Casey saw that Amara didn't believe his words, so he stopped arguing. He knew that people like her would never be convinced just by what he said.
Edith felt wronged for Casey, but from her past experiences, Edith knew that these people would never believe Casey until the truth was revealed.
People's prejudices were so stubborn. Sometimes, these prejudices could kill an innocent person.
Fortunately, Casey had a strong mind and did not take these prejudices to heart.
The family came out of the villa, and Casey was about to drive them to the Patel family's mansion.
Nicolas said with a sullen face, "Give me the key and I will drive."
Casey did not refuse, and handed the key to Nicolas.
"What a jinx, you will not be allowed to touch anything in our house in the future." Nicolas muttered.
They drove all the way to the Patel family's mansion. They walked into the mansion and saw that the living room was already full of people.
When everyone saw them coming in, they all stood up immediately and looked at them hostilely.
Amara only felt very embarrassed, and she lowered her head unconsciously, as if she had made a big mistake.
Everyone gathered around them and began to find faults with Casey.
"Casey, you rubbish, you are really the jinx of the Patel family. You can provoke someone else, why did you have to provoke Young Master Gray? Are you wishing that the Patel family to be washed up?"
"You damned buster, if you want to die, you should die alone. Now it makes us suffer together with you. If the Gray family is so angry and take action, none of us can get away!"
"Nicolas, look at your good son-in-law, he is just like you, he is extremely useless, and he always makes trouble for us!"
Nicolas was embarrassed and didn't dare to refute. But in his heart, his hatred towards Casey made his teeth grind.
The thing that Casey had provoked the Gray family was likely to bring an unprecedented disaster to the Patel family, which was undoubtedly equivalent to harming the interests of these people, so there was no need for them to be polite to Casey and his family.
Edith clenched her fists tightly when she heard all the nasty words these people were saying. Even strangers could be much kinder than her relatives.
These people were really hateful.
"Enough, everyone calms down. Let Grandpa decide what to do with Casey." Albie's voice was heard.
He sneered and glanced at Casey's side, gloating over their situation.
Everyone gave way to Casey and let him walk towards Francis.
Francis was sitting on the sofa at this time, his face was livid, and one hand was trembling constantly.
He just recovered from last illness not long ago, and it almost made him have a relapse this time.
"Hurry up to Francis to apologize. Why are you still dawdling?" A person shouted.
The four of them stopped in front of Francis, Casey and Edith stood upright, while Amara and Nicolas both bent over and bowed their heads.
"Francis, it was Casey who caused the trouble this time. It has nothing to do with us. If you want to punish someone, just punish Casey." Amara said.
Hearing what Amara said, Edith immediately defended Casey, "Grandpa, Casey is not to blame for this. Zane wanted to take advantage of me. Casey was to protect me."
Albie immediately sneered and said, "Edith, up to this point, don't defend Casey. No matter what, it was because of him that Young Master Gray was beaten by his father. Do you think Young Master Gray will let him off?"
"Enough!" Francis shouted angrily, "A bunch of bastards! You can only cause me troubles. None of you can save my worry!"
The living room became quiet immediately.
"Edith, I trust you so much and asked you to be the manager of the company. Is this the way you repay me? Yesterday's reception, you were also there, why didn't you stop Casey? Could it be that you wanted to watch the Patel family fall into hell?" Francis questioned her, staring at Edith.
Edith hurriedly said, "Grandpa, it's not what you think, it was Zane who wanted to make advantage to me, and Casey stopped him."
Francis banged on the table suddenly, and said, "It's really disappointing that you are still defending Casey. I have asked several people who attended the reception yesterday, and they all said it was Casey who messed with Young Master Gray, and even forced Hugo to teach Young Master Gray a lesson, can they all be lying?"
Only then did Edith feel the power of rumor and make-believe. When everyone held a prejudice against one person, that person didn't even have the right to explain.
"It will be the Gray family's dinner party before long. I've been making efforts to try to attend this dinner party. If I can make friends with the Gray family, our Patel family may also be among the first-class families in J City."
"I had found a friend, asked him to help me, and sent us an invitation letter, but after what happened yesterday, my friend couldn't do anything about it at all."
"The future of the Patel family was ruined in the hands of you damned trash! And you made Hugo slap Young Master Gray in front of so many people, do you think he will let you get away? Everyone in the Patel family now has to suffer with you!"
Francis got more and more excited as he said, and he almost got up and slapped Casey.
"Grandpa, what this trash has done will indeed affect the development of our family. In my opinion, we should kick him out now and draw a clear line between him and our family. Maybe the Gray family won't go after us." Albie took the opportunity to stir up troubles.
"Yes, kick him out. We can't keep this kind of jinx!"
"Drive him out of the Patel family. We can't let him stay in the Patel family anymore, or he may bring us more troubles!"
"Kick him out now, and what he has done has nothing to do with us!"
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Amara glanced at Casey, poked him with her finger, and said, "Casey, if you are smart, you should disassociate yourself from the Patel family. Since you pay the property fee, I can let you stay in the storage room."
Edith was anxious when seeing everyone unanimously want Casey to get out of the Patel family, but there were so many of them, and it was impossible for her to convince all of them by her alone.
Casey heard them chirping, and did not panic at all, and then he said in a very penetrating voice, "I can guarantee that the Gray family will not trouble us, and I can ask the Gray family to invite you to the party."
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