Chapter 1040: Chapter 1040: Doubts Arise
"I must say, Mother-in-law, you’re just too biased. Emma Wells got pregnant before getting married back then, and completely disgraced the Wells Clan. Yet you still let her come back, isn’t that generous of you."
Daisy Lewis had been holding in her frustration for so long and finally found an opportunity to vent; how could she hold back now?
"Lucy’s fiancé, you’d better be careful not to get cuckolded. After all, if the upper beam is not straight, the lower beams will go crooked."
Daisy Lewis’s sarcastic remarks made Jerry Taylor step forward. He hadn’t spoken yet when Emma Wells shouted, "Daisy Lewis, shut your filthy mouth! Who says Lucy doesn’t have a father? Not only does she have a father, but her father is an extremely good person!"
Everyone’s attention suddenly turned to Emma Wells, even Jerry Taylor was quite astonished. Was he considered a good person in Emma Wells’s mind?
The situation that night was anything but good; it was, in fact, quite dangerous.
How could she think he was good?
"Her father is a good person?" Daisy Lewis couldn’t help but laugh out loud as she heard this, her expression clearly mocking Emma Wells’s nonsense, "A good person who abandoned you?"
Jerry Taylor lightly furrowed his brow, his mouth had just opened, and before any sound could come out, he was stunned into silence by Emma Wells’s words.
"He’s dead!" Emma Wells said painfully, "He’s already gone."
The "deceased" Jerry Taylor stared blankly at Emma Wells, when had he died?
How come he didn’t know?
"He was a good person, Daisy Lewis, please don’t slander a deceased man!" Emma Wells chastised sternly.
"Oh... still a good person?" Daisy Lewis sneered, "Deceased? What if he isn’t dead?"
"Of course, we would have gotten married and lived happily together. I chose to keep the child back then because he was worth having an out-of-wedlock child for!" Emma Wells’s words moved many present.
Mind you, even twenty years ago, having a child out of wedlock was quite unfriendly, not to mention the social environment of that time?
The fact that Emma Wells could make that kind of decision, it seems to be true love indeed.
Seeing the attitude of the people around changing somewhat, Daisy Lewis panicked and hurriedly clung to other topics, mocking as she said, "Let’s not worry about those issues, I’m just curious, is your daughter good enough for him? Does she really think she’s a sparrow that can transform into a phoenix?"
Daisy Lewis’s words left Emma Wells speechless.
If she retorted, it would seem like she had no self-awareness, almost as if she was trying to cling to the Bright Clan.
Mother Bright chuckled and asked, "Do you think our Bright Clan is the type to care about social status?"
"Whether you are or not, you know it in your hearts." Daisy Lewis’s smile was mocking and sarcastic, "After all, a high-class family mysteriously marrying a woman with no father and no money... the motive behind it is truly hard to say."
"I mean no harm; I just want to remind you, so certain people won’t be used without realizing it." Daisy Lewis said while giving Sophie Wilson a meaningful glance, as if she had come to stir up trouble just for Sophie’s sake, so Sophie could see certain people’s true colors clearly.
It must be said, Daisy Lewis’s words indeed planted a deep seed of doubt in everyone’s heart.
The reason being none other than the fact that the benefits Sophie Wilson and Charles Seymour brought were enough to make people stop at nothing.
