Crossroads

Chapter 4

“Claire Peterson, it’s you! So it was you seducing my husband!”

Stephanie’s voice caught in her throat, and her eyes were bloodshot from the pain that once tore through her heart.

A smack camel

With a surge of rage, Stephanie slapped the woman before her.

“Claire, you snake! Your sister seduced my father, and you come for my husband? You two will get what’s coming to your Stephanie’s chest heaved as she recalled the past.

Suddenly, Claire shoved Stephanie with such force that her head slammed against the wall with a loud thud.

“Stephanie, don’t you dare hit her!” Kevin, hastily throwing on a robe, rushed to Claire’s defense.

Tears streamed down Stephanie’s checks uncontrollably. She couldn’t even begin to process her emotions.

Watching her husband protect the woman who ruined her former home was unbearable.

“What’s going on here?”

At the staircase, Kevin’s mother, Stella Wellington, quickly approached with a stern expression.

in the world is

stammered, his voice

had always been somewhat fearful of his mother, Stella, who had pushed to pursue Stephanie in the first place, which eventually

up. “I, I want

for support and

so lightly. We’re a family. Let’s talk this

at Claire and commanded the butler, “Who is this anyway? Get this woman out

she’s Claire… Kevin immediately shielded

child’s sharp cries suddenly pierced the

she heard the child’s cry, and Kevin quickly picked up the three-year-old girl. “Mom, this

Stephanie’s face turned ashen.

Stephanie hadn’t become pregnant after three years of marriage.

tears streaming down her face, pleading, “Ma’am, I know you don’t like me, but Joyce is your biological granddaughter. She was just pushed by Stephagle, and now her hand is broken. Please, take her to the hospital. She’s innocent. If you want to blame someone, let it be me, but please

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Joyce had a fracture…

MO

the girl’s sleeve, revealing a

how could you?” Kevin’s voice was low, a dangerous growl. “You

just a bump! How

we need to take her to the hospital now, or her arm might never recover.” Claire clutched his arm, tears streaming down her