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.

and the troublesome family left,

couldn’t help but chew Curtis out, “How old are you, picking on

on you.”

replied lazily, a sly smile on

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

from the

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Chapter 23

outdoor temperature, it

servant returned with Leanne’s overcoat and brought

it go. “Fine, you two should

a cashmere coat and clutching a hand warmer, Leanne began to feel the warmth seeping back into her as she sat in the heated car.

But

it was

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

fingers and frowned. “How

after all that time?”

before Leanne could react, one of her hands were seized by his.

at his

a bath and make some hot cocoa. After taking