Mrs Hale, I Surrender
Chapter 424 - 423 Selling a Daughter for Glory, Unworthy of Being a Father (5 Updates)

Chapter 424: 423 Selling a Daughter for Glory, Unworthy of Being a Father (5 Updates)

She prepares this because she doesn’t want Cressida Jones to get pregnant.

If Mr. Drake really likes her and she has a child by her side, she might become a threat in the future.

"Mrs. Jones, the reason you’re giving me this is to have sex with me, isn’t it? Isn’t it too late for you to deny it now? Besides, you were enjoying it just now..."

"Scoundrel, you are talking nonsense!"

Lavinia Wilde rushes over, wanting to hit him.

But she gets pushed away by Mr. Drake, "Today I am here to have a matchmaking meeting with Miss Jones. If things work out between us, I should be calling you mother-in-law. What kind of mother-in-law would prepare that sort of thing for her son-in-law?"

"I..."

Lavinia Wilde is at a loss for words. She turns to her husband, "Silas, you have to believe me, things are definitely not like this."

But what awaited her was a heavy slap from Silas Jones!

He had just been humiliated by Mario Payne, and now to hear rumors of being cheated on, and in front of so many people, it was a blow to his male pride.

Then, another slap!

He said directly: "Lavinia Wilde, you slut, how dare you cheat on me!"

"It’s not like that, really, it’s not." She was frantic.

Cressida Jones helplessly said, "Dad, perhaps our family business has been struggling lately. Aunt Wilde might fear you’ll go bankrupt, and is thus in a rush to find a fallback for herself, even arranging for my matchmaking so eagerly—turns out the hidden meaning wasn’t in the wine."

This reason did have some credibility.

"The woman who usurped her position has no shame to begin with; it seems the Jones Family really did offend someone, and business has been quite unfavorable."

"That’s no reason to seduce the man her daughter is supposed to meet."

"Mr. Drake is wealthy, after all. At his age, to be so shameless."

...

The crowd’s myriad discussions, each word and sentence, felt like they were piercing her very soul, nailing her to a pillar of shame.

Lavinia Wilde glared at Cressida Jones, "It was you who framed me, you drugged me!"

"Silas, believe me, this nasty girl is trying to harm me, she must be unwilling to go on the matchmaking meeting, you know that..." Lavinia Wilde gripped her husband’s clothes, continually signalling to him with her eyes.

Silas Jones’s anger subsided a bit.

He quickly pieced some things together.

She had Lavinia Wilde prepare some drugs to give to his daughter, but now Cressida Jones was untouched, and his wife got caught in flagrante delicto. It was obvious that something went wrong.

This vile girl, to actually have such schemes.

"I warned you before, the matter with Marigold was her doing. Look now, she’s got me too," Lavinia Wilde began to instigate.

"If not for her, our family wouldn’t have fallen to this state."

Silas Jones, recently dealing with business troubles and begging everywhere for help, the sight of the mastermind right before him ignited his fury.

He raised his hand, intending to hit her.

Tim Payne and Martin Yates were too far away to intervene in time, and unfortunately, Cressida Jones did not dodge.

His slap landed squarely on her face.

"Cressida Jones, you’re truly malicious!" Silas Jones snarled.

But he hadn’t anticipated that the next moment, Martin Yates would lunge forward in a few bounding strides.

With one kick,

he sent him flying!

Crashing into a table and chairs behind him, Silas writhed in pain, gritting his teeth, "Who the hell is it now, interfering with me disciplining my daughter..."

He didn’t finish his words, seeing it was Martin Yates, the words on the tip of Silas’s tongue were swallowed back.

"Basking in the glory of your daughter, unable to distinguish right from wrong, simply unworthy of being a father!"

"What’s it to you if I hit her?"

"We are in China, if this were abroad, I could have blown you away with a single shot."

Martin Yates’s eyes were keen as a hawk’s.

Just one look was enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine.

Tim Payne hadn’t expected his uncle to intervene, but Silas Jones was practically courting death tonight.

Having irritated his father, now Uncle had set his sights on him.

"Mr. Yates, this is a family matter," Silas Jones said through clenched teeth. "You’re meddling too much, you don’t really understand my daughter. She may look innocent, but she’s actually playing the victim."

"This evening’s incident, it was all orchestrated by her!"

Lavinia Wilde chimed in, "Yes, she’s already harmed my daughter, and now she wants to harm me, out of jealousy that Silas divorced her mother because of me."

Tim Payne coldly retorted, "You ruined someone else’s family, do you think you shouldn’t be hated?"

"Would you expect gratitude and appreciation instead?"

"It’s only natural for Miss Jones to hate you."

That statement was flawless.

Unless you were the ’other woman’ yourself, which normal person would sympathize with a homewrecker?

Lavinia Wilde was left speechless by the retort.

Cressida Jones seemed neither angry nor pleased, simply looking at Silas Jones, "Dad, if you think I drugged Aunt Wilde, then call the police."

"After all, I’m not afraid of an investigation. If the police probe into it and find it was me, you can hit me however you like, and I won’t fight back."

"But if it turns out I’m not responsible for this..."

She paused.

"I’ll make Lavinia Wilde kneel and apologize."

"How dare you!" Silas Jones flared up at those words.

Call the police!

He dared not.

The drug might have been brought by Lavinia Wilde, and if discovered by the police, it would truly be the end.

"Betrayed by my fiancé, now slandered by my stepmother claiming I plotted against her, if I don’t clear my name and bear this injustice, I will undoubtedly be the subject of gossip."

"Besides, Aunt Wilde repeatedly claims she wasn’t willing to get involved with Mr. Drake, her name needs to be cleared too."

"Since they’ve been intimate, if Aunt Wilde didn’t consent, does that mean Mr. Drake used force?"

"Engaging in relations against a woman’s will, that’s rape."

At these words, Mr. Drake’s face changed color in an instant.

Lavinia Wilde also shuddered throughout.

Silas Jones’s fingers tightened, "Ingrate!"

"This is our family issue, do you have to make it known to everyone?"

Cressida Jones let out a cold laugh, "Given the circumstances, the whole Capital City is probably already abuzz."

"And since my sister is to marry into the Jeans Family, with Beckett Jeans present today, we need to settle this matter, or else it will definitely affect my sister."

Only then did Silas Jones notice Beckett Jeans was there!

For a moment,

His world spun.

Everything was perfectly planned, everything under control.

How did it turn out like this.

"Cressida, there’s no need for the police. We can resolve our family’s issues behind closed doors," Silas Jones swallowed hard, "Besides, Aunt Wilde is your elder. It’s not appropriate for you to demand she kneel and apologize."

"So, you’re indifferent about your wife sleeping with another man?"

"Father indeed is magnanimous."

"Seeing this, it’s I who have been too narrow-minded."

"You..." Silas Jones was rendered speechless, gasping, half of his face swelling up.

"You forced me to go on a blind date, and now that such an incident has happened, it’s so difficult for me to seek justice," Cressida Jones raised an eyebrow.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Your blind date with Mr. Drake was consensual!"

Cressida Jones laughed out loud, "Consensual? What’s there for me to desire? His age? His three children? If it’s money I’m after, I could’ve easily chosen Beckett Jeans, so why would I go on a blind date with him?"