Chapter 252 The Family Is In A Total Chaos
Amelia turned around to leave but Stephanie grabbed her by the hand. “Amelia, your appearance is your only saving grace right now! You’re unworthy of being with Oscar! A blind woman like yourself with no impressive family background doesn’t deserve to be a part of the Clintons!”
Amelia brushed her hand off and got extremely defensive as she was on the verge of breaking down at that point.
“Mind your own business, Stephanie! You have no right to interfere with our marriage!”
“I just feel bad for Oscar! He may have been pretty cruel to me before, but I can’t stand seeing him suffer like this! There are tons of beautiful women around him! What makes you think you deserve him? You’re nothing but a blind b*tch, you hear? A blind b*tch!”
Hearing the word “blind” triggered Amelia instantly, causing her to wrap her arms around her head as she shouted like a madwoman, “No! I’m not blind yet! You’re the blind one! Don’t you dare call me blind!”
Calling Amelia blind was like rubbing salt on her wound and she refused to let anyone do so.
“You are blind! What’s wrong with me calling a blind person blind, huh?” Stephanie really took pleasure in Amelia’s suffering, especially since she was humiliated by her before.
“I’m not blind, no!” Amelia mumbled repeatedly.
“I hear blind people can’t even walk by themselves. They need assistance on everything they do, including brushing their teeth and getting dressed. They’re practically just useless cripples at that point! If I were you, I wouldn’t dare remain in our family! Everyone’s going to laugh at Oscar for marrying a blind woman, and it’s all your fault! I can’t help but feel bad for him just thinking about it!” Stephanie said with a sadistic look on her face.
The next thing she knew, Amelia charged forward and tackled her to the ground. Ignoring her fractured left arm, Amelia sat on top of her and began raining blows while shouting maniacally, “I told you not to call me blind! I told you, I told you! Take this, you b*tch! Oscar and I are truly in love with each other! He won’t be disgusted with me, and I won’t embarrass him either!”
As Amelia had always been calm and patient, Stephanie didn’t expect her to react so violently and was completely caught off guard.
After helplessly taking a beating for what seemed like forever, Stephanie came back to her senses and tried to defend herself. However, despite being skinny and wounded, Amelia was incredibly powerful due to her berserk state of mind.
There was nothing Stephanie could do except dodge left and right while yelling desperately, “Help! Help! Save me, Mom!”
By the time everyone arrived at the scene, all they saw was Amelia clobbering away at Stephanie who looked extremely disheveled with her hair in a complete mess.
Oscar quickly ran forward and cautiously wrapped his arms around Amelia’s waist while whispering gently, “Calm down, Amelia. It’s me.”
His voice was so soothing and comforting that it slowly brought Amelia back from the edge of madness.
“That’s right, just relax… I’m here with you…” Oscar continued.
After turning around to look at him and shifting her gaze back toward Stephanie on the ground, Amelia realized what she had just done.
Her lips began to twitch as she tried to explain herself, but she couldn’t seem to get the words out of her mouth.
Oscar held a finger to her lips and said, “Shh, I know what you want to say. Don’t worry, no one’s going to hurt you now that I’m around.”
Seeing as she was finally calming down, Oscar carefully held her left hand where the bandages had come off.
“Does it hurt?” he asked gently while frowning worriedly.
She didn’t feel anything when she was in a frenzied state earlier, but the excruciating pain kicked in when he asked her about the injury.
Oscar then scooped her into his arms, ignoring Olivia and Owen as he carried her into the house. “I’m the victim here, Oscar! She beat me up! How could you be so biased toward her?” Stephanie shouted angrily from behind with her hair still in a mess.
Oscar simply pretended to not hear her and carefully sat Amelia down on the sofa in the living room.
He then whipped out his phone and gave Robert a call. “Hello, Mr. Lancester. Could you have Dr. Johnston come over? Amelia’s arm is injured.”
He then hung up the phone after a brief exchange.
Amelia flashed him an apologetic look and said, “I’m sorry.”
Oscar’s frown deepened as he turned to look at her. “I don’t want you to apologize, Amelia. I can tolerate everything else as long as you’re all right.”
Amelia kept her head down like a child who had done something wrong.
Oscar lifted her chin up and looked her in the eyes as he asked, “Tell me, why did you hit Stephanie?”
Amelia’s eyes lit up upon hearing that.
“Did she do something to piss you off?”
Amelia shook her head in response.
“Amelia, you’re a beautiful, strong, independent, and big-hearted woman. I know you have your reasons for everything you do. Tell me if Stephanie was really in the wrong, and I’ll help you teach her a lesson. Your body isn’t fully recovered yet, so I don’t want anything bad happening to you. It hurts my heart to see you get hurt, all right?” Oscar said while placing his hand on his chest.
Amelia felt her heart ache when she heard that.
Oscar had been like a perfect husband to her lately, but that perfection only made her feel even more insecure about herself. She was losing self-confidence as a result of her eyes going blind as she feared people would mock Oscar for it.
Because she loved him way too much, she didn’t want to burden a perfect man like him with her disability.
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