone in the living room froze.
Melody Summers blinked, thinking she must have misheard him. ’Am I hearing things?’
Caleb Summers wanted her to transfer her apartment to Howard Fletcher?
’Did he drink some bootleg liquor? He’s spouting complete nonsense!’
While everyone was still stunned into silence, Caleb Summers pulled a document from his briefcase. He smiled and said, "Mom, Grace, this is a property transfer agreement I had my lawyer draft. See if there are any issues. If it all looks good, go ahead and sign it."
Grace Sutton didn’t take the document. She stared at Caleb Summers as if he were a complete idiot. In a shocked voice, she said, "...Caleb, I think you’ve lost your mind. Do you even hear yourself right now?"
Melody Summers set down the vase she was holding. She stepped forward to stop her grandmother, who looked ready to explode. Then, with a calm expression, she took the document from Caleb and flipped through it with amusement. The more she read, the more she wanted to laugh.
Caleb Summers frowned, displeased. "You’re just a kid. What are you sticking your nose in for? Stop making a scene and give that back to me!"
Melody looked up and dangled the document at him, a smirk playing on her lips. "You want apartment 4-1606? Problem is, it’s in my name. So if there’s any signing to be done, I’m the one who has to do it."
Caleb froze. He never imagined the apartment would be in Melody’s name.
Seeing the serious look on Melody’s face, Caleb frowned. "You’re a girl. You’ll get married and move out eventually. Keeping a property in your name just means you’ll be handing it over to some other family! So this is perfect. Just sign the house over to Leo right now."
Melody almost laughed out loud at Caleb’s shamelessness. She slowly folded the transfer agreement in half and said mockingly, "I bought this house with my own money. Why on earth should I transfer it to a total stranger? What kind of daydream are you two having?"
’Caleb must’ve gotten his head kicked by a donkey,’ Melody thought. ’How else could he say something so utterly shameless?’
But then she reconsidered. ’He wasn’t entirely wrong. Didn’t Mindy Walsh buy a house that ended up going straight to him?’
’Those words pretty much laid out his entire life philosophy as a gold digger...’
As expected, Caleb just snorted. With a look of disdain, he said, "You bought it with your money? You haven’t had a job since you graduated. All you do is stay at home and leech off your family. Where would you get the money to buy a house?"
"Alright, cut the crap. I don’t care who bought the house. Since it’s in your name, just hurry up and sign the agreement. Maybe then Howard Fletcher will still acknowledge you as his older sister in the future."
Melody snorted back. "That’s hilarious. So now any random stray can be my little brother? I have no need for a brother I didn’t ask for. You can both go back to where you came from!"
As she spoke, Melody glanced at Howard Fletcher. The boy was glaring at her, his eyes filled with a sinister fury that was unnerving for his age. The venom in his gaze was a stark contrast to his innocent-looking face, and it made Melody deeply uncomfortable.
Grace Sutton had been holding back, but she couldn’t contain her rage any longer. She snatched the "Property Transfer Agreement" from Melody’s hand and ripped it to shreds!
She threw the shredded paper at Caleb and shouted, "Caleb Summers, have you no shame, trying to steal a house from your own niece?! Get the hell out of here right now, and take your wife and son with you!"

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