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Chapter 82
Before leaving, he glanced coldly at Eleanor.
“Jason breaking off the engagement doesn’t mean the Clowers family is doing so. He’ll eventually
become part of the Laurence family, so don’t bother trying to persuade him to fight the whole Clowers
family for you.” With that, Bernard turned and headed to
the men’s bathroom.
Watching his arrogant retreating figure, Eleanor breathed a sigh of relief.
Whenever she faced Bernard, she always felt an indescribable sense of tension.
She didn’t know if she was afraid of him or afraid of showing him how much she liked him
uncontrollably.
Luckily, she had just denied her feelings for him against her true desire.
Otherwise, if her true thoughts were discovered by Bernard, who knew how he’d mock and
misunderstand her.
Eleanor gathered her composure, pretended to wash her hands at the sink, and then left the bathroom.
On the way to find Eleanor, Jason was constantly bothered by Brenda, which gave him a headache.
When he saw Eleanor coming out of the bathroom with wet hands, he quickly pushed Brenda aside
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtand walked over.
Jason said to Eleanor, “Ms. Shultz, let’s go back.”
Eleanor nodded, her indifferent gaze glanced at Brenda as if pondering something.
Brenda recalled impulsively slapping Eleanor earlier and feared she would tell Jason. Thus, her
showed a warning expression.
Eleanor found it somewhat amusing: After slapping her, Brenda was afraid she’d spill the beans? Does
Brenda think this is high school and she is the most popular cheerleader or something?
While she wanted to retaliate with a slap of her own, this was the Mallory family’s territory.
If she took action in front of everyone, those uninformed would think she was bullying others.
Eleanor didn’t want to become the center of attention, nor did she want to be resented by the Mallory
family members for getting
physical.
With that in mind, Eleanor held back and thought she’d seek revenge on Brenda later, “Let’s go.”
As she stepped down from the stairs, Jason hurriedly reached out to help her.
Originally, Jason planned to hold her hand just for the stairs and then let go. However, when he
lowered his head, he accidentally noticed the slap mark on her face.
“What happened?” Jason’s gentle face suddenly became serious.
He touched Eleanor’s slightly swollen cheek with his hand, subconsciously revealing a trace of
heartache.
Seeing the emotions on his face, Eleanor paused. Could it be that Jason actually cared about her?
Jason whispered, “Who did this?”
He asked as if looking to stand up for her, but Eleanor remained silent.
She felt Jason might not actually avenge her against his friend’s sister.
Since Eleanor didn’t say anything, Brenda breathed a sigh of relief.
Jason was always observant. At this moment, seeing Brenda’s expression, he immediately understood
what happened.
When he wanted to find Eleanor earlier and Brenda kept stopping him, it was because she had taken
advantage of his absence to hit Eleanor!
Jason’s cold gaze swept over Brenda, “Ms. Mallory, I brought my date to your home as a guest, but you
hit her. Is this the upbringing of the Mallory family?”
Brenda panicked as Jason found out so quickly that she had hit Eleanor, but her anxiety was soon
dulled by anger
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmShe felt it was unfair for Jason to defend Eleanor without asking!
Unable to hold back her anger, Brenda said, “Jason, you’re blaming the without knowing the full
situation, that’s not right!”
Jason’s face darkened, “So it wasn’t you who hit her?”
Brenda felt a little guilty under his stare and quickly changed her tune, “Even if it was me, you blamed
me without even asking
about the reason. That’s so unfair.”
Jason scoffed, “I know Eleanor very well; I don’t need to know the reason.”
Brenda didn’t expect Jason to say that to her for Eleanor’s sake, and her face turned red with anger,
“How can you treat me like
this…”
Jason didn’t want to deal with her anymore and said coldly, “Apologize to Eleanor!”
Jason was friends with Ryan, but not that familiar with Brenda, so he wouldn’t defend her.
Seeing Jason’s unrelenting stance, Brenda wept out of anger, “You’re bullying me!”
Brenda’s crying quickly attracted onlookers. Everyone held their wine glasses, watching the drama
unfold, but no one stepped forward to help her.
Realizing the situation was bad, Brenda quickly pointed at Eleanor and said, “She started it by insulting
me with nasty words! I lost control and hit her out of anger. If it weren’t for her provoking me, wouldn’t
have done it. I didn’t do anything wrong!”
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