Chapter 2 – Marry Alexander King
"Joanna Baker, you are an illegitimate child. How can you even show your face here? You are nothing," Joanna's half-sister, Mia yelled, after giving her a hot slap.
Joanna's cheek burned, and so did her anger. For ten years, she has been a doormat for the Bakers because of her mother's sickness, but not anymore. Without another thought, she returned the slap.
Hers was stronger, and Mia stumbled, falling on the floor, her eyes glazing with tears. "How dare you slap me?"
"You slapped me first. I just returned it better." Joanna was unremorseful, even when her father intervened.
"What is going on here?" He was already by Mia's side, helping her from the floor.
With a pitiful expression, Mia cried in her father's arms. "Dad, she slapped me because I told her she was looking like a servant and should change into something better."
Joanna paled from anger, but her voice remained calm. "That is not true. How can you lie so brainlessly?"
"Do you say that you didn't slap her?" Her father snarled, already taking sides with his beloved daughter.
"She slapped me first," Joanna stood her ground, unwilling to surrender.
Her father, Cole Baker, was not ready to pursue the matter further, seeing that Joanna's left cheek was equally crimson.
"What do you even want here?" Her father glared at her, she suddenly mellowed upon recalling her mother.