Matthew quickly stepped in front of me, slid to his knees, and hugged Mom's leg. "Mom, Mom! Calm down! She can't refuse a handsome man like him, and he even came to propose! Don't blame Penelope!"
"What do you know!" Evelyn roared in a low voice. "Since she was a child, you were the first to kneel down for anything she did. One of you begs for mercy, and the other secretly supports her with fists. You spoiled her into what she is today!"
"And look at what she's done this time!" Evelyn's face turned dark with anger as she thought about the words she had just heard in the study.
Matthew still didn't take it seriously. "Isn't it just a private engagement after being deceived? What else could it be?"
Daniel, who had been silent all this time, finally choked out a sentence, "If you don't wa
