Facade of Love

Chapter 22 He Protected Her

Charles frowned, saying, “Ms. Moore, all the rooms in this house are the same size. The room you want to stay in belongs to Mrs. Young. Her belongings are already there. You’re making this difficult

for us.”

“Mrs. Young, huh? You say her name as if you’re so familiar with her” Moore scoffed. “I want to stay in that room. If you don’t agree to my request, I’ll have Madam Young come over to talk to you.”

With that, she made a move to leave.

Charles, uncertain of what to do, instinctively blocked her. Seeing this, Moore became even more arrogant. “So? Are you stopping me from leaving the room?”

Charles could not make the decision but he did not want to offend her either. He looked visibly

troubled.

I leaned against the wooden door with arms folded and spoke softly, “Let her have it.”

Hearing my voice, both turned to look at me. Charles seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, Moore was blatantly arrogant. She could not be bothered to put on an act with me when

Idris was not around, and said, “I’m certainly settled down in the Youngs‘ residence. Yvette, what does it matter if you’re pregnant? Because of your dirty past, Madam Young is disgusted by you and

doesn’t want you to tarnish this house’s name.”

knew precisely how to rub salt into my wounds, but some wounds were so deep that they had numbed over time. I remained expressionless and said indifferently,

As for you, you’re just a child–bearing machine kept in

faintly. “You’re not even good enough to

and got even angrier when she could not win with words. She merely stomped her feet and

more and more

suddenly pushed me when I least expected

hell!”

were not high, but falling down them would still

the

I narrowed my eyes, grabbed her, and pushed her to the edge of the steps, shouting,

was wearing seven–centimeter heels, clearly understanding that if I pushed her, the child

would take

tone, “Try and hurt me

shoved her a bit, causing her to scream but retained her defiant expression. Seeing her like this, I wondered when she had

was pulled away by someone. I almost fell, but Charles, who had

alright?” Charles asked

head, then looked back at Idris, who was holding Moore. His face was ashen,

display of

I could say anything, Moore started ranting, “Iddy, did you see how much Yvette hates me? She almost pushed me down those steps! I’m pregnant, and she knows how serious

silently watching her

tense, seemingly controlling his emotions. He spoke in a

spoken lightly, but they

the woman he loved