Crossroads

Chapter 7

Stephanie suddenly felt someone was watching her intensely.

As she turned around, her expression suddenly darkened.

“Why are you here?” Claire locked eyes with her, raising her voice sharply as she questioned her.

Stephanie sneered, “How dare a homewrecker show up? Aren’t you scared of karma?”

Claire held the hand of a three–year–old girl, her eyes flickering with malicious intent.

“Who do you think you are, S

Stephanie? You’ll be kicked out from the Nelson family soon enough. You are not the lady of the house anymore…

As Claire spoke, she burst into laughter. “Honestly, Stephanie, I feel sorry for you. Your own husband couldn’t wait to get rid of you, so he sent you to another man’s bed. By the way, how did it feel? What a night, isn’t it?”

“Shut up!” Stephanie shrieked, the mention of that night pushing her over the edge.

Claire’s laughter grew even more scornful and arrogant. “Oh, look who’s angry! Kevin said that he hadn’t even touched you over the last three years. Stephanie, you are such a loser. Everyone in the circle thinks you are a pathetic woman who can’t have a child…..

“Kevin brought me and our daughter to the Wellington’s banquet today,” she sneered. “He said he wants to introduce us to his friends in the circle. I think you should leave before you make a fool of yourself.”

“Fine! We’ll see who the fool in the end is!” Stephanie snapped back, her teeth gritted in fury.

Kevin,

rage

abroad all these years just to become the lady of the

strike Stephanie but accidentally hit

a sharp slap, the girl’s cheek turned red and swollen, and her small

several ceramic

fell, her arm scraped against the broken ceramic

girl cried

in shock, unable

showed how Claire didn’t care about

quickly yelled,

Claire’s loud

the attention

and you forced me to leave the country. I know I shouldn’t have come back to disrupt your family, but my daughter just

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don’t hurt

that Claire would do all this just to frame

Stephanie started to defend herself from the gathering crowd of onlookers,

a figure charged through the

this? You should

broke through the crowd and