Relentless Pursuit After Divorce
Chapter 194. This is not Elly Campbell_1

Chapter 194: 194. This is not Elly Campbell_1

"Dad, it’s not Elly’s fault, I’m fine, let’s go."

"Go? What do you mean, go?"

James Campbell shook off Sophie Baker’s extended hand and glared at Elly with a harsh tone, "Elly, don’t push your luck. How many times have you bullied Sophie? Every time, she has shown nothing but tolerance towards you. Do you still know what it means to be a sister?"

The obvious bias James Campbell showed towards his illegitimate daughter over his legitimate one, commanding with authority, made the bystanders uncomfortable.

Adam Jones furrowed his brows and gazed deeply at James Campbell; he was about to speak when he heard Elly’s hoarse voice, softly rising—

"Dad."

Her voice was very low, and at the sound of her calling him ’dad,’ James Campbell paused, startled.

Hearing the words "Dad" from Elly’s mouth felt incredibly distant to James Campbell, so distant that he could not even remember the last time she called him that.

When Elly lifted her eyes to look at him, her eyes were already red.

"I know you don’t like my mom and me, but you shouldn’t be so biased. After all, I am your daughter. Besides, I am only two months older than her, I still don’t know how to be a sister."

Sophie Baker was dumbfounded, Elly, who had just been teaching her how to conduct herself with a smile, was now looking at her father with red eyes, appearing so aggrieved.

No, this wasn’t Elly at all!

What did she just say?

Suddenly realizing something, Sophie Baker sharply turned her eyes to Elly’s aggrieved face, and then to the gazes of the people around them, her heart ringing alarm bells.

Intuition told her that they were being outmaneuvered by Elly again.

James Campbell’s face also turned unsightly, as he faced those surprised looks cast at him, and gradually, his expression showed signs of unease.

Although he had an affair, he still cared about his reputation; he always claimed his younger daughter was two years younger than the older, but now that Elly said Sophie was only two months younger, everyone realized he had cheated while his wife was just pregnant.

The image of an utter scoundrel was laid bare by Elly for all to see.

He loathed Elly with a passion, yet in front of so many people, he was not in a position to throw a tantrum.

"Moreover, Dad, you don’t know anything, you just started accusing me of bullying her the moment you arrived. There were so many uncles and older men here just now, ask them, what have I done to bully her?"

As she spoke, tears began to well up in her eyes, and even Adam was taken aback.

Even when he had neglected her for three years, he had never seen Elly in such a pitiful and downtrodden state. Looking at the tears forming in her eyes, his heart began to ache once again.

The people standing nearby couldn’t bear to watch, and the person closest to Elly, visibly annoyed, frowned and said to James Campbell, "CEO Campbell, you’ve really misunderstood Elly."

James Campbell looked towards the speaker, Theodore Davis, the current head of the Davis family. He and his wife were known in social circles to be a model couple and were most disdainful of those who kept mistresses. Now here he was, defending the illegitimate daughter against his own daughter born within wedlock.

Theodore Davis was an eminent figure just like Adam Jones, and even though he was the CEO of Campbell, he could not afford to slight such a person. Hearing Theodore speak, he could only laugh awkwardly and said, "Even President Davis speaks for Elly. It seems I really have misunderstood her."

Theodore Davis picked up his glass and took a sip, smiling softly, he turned his gaze toward Sophie Baker, whose heart inexplicably began to panic under his seemingly gentle look.