Skipped At The Altar, Taken By His Uncle novel Chapter 53

Chapter 53

“What‘ You want us to move out?” Laura’s shrill voice echoed through the entire villa.

Her chest heaved with anger. She just couldn’t believe Samuel would ask her to do this.

Tina was fuming. “Dad, why should we be the ones to move out? This is our home too. Isn’t Whitney just bullying us?

Samuel Moore knew Laura and Tina would get all riled up, so he spoke in a soothing voice. “Didn’t you two always complam this villa was getting old and wanted to try somewhere new?

‘I have a spacious penthouse apartment. Top floor, with a terrace, just as nice as this place. Why don’t you move there for now? Once things calm down, you can come back.”

But that didn’t calm them down at all.

Tina’s face turned red with anger. “Dad, this isn’t about whether the new place is nice or not. Whitney is humiliating Mom she’s totally disrespecting us.”

Whitney’s never even called my mom ‘Mom‘ her whole life, and now she’s just going even further. Dad, if you give in to her idiculous demands, she’ll just walk all over us from now on!”

Laura stayed silent, which basically meant she agreed with Tina.

But since Samuel had already agreed this morning. he wasn’t about to change his mind now. And honestly, this whole thing tarted because of Travis in the first place.

His face darkened, brows knitting together. “That’s enough. There’s nothing more to discuss.”

aura felt a sharp pain in her chest, like she could barely breathe.

Tina was so furious that she felt like she might explode.

f her friends found out about this, who knew what they’d say behind her back?

There’s one more thing,” Samuel said seriously. “Laura, you were the one who spiked Whitney’s drink this time. The vidence is solid. If this really goes to court, you’ll get dragged into a lawsuit, and that could tank the company’s stock price

He continued, “You and Travis need to post an apology online. You don’t have to spell out the details. Just keep it vague. As ong as you act humble, she’ll probably drop the case.”

What?” Laura and Tina burst out angrily.

Dad, did Whitney brainwash you or something? Are you out of your mind?” Tina stared at him in utter disbeliet

Why should Mom have to publicly apologize to that bitch? How is Mom ever supposed to hold her head up agan F4 fumed inwardly.

Tina finally crossed the line with her words, and that was the last straw for Samuel

Samuel’s face darkened as he said, “Tina, is that any way to talk to your father? And show some respect to Whitney if you keep being so rude, you’re embarrassing all of us”

“There’s nothing left to talk about. You two think about it yourselves,” Samuel said his voice making it clear he wasnt going to budge.

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With that. Samuel walked off upstairs without another word.

Tina felt utterly wronged after being ripped into by her dad like that.

With tears brimming in her eyes, she choked out, “Mom, why is Dad like this? Why does he have to take that bitch’s side?” “Enough.” Laura snapped, looking totally fed up. She was already at her wit’s end and had zero patience left to comfort Tir

ing her a bitch every other sentence. Are you trying to hand her more dirt to use against us?” Laura shot bat

shed coldly. “She thinks she can just throw us out? Not a chance. This isn’t over yet. She’s already made the Harris family. Let’s see how tough she really is. I can’t wait to watch her crash and burn

meeting with her dad, Whitney made her way to the law firm.

It wasn’t until the afternoon, when she finally had a moment to herself, that she noticed Klein had called her

She walked over to the break room to call him back.

Inside the conference room, Klein, usually icy and unreadable, actually softened when he saw Whitney’s name pop up on his phone. “Let’s pause for a moment. I nee

his call,” he said, surprising everyone.

Ryan looked like he’d seen a ghost this has never happened before

The other execs traded up

Klein stepped out of affectionate his

Whitn

e boss ever walk out of a meeting just to answer his phone? Seriousl

floored.

ondering if something huge was going down.

de unconsciously spreading across his face. He didn’t even realize how my girlfriend finally check her phone?”

his girlfriend? I thought we were partners‘ she thought, a little thrown off.

ave a little cough. “Um, I was swamped all afternoon and totally missed your call. What’s

wanted to check if my girlfriend remembered to eat lunch,” Klein said, his voice warm and

ing to wrap her head around Klein suddenly acting all caring.

for lunch,” she said.

d for a second. “Trying to lose weight?”

y blinked, a little thrown. “Nope.”

en why are you doing this to yourself?” Klein teased.

Whitney was speechless,

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“Oh, you’re on a call? Go ahead. I’ll wait till you’re done,” Ivan said, waving it off.

Whitney’s heart jumped. Instinctively, she covered her phone, weirdly nervous that Ivan might figure out who she was talking to, even though she had no real reason to feel guilty.

“Ivan, I’ll come find you in a bit,” she replied, hoping she sounded normal.

Ivan saw her being all mysterious and gave her a playful, suggestive grin.

‘Glad to see her dating again, he thought to himself.

He flashed her an OK sign before heading off.

Whitney breathed out in relief and asked softly, “Klein, are you still there?”

Her gentle tone sent a little jolt through his heart.

“Yeah, your boss is looking for you. Go ahead and get to it,” Klein said, his voice gentle.

“Okay, I’ll go now,” Whitney replied.

Klein saw how fast Whitney hung up and just smiled to himself.

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Laura told the maid to start packing up her stuff, then turned to Tina, and said, “Go pack up your usual clothes and the things you use every day, too.”

Tina was so pissed off that she could barely focus on packing.

“Emily, are you free?” Tina asked.

Emily smiled. “Yeah, I’m free. Tina, it’s been forever since we hung out. Want to grab something to eat?”

She was just about to suggest that herself.

At the restaurant, Emily bit her lip, looking totally stunned. “Are you saying your dad actually agreed to Whit’s request and kicked you guys out of the house?”

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