Philip’s voice was not loud. He smiled at them apologetically. Even so, his words left everyone in the room stunned. Martha especially looked at him like he was a ghost. She felt terrible all over, and she burst out swearing,
“Damn you, Philip, no one asked you! Get the hell out!” Martha was beside herself with fury. Philip was such a blabbermouth. “Compare yourself to Paula’s son-in-law! Do you think you have any right to speak?” Martha roared at Philip furiously. “If you weren’t so useless, would I embarrass myself in front of my family like this? I must have been blind to accept a useless piece of trash like you as my son-in-law back then! “Look at her son-in-law, look what he bought for her! What about you? Have you ever bought me anything? How can you say such nonsense on top of that? If you want to go to the party, you can go by yourself! I’m not going!” As Martha howled at him, Philip lowered his head helplessly. It seemed his mother-in-law was dead certain that he was a good-for-nothing now. Next to them, Paula enjoyed the show, chuckling to herself coldly. The irony on her face intensified. She pretended to say kindly, “Come on, Martha, don’t keep venting your temper on poor Philip like that. You know what they say, a girl is only as good as the man she marries. It’s not Philip’s fault, it’s Wynn’s fault for choosing the wrong man.” She turned the blame to Wynn. Aunt Paula was quite the masterful character in her own right. She was blatantly picking a fight here. Martha only grew angrier when she heard that. What happened three years ago was already enough to make her lose all face in front of her family. Now that she thought about it, it was her daughter who insisted on marrying Philip Clarke, by hook or by crook. In the end, he turned out to be absolutely worthless, after all. “It’s all your fault, stupid girl. You just had to insist on marrying this useless piece of trash! See what you’ve done? I don’t even dare to go home now because of you.” Martha screamed like a banshee, her temper boiling over. “I don’t care. If you still think of me as your mother, I want you to divorce this useless Philip right now! It’s either him or me!” “Mom, could you not? Why do you have to keep bringing up the past?” Wynn felt pretty upset too. It was humiliating for her to have her mother talk to her like that, especially in front of Aunt Paula and Juan. “Sorry, Juan. Do you maybe want to go back first?” Wynn turned to Juan with a sheepish smile. Juan nodded too and left the room.
of awkward. After all, he was still an outsider here. Before he left, though, he glanced at Philip who was standing
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