The Cherished Wife by Chweety

Chapter 781

Chloe's face showed a cold smile as she replied, "Family? Madam Baker, you're not even one of the Hoffmans, are you?"

"You..." Clarisse's expression immediately changed. "Chloe, how could you speak to me like that?"

"And how exactly do you expect me to speak to you? To me, you're nothing more than a stranger," Chloe sneered, clearly showing no respect for Clarisse.

Clarisse was shocked to realize that both her son and daughter harbored such hostility toward her.

Her face fell. Feeling humiliated, she turned her anger toward Mateo, "Look at the daughter you raised!"

Mateo frowned. "Chloe, is that any way to speak to your mother? Apologize!"

Chloe snorted coldly. "I did nothing wrong. Since I was old enough to remember, I haven't had a mother." Chloe's stubbornness mirrored Charles', and she was not one to back down easily.

"Enough!" Maxwell slammed his cane on the floor and stood up with a scowl. "Chloe, come with me!"

Chloe patted her husband, Jordy, on the shoulder and said, "Take care of Anna."

Maxwell and Chloe went upstairs, Clarisse was left seething, unable to vent

knew it from the start. When a child isn't your own,

his brows together. "Are you

a

Clarisse. It wasn't me who abandoned Chloe and Charlie back then, and I didn't raise them either.

Nancy was physically frail, she was not someone who could be easily bullied. "If you're

"Enough, Clarisse. Haven't you

Mateo snapped, clearly

Hoffmans' home,

to leave right

so unhappy with

you're the one

her feet, his eyes filled with disdain as he looked at

right. If you find the Hoffmans so unbearable, Madam Baker, you can leave. And for the record, no one is allowed to

could not stand to

become due to her comments. He was determined

further. "The Hoffmans are treating