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Alyssa smiled calmly before saying, “Mrs. Walsh, are you feeling nervous? I just asked if you were acquainted with the attacker. Nothing else. Why are you so on edge? Could it be that a guilty conscience is at play?”
“Alyssa!” Sophia’s anger was tangible, as if smoke were about to billow from her ears, and her eyes were bulging. “I’m offering you the respect due to the good relationship between your father and my father- in-
law. Don’t take it too far!”
“Holy crap!” Landon’s eyes flared red with anger. He would have charged up and given Sophia a good beating if it weren’t for the elders present. 1
Jeremy’s fists clenched tight, a terrifying gloom shrouding his ink-black pupils. “Sophia, if you truly see yourself as Mrs. Walsh, be mindful of your words.”
“Bastard!” Sophia seethed inwardly. “You’re just a pawn trailing behind that cunning little vixen!”
Sophia flourished and later surpassed, eventually being legitimized by Javier. She assumed the role that originally belonged to Jeremy’s mother and became Javier’s remarried wife.
“Jeremy, don’t be sad. Anne has passed away, and none of us feels good about it. From now on, I am your mother, and Betty is your real sister.”
“Alas, your mother was truly a good person, but unfortunately, she lacked some luck compared to me. I hope she is not tormented by illness on the other side. I believe she wouldn’t blame me for taking her place, right? She was so kind. She surely wouldn’t blame me.”
Jeremy couldn’t forget the sarcastic words Sophia had said to him at his mother’s funeral.
Although young, he still sensed the insincerity behind the woman’s friendly smile.
In the blink of an eye, it had been over 20 years since then.
Over the years, it felt as if everyone, including the entire Walsh family, had forgotten his mother-
everyone except him.
Tears welled up in Jeremy’s eyes as he heard his mother’s name from Alyssa’s mouth. Inexplicably, he felt like crying.
“Anne… Anne…” Jeremy’s expression turned dazed as he murmured the name of the departed.
Anne’s gentle and picturesque face gradually emerged from the deep sea of memory.
A sudden, piercing pain struck the deepest and softest part of his heart.
Sophia was closest to Javier.
She heard him repeatedly uttering that long-lost name. The woman she once hated infuriated her, and she directed that anger straight at Alyssa.
“Anne… Anne had a questionable status, merely Javier’s past paramour! Even after joining the family, she served as a maid for the Walsh family. What gives her the right to be called the lady of the house? The rightful mistress of the Walsh family is me! She doesn’t match up to me!”
“Sophia! That’s enough!”
Javier, as if awakened from emotional numbness, angrily roared at Sophia. He completely forgot that there were others present.
“Anne was not a paramour! She was not a maid! And she’s no longer here. You have no right to speak ill of
“Why don’t I have the right?”
Sophia’s eyes widened in anger. “Is what I’m saying not true? She was only a paramour who couldn’t enter polite society!”
Before she could finish speaking, a sudden overwhelming chill enveloped her, as if a shadow had engulfed her, akin to standing on the edge of a vast abyss!
Sophia was stunned. She looked up and saw Jeremy standing right in front of her.
“You…”
A sharp sound suddenly reverberated in the hall.
Everyone was shocked, including Alyssa, all staring with mouths agape.
Jeremy’s eyes darkened, and his thin lips tightly pursed. He then raised his hand and fiercely slapped
Sophia. 1
Sophia’s cheek turned red and swollen, with traces of blood at the corner of her lips. The impact made her eardrums buzz, and stars flashed before her eyes.
She staggered back, clutching the sofa’s back. She barely avoided falling to the ground in a disheveled state.
“Jeremy …” Alyssa’s pupils involuntarily constricted. She couldn’t help but squeeze her palms in anxiety for
Jeremy.
Jeremy used 80 percent of his strength with that slap.
He knew his hands, honed in military training, possessed immense power. Sophia wouldn’t only be looking for her teeth if he used full force. She might even end up unconscious.
He didn’t want to give her an opportunity to leave. Many grievances between Alyssa and her still needed to be settled!
Everyone was in a panic. Upon witnessing Jeremy slap Sophia, no one dared to intervene.
In this household, not even Javier could control Jeremy. Who else could?
Frightened, Betty let out a shriek before covering her mouth. Her whole body was sweaty, and her legs shook vigorously!
Seeing her mother being slapped, she didn’t even have the courage to rush forward and stop it!
The Harper family members were also dumbfounded.
Although Sophia’s words were quite harsh, she was still Javier’s wife, Jeremy’s stepmother, and considered an elder. How could Jeremy dare to slap an elder in front of so many people?
It was audacious and bold!
This slap not only struck Sophia’s face but also slapped his own father’s dignity.
Only Landon stared at Jeremy with such fervor. He took a deep breath, and his lips curved into a slight smile. Complex emotions surged within him.
This slap was something Jeremy had endured for a long time. As Jeremy’s only good friend, no one understood better than him the challenges Jeremy faced in his family over the years.
“Ja-Javier… my ears…. my ears can’t hear anything!”
Sophia covered her ears, crying and rushing to Javier, embracing him tightly.
Her lips bled, and her carefully styled hair was now in disarray. Her eye makeup had also been smeared.
Her image of a noblewoman was completely ruined.
“I’m deaf! Your son has made me deaf! Aren’t you going to do something about it?”
Blood was visibly seeping from between Sophia’s fingers. Alyssa glanced over at Jeremy, whose expression remained as cold as iron.
Without a doubt, that wicked woman’s eardrums must have been ruptured,
It was incredibly gratifying!
Javier looked down at Sophia, his gaze mixed with complexity.
He felt a lingering pain in his heart, but he knew it wasn’t because of Sophia. The pain belonged to the woman he had buried in his heart for a long time.
Yet, Javier still had to step in.
“Jeremy, are you going crazy? How can you lay hands on an elder?”
Jeremy curled his thin lips into a chilling smile.
“Elder? What kind of elder is she to me? In the entire Walsh family, Grandpa is my elder. You are my elder, and Mrs. Rosie is also my elder. Among those I respect, she holds no position.”
“Mr. Jeremy…” Mrs. Rosie suddenly caught on, displaying a smile filled with relief and gratitude.
Sophia’s face, puffy from the slap, turned red. Her chest heaved with rising blood, and the taste of iron lingered on her tongue.
Jeremy’s implication cut deep. In this household, an old housekeeper like Rosie holds a higher status than
Sophia herself!
Sophia found the situation completely unreasonable, feeling intense frustration toward this illegitimate.
