"Oh, poor Maisie! It turns out she has been abandoned!"
"Oh gross! She's putting on airs all the time to look elegant and capable. But she just turns out to be a sluttish mistress."
Maisie didn't say a word. She just pursed her lips and let her mother beat and scold her, and let her colleagues tease and taunt her.
Maisie had never imagined that the harshest curse on her was from her own mother, who had given birth to her and raised her.
She thought her mother disliked her and had been mean to her only because they lived in a patriarchal family. She also believed that her mother knew her well enough that she would never be a mistress or ruin others' families.
She was with Ezra then, though they weren't properly and perfectly matched. They had kept their relationship from the public, but she didn't do anything wrong to hurt anyone or ruin anyone's marriage.
But her mother heard the scandal from nowhere that she was kept as a mistress by the sugar daddy and unfortunately, her mother just took it to be true!
It had totally freaked her out.
Ezra and David looked really bad the moment they saw what Maisie was suffering. And David simply stepped forward to pull Susan off Maisie and reproached, "Enough! Stop it, mum!"
And Ezra just pulled Maisie into his arms and said helplessly, "Why didn't you dodge it?"
Maisie closed her eyes slowly in his arms and wet his shirt with tears.
Ezra could feel she was weeping quietly without making a fuss, and it tore his heart out.
With it, he glanced around the onlookers and they could feel the tension in the room.
"David?" Susan was shocked to see David there, "Why are you here?"
Before David said anything, she got mad again and told David off, "You knew she had a baby long ago, didn't you, you little bastard!"
"You just hold it out on me for her? How could you do that to me?"
Susan was about to make another scene on it. But a tough and sharp voice came into her ears all at once, "Shut up!"
Susan was scared and looked at the man.
She had never cared about Maisie and naturally, she didn't notice Ezra had pulled Maisie into his arms just now. All she could see and care about was her darling boy, David.
Now she saw Ezra and Maisie in his arms. She got confused.
She was wondering why her boring and old-fashioned daughter was protected by such a handsome guy.
Ezra was disgusted with Susan. He didn't care if she was the senior or what. He just knew that she had terribly embarrassed Maisie and made her tremble all over.
Yes. Maisie was trembling all over in his arms at the moment.
At first, Ezra wondered why Maisie didn't reject his touch today. Later he found that she was trembling severely. Probably, she was too weak to push him away.
She must be freaked out since her own mother had humiliated her in public like that.
Seeing Susan was about to make a fuss over it again, Ezra couldn't take it anymore and stopped her sharply.
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