Chapter 280

"I’m sure she feels like I stole her parents away from her. Of course, she doesn’t like me.

“Now that we’re both our parents' daughters, they love both of us equally. If we were to have a falling out, who would our parents side with? They would surely be very upset.

“If she doesn’t like me, so be it. I’ll just avoid her and accommodate her.”

Lucy was sharp-witted. How could she not notice that Charlotte did not like her?

She just kept quiet all this time because she did not want to upset her parents.

As Lucy spoke with a heavy heart, Matthew embraced her tenderly, feeling a pang of sympathy. “My dear Lulu, you don’t have to put up with her, you know? Besides, even if you accommodate her, there’s no guarantee that she’ll be nicer to you. I bet she’ll even hope for your demise…”

Before Matthew could finish, Lucy was shaken to her core. She looked at him with alarm and asked, “Matt, w-what do you mean by that?”

Matthew sighed, caressing Lucy’s cheek. “I think we were wrong before.