Second Chances Protecting Mrs. Hall

Chapter 3

Emma responded icily, “Sure, Layla is just some twenty–something kid preaching about the law to the cops just now, and now you’re ready to bend it?”

Her biting words caused her usually silent father, Mateo Wilson, to frown deeply.

ust killed me by messing up my meds. How come you were

Mateo scolded, “Emma, is that any way to speak to your elders? Where are your manners?”

“One abandoned in the wild since birth should just be thankful for a full belly, let alone manners. You’re asking if I have any? Did you ever

bother to teach me?” Emma snapped back.

Mateo, infuriated to the point of nearly having a stroke, raised his hand to strike her but was restrained by Emma’s Grandma Zoe Wilson,

because, after all, Emma was still useful to them.

“Enough! Since she’s okay, let’s just go home and stop making a scene,” Zoe commanded harshly, but with a disdainful glance at Emma, she thought, ‘This crude girl still has her uses. Can’t afford to pick fights with money.’

This reminder refocused the Wilsons on the real reason they had brought Emma back.

Soon, they headed back to the villa.

Emma knew exactly what was on their minds. In her previous life, the Wilson family’s finances were a mess at this point, and they hoped to solve it through a marriage alliance with Liam, a man rumored to have a disability and an unpredictable mood.

Mateo and Grandma were gunning for this marriage, but Nora and Aria feared Emma becoming Mrs. Hall might bite them in the ass. So, they schemed to ruin Emma’s reputation, hoping to set Aria up as the bride instead.

But back then, Liam only had eyes for Emma, completely ignoring Aria.

thinking “Liam Hall” stabbed at

seeing it as nothing more than a transaction, particularly after the scandal where she was framed for seducing a

marriage, she had left the Wilson family to join

by

Elijah, with all his schemes, turned out to be the

was caught in her memories, Zoe suddenly switched

for years, you’re still a Wilson. Our family is in trouble, and you can’t just turn your

with a wry smile, already used to her family’s bullshit. She listened

importantly, he’s the Hall family’s heir!” Zoe’s eyes sparkled as she raved about the Hall family. “The Hall family? They make our Wilsons look like peanuts! You, raised in the sticks and hardly educated–landing a guy like him would be the break of a lifetime! We’ll even give you 40 thousand dollars as a

armrest of the sofa and shot back, “Grandma, aren’t we forgetting something? Didn’t the Halls mention they’d fork

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dollars if I married into their family? And you’re

entire Wilson family dumbfounded. They had figured as thousand dollars.

You think I’m stupid or

Emma would be

asking for?” Zoe asked, her voice

straight into my shares in the company. From today, the Wilson Group is co–owned by me and Liam–nothing to do with the rest of

enraged

beet–red as he banged on the table. “2 million dollars? That’s supposed to fund your sister’s college abroad! What

been top of her class!

clearly distressed,

that’s funny,‘ she thought bitterly. ‘Selling off the eldest daughter to settle debts while the family’s nearly bankrupt, yet somehow there’s 2 million dollars to send the younger one abroad to live it up. What a damn