The Apple of My Eye novel Chapter 1237

The night was peaceful, but the same couldn't be said for the people in Dream Garden.

Although it was late and the city was quiet, the people in Dream Garden were still wide awake. The lights were still on and there were signs of activity.

Arrogant, Melissa sat in the living room. Anger burned in her fiery eyes.

On the other hand, Sheryl stood beside her and held Shirley's hand. Sheryl looked serious, and a frown replaced her usual happy face. She tried hard to hide the unease she felt.

Silence hung like a thick curtain in the living room. However, Shirley couldn't stay quiet any longer. She anxiously glanced at Melissa, fear evident in her eyes. Then she turned to Sheryl and asked, "Mom, is Grandma angry with me because I broke her antique vase?"

Sheryl felt her daughter's trembling hand as she held it and couldn't help but squeeze it a little tighter. She got down on one knee and reassured her, "No, Shirley. Grandma is not angry at you. She doesn't blame you, but that antique vase was grandma's favorite thing. She is not in a good mood because you accidentally broke it. So Shirley, go and say sorry to your grandma."

Shirley fearfully looked at Melissa again and stood closer to her mother. "Mom, I'm scared," she said and shook her little head.

"She is your grandma. You have nothing to be afraid about, my child," Sheryl said. Although Sheryl reassured her daughter, she still felt a bit worried about her. She patted Shirley's head and encouraged her to apologize.

However, she knew what Shirley was actually afraid about.

After she made Clark and Shirley return to Dream Garden, they lived there peacefully. Then Melissa got out of prison and came back to Dream Garden. She was nice to her grandchildren at first. She cared about them and was happy to be with them. But as time passed, since Melissa didn't like Sheryl, she also became less fond of her two grandchildren.

Melissa couldn't criticize Clark since he was a boy and the only heir to Shining Company. On the contrary, Melissa was never nice to Shirley. Shirley was not so mature as Clark. Or maybe, she was just a girl and unimportant to Melissa, so Melissa didn't need to care about her feelings.

Sheryl couldn't change Melissa's views. She herself wasn't on good terms with Melissa, so she couldn't force her children to get close to their grandma who didn't like them either.

However, that night, Shirley accidentally broke Melissa's favorite antique vase. Shirley was so scared that she cried loudly. After Melissa went to her and saw what happened, she couldn't stop scolding the little girl. Shirley was afraid of her words.

Suddenly, Melissa turned to Shirley with hatred in her eyes.

"Shirley, this is your mistake. You should reflect on what you have done. Shouldn't I criticize you? Aren't you educated to be so rude and ungrateful like this?" she said. Then she added, "What would you like others to think about Lu family if you behaved like this in front of other people? How would you like to let other people talk about your dad if he has a daughter like you?"

She scolded Shirley for quite a while with plenty of sharp questions. Shirley was only three years old, so she couldn't really understand what many of Melissa's words meant. And Melissa didn't intend for Shirley to understand her words. She just wanted to criticize Sheryl by saying that Shirley wasn't well-educated. The one who was really being attacked was Sheryl.

After Sheryl heard all of Melissa's words, she breathed deeply to calm herself down. She knew that although this was Shirley's mistake, Melissa just wanted to use her granddaughter's mistake to warn Sheryl and show her power in this family.

'If I continue to step back whenever she arrogantly criticizes my daughter, it will only help increase her arrogance. If I endure and stay silent when these kinds of things happen, my children and I will only suffer more and forever be under her control, ' Sheryl thought and mentally decided.

She got down to Shirley's eye level and said, "Your brother must've fallen asleep by now. How about you go to bed as well?"

Although Shirley was only three years old, she was able to understand certain things. She glanced at Melissa, who looked at them angrily like she wanted to tear them both apart. "Mom, I'm scared. I want my dad," she said.