Three Years Forgotten, Why Go Crazy When I Say Goodbye? novel Chapter 81

"Who are you people?" Martha demanded again.

Vivienne offered a provocative smirk. "Why don't you ask Willow who we are? I seriously doubt she hasn't recognized us."

Willow had zero interest in taking the bait. Her only priority was getting Martha out of there. She was terrified of what Vivienne might blurt out, or worse, that Julian might suddenly appear and trigger a fatal shock to Martha's system.

But fate had a cruel sense of humor.

Just as she was trying to drag Martha away, a familiar silhouette emerged from the promenade. It was Julian. He was striding right toward them, clearly having accompanied Susannah and Vivienne on their shopping trip.

As he approached, his eyes landed on Willow. He paused for a fraction of a second, but his gaze quickly shifted away, utterly devoid of emotion. He didn't even acknowledge Martha's existence. Walking straight up to Susannah and Vivienne, he asked softly, "Did you find what you were looking for? I'll handle the bill."

Vivienne smoothly linked her arm through his, her tone dripping with saccharine sweetness. "We did. We want that one." She pointed at the coat in the associate's hands. "Let's buy it for Mom, okay?"

She was doing it on purpose, putting on a show entirely for Willow's benefit.

She hadn't missed the way Julian's eyes lingered on Willow's face for those two seconds. She had to admit, Willow had slimmed down and looked far more striking than before, but so what? She still wasn't half as beautiful as Vivienne. And at the end of the day, Vivienne was the one standing by Julian's side.

She was establishing her dominance, making it crystal clear who the real leading lady of the Sinclair family was.

"Alright," Julian replied without a moment's hesitation, already pulling out his card.

"Julian Sinclair! Are you even human? Willow loved you! She poured her heart and soul into you. When you told her to go to Seattle, she packed up without a single complaint and stayed there for three years! She made you money, ran your operations, and you pay her back by screwing around behind her back? You ungrateful bastard! You cheating scum! Aren't you afraid karma will strike you dead?"

She then whirled on Vivienne. "And you! Too young to know better, so you decide to play the homewrecker? Have you no shame? Do you even know what self-respect is? If I were you, I'd crawl into a hole and die of embarrassment. How dare you even show your face in public? And for the record, you couldn't hold a candle to Willow's beauty if you tried. Julian must be blind to pick a piece of trash like you!"

Hearing her precious Julian and Vivienne getting verbally destroyed, Susannah couldn't take it anymore and jumped into the fray. "How dare you..."

But she barely got three words out before Martha cut her down. "How dare I what? And you, you bitter old woman! You've lived this long and still know nothing about basic decency. I heard these two were raised as siblings, and you just sit back and let them act like this? It's downright sickening!"

Having delivered her scorching monologue, Martha finally seemed to calm down. She grabbed Willow's hand tightly. "Let's go. We need to stay as far away from toxic garbage like them as possible!"