You, Me And Our Genius Twins Chapter 117


    Chapter 117 No Pushover


    Nichs froze as he stared at Alina in shock and disbelief.


    Her words were like death by a thousand cuts, and he couldn’t bear the hurt any more than he could


    bear her disgust for him when she found out he had slept with Angie.


    In fact, Alina had brutally put him in his ce and called him a fool. She had told him that she was


    breaking up with him, not because of his unexpected one-night stand with Angie, but because he was a


    simpleton with nomon sense of right and wrong.


    A simpleton with nomon sense of right and wrong? No. That’s not me. Nichs shook his head as


    he said hurtfully, “Lina, how could you say that about me? I just…” I just felt so sorry for Angie, and I


    wanted to help her get through these tough times.


    He couldn’t bring himself to say that. He couldn’t tell Alina that he felt bad for Angie; while he was being


    a good samaritan, Angie had been scheming against him. She had turned around and bitten him like a


    viper as soon as he left himself wide open. That in itself was a foolish mistake on his part.


    Nichs thought Alina was being unfair, but at the same time, he couldn’t quite find the words to argue


    and prove her wrong. The flush on his cheeks was gone, and he was looking more ashen-faced by the


    second.


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    “Lina, how could you say such things about Nichs?” Erin’s heart twisted when she saw how broken


    Nichs looked. “Nichs is just too kind for his own good! He took pity on Angie and tried to help her.


    None of us could have expected her to take advantage of him like this! She’s an ingrate and a traitor!”


    “Pity?” Alina repeated with a raise of her brow. “While you were all taking pity on Angie, did you ever


    stop to feel sorry for Madam Crystal? She nearly lost her life giving birth to Madeline, only for her long-


    time enemy to take the baby away and rece her with another. Imagine her anguish!”


    Erin stiffened. “We didn’t think Angie would turn out to be so evil. We really thought she was innocent,


    and we—”


    Alina cut her off with a bark of coldughter. “You didn’t think Angie would be evil, but have you ever


    thought that you and Nichs’ kindness would only add insult to Crystal’s injury? Angie is Cameron’s


    daughter, and if Crystal sees Angie, she would inevitably think of Cameron; it would only be a stab to


    her heart. Angie has to be sent away so that Crystal will never have to see her again and get stressed


    out about it!” Having said all this, she eyed Erin mockingly and drawled, “You know, Madam Erin, if I


    didn’t know that you were actually a kind person by nature, I would have thought that you were only


    keeping Angie to spite Madam Crystal because of some personal grudge you have against her!”


    She might sound like she was vouching for Erin’s apparent kindness, but in actuality, her implication


    was clear. She suspected Erin was using Angie to spite Crystal all along.


    On the other hand, Erin flushed when she heard her ns being pinpointed. “Lina, where do you get


    such oundish ideas? I couldn’t possibly have thought that far. I watched Angie grow up, and all I want


    to do is care for her after all that has happened. I have nothing against my sister-inw, so why would I


    spite her? Now is not the time for nonsense, Lina!”


    Those who had been swept up in this mess had clearly never contemted this before.


    When Erin suddenly showed such enthusiastic concern over Angie and insisted on taking her in as a


    daughter, Michael and his sons did not question it, though they had found it strange at the time.


    They brushed it off because they were close to Erin and Morgan’s side. Michael and his two brothers


    were tight-knit, and naturally, their children mingled well enough too. As for the inws, while Crystal


    and Erin were not close by any means, there was no obvious animosity between them. They hardly


    ever fought, and everyone thought they got along alright.


    No one could have thought that Erin’s motive in bringing Angie back to her ce was to further her


    ns of hurting Crystal, but now that Alina had brought this up, Michael and his sons began to feel as if


    something had been amiss all this while.


    Morgan’s family indeed loved Angie as though she was one of their own, but Erin had never doted on


    her or cared this much about her until recently.


    After the main family was caught up in a melodrama premised on Angie’s birth story, they decided it


    was for the best to send her away, but Erin suddenly insisted on taking her in as a daughter without


    even considering the main family’s disagreement. In retrospect, one had to question her motives in


    doing so; had she truly felt sorry for Angie and wanted to keep her, or did she want to make her stay in


    the Wendel Family just so she could rub salt on Michael’s family’s wounds?


    Michael and his sons would have believed the former to be true had Alina not brought this up, but now


    that she had, it was as if the jigsaw pieces were starting to fall into ce, and they were beginning to


    contemte if thetter had more truth in it.


    As such, the looks they gave Erin started to turn wary and skeptical.


    Erin felt a chill down her spine when she met their inquisitive gaze. She dared not risk offending the


    main family in any way; pretending to love Angie as if she was her own to spite Crystal was the best


    n she coulde up with.


    After all, the Wendels were only the top elite family in Wendel City after Michael stepped up as head of


    the family.


    The Wendels came from really old money, but when it came for Robert to seed his father, the family


    was already on the verge of a downfall. The nobility of their name was an empty shell, and while they


    did their best to polish up said shell, the Wendels’ business was crumbling. It could have been wound


    up at any given time.


    When Michael took over Wendel Corporation, he worked hard to salvage it by consolidating its assets


    and eventually getting the business back on track. It was under his leadership that the Wendels rose


    from the dead and imed the throne as the wealthiest family in Wendel City.


    He was the head of the family right now, and he held over eighty percent of the shares in the Wendel


    Corporation.


    Jonathan was the sessor to Wendel Corporation. Meanwhile, Joseph, Connor, and Cedric were all


    brilliant in their own fields, and they had carved bright futures for themselves.


    It could only be in Erin and her children’s interests to be in the main family’s good books. Thus, she had


    never thought about making them her enemy. Jealous as she was of Crystal, she would rather put on a


    show and make as if she got along with her. No one could possibly tell that she had hated Crystal for


    years, after all.


    However, all her little secrets came spilling out after Alina blew her bluff in front of Michael and his


    sons.


    Technically speaking, Alina had reaffirmed Erin’s ‘kind nature’. She imed to believe that Erin only


    brought Angie back to her ce not to hurt Crystal on purpose but out of her own goodwill. However,


    Michael and his sons were smart enough to catch on, and as soon as Alina said those words, they


    began to wonder if the opposite was true.


    Had Erin known that this was how things would go, she never would have suggested that they bring


    Angie back. Perhaps she wouldn’t have climbed into my son’s bed and ruined his engagement with


    Alina, who would still be on friendly terms with us instead of cutting us off like this.


    For Alina to resort to seeding enmity between Erin’s family and Michael’s was proof of her resolve to


    break up with Nichs. This was a hook, line, and sinker maneuver; she would nevere back or


    reconsider the engagement.


    Erin had bragged about Nichs’ engagement to the youngdy of the Harmon Family to her friends


    on countless asions. She was always proud of it, but now that Nichs was so close to tying the


    knot, Alina decided to call off the engagement. Not only that, she even stirred up strife between Erin


    and the main family in the process.


    Erin had truly shot herself in the foot. I can’t believe how luck has turned on me, she thought ruefully.


    Meanwhile, Alina smiled wryly as she said, “Madam Erin, I think I just made myself quite clear that I


    know how kind-hearted you are, and I believe that you didn’t just take Angie in to further aggravate


    Madam Crystal. Even so, I will not stand for the way you and Nichs are handling this. Both of you


    are showing Angie more empathy and kindness than she deserves, which is beyond my


    comprehension. As such, I can’t possibly spend the rest of my life with a family like yours, and seeing


    as we’re going our separate ways, I can only hope that we do so amicably. From now on, I have


    nothing to do with any of you!”