The crowd was getting even bigger, and they started judging nca.


    “What’s wrong with her? She’s supposed to be loyal to her husband. How could she cheat on him?”


    “She is making her mother-inw so mad, how could she do that? She’s terrible!”


    “Ma’am, you’d better talk your son into divorcing her!”


    nca was so annoyed by the unfriendly, or even mean judgment around her. She was sick of it even though Carried didn’t cause any serious damage by doing so.


    nca took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down. She then put up a look at her being wronged.


    Her voice was trembly as if tears were about to fall, “Mrs. Grant, I don’t understand why you used me of something I didn’t do – I am innocent. You can’t me me for something I didn’t do. You have to stop trying to break apart Matthew and me. Just that you aren’t Matthew’s biological mother and that you wanted your daughter to marry Matthew doesn’t mean you get to do so. You can always tell me when or what I do wrong. I am happy to do better.”


    “You…”


    Carrie didn’t expect nca’s quick change of attitudes – she was calm a moment before, and now she seemed so different!


    She stammered and was speechless, but nca grabbed Carrie’s hand intimately and shed tears, “Mrs. Grant, I know that Matthew is doing an excellent job at work. And because of him, you think you haven’t been treated the way you deserve. But now Matthew and I are married, I am and always will be a good wife for Matthew. Can you please not meddle in our marriage? Unless… You do want Louise to marry Matthew?”


    nca grew up in the slums, it was seamlessly easy for her to get in any emotions as if she was a professional actress.


    Carrie started to panic after hearing what nca just had said.


    “Another vicious stepmom? Why would she want to sabotage their marriage…”


    “Unbelievable… this woman is toxic and vicious.”


    “Such a terrible mother-inw!”


    nca’s little speech turned Carrie into everyone’s target – they started nattering Carrie instead. Carrie and Louise couldn’t bear the crowd’s pressure anymore. They stared at nca angrily and fled.


    At this particr moment, Louise pushed nca hard and the pendant on nca’s neck fell right off!


    nca could feel her heartbreak and she hurried to pick the pendant up.


    But it was broken already.


    Yes, it was broken.


    nca was tearing up instantly. That was the only thing nca had from her grandmother.


    “Why would it break…”


    In disbelief, nca looked at the jade pendant in her hand – it broke into two pieces. This pendant was like her own amulet. But now…


    “You take it easy, youngdy… At least you got your hubby, even though your mother-inw seems quite mean.”


    Some of them assumed nca was tearing up because Carrie was messing with her, so they approached her withforting words.


    nca forced a smile. But her hands were grabbing the pendant tightly.


    Last night nca herself gave Louise a hard time, and now Carrie took Louise here trying to get back at her. nca was, somehow, envious of what Carrie and Louise had, even though she resented the two of them. But they had each other!


    nca was envious of Louise as much she was of Malinda, too. Because they had their family around and their family’s unconditional support and protection. This was something she had always been longing for.


    She had been all by herself these past years, but she had never stopped yearning for having a family…All content ? N/.?vel/Dr/ama.Org.