Chapter 218 She Is But A Child

Book:The Reborn Wife Published:2024-5-1

Levi scuttled away as soon as he got out of the car.
A few moments later, the door opened, and a man got off the vehicle elegantly. His expression was nonchalant, his breath was steady, his clothes were neat, and his appearance was ascetic and cold.
A girl got out of the car after him. Even though she adjusted her clothes, there were apparent traces that her clothes were rumpled. Her long hair also looked a little disheveled. Fortunately, her hair was naturally healthy. With a few strokes of her fingers, her hair looked tidy again. Her face was still flushed, her breath erratic, and her eyes showed obvious signs of drunkenness.
She either had too much to drink, or there were some highly charged interactions between the two.
“Why are you looking at me like that? You jeopardized your fiancé’s reputation in public. Don’t you think you deserved a little punishment?”
Comparatively, Eldest Young Master Williams seemed quite pleased with himself.
Elena glared at him angrily. She did not expect the man would be so shameless! However, she could not condemn his behavior so openly.
Were they not an engaged couple?
Elena smoothened her clothes again and strode ahead into the main hall. However, she did not expect to see a woman on the couch. It was Sarah.
Sarah immediately stood up when she saw Elena, but her eyes gazed past her to look at Michael instead.
“Michael, you’re back?” Her voice was low and hoarse with a trace of anxiety.
“Hmm.” Michael nodded and approached her together with Elena. “Aunt Sarah.”
“Michael, please let Nina off the hook. She is just a child. She doesn’t understand anything.” Sarah’s eyes were filled with tears as she spoke.
Something had happened to Nina, but she had not had the chance to see her. She only knew that Nina’s hand had been crippled, and so, her drawing career was probably over for the rest of her life.
She would visit Nina later, but she needed to clear things up with Michael first. “Michael, if Xiao Lei did anything wrong, Aunt Sarah apologizes on her behalf, okay?”
“I won’t find fault with her.” Michael made himself clear. “Unless she finds one with me.”
“She won’t, she really won’t!” Sarah shook her head immediately to assure him.
“In that case, Aunt Sarah, you may leave. I have said that I will not look for her.” He considered that the matter was closed.
Michael walked to the couch and sat down, but Sarah still stood there and stared at him as she bit her lips.
“Is there anything else, Aunt Sarah?” Michael raised his eyebrows.
He had his usual expression. A terrible thing had happened, and Nina’s life was ruined. However, it did not look like it mattered to him. Sarah’s fingers trembled as she stared at the man on the couch, with whom she usually got along well.
She was emotional and moody. She felt wronged, and she was not willing to accept it. She constantly suppressed her anger. Even when she talked, it was always in whispers.
“Michael, Nina is only 22 years old. She is but a child.”
Twenty-two years old, and she had not even graduated from university yet. She was so young, so it was inevitable that she would make some mistakes. Occasional mistakes should be fine as long as one learned from it, right?
Michael stared at her. If possible, he would like to avoid conflict with his stepmother, who had been married to the Williams family for many years and knew her place.
However, he never liked to explain himself to others. Therefore, he only kept his silence when he disagreed with Sarah’s remarks.
Aunt Sarah would not usually argue with others, so something must have motivated her that day.
She walked toward Michael, and even if her fingers trembled in a fury, she endured it silently.
“Michael, I hope you can promise me that no one will ever hurt Nina like this ever again.”
“Aunt Sarah.” Elena walked forward and stood beside Michael. She met Sarah’s gaze.
“Do you think that I am still a child?” she asked.
Sarah did not want to see her, but Elena stood next to Michael. She could not just ignore her.
“I don’t understand what Miss Garcia meant by that.” Her lips twitched.
“If someone were to hurt me, will Aunt Sarah confront that person, tell them that I’m still a child, and be magnanimous?
Sarah stared at her; she was not there to start a fight. She merely hoped that Michael could give her some closure.
Nina was her favorite niece. If Nina were to get into trouble, her elder brother and parents would lose their minds.
The whole Marsh family was in disarray. Everyone was angry and miserable, but they could not lift a finger at Michael. She was not in the mood to entertain the girl who was not yet a part of the Williams family.
“Miss Garcia, I know you feel wronged, but Nina has suffered enough. I’d like for you to be a little more kind-hearted and stop getting mixed up in it.”
“I’m just reasoning with you, Aunt Sarah.”
Elena did not mean to provoke her. Even though Sarah was furious, she could still control her emotions. It was rare to see one with such an upbringing.
“The person that you called a child had gathered over 30 thugs to find trouble with us.”
Elena’s face was a little solemn. She was angry, and one should not misunderstand her words as mockery.
Sarah ignored her. She only stared at Michael. “Michael, Aunt Sarah just wants your assurance!”
“Nina instructed those people to cripple my classmate’s hand and to beat me up brutally! Who should I go to for assurance?” Elena’s voice suddenly grew aggravated. The whole hall reverberated with her words, so one could only imagine how loud she had been.
“When someone from the Marsh family makes a mistake, they are children. Were the innocent victims like us any more older than Nina? Are we not children?
“The person that she wanted to cripple was her ex-boyfriend. She used him to draw for her and plagiarized his work.”
“Nonsense!” Sarah could no longer suppress her anger and glared at Elena. Her eyes burned with fury. “Is there anything wrong with you now? Are you injured or crippled? What grievances have you suffered?”
What about her niece? Her hand had been rendered useless!
“I wasn’t injured because I was on my guard and took preventive measures by getting help.
“However, Young Miss Marsh was relentless and unwilling to give up. She picked up a wooden club and wanted to maim my classmate. If it wasn’t for Eldest Young Master Williams, I would be the injured party.”
“You…”
“Aunt Sarah, Eldest Young Master Williams’s injury was inflicted by your Nina. Are you saying that Eldest Young Master Williams’s skin is thick and plump, and so it doesn’t matter if he was beaten with a stick?”
“I…” Sarah stared at Michael, but he showed no signs of injury. Finally, she glared at Elena, and whatever upbringing she had was entirely overwhelmed by anger.
“This is not your home, and so it’s not your place to speak! I am the eldest madam of the Williams family, and I order you to get out! Go back to your Garcia family!
Elena glared at her with indifference and finally realized that she would not be able to reason with her.
She took out her phone and dialed a number. “Investigate Nina’s previous unwritten rules. Post all the evidence on the Internet.”