The Cherished Wife by Chweety

Chapter 788

"I..." Clarisse found herself at a loss for words. Normally, when she argued with Mateo, she always felt she had the upper hand, leaving Mateo with nothing to say.

Yet now, she had to admit that Mateo made sense.

Back then, there were two reasons she supported Janet marrying Charles.

On one hand, she believed it was best to keep things within the family. The marriage would help ease tensions between the Bakers and the Hoffmans, something she genuinely hoped for. On the other hand, I was also a way to spite Mateo.

She knew Mateo had always favored Kelly, and anything he liked, she would try her best to sabotage. It became almost a twisted compulsion-she found herself opposing everything Mateo wanted to do just to contradict him.

The more Mateo disagreed with Janet and Charles' marriage, the more determined she was to make it happen. It had become a path she could not turn back from.

Looking at things now, it seemed that this was the very thing that had caused the growing distance between her and Charles. It created the coldness that now defined their mother-son relationship.

"I..."

I won't interfere with whatever match you try to arrange for Charlie as

line. Janet was like a ticking time bomb,

forced a smile and did not argue back for the first

fact, after tonight's incident, she had come to the

partial to Janet, Charles was still her son. her son married Janet, it would only bring disaster to his life. "Fine, agree. But you must

to accompany him, but in reality, it was not because he needed an

to fish

Compared to Mateo, Sean clearly felt more comfortable

open-minded and shared perspectives that aligned with

everything

"When I went into