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Chapter 953

Author: Little Happiness
With that, Maxwell hurriedly left for the hospital with Jennifer, taking Cassidy with them.

As soon as they were gone, Camila started to cry. She sobbed to the other ladies, "I can't stay here any longer. Maxwell is completely smitten with his wife. She doesn't like me, and now neither does he. Have you ever seen a son speak to his mother like that?"

"Indeed, it's disgraceful!" one of the ladies comforted her, "We all noticed Jennifer's sour expression when she walked in. You're her mother-in-law! Not only is she ungrateful, but she dares to act haughty! Such disrespect!"

Fiona joined in. "Camila, you returned far too late. Maxwell and Jennifer are a done deal now. Jennifer wouldn't have married Maxwell if you had returned a few years earlier! How dare a lowly woman like her disrespect her mother-in-law!"

Camila continued, "You don't know the half of it! My daughter-in-law favors her son over her daughter. She only gives treats and toys to her son. My poor granddaughter is always n
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