Chapter 23 Vernon Got Sick (2/2)

However, Sophia always denigrated her in front of Vernon,

blaming her for not keeping her chastity and living with other men at such a young age. Vernon always listened to Sophia and was extremely dissatisfied with what Amelia did.

There was the sound of footsteps going up the stairs. A tight frown appeared on Amelia's face. She knew that it was Jasper.

It was inevitable that this man from her past would keep showing up in her life.

There was still a bitterness in her heart that someone she loved had just walked out from her life like that. Memories of the good times she had with Jasper would occasionally flash in her mind.

Knock--- knock! ”Dad, are you home?” he called out from the other side of the door.

Amelia stood up and opened the door without even raising her head. With her hand on the knob, she turned around and said to Lucian, ”Since they're back now, we should head out.”

Amelia didn't want to spend one second in the same room with Jasper, nor did she want to hear Yolanda's ear-piercing voice.

”Okay.” With a smile, Lucian stood up and faced Vernon. ”Take care of yourself. Just know that you can call me if you need anything.”

Warmth surged through Amelia's heart when she heard Lucian say this to her father.

Amelia was not a vain woman. However, when she saw Jasper's surprised face, she threw her head up proudly and grabbed on to Lucian's arm. A smile beamed brightly on her face.

”Amelia,” Jasper exclaimed. He looked around the room. ”And Lucian. I just got here with Yolanda. Are you two leaving?” Jasper felt a little embarrassed. He looked at Amelia for a while and hesitantly looked back at Lucian, like a terrified subordinate reporting to his boss.

”Yes,” Lucian said matter-of-factly.

Before leaving the room, Amelia turned around to look at her father one last time. ”Dad, I made you some porridge. If you're alone at home tomorrow, please call me and I'll come over to make dinner for you.”

Although she didn't really want to say this, she couldn't help herself because Vernon was still her father after all. As the saying goes, 'Blood runs thicker than water.'

”Don't worry about me. I'll be fine,” Vernon replied with a faint smile.

Jasper couldn't tell what was going on. He walked over to Vernon's bedside, ”Dad, I'll just see Amelia and Lucian out. I'll get back to you shortly.”

After walking out of the room, Amelia wanted to let go of Lucian's hand, but found that Yolanda was looking at her unhappily. Seeing this, Amelia held on tighter.

Lucian noticed this and cast a sidelong glance at her. Looking up, he saw that Yolanda was at the foot of the steps. ”Let's just leave quickly,” he whispered.

With Jasper walking closely behind them, Lucian didn't say anything more.

”Oh, it's you, Mrs. Amelia! Look at the car outside. It's really cool!” As expected, before Amelia went downstairs, Yolanda started her annoying babble.

Amelia had gotten used to it and was ready to go out directly regardless of Yolanda's presence.

Seeing how Amelia completely ignored her, however, Yolanda's face turned into a bitter frown. ”Not so fast, Amelia,” she called out. ”In case you don't know yet, I've taken your bedroom. I'm planning on turning it to a baby room actually. Just thought you should know.”

”What did you say?” Amelia looked back, surprised and indignant.

”Although Jasper and I have found a place to stay after our wedding, we would still like to come back here in the future. You're now some rich guy's wife, aren't you? I don't think you'd mind giving up your shabby room.” With her arms crossed over her chest, Yolanda looked so as if she was so disgusted at the thought of Amelia's old room.

Amelia held back her anger and said calmly, ”You can get anything you want. I don't care. But there's no way you can have my room.”

Amelia continued to walk towards the front door.

”Amelia, I'm still talking to you! Don't think I'm afraid of you just because you have Lucian by your side!” Yolanda's face changed. She suddenly became angry in a mocking tone. She stroked her belly with one hand, and pointed at Amelia's face with the other. In a domineering tone, she said, ”You've married to Lucian. Anything in the Mo family is at my disposal!”

Looking at her cocky head, Amelia sneered, ”Do you really think that you can become a member of this family just because bear its name?”

Ten years ago, Sophia brought Yolanda into the Mo family. At that time, Yolanda was still a member of the Che family. It was obvious that Yolanda couldn't wait to be recognized as a Mo and call Vernon her father. Since Amelia had seen and experienced the sour side to Yolanda's character, she found it difficult to accept Yolanda as a part of her family.

The first few months that Sophia was here, she was really as sweet as an angel. But afterwards, she started to get as lazy as a cat, and did nothing but play mahjong. Most of the time, Sophia was not at home, and so Amelia had to do most of the housework. Even when they hired Susan as their help, there were still so many other things Amelia had to do.

That was why Yolanda, who acted as a host, often laughed at her, saying that Amelia was even inferior to the servants in the Mo family.

It was apparent on the look on Yolanda's face that Amelia's words had hit her hard.

She gritted her teeth, not expecting that Amelia would have the guts to snap back at her like that.