Chapter 2493: Chapter
"How could the Wallace family make such a muddle?"
"Recognizing Winona Wallace as a goddaughter, and then wanting their son to marry the other daughter, what a mess, all the relationships are tangled..."
"Yes, it’s really inappropriate to make such a suggestion... I think Mrs. Wallace is just too old and confused, forming an alliance should not be a vendetta, how could she make such a request."
Standing on the outskirts of the crowd were some young socialites and noble ladies.
Their relationship with Mrs. Wallace was not particularly close; they were here today just to join the excitement and expand their connections.
When they heard Mrs. Lucas’ blunt words, they almost felt embarrassed for the Wallace family.
The Wallace family is truly outrageous, not even weighing their own worth, yet daring to make such demands in front of the Reddington family.
Does the Wallace family really think they are a top wealthy family, equal to the Reddingtons and the Lucas family?
"No... definitely not, how could we, the Wallace family, dare to make such demands of our in-laws." Mrs. Wallace managed to breathe evenly, struggling with a fainting spell, as she explained.
"Mrs. Lucas, this must be some kind of misunderstanding, don’t listen to the hearsay from outsiders, rumors spreading..."
Lily: "Of course, I wouldn’t listen to rumors from outsiders, but this came directly from your daughter-in-law, Lady Sheila Fletcher. Naturally, Mrs. Wallace was just passing on the message, I’ve heard that Bruce Wallace has doted on Miss Winona Wallace since she was a child and couldn’t bear for her to suffer any hardship. The message from Mrs. Wallace was more than clear, Mr. Bruce Wallace wants my father to recognize Miss Winona as a goddaughter, making her my sister, as equals..."
This phrase ’as equals’ chilled Mrs. Wallace to the core.
Bruce Wallace... that wretched son of hers, how could he come up with such a poor idea.
There was no need to confirm, Mrs. Wallace could imagine easily enough that Sheila Fletcher definitely lacked the courage.
She not only lacked courage, but she also lacked standing, as she wasn’t Winona Wallace’s biological mother.
Now that Leslie Howard is to marry David Redington, Sheila naturally stands to gain from the alliance, there was no reason for her to make such propositions.
The only one who would act in such a way is Bruce Wallace, he alone would think to indulge his daughter so carelessly at this critical moment.
Indulging her to such an extent was truly harmful!
At this moment, Mrs. Wallace regretted bitterly, wishing she had never had Bruce as a son, that she had strictly controlled Winona Wallace from a young age, and not allowed Bruce’s indulgence of his granddaughter.
If that had been the case, such misfortune would never have occurred.
"No, we dare not... we wouldn’t dare trouble our in-laws." Mrs. Wallace’s lips trembled as dizziness clouded her mind, gasping for breath several times before continuing.
"This is all a misunderstanding... Bruce and Sheila probably just wanted the families to be closer, to augment the ties. The Wallace family has no intention of any threat or coercion. Mrs. Lucas, please don’t misunderstand."
"Is it just to augment the ties? I don’t think so..." Lily gracefully pulled out a stack of photos from her bag.
"Aside from wanting my father to acknowledge Miss Wallace, Mr. Wallace made another absurd request. He wanted my father to arrange a marriage for Miss Wallace, to find her another promising young man. Knowing Miss Wallace was soon to be wed, I found this odd, so I did some investigation... and what I discovered is quite intriguing."
With that, she placed the photos on the table.
[There’s another Chapter around midnight]
