True Tycoon Her Empire, Her Rules

Chapter 142

At that moment, Springer felt like he finally got it and had to step up his game to match Horace. So Springer chimed in with a compliment too. “Well done, Winnie! You own your actions like at boss!”

The other elders of the Bryant family were speechless.

They couldn’t help but notice that with their reduced presence at home, the younger members of the Bryant family seemed to have changed.

Leonie cleared her throat and looked at Winnie, but instead of accusing her outright, she said, “Winnie, did Hobson upset you? If he’s been bullying you, you can talk to me, you know.”

Even though Leonie wasn’t openly blaming Winnie, the implication was that Winnie had retaliated against a family member over some petty grievance.

It was too easy for the rest of the family to become wary of Winnie.

Cutler, who had been silent until now, frowned and confronted her. “Winnie! No matter what, Hobson is still your family! You lash out at him just like that. Are we not family to you anymore? If someone else ticks you off, are you going to go after them, too?”

Cutler hit the nail on the head.

Even the others didn’t have a grudge against Winnie who had returned out of the blue, they couldn’t help but feel a bit apprehensive now.

When Winnie took action against Hobson, she had already anticipated this reaction.

Once you crossed certain lines, even if you did nothing more, others couldn’t help but fear you.

But Winnie was indeed fed up. She had put up with Kathryn for eighteen years, but now that the karmic ties with the Henderson family were severed, she was done with playing nice.

To make an example of someone, Hobson had to be sacrificed today.

“Don’t worry, this spell won’t harm him. As long as he doesn’t try to talk to me, he can speak normally to anyone else.”

“Is this about whether or not he can speak?” Cutler raised his voice, “This is about you raising a hand against a family member!”

wouldn’t hurt Hobson, but this isn’t right. Maybe you should lift

lips but looked

indeed responsible for the incident, but they didn’t take a stand right

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her, “What’s with your fucking attitude when you

back to her normal tone, asking the others, “How does that sound? I’ve heard that tone and those words no less than ten times since I came home. Does Hobson

one fell swoop, she had the

the friendliest, he was generally courteous,

the family began to understand where she was

help but start to object, but

as an outsider, so there’s this air of superiority? Why should I tolerate that?” she said icily.

she referred to.

rarely took such a firm stand in front of her family, and even Cutler, who had been eager to catch her on her behavior, suddenly lost his voice under Bacchus’s stern gaze. But Winnie wasn’t about to let him off easy.

me, did you ever consider me family?” With that, both Horace and Clifford

he had been as sarcastic to her as

the smear campaign he had orchestrated against her in the live stream

voice hauntingly calm, “You hired trolls to trash me online. Although they didn’t cause me any real harm, doesn’t that count as attacking a family member? If you can do that, why are you so upset about a harmless spell I put on

was at a loss for words. Was he just an innocent pawn in Winnie’s game

he quickly tried to mask it, the elders of the Bryant family, with their sharp eyes, saw right

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had been caught red–handed.

and demanded, “Cutler,

in the live stream comments and thought those trolls were just

never imagined that it

the weight of Clifford’s glare, Cutler twitched his lips as he tried to defend himself, but Winnie spoke again, her voice echoing with an eerie finality.

by looking at their face. Sure, plenty of folks