Cheyenne snorted immediately. “So you think I gave special treatment to Sean? Let me remind you, I paid ten bucks to become a member and download the exam paper. Sean hasn’t even reimbursed me for that!”
Jaelynn suppressed her anger. Cheyenne really is someone who can make her niece, Elsa, suffer. She’s truly cunning.
“Loquacious and troublesome. Miss Lawrence is indeed someone who has gained favor from the president at such a young age! It’s a shame… Why didn’t you stay in Onistead instead of coming back to this small place called Akloit?”
Akloit is a small place?
As the second-largest city in Chulae, both economically and politically, Akloit is catching up to Onistead. This is the first time Cheyenne has heard someone belittle Akloit.
As a native of Akloit, she doesn’t like hearing such derogatory remarks. She refuses to engage in regional discrimination.
“Is that so? I actually think Akloit is great. More importantly, this is my home, where my husband and children are.”
After saying this, Cheyenne suddenly paused and glanced at Jaelynn intentionally, apologizing in a dramatic way. “Oh, I forgot. General Jaelynn is a wanderer who considers the world her home.”
“I heard that General Jaelynn is already forty-three and still unmarried with no children. It must be difficult for her to understand the concept of family. But it doesn’t matter, the Weaver family is a prestigious household, finding a son-in-law should be easy.”
These words didn’t contain any profanity, yet it felt like a verbal insult to Jaelynn.
What do you mean by considering the world her home? It’s a mockery of her lack of love for her homeland.
She flaunts her young age, having a spouse and children, boasting a happy family life, and ridicules Jaelynn as an old, lonely woman.
The topic of finding a son-in-law has always been a taboo for the Weaver family.
Although everyone knows about it, Cheyenne is the first one to openly tease Jaelynn about it.
Jaelynn glared at her with anger burning in her chest, her fists clenched. She could pounce at Cheyenne’s face like an agile leopard at any moment.
“Cheyenne, don’t get too cocky! No matter how well you hide yourself, one day your true colors will be revealed!”
Cheyenne shrugged indifferently, as if she had no idea what Jaelynn was talking about, her eyes sparkling with a smile.
Her talent for acting crazy and playing dumb is as formidable as her eloquence. The frustration in Jaelynn’s chest couldn’t be released, and it twitched repeatedly.
“Cheyenne Lawrence!” Jaelynn’s shout carried a sense of impending doom.
Cheyenne knew she had thoroughly offended her, but so what?
Their relationship with the Weaver family had been estranged four years ago. The only reason they were able to coexist peacefully in recent years was because the Lara family acted as a buffer.
Now that Omari is missing and Hayden is in charge of the Lara family, the Weaver family has naturally directed their revenge towards her.
“General Jaelynn, I know my name sounds grand and pleasant, but you don’t have to call me that affectionately. After all… I’m afraid my husband would get jealous if he found out.”
After saying that, her eyes sparkled .
“After all… he is the stingiest person.”
Jaelynn suddenly felt terrible about herself!
What nonsense is this bastard talking about!
“Disgusting, shameless thing! Truly raised without a mother.”
The smile on Cheyenne’s face instantly disappeared, she detested people insulting her mother, someone she used to hate for her absent presence, now only left with respect and longing after learning her story.
No one could slander her mother, not even herself.
In an instant, Cheyenne’s figure flashed before Jaelynn, unexpectedly raising her hand to slap Jaelynn across the face.
The sound was loud.
The two directors in the office were shocked, their eyes almost popping out.
“Oh my goodness, Miss Lawrence just slapped General Jaelynn.”
Jaelynn, who had lived for over forty years, was slapped by a woman for the first time today, and Cheyenne was nearly old enough to be her daughter.
Thinking of it this way, it was a double humiliation!
As someone accustomed to the ruthlessness of the battlefield, the chilling killing intent naturally emitted from Jaelynn was as sharp as ice picks.
She covered her hot cheek with one hand, staring at Cheyenne.
“You’re asking for death!” This was now a full-on face-off. “General Jaelynn, mind your words!”
Just then, cries came from outside.
“Miss Lawrence, are you in there? Please… please come out, save Kate.”
“Miss Lawrence!”
That familiar voice was from Nylan!
Upon hearing the word “Kate,” Cheyenne involuntarily felt her eyelids twitching, as if something major was about to happen.
She couldn’t care less about Jaelynn, quickly trotting over to open the door to the meeting room, where indeed she found Nylan.
There were bloodstains on her, her eyes swollen from crying.
Seeing Cheyenne, she knelt before her, “Miss Lawrence, please save Kate.”
Cheyenne tried to help her up by holding her arm.
“What happened to Kate?”
Nylan was unable to utter a word.
But following her gaze, Cheyenne quickly saw the hospital bed parked in the hallway, with a lifeless woman lying on it.
The white sheets were stained red with her blood, the bright blood dripping down her porcelain arms.
“Kate!”
Their bond, forged over twelve years growing up together, was considered friendship but was, in fact, as close as family.
Seeing Kate in such a pitiful state before her, Cheyenne was at a loss.
She rushed over, grabbed Kate’s hand in an attempt to wake her, tears uncontrollably falling on her face.
“Kate, don’t scare me.”
“Please wake up… I’m Cheyenne, can you hear me?”