Seeing that the dressing room was closed, Harold took Melody to the dress section on the side.He spoke like a professional, “Mel, I think your white dress doesn’t look very nice. Should we change your dress?”A service assistant immediately came over from the side and respectfully said, “Which one would you like, Miss? I can bring it over for you.”Melody glanced in the service assistant’s direction before she held out her chubby finger and said, “I want that beautiful ma’am to get the dress for me.”The female assistant whom she pointed at felt somewhat flattered.Adina would likely divorce Duke, but these kids would still be the young masters and the lady in the Winters family. Even if their parents were divorced, it would not change their status in the family. It was a great honor to be personally appointed to serve the little princess.Most importantly, the little girl even called her “beautiful,” while Adina had implied that she was ugly.Clearly, the children had the most
Harold was speechless.George was right, but why did his point sound a little strange? Why did he have to compare him to a dog?“The surveillance camera will have your proof,” Alden said. “Even if we go to court, you’ll still need to pay for these losses. Someone should calculate how much money she needs to pay in total.”A shocked female service assistant at the side immediately took a calculator and approached them to calculate the cost.There was a total of seventeen dresses. The cheapest was $180,000 while the most expensive was nearly $500,000. The total came to about $5,000,000.The female service assistant’s face turned pale in response to the huge blow.She could not even afford to compensate for one piece, much less so many pieces.“What happened?”Halfway through fitting her fitting, Adina heard the noise outside. She immediately put on the dress and walked out to see the mess in the lobby.Harold seemed to enjoy the person’s misfortune as he described it. “Mommy, th
The first thing Dillon did after he went home was go to Mr. Jones.“Dad, if I remember correctly, you know a famous foreign plastic surgeon. Can you introduce him to me?”When Mr. Jones heard what Dillon said, his face instantly darkened. “Dillon, you didn’t listen to a thing I said to you, did you?”Dillon pursed his lips. “Dad, Addy is my daughter. I owed it to her for the twenty-three years I missed. Now, she’s finally acknowledged me as her father, so I can’t ignore her.”“She’s an illegitimate daughter. If you take her back, it’ll make everyone in Sea City laugh at the Jones family!” Mr. Jones said angrily. “If she’s still Mdm. Winters, it’s fine for us to take her back. But the divorce situation between her and Duke was such a big fuss some time ago. They might divorce at any time. Taking her back won’t do the Jones family any good.” “I just want to make it up to her. I don’t want any benefits! Even if my daughter is a beggar on the street, I’ll still take her back.” Dillon
Ask her to guide Adina? Ha! No way!She could not wait to see Adina make a fool of herself. Why would she guide Adina?However, since Adina, the former most beautiful woman in Sea City, was disfigured, a lot of people would surely attend the reunion banquet and watch the show.When Jasmine thought of that, she laughed again.“You’re still in the mood to laugh.” Zhenny walked down and glanced at Jasmine indifferently. “Do you know that Adina is returning to the Jones family?”Jasmine nodded. “So what if she comes back? She’s just a Cinderella who’s getting divorced. I’m not afraid of her.”“You have to be careful when she’s back here,” Zhenny softly said. “There’s one more month of inspection before you’re able to officially become the heir of Jones Corporation. If something goes wrong this month, your grandpa will re-examine.”Jasmine widened her eyes. “Is Adina returning to the Jones family just to trouble me?”“It’s a possibility. Anyway, you have to be careful in whatever yo
Mabel took a sip of warm water to moisten her throat.“I’m fine. I’ll be fine after I rest for a few more days,” she said softly.“Mabel, you’re clearly having anxiety because you worry too much,” Mandy gently replied. “Both of us are in-laws, and we’ve known each other for decades, so we’re closer than anyone else. Mabel, if anything’s on your mind, you can tell me. Keeping it to yourself will only make you sicker.”Before Duke’s father passed away, Mabel and Mandy had been pretty close.However, following the death of Mabel’s husband, her two sons could not get along. Mabel focused all her efforts on handling that matter, so she slowly drifted apart from Mandy. There was no way to tell an “outsider” about what had happened in the family.Mabel shook her head. “It’s really nothing. I’ll be fine in a few days.”“Did Adina make you angry?” Mandy lowered her voice and said, “Duke got involved with another woman previously. Did she purposely vent her dissatisfaction on you because s
Harold kicked the room door open, put his hands on his waist, and yelled, “My mommy isn’t a member of the Daugherty family. Why should she care about them? Besides, my mommy isn’t a joke. Aunt Mandy, stop talking nonsense!”Mandy looked extremely embarrassed. She had not just been caught bad-mouthing, but a four-year-old kid was also pointing at her face and reprimanding her.She pursed her lips. Just as she was about to speak, Alden beat her to it.He looked at the pale Mabel. “Grandma, you clearly know that Aunt Mandy is wrong. Why didn’t you stop her?”Mabel’s heart trembled when Alden stared at her.She sighed before she said, “We were talking about another family. It has nothing to do with your mommy. You’ve misheard us.”“Grandma, Mommy really isn’t a member of the Daugherty family.” Melody blinked and said, “Mommy’s biological father is my grandpa, Dillon Jones. He’ll hold a reunion banquet in three days. You’re sick, so you can’t go, but Aunt Mandy can go.”The girl’s vo
Duke changed his shoes at the entrance before he walked toward Adina.He wrapped his arms around her slender waist while he rested his forehead on her forehead. The two of them looked into each other’s eyes with strong affection.“Daddy, don’t kiss Mommy.” Harold covered his eyes. “The four of us are still here. Please behave yourselves.”Adina blushed and pushed the man away. “Yes, please watch what you do.”The children were embarrassed, and the servants also hesitated to look over from afar.“Let’s go!” George cleared his throat and said, “Leave the vegetable picking to Daddy. Let’s go and play!”They were fed up with seeing them being so lovey-dovey every day!The kids put the work aside and went to the living room to play. Adina’s face turned red as she stuffed the basket of vegetables into Duke’s arms. “Sort out the vegetables.”Then, she turned around and entered the kitchen to continue her work.Duke smiled and chuckled.He picked the vegetables at the dining table. W
One could say that he had never seen Addy lose her temper like that ever since they met.“It’s alright. I’ll just go upstairs and coax your mommy.” Duke comforted the children before he took the medical kit and went upstairs.He knocked on the door gently. “Addy, your finger is still bleeding. Can you let me in to take care of your wound? Once I’m done, you can hit me or yell at me as much as you want.”But there was no sound in the room.Duke felt more puzzled.Had he really used too much force?He continued to knock on the door. “Addy, can you open the door first? We can talk in person if something’s wrong.”The four children downstairs looked at each other.Melody bit her bottom lip and said, “Why do I feel like Mommy’s extremely angry this time?”“Mommy’s finger seems to be bleeding,” Alden pursed his lips and spoke.When they were living abroad, no matter how serious the injury was, his mommy would not mind it. Getting angry was even less likely. She was acting strange f