The Cold Surgeon's Contract Bride novel Chapter 799

From the time I was five years old until now, this was the first time someone had actually stood up for me and demanded I be respected.

Sabrina had always treated me this way. I might have been her sister on paper, but in her eyes, I was nothing more than the hired help.

Growing up, I was the one doing all the chores while she lived in luxury. I was the one cleaning the rooms she trashed. Not only was I expected to wait on her hand and foot, but I was also her designated scapegoat for every single disaster she caused.

She never called me her sister. She would point right at my face and call me a stray dog who refused to leave her house.

Even when she did that, Lucille Lowell would just lightly scold her before turning around and throwing me a few empty words of comfort. Not once had anyone ever forced Sabrina to apologize to me. Over the years, I just became numb to it, burying the hurt so deep it stopped registering.

Eventually, Sabrina's friends caught on and joined in, mocking and tearing me down for sport.

Just like Jada casually spitting 'Country Bumpkin' at me the second she saw my face today. That was just one of the many degrading nicknames they threw at me, laughing in my face, completely oblivious—or completely uncaring—to how vicious they were being.

I was used to the cruelty.

So when Ferris stepped in, demanding an apology from both of them, I was entirely thrown off balance.

Sabrina and Jada looked equally shell-shocked.

Sabrina's lips were pressed into a bloodless line, her manicured fingers curling into tight fists as the sheer humiliation began to crack her composure.

Jada, however, reacted with explosive rage, glaring at me with absolute disgust. "Why the hell should we apologize to her?"

"Because Selena Hayes is my wife." Ferris's hand was warm and calloused, gripping mine with an intoxicating, fiercely protective strength.

His voice remained perfectly even, lacking any trace of shouting, yet it radiated an overwhelming, suffocating dominance. "And because every single cent you and Sabrina spent in Sydney came directly out of my bank account."