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“If I was putting on a show, I wouldn’t have gone against the majority and suffered the pressure to bring you and your mother back to the Walsh Group from the slums.
“If it weren’t for me, both of you wouldn’t have died on the smelly and nasty streets. Have you forgotten how sick your mother was? She didn’t have a single dime on her to go to the hospital for treatment.
“She had no way to support you. If it weren’t for me, she wouldn’t have recovered from her sickness. How on Earth would you have lived the cushy life you have now?”
Alyssa watched as Jeremy, feeling wronged, received a baseless accusation. As a bystander, her heart burned with fire. She felt her blood boiling in her as her fists clenched.
Until now, Javier wasn’t speaking to Jeremy as a husband or a father. He was still on his high horse, thinking he offered charity to Jeremy and his mother, a holier-than-thou capitalist.
Everything he said sounded like it made sense. However, everything was hinted toward one thing¡ª Jeremy and his mother were not from the world as he was.
He was the one who had been kind and gracious enough to help them escape from the cheap, dirty, and smelly slum. With a move of his finger, they could enter his world.
That ingrained sense of arrogance and superiority was more humiliating and angering than profanities and insults.
“No matter what, I have raised you to who you are today. You wouldn’t be where you are today without me. Would you even have the privilege to be so rude and rebellious to me?” Javier ran his mouth like a machine gun, firing at Jeremy with bloodshot eyes.
“If I was a girl and not a boy, would you have found ways to bring me back to the Walsh family? If it weren’t for this, would you ever remember a pitiful woman who was carrying your baby wandering with no power or status to her name? Would you even remember she who didn’t have a roof over her head or food on the table?”
Jeremy’s lips curled into a sharp smile. He was terrifyingly cold as he continued to mock Javier, “I have to thank Grandpa for his nurture and care and my mother’s strong body for who I am today.”
“You rebellious bastard! You have crossed the line!”
Javier’s noble demeanor had utterly crumbled. Outraged, he raised his hand and was about to slap Jeremy across his face.
Jeremy was unfazed. His terrifyingly glistening eyes carried an intimidating sense of hatred.
Everyone was flabbergasted.
Javier only felt the pain on his wrist slightly after. His brows knitted tightly.
Alyssa swiftly dodged and stood right in front of Jeremy. She aggressively grabbed Javier’s wrist and continued to tighten her grip as if she was about to break his wrist.
“Mr. Javier!”
Rory and the four bodyguards were pale from terror. They were about to stop Alyssa.
However, Alyssa’s face was icy. She didn’t even blink and had no intention of letting go.
Alyssa was no longer as frail and meek as she always was. Like a porcupine, her quills stood up, protecting the man he loved.
“I’ll get rid of whoever touches Ms. Alyssa.” Jeremy stood behind Alyssa like an intimidating iceberg, glaring at everyone.
His low growl had terrified them and glued them to their spot. No one dared to challenge the authority of the next chairman in line.
“Ms. Alyssa, I’m teaching my son a lesson. Don’t meddle in our business as an outsider,” Javier said sharply as he resisted the pain.
A cold glint appeared in Alyssa’s eyes. “I may be an outsider to you, but I am Jeremy’s wife.”
Wife?
Jeremy’s eyes dilated as his heart palpitated wildly.
Were his ears playing tricks on him?
Did Alyssa just say she was Jeremy’s wife?
“If you try to lay your hand on Jeremy, I’ll be the first to stop you. You might not care for him, but I do. Even if I’m not around…” Alyssa’s sad eyes looked at Jeremy’s mother’s tombstone. “Don’t you think Auntie Anne would care? As the noble, high, and mighty chairman of the Walsh Group, don’t you think it’s distasteful to get physical in front of the deceased?”
Alyssa had just uttered the deadliest and harshest words in the most nonchalant tone.
The look in Javier’s eyes sank. He clenched his jaw so tightly that it was about to break open.
“Mr. Javier, I think it’s not a great day for you to pay your respects to Auntie Anne today. We appreciate the gesture. I’m sure Auntie Anne feels the same way. I think it’s best if you leave.” Rory and the bodyguards sighed in relief as Alyssa loosened her grip.
Javier’s face was as pale as a ghost. Yet, he gritted his teeth and was unwilling to give up. “I’ve canceled everything today to come and see her.
“I’ll leave after I see her for a while.”
“You wish!” Jeremy suddenly pulled Alyssa behind him.
Javier and Jeremy fell into a tense confrontation again. “You were fooling around, and you even married Sophia when you already had my mother. Plus, you condoned that unscrupulous and vicious woman to mistreat my mother. If you didn’t do these things, none of this would have happened! My mother wouldn’t have died!”
“You.” Javier was consumed by anger. His expression darkened.
“The worst five years of her life weren’t starving in poverty or getting really sick. It was her being a trophy by your side that couldn’t be seen by anyone. You took advantage of her and caused her to die!”
“Nonsense!”
Javier was breathing heavily from his anger. “Anne died of her depression! She couldn’t take the pain and took her life to relieve herself of it! Her death had nothing to do with me!”
Relieve. Javier had actually thought Anne was relieving herself from the pain.
Alyssa frowned deeply. She shook her head, angry and helpless.
Until now, Javier had never understood the condition of Jeremy’s mother’s heart, let alone everything Sophia had done.
Perhaps he had loved Anne.
However, his love for himself was far beyond his love for Anne.
“My mother is not a victim who used death to get a sense of relief. She died because Sophia.”
“Jeremy! Enough!”
Alyssa grabbed Jeremy’s arm and stopped him in time. Jeremy, who was consumed by anger, regained his senses and shut his mouth.
Rory was dumbfounded by what had happened.
Jeremy had never even respected Javier when his temper acted up. Alyssa managed to tame Jeremy with just a word from her.
There must have been something different about Alyssa.
She had Jeremy under her control.
Javier was left hanging, sparking his curiosity. He asked angrily as he glared at Jeremy. “W-What does Sophia have to do with Anne’s death? Explain yourself, Jeremy!”
Alyssa thought it would disrupt their plan if they continued this conversation, so she forcefully grabbed Jeremy and left the cemetery hastily.
Rory tentatively said, “Mr. Javier, let me prepare a new bouquet and send it to Ms. Bartley.”
“What did Jeremy mean when he said that? Is he implying that… Sophia killed Anne?”
Javier grabbed Rory by the collar and questioned him fiercely, “Did he say it out of spite, or does he have proof? Why did he say that?”
Amidst the chaos, a profound sense of worry and fear emerged, intensifying the turmoil reflected in Javier’s twitching eye.
“I-I don’t know what Mr. Jeremy meant.” Rory’s forehead glistened with beads of sweat. Trapped between the devil and the deep sea, he felt the looming threat of trouble for anything he might utter.
“D-Didn’t you say that someone might have been behind Anne’s death? Jeremy said Sophia was behind it. Does he even have proof? Does he?”
“I-I think you should clarify with Mr. Jeremy. I don’t know anything about it…”
Javier released his tightly clenched hand, feeling a sudden weight on his shoulders. Slouching, he struggled to catch his breath, his earlier confidence replaced by uncertainty.
He had accepted and tolerated so much. Sophia had crossed a line.
He was utterly disgusted by Sophia. Yet, to protect the Walsh Group and his reputation as president, he repeatedly swallowed his pride and looked the other way.
However, he was unable to accept one thing¡ªSophia was behind Anne’s murder.
He found himself resorting to self-numbing and brainwashing.
He tried to convince himself that Jeremy’s words were fueled by anger, a deliberate strategy to inflict suffering and guilt upon him. He believed that Jeremy aimed to provoke disgust and trouble within him.
Rory noticed how much pain Javier was in. He cautiously asked, “Mr. Javier, do you want me to.”