Disruption
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Claire POV
Seeing Davina hiding and trembling behind the crowd, the cousin who had just relented raised his slap and exploded:
“You stop right there!”
The slap--
It wasn't the slap that landed on my face, but I raised my hand to intercept the slap.
I looked up, meeting this cousin's eyes for the first time, and then without a moment's pause I raised my other hand high, and that cousin's evil eyes turned to horror and bewilderment.
I patted the crumbs from my hand and took a step forward, staring at him with dark eyes, “What do you want? Do you want to hit me? Who the hell are you to make a move on me? Is it your turn in the Winston family to say if you recognize me as your daughter?”
I sized up the man's face from side to side before saying, “Doesn't Davina know if what I'm saying is the truth or not?”
I veered to look at Davina behind the man, “Davina, what do you say?”
Davina snapped her head up, a pair of eyes on her ghastly white face glaring immensely, staring at me in death, as if she wanted to cut me into a thousand pieces.
But in the end, she just held her head and screamed.
The commotion eventually drew the attention of all the guests, and the figures of Mrs. Winston and old Mrs. Winston had hurried over.
“What's wrong what's wrong? What's all this commotion?!” Mrs. Winston hastily held Davina and rushed to comfort her saying, “Baby, what happened”
Cousin Simon looked at me coldly, “The woman you guys just picked up said that Davina isn't a Winston child.”
Mrs. Winston's pupils constricted, reflexively snapped, “She's not telling the truth.”
The unfinished words steeply drowned in the dark pupils of my eyes.
I stared at Mrs. Winston, the bright light fell in my irises, but it was as deep as the sea frozen under the moon.
Cold, distant, and with a cruel scrutiny, as if if she had said half a word wrong, this dark sea would not hesitate to break through the ice and swallow everything.
“What she said is not the truth!” It was Grandma Winston who finished the sentence in her place.
She held Davina in her arms and glared at me incomparably sternly and even pointedly, “Claire, I know you have a problem with Davina, after all, you're both sisters who grew up very differently, it's only natural for you to have resentment in your heart, but you have to be clear, it's not Davina's fault!”
If she has a deep meaning, her eyes contain obvious warning and compulsion: “Davina is the most precious child of our Winston family, I almost drowned when she was three years old if Davina didn't cry and shouted to attract people, you have afraid that you won't be able to see your grandmother today, the Winston family owes you a debt of gratitude, we, the elders, will make it up to you, but it doesn't mean that you can rely on it. mean you can just bully your sister based on that!”
“If the family that adopted you didn't teach you these rules, then it won't hurt if I start teaching you from today!”
These words were deafening, and everyone in the entire banquet hall heard them.
The gossip that was originally caused by me suddenly turned the wind again.
“The Winston family has this kind of past? No wonder the old lady favors Davina so much.”
“If it were me, I'd spoil her too, she saved the Winston family's old lady when she was only three years old, is it any wonder why it's always been said that Davina is the Winston family's lucky star?”
“But what this new Claire just said doesn't seem to be made up either ......”
“After all, she just came back from abroad, it's normal that she would be psychologically twisted when she sees how Davina is treated ......”
......
In the tiny noisy discussion, Mrs. Winston, who was still dissatisfied with me, was in a difficult situation, and advised, “Mom, don't talk about Claire like that, she has just come home ......”
“It's precisely because she's just come home that she needs to know the rules even better!” The old lady, however, was unshaken, soothing Davina who was crying in her arms while staring at me with her brows furrowed in a deadly frown, “You've been back for such a long time, have you ever called me grandma? Don't you even know the most basic manners?!”
In the center of the gorgeously dressed guests, I stood there, my fingers hooked around the hem of my gown, flicking it casually.
Then I raised my eyelids to the old woman who was the only one so acerbic and stern with her, and opened my mouth lightly, “Grandma?”
I c****d my head, “I grew up in an orphanage, have you ever raised me for a day, Grandma?”
--
Dead silence.
Both the ones boldly paying attention to this side, and the ones pretending not to.
Whether it was an older noblewoman or a younger celebrity.
Whether it was the reserved old gentlemen or the publicans who pretended to be high and mighty.
All of them fell into stillness at this instant.
As if time was suspended, everyone had the illusion of being in a trance thinking they were dreaming.
Grandma Winston in the center of the crowd was even more so as her entire face skin froze, and then her expression cracked inch by inch until her wrinkled face skin glowed a little bit red, and unbelievably violent anger burst out from her pale eyes.
“You ...... you you, what did you say?!!!”
Even Davina couldn't bother to cry as she looked at me incredulously, “Are you crazy? How can you say that about grandma?!”
“Whose grandma? Your grandmother?” I moved my eyes, my dark pupils staring at Davina with a bit of wickedness, “I'm not related to you by blood, how could I have the same grandmother? Don't get close to me.”
The old woman gasped for air and fell limply over her chest, Mrs. Winston shrieked and caught her.
“Call a doctor!”
“Get the medicine, get the medicine!”
“Butler! Get the quick-acting heart pills!”
“You've got to stop talking!”
“Call someone! Is Mr. Winston not back yet?!”
On the spot, those who took medicine took medicine, those who carried people carried people, those who screamed and those who ran wildly ran wildly.
The gilded ballroom was in a flurry of activity, with guests making way for the family doctor while making noisy, dense chatter in twos and threes.
“Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd get to see such a big show tonight.”
“This new daughter of the Winston family isn't a lunatic, is she?”
“What a horrible mouth, what a horrible head, what kind of mind can say such things on such occasions? I shall keep away from her from now on.”
“Can she stay in the Winston family instead of being driven away?”
“But she keeps insisting that Davina is not the Winston family's real daughter ......”
“I don't know why, but looking at her face makes me feel like she has a lot of credibility in what she's saying.”
“Is something big about to happen to the Winston family?”
“It's not that something big is going to happen to the Winston family, it's that California is going to change, right? This woman's attack power is so scary, it always feels like she's going to turn the whole Winston family upside down.”
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