Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress

198 Petty vs Pretty.

On their way home, Jessa and Allison were quiet in the backseat.

"That's it!" Jessa broke the silence when she couldn't take it anymore. "Say it."

She faced Allison, who had been giving her these looks since they sat in the car.

She

"Uhm." Allison cleared her throat, a bit intimidated that Jessa might just grab her hair. No one could fault her. Jessa really gave that energy. "Thank you."

"I thought you were going to say, "You didn't have to do that."

"I was planning to, but I thought you'd get angry if I did."

"Hmp! At least you know. Jessa folded her arms. "By the way, is that how you let people treat you? That's so pathetic."1

"No."

Jessa arched a brow. "But you let that woman talk to you that way?"

"What else can I say? Nina was in the wrong," Allison sighed. "I would've said something, but it's... it's the truth. No matter how harsh it is, it is the truth."

Bitterness shone in Allison's eyes as she thought of the exchange between her and Mrs. Miller. "No one can deny the truth. Nina framed not just anyone, but her best friend. Even if it's something else, it's still a horrible thing to do. And as the person who raised her, I am ashamed of myself.

Jessa bit her tongue and stopped herself from saying anything further. "Well: She shrugged. "What else can I say?"

"But even so, thank you for standing up for me. You weren't obliged, nor it is something you! should've stepped in, but you did, Allison expressed sincerely, smiling despite the bitterness in her heart. "And I also want to apologize about how I judged you before."

"Oh?"

thought you were

because you asked to be forgiven. Not that I care

Jessa, Allison pressed her lips into a thin line. "Mrs. Cortez, I know you might

but how

everything she had done, I might be disappointed, but I can't help it,' she added with a sigh.

good. Better I

letting her

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198 Petty vs Pretty.

"She does that?"

don't even know the half of it." Jessa shook her head, thinking of the stressful days in their household. That little brat is probably the reason for the three wrinkles

a look. "I'm telling you about a wrinkle. Did you hear

from anything even from the other daughter in my heart. But at the same time, I want nothing but the best for Nina. If only she can... just

but Jessa was also a mother. If Yuri turned out to

as none of them wanted this to happen.

hope that what they were

it happened and sadly."

into our household, Jessa broke the brief silence between them. "In a way, she reminds me of that woman - her real mother. But I can't also blame the child.

th

on the window. "But with enough slaps from reality, we'd also wake up and accept the harsh truth. Nina is still young, a new teen at that. Her hormones at this point are crazy and, with that confusing situation, she is acting

back to Allison, her expression solemn with a little bit of arch of her brow. "Just like you, I don't want her to be just like her birth mother. And letting her face reality is probably

good, I'd slap her ten times.

smiled a little. "You didn't mean