At the same time, Valeria glared at Alexander, embarrassed, and angrily said: “You're showing off too much! A weakling like you trying to prove himself? If you want to prove something, do it with your own ability, not by borrowing someone else’s power!"
"I wasn’t trying to prove anything, Mom. I just saw that Phineas wasn’t handling things, so I stepped in to help.” Alexander said calmly.
Bringing up Phineas only made Valeria even angrier, as if Alexander was using Phineas to insult her judgment.
"Phineas is not someone you can compare yourself to! Don’t think that just because you helped me, I’m going to change my opinion of a useless person like you. We’ll deal with this when we get home."
With that, Valeria stormed off, not even sparing Alexander a decent look.
Alexander shook his
