Nina and Jett stared at each other for a long time. Then, she sneered, "What is it? You don't dare to watch the surveillance videos?"
As a matter of fact, Jett did not dare.
His wife disliked Vicente's mother from the bottom of her heart and was often hostile to her. She often said malicious words to Vicente's mother and constantly reminded her of her daughter's death. As a result, the two of them often fought.
Vicente was angry with Jett and his wife, but did not say anything. Every time her mother and Jett's wife got to each other's throats, she just grabbed her mother and walked away.
As Nina had just married Vicente, she did not know anything about the Nangong family, so she was not afraid of Jett at all.
More importantly, she was the princess.
"There's no need for that. In fact, let's just forget this ever happened," Jett said and suppressed his anger. "Elder or not, my aunt doesn't have the right to hurt my wife. She's still at fault here."
"If your wife hadn't said something unpleasant, my mother-in-law wouldn't have scratched her face." At first, Nina thought that Jett was going to compromise, but she was wrong. She did not expect him to make a concession for the sake of advancing blame on Vicente's mother.
'How shameless he is.'
Nina snorted inwardly. She did not even want to look at Jett. He was far less handsome than John.
"Did my wife really say something wrong?" Jett asked. "Is Vicki still alive then?"
Mrs. Nangong, who was still within earshot, heard her daughter's name and stomped back to the living room to confront Jett. She glared at him and screamed, "My daughter is still alive! Don't talk nonsense!
She's still alive!" Mrs. Nangong was about to hurl herself at Jett, but Nina caught her in time.
If Mrs. Nangong had succeeded in laying a finger on Jett, she would not have gotten away with it. Jett would have definitely made a fuss about it, which would do no good to Vicente.
Nina had married Vicente, putting them in the same boat and making them share the same fate. It was one of her responsibilities now to think about her new husband's future.
"Don't believe him, Mom. He doesn't know what he's saying." Holding Mrs. Nangong in her arms, Nina nodded at the servant who went after her mother-in-law and said, "Why are you just standing there? Help me take her away."
"Of course. I'm sorry." The servant came forward and took Mrs. Nangong away. This time, she was taken far away enough from overhearing Nina and Jett's conversation.
Without all the noise Mrs. Nangong made, the living room finally quieted down. As Nina breathed a sigh of relief, Jett said slowly, "I wasn't talking nonsense. Don't you know that her daughter Vicki is dead?"
"I didn't." Nina raised her voice. "Are we done here?"
Her imposing manner stunned Jett for a moment. Then, he said reluctantly, "Yes."
Judging from her tone, he knew that she obviously knew about Vicki's death. She just deliberately answered him that way.
To Jett, it was not a good thing that Nina protected Vicente like this. Jett knew clearly why Vicente married her.
Vicente simply wanted to stabilize his position in the Nangong family.
Jett wondered why a man like Vicente, who only wanted to be powerful, would be careless enough to fall in love with a woman. It was stupid. It was like buying himself a weakness.
Case in point, Jett never loved his wife. He only married her because of her strong family background.
Jett looked thoughtfully at Nina.
Seeing that she defended her husband, Jett was sure that Nina must have a deep love for Vicente. He wondered if she knew that Vicente married her just because of her family background.
"You care about Vicente very much," Jett said affirmatively.
Nina watched him carefully. She wondered why he sounded so certain about what he just said.
She also wondered how he could be so sure that she loved Vicente.
He was wrong on that count. The person she loved was John, the father of her baby.
Nina wanted to look at Jett as if she was looking at an idiot, but that could expose her true thoughts, so she simply nodded and said, "He's not that bad."
"Not that bad?" Jett could not believe what he just heard. He did not expect such an answer.
This time, Nina really looked at Jett with disgust. She shook her head and sneered. "You don't even understand the meaning of those words. You're so stupid."
"How dare you?" Embarrassed, Jett glared at Nina. Her words offended him.
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