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She had acted foolishly then.
Now that she had regained her senses and returned home, her decision to take on the mantle as the family’s heiress was to empower her siblings to do the same.
Alyssa didn’t want her and her family’s life to be disrupted any further, but that seemed to be all that Jeremy was accomplishing.
She couldn’t take it anymore.
“Shameless?” Jeremy’s eye grew hooded. He pressed his hands beside her head, leaning in close. “So you decided to get revenge on me by having Xavier arrested because you think I’m shameless?”
Revenge?
Now, Alyssa was infuriated.
Why the hell was Jeremy so obsessed with himself?
He was the one who had sent Xavier to spy on her in the first place!
Not only did he fail to offer an apology, but he was also still slandering?
Alyssa couldn’t help but think that Jeremy was such a god-awful jackass.
“How would your brother, a cop, have arrested Xavier without reason other than at your behest?” Jeremy hissed, “Do you hate me just because I won this once, Alyssa?”
“Are you jealous?” Alyssa sneered. “Are you jealous that my brothers dote and care for me? Are you jealous that they are leaping to my defense?”
“Alyssa!”
“But didn’t Ada already choose to attend your welcoming party instead of ours? Isn’t it shameless of you to still have your secretary follow me around, even taking pictures of my brother?”
Jeremy was about to punch Cyrus in the face when Alyssa cried, “Don’t hit my brother!”
That made Jeremy freeze instantly, and his hand paused in mid-air.
Cyrus leaped on the chance to land a punch on his cheek, the skin at his lip breaking from the force.
Jeremy hissed, the taste of blood filling his mouth. He stumbled back just the slightest, wincing in pain.
Alyssa looked on in shock, not expecting Jeremy to have actually listened to her.
Jeremy just stood there and let Cyrus hit him.
Cyrus hurried back to protect his sister, glaring at Jeremy, whose lip was now bleeding. “Touch my sister again, and I’ll kill you, bastard!”
Unbeknownst to him, Alyssa was grateful that Jeremy had actually let up on her brother. If he hadn’t, Cyrus might have ended up in the hospital.
Alyssa didn’t press charges in the end. She knew what kind of person Xavier was, having spent time knowing him for three years.
Xavier followed Jeremy back to the car like a wounded dog, hunched over and with a metaphorical tail between his legs.
“I’m sorry, sir. I let myself get caught by that asshole cop and caused you this much trouble.”
“It’s fine,” Jeremy quipped, mouth still sore.
“Y-You’re hurt!” Only now did Xavier notice the blood on Jeremy’s lip. He cried, “Was it that cop? I’m going to sue him! I’m going to sue him for attacking an innocent civilian-“
Innocent?
He wasn’t so innocent when he caged Alyssa in earlier.
“Just drop this.”
“But-“
“That ‘asshole cop’ is Alyssa’s seventh sibling, one of Winston’s many sons.” Jeremy should have realized that earlier. He did share similar features with his father.
“Damn! The seventh sibling?” Xavier exclaimed. “They’re practically matryoshkas at this rate! Why do we keep on crossing their paths?” (1)
Jeremy closed his eyes and leaned back in his seat, sighing as he brushed away the flaked blood at his lip.
He prayed that he’d meet all of Alyssa’s brothers in one shot. He really couldn’t take it anymore. 1
Just then, his phone rang. It was a call from Zoe.
“Jeremy?”
Jeremy suddenly understood why Alyssa had said what she said. “You’re allowed to have so many little sisters to play with. Why can’t I have my brothers watching my back?”
So this is what she meant!
Jeremy sat up straight in his seat, now alert.
“I’ve prepared the compositions for the piano performance for the welcoming party. Do you want to take a look?”
But Jeremy hadn’t heard a single word she said. All he could think about was why Alyssa had said what she said.
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So, she still cared about the fact that he was involved with other women.
Did that mean she was jealous?
“Jeremy? Jeremy! What’s my big brother doing, hm?” Zoe called. “Are you paying attention?”
“Can you not call me that?”
“Huh?”
“Landon is your brother, not me.”
Zoe was taken aback. “You… do you not like it when I call you that?”
“No, I don’t. Don’t call me that again.”
Jeremy then hung up the call.
Three days passed in a blur. News of Ada Kingsley’s arrival in Solana City reached both national and international media in a blitz of reports.
On the night of the welcoming party, Ada Kingsley arrived at Berenike Hotel dressed in a lavender haute couture gown, her hair styled into waves that cascaded down to her knees.
Sophia had invited herself to the party.
Her hair was styled in an elaborate bird’s nest atop her head, revealing two large sapphire earrings and a teardrop-shaped sapphire at her neck. They were named “Halcyon” by its creator. It looked like she had a mini apartment building on her head.
“Didn’t you have another piece of crystal prettier than this teardrop, Mom? Why aren’t you wearing that one?” Betty asked curiously.
Sophia gritted her teeth, hand clenching around her necklace. “Because of that bitch, Liana! God knows what she and her family got into, owing that much debt!/
“With my shop having no sales and the police still on the lookout, I had no choice but to sell that crystal off to help them!”
“Goodness! If it were me, I’d cry myself to death. That was a birthday present from Dad!” Betty cried, “I don’t understand why you keep helping the Gardners. You should just let them rot away and die.”
“Hmph. I wish I could…” Sophia grumbled.
Unfortunately for her, she had never anticipated losing this game of power when she made Liana her pawn to win Jeremy’s heart.
Not only did Jeremy become even more hostile toward her, but her pawn was also turning against her now!
Liana had contacted her from Mosgravia asking for more money a couple of days ago, nearly making
Sophia send out the order to kill her.
But she couldn’t, not yet. She had to utilize Liana while she was still useful. That was why Sophia had promised the girl she could return to Solana City soon.
“What do you think of my dress, Mom?”
Betty did a little twirl, showing off her purple dress. Ever since she saw Landon in that purple-colored suit, she had dreamed of wearing something that matched him, like they were a couple.