"Auntie, you..."
Grace Gresia, having been chastised by Adam Jones and now by the Old Lady, twisted her features in indignation.
The Old Lady had no intention of paying her any mind; she did not wish to escalate matters at her own great-grandson’s first birthday celebration, so she simply stood up and said:
"If you don’t want to be thrown out of the Jones Family’s ho, then just behave yourselves..."
With that, she shifted her gaze toward Charles Churchill and continued:
"If you cannot control this disgraceful woman, then you’d better take her ho now."
"Auntie..."
"Charles Churchill, I let you call auntie, and I let you stand with dignity on the Jones Family’s grounds, out of respect for my deceased brother, not because of you. Understand?"
The Old Lady’s expression turned fierce, a sharpness in her eyes sowhat reminiscent of Adam Jones’s, startling Charles Churchill into silence.
After leaving those words behind, the Old Lady walked away, leaving the Churchill Family of three alone and at a loss, neither able to leave nor stay.
Although others did not know what exactly was said, seeing both Adam Jones’s and the Old Lady’s grim expressions, they knew the Churchills were still clueless.
People who knew of the past scandals held even more contempt for Charles Churchill.
"Mom, look what you’ve done today. Why on earth did you provoke cousin Adam for no reason?"
Jasmine Churchill was finally beginning to recover from the suffocating embarrassnt.
Toward her mother Grace Gresia, Jasmine felt both love and hatred.
While Grace was faultless as a mother, her personal life left much to be desired.
In Jasmine’s circle, quite a few girls knew a good deal about her mother’s antics. Encountering them at school, and seeing the way those girls looked at her, Jasmine wished she could just crawl into a hole.
Now, as she faced graduation, she had hoped to get a job with Jones Corporation through the Old Lady.
After all, she was the Old Lady’s niece and among the younger generation of the Churchill Family, she had the closest blood relationship to the Old Lady. As long as Jasmine behaved well, the Old Lady would not let past grievances affect her attitude towards Jasmine.
After all, Jasmine hadn’t even been born back then.
But today, having dressed up nicely to make a good impression on the Old Lady and cousin Adam, her mother’s blabbering had thoroughly ssed things up.
Not only had she been made a laughingstock, but her hopes for joining Jones Corporation were likely dashed.
At this mont, Grace Gresia also realized that she had greatly underestimated Adam Jones’s character.
Though she had read online about how fiercely Adam defended his wife, she had thought it was an exaggeration.
Yet just now, she had witnessed firsthand how he defended Elly Campbell, casting aside even the most basic manners, and she regretted it.
She had severely underestimated Elly’s importance in Adam’s heart.
"Jasmine, it’s Mom’s fault, Mom got it wrong."
Although Grace was not a good wife, it was undeniable that she was a good mother.
She would always prioritize Jasmine, so seeing Adam publicly embarrass her daughter, Grace had transferred her resentnt towards Elly.
"Mom will go apologize to your cousin right now."
As she was about to leave, Jasmine stopped her.
"Forget it, Mom. Apologizing to cousin Adam now is useless. He never took you seriously to begin with, and you’ve just maligned his wife. If you go now, you’ll only make him despise both of us."
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