Chapter 81: Listening to Her Complain
"Seriously? You’re accusing us of guilt-tripping your mom? Jessie, you’re young. How can you speak like this? You barely have any decorum! Look at the state your mom is in. If she gets a divorce, who would want to marry her again?" Mandy went more and more overboard, even shouting for Laura and William to get divorced.
Jessie glanced at her, feeling the itch to slap her growing stronger. However, Evelyn was quicker.
"Shut up!" Evelyn slapped Mandy, glaring at her.
Mandy held her face, sad. However, it was her own mother who said that, so she didn’t retort and only remained silent despite the indignant feeling in her heart.
Evelyn hurriedly tried to smooth things over. "Jessie, don’t take your aunt’s words to heart. Couples fight all the time; they quarrel at the head of the bed and reconcile at the foot, right? Besides, Luke is still so young. If they really get divorced, that would be a big problem."
"You’re right; William did mess up this time. Couples shouldn’t resort to violence even when arguing, should they? However, two of them have stubborn tempers. Letting this go on like this isn’t the solution for it, no? That’s why we’re trying to..."
Before Evelyn could finish, Jessie interrupted with a sneer.
"Grandma Evelyn, you guys came back this time for my mom so that you could ask her to take Uncle William back, right?"
Seeing her intentions exposed, Evelyn didn’t refute and instead nodded. She responded righteously, "She is a bit softer, right? Laura is good-tempered. I talked to William as well, but he just wouldn’t understand. That’s why I’m coming to Laura instead."
Jessie found it laughable. She found it unbelievable that these people could ever make William bow down to Laura. Moreover, why should her mom apologize just because she has a good temper?
She coldly refused, "Grandma Evelyn, don’t say such things. Grace City isn’t that big, but not to the point where a certain man can’t find his way home, right? If Uncle William feels like he went too far, then he should come back and apologize to my mom by himself.
"He’s a man, yet he needs a woman to apologize and persuade him home? What kind of ‘capable man’ is that?"