The Villainess Needs a Hug (Ivy Windsor) novel Chapter 996

Naylor froze the moment the words left his mouth. Seeing Katrina's reaction only made him feel more awkward.

He had blurted it out without thinking, and now he realized just how impulsive it was.

Katrina knew him too well. After staring at him for a few seconds, she figured it out, a sarcastic smile curling her lips. "Answered too quickly, didn't you? Regretting it already."

Naylor remained silent.

Panicked, Waller immediately interjected, "Katrina, what are you saying? Naylor agreed to marry you. He is manly enough to keep his word. He wouldn't back out—right, Naylor?"

Waller was deliberately using Naylor's words to corner him.

Katrina was absolutely sick of her father, but this time, she didn't tell him to leave.

She wanted to see how Naylor would deal with Waller.

"No answer? Guess you're not manly enough after all," Katrina provoked him, throwing fuel on the fire.

Unbelievably, Naylor remained perfectly calm, looking her dead in the eye in front of Waller. "You’ve experienced firsthand just how much of a man I am, haven't you?"

Katrina practically exploded on the spot!

Even Waller, who had no shame, was so embarrassed he wished the floor would swallow him.

Seeing both father and daughter completely stunned, Naylor frowned, as if making a firm decision, and spoke again. "I'm serious. I don't regret it."

"Huh?" Waller stopped mid-sentence, looking at Naylor with a strange expression. "Naylor, what... what do you mean?"

"I mean I don't like the tone you're using with her. Everyone knows you favor the step-family's kids. There's no need to put on a show now and act like you care about your eldest daughter. It's hypocritical." Naylor laid it all out, giving him zero respect.

Katrina looked up, her eyes wide with shock.

She never expected that, months after their breakup, Naylor would still stand up for her and put Waller in his place.

Technically, an outsider had no right to interfere when a father was lecturing his daughter.

But Naylor defended her with such righteous authority—his attitude made it clear that even though she was Waller's daughter, Waller had no right to speak to her like that!