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.

married to Kevin,

in rage as

clenched her teeth, her voice cold and menacing “Stephanie, I’ve raised my daughter alone abroad all these years just to become the lady of the Nelson family. Cross me,

speaking, she raised her hand to strike Stephanie but accidentally hit

cheek turned red and swollen, and

on a table behind her, sending several ceramic plates crashing to

arm scraped against the broken ceramic shards, and blood began to seep

girl cried out in

in shock, unable

how Claire didn’t

a moment, and she quickly yelled, “Don’t hit my daughter, please! She’s innocent,

Claire’s loud

the

me to leave the country. I know I shouldn’t have come back to disrupt your

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just don’t

that Claire would do

didn’t touch her, it was Claire who… Stephanie started to defend herself from the gathering

she could finish, a figure charged through the

do this? You

crowd and