Jackson instinctively glanced behind Amelia, wondering why Mr. Lee wasn’t there.
Amelia smiled nonchalantly. "Looking for someone?"
Jackson feigned a hypocritical smile. "Amelia, there’s been a misunderstanding between us."
"What misunderstanding?" Amelia's lips curled slightly. "Is it the misunderstanding where you almost killed me, or the one where you wanted me to go back to the countryside?"
The onlookers started murmuring, shocked by their behavior. "Is this how parents treat their children?"
Mary could no longer tolerate the gossip from the neighborhood women and exploded. "She’s not even our biological daughter! What else do you want from us? Should we just pamper her? She's like a sticky plaster that can’t be shaken off!"
When Jackson saw how she was acting, he realized thing
