Janice was glued to her phone when she suddenly snatched it from Lucinda's hands. She swiftly hung up the video call, deleted Keith from Lucinda's contact list, and even turned off the phone. Everyone was stunned.
Janice returned the phone to Lucinda with a stern look. "Lucy, don't have anything more to do with that guy. He's bad news!"
Lucinda took the phone back nervously and asked, "Mom, did he bully you?"
Janice thought for a moment before replying, "Well, he didn't exactly bully me. In fact, he'd help me when others did. But the way he looked at me, I got the creeps. He's definitely a bad egg. His gaze was devilish."
Lucinda breathed a sigh of relief.
She could accept that her biological father, Nathan, was a piece of work, but if he and others were bullying her mother, she didn't know how she could face him.
"Lucy, listen to me. He's a rotten apple. Stay away from him. His whole crew is just as bad. He might look a bit like my husband, but he's not him." Janice started spacing out again.
Seeing this, Lucinda quickly served some dishes to Janice. "Mom, let's eat."
"Okay, let's eat. And you too, stop playing with your phone."
Lucinda nodded.
As long as Janice stopped dwelling on the past, she wouldn't be so confused, and her condition would improve.
Everyone resumed eating. Lucinda felt relieved to see Janice happily eating her meal.
Stefan exchanged
her hand. Lucinda replied with
always been by
would help her with many things, some of which she hadn't
"Janice."
softly called out
video call
worse, when he tried to call back, he couldn't
guessed that Janice had deleted him from her contacts or
when he called
looked at Nathan with mixed
send Grandma Savannah to take Janice to the suburban mansion, he didn't do much to protect her either. He couldn't use his busy work as an excuse because, as the head of the family, he could have had his trusted people protect Janice and
was terrible, ruthless,
Nathan no longer had feelings for Janice, and they hadn't divorced simply because of
and the only
seeing Nathan in such pain,
Nathan been playing all these years? What else had he
Nathan said, many external forces had infiltrated. Was the Blue family going to face a major change soon? How much pressure had Nathan been under all these years? How many unseen attacks had he
know and couldn't
this, the father and son had a strained
were spreading rumors that Keith would be replaced sooner or later and
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