Chapter 571

The spacious hall remained quiet. Amused, Alyssa blinked and smiled.

Jasper was cheered up by the animated look on her face and put behind the pain he was enduring. He fixed his eyes on her with a contented smile.

In the meantime, a hushed astonishment gripped the onlookers as they watched Newton berating the current patriarch, Javier, in their presence. The public scolding was doubly humiliating, given Javier's prominent social standing.

He had turned into a punchbag.

Javier, nursing a wounded ego, flushed with anger and hissed, "Barry, please get everyone to leave the hall."

"No! No one is allowed to leave before we settle this matter once and for all!" Newton declared with authority. When she was angry, Alyssa bore a striking resemblance to Newton, as if they were blood relatives.

"Dad, what do you mean?" Javier inquired, his brows furrowing in anger.

"It means exactly what you think it is!" Newton responded, his eyes half-closed as he taunted his son, "If you can bruise Jas