Hold My Tear, I’m Getting My Wife Back!

Chapter 23

She might have been tough, but there was no way she had the strength to hoist a grown man up in the air.

“You think you can push everyone around with your money and power! I’m calling the cops! Let them deal with you. Ah!” Her words were cut short by a stinging slap that nearly knocked her off her feet.

“Shut your mouth!” Billy bellowed. “You have the nerve to call the police? Your coddling turned him into this troublemaker, always making a scene!”

The woman was stunned and crumpled to the ground with a wail, sobbing, “I can’t take this anymore! You side with an outsider over your family. Being with you has been nothing but bad luck…”

Hubert lifted his hand in disgust while Brenda and Judith from the Perez family stepped forward, coaxing and firmly escorting the weeping mother and son away.

Billy was kicking himself. What a mistake it was to bring his brainless wife and good-for-nothing kid to the Perez family’s shindig.

His company was hanging by a thread, counting on a loan from Vector Vista Bank to stay afloat. And they were doomed after offending the Richardson family!

Billy plastered a smile and bowed apologetically, “Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, I’m so sorry for that. Please don’t stoop to their level. I promise I’ll give him a good talking-to wh ve get home!”

“It’s okay. He’s just a kid,” Leanne responded, much more graciously than Curtis, as handed back the water gun. “Children are delicate. You can’t punish them too harsh few light taps should do.”

Billy was speechless.

troublesome family

old are you,

on you.”

to be ashamed of?” Curtis replied lazily, a sly smile

give Leanne a piece of her mind. After all, the whole drama started because

from the Perez family. “Go fetch Leanne’s

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the chilly outdoor temperature, it was almost

returned with Leanne’s overcoat and brought her a hand warmer.

you two should head back soon as

began to feel the warmth seeping back into her as she sat in the heated

But

it was

Leanne got off and entered her house, her hands, briefly warmed, grew cold again in the biting wind.

icy fingers and frowned.

after all

one of her hands

at his hand, silent.

bath and make some hot cocoa. After taking care