Chapter 696
Jean was rendered speechless by Sonia’s words as her face twisted in frustration. After all, the
bangle was an heirloom passed down to the daughters-inw from one generation to another in the
Fuller Family.
While Rose had always been its keeper, the tight security in the old manor made it hard for anyone
to steal it. Moreover, Jean believed that anyone who seeded in stealing it wouldn’t dare to wear
it openly, either.
Thus, she quickly understood the reason Sonia had the bangle was not that she stole it, but
because of another reason she probably wouldn’t be able to ept. As a few puckers were seen on
her bby cheeks, she questioned Sonia in an annoyed manner, “Tell me. How did you get this
bangle?”
Sonia dropped her wrist and calmly replied, “How else do you think I got it? Of course, it was
Grandma who gave it to me.”
“No way!” Jean raised the pitch in her tone, responding with a jarring voice that sounded so
unpleasant that Sonia had to look away and cover her ears in agony.
“What’re you doing? Why won’t you believe it?!”
“You must be lying, right?!” Jean approached her intimidatingly, clearly showing her agitation. “This
bangle is meant for the Fuller Family’s daughters-inw, but you’re not one. So, why would Old Mrs.
Fuller give it to you? Therefore, I’m pretty sure that you’re lying.” Jean didn’t believe that it was
Rose who gave Sonia the bangle because she reckoned she should be next in line to receive that,
since she was the daughter-inw of the Fuller Family. Thus, she was convinced that Sonia was
lying.
“Haha. I’m lying?” Sonia was caught in a trance upon hearing Jean’s words but subsequently
became amused the next second. “What proof do you have to use me of lying?”
“What kind of proof do you need? This bangle is proof!” Jean pointed at the bangle on Sonia’s wrist
with an exasperated look on her face. “I already said that the bangle is meant for the Fuller Family’s
daughters-inw, so who are you to have it? Old Mrs. Fuller is the kind of person who ys by the
book, so what you said about her giving the bangle to you is pure nonsense! Unless she is old and
dumb, that will never happen. Thus, I urge you to give it back!” She stretched out her arm in front of
Sonia, hinting to her that she should take off her bangle.
Sonia covered her bangle and stepped back, gazing at Jean emotionlessly. “No way! Grandma
gave me this bangle, so it belongs to me now. For that, I won’t ever give it to you. If you’re
dissatisfied, take it up with Grandma becauseining to me isn’t going to help.”
“You...” Jean was surprised by Sonia’s reluctance to give in, feeling piqued by her unwillingness to
give up the bangle. Overwhelmed by her anger, she began to shiver from head to toe in anger.
“Sonia, will you give me the bangle?!” “Nope, I won’t!” Sonia replied without a second of hesitation,
her eyes filled with ridicule. “Jean, don’t you think that I have no idea why you want me to give up
the bangle? You’ve been eyeing this bangle for a while, knowing that it is meant to be passed down
to the Fuller Family’s daughters-inw from one generation to another. Nheless, Grandma
wouldn’t give it to you even though you’re her daughter-inw, which is what bothers and irks you.
Now that you see me wearing the bangle, you feel so disappointed that you can’t handle the truth
because you know that Grandma gave it to me herself. Therefore, you’re trying to take it from me
now. Aren’t I right?”
Jean’s eyes widened in disbelief when she heard Sonia’s words, her panicky emotions written all
over her face. Although Sonia had obviously just stated what was on her mind, Jean denied
everything and pointed at the former, grunting and bellowing. “You! What you just said is simply
nonsense!”
“Well, you and I both know whether what I just said is truly nonsense. After all, I can tell how much
you want to kill me with the jealousy in your eyes.” Sonia chuckled in irony and added, “Actually, you
believe that Grandma gave me the bangle herself because there was no other way I would get my
hands on it, yet you won’t admit it because you won’t have an excuse to take it from me once you
do that. This is clear enough, isn’t it? Do you really still want to deny it?”
Jean’s face turned pale, which was what Sonia found hrious, as it looked like a palette to her.
After clenching her fists for a few moments, she eventually epted the reality and calmed down,
responding with a grunt to Sonia. “What’re you going to do even if you get that right? I still won’t
believe that Old Mrs. Fuller gave that to you herself. You must have coaxed her into handing that
bangle over to you when she barely knew about what she was doing in the hospital.”
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Upon hearing thedy’s words, Sonia rolled her eyes upward and said, “You really impress me with
your ‘talent’. Do you know that, Jean? How did that even ur to you in the first ce? Grandma
has been hospitalized because she was slightly overwhelmed, but in spite of that, she is totally
aware of what she is doing, which is nothing like what you just said. As for this bangle, I didn’t even
know its existence before I wore it, so tell me how I was supposed to coax her?”
Jean’s avoidant gaze gave away her guilt as she extended her arm in a menacing manner once
more. “Who knows how you coaxed her? Anyway, you will have to surrender the bangle, like it or
not.”
In the face of Jean’s insistence on getting her hands on the bangle, Sonia showed no signs of
backing down. “No can do!” She hid her hands behind her back. While Jean was about to escte
her approach to snatch it from Sonia, the elevator arrived, allowing Sonia to step outside before the
former could reach her.
“Stop, Sonia!" Jean was caught in a trance, gritting her teeth as she gave chase, but Sonia
pretended like she didn’t hear anything and continued to move forward. Therefore, she picked up
her pace and shouted, “I told you to stop! Didn’t you hear me?!"
Only a fool would stop. At the thought of that, Sonia sped up her pace, noticing the ward with her
eyes brightening up, whereupon she quickly entered it.
Seeing Sonia enter the ward, Jean thought the former was just hiding there because there was no
way else to go. Thus, she chuckled in a sinister manner and ridiculed Sonia. Let’s see where else
you can go. No one can stop me from getting that bangle today. Soon, Jean scurried in the direction
of the ward without realizing that it was, in fact, her destination—Rose’s wardthanks to her
obsession with the bangle. Unknown to her, every single word she had just said was clearly heard
by Rose.
“Sonia, you’d better give up the bangle now. Do you hear me?! Otherwise...”
“Otherwise what? What’s going to happen?” The olddy’s cial voice interrupted Jean’s words
before she could finish her sentence.
The voice was like a bucket of ice water that was sshed on Jean, snapping her out of her
obsession and taking her back to reality. Upon making sense of what was going on, Jean was
instantly overwhelmed by fear as she froze in ce, unable to take one step forward.
“Mom...” Jean took a moment to find her own voice and greeted the olddy who was ring at her
in the bed.
“Don’t call me Mom. I’m not ‘worthy’ of being your mother-inw,” Rose sneered and said.
Sensing the olddy’s anger in her voice, Jean gulped in fear and felt especially anxious on the
inside. Oh, man! I’m so screwed this time. Old Mrs. Fuller is super pissed off right now. How did I let
her hear everything I said? Jean felt nothing but a huge pang of regret, not because she wouldn’t
stop demanding the bangle from Sonia, but because she didn’t keep her voice down, or Rose
wouldn’t have heard that. This is all Sonia’s fault.
Meanwhile, Sonia was aware that Jean was hot on her heels, so she purposely entered Rose’s
ward without warning her because she was hoping for the olddy to deal with her after hearing
what she said. Haha. By pitting Jean against Grandma, I don’t even have to deal with her myself.
Soon, Jean gawked at Sonia, who was preparing Rose’s medicine obediently beside the bed,
wishing she could just kill her with her angry stare.