CHAPTER 16: CHAPTER 16: MOTHER AND DAUGHTER JOIN FORCES, TEAR THE GREEN TEA BITCH APART

"Damien... I didn’t, I didn’t, Miss Summer’s father saved Grandpa Lancaster, he’s a hero in my heart, I’ve always admired Uncle Summers."

Rachel Shaw shook her head vehemently, tears streaming down her face like a rain-soaked pear, looking at Damien Lancaster, she sobbed, "It was Miss Summers who said I’m a homewrecker, said I’m your mistress, but there’s nothing between us. I just questioned her why she humiliated me like that, she said I’m shameless and then slapped me twice. I really don’t know what I did wrong to be humiliated like this by her."

"Did she say that?"

Damien Lancaster’s gaze swept towards the servants nearby.

The servant looked anxiously at Rachel Shaw.

Rachel Shaw came to the Lancaster Manor every day, and Seraphina Kennedy liked her a lot, treating her as her future daughter-in-law, so Rachel Shaw had a certain standing in the Lancaster Manor.

In contrast, Ivy Summers, a woman despised by the Lancaster Family, had disappeared for five years.

It was obvious who shouldn’t be offended.

So even though they heard many of the nasty and excessive words Rachel Shaw said just now, they dared not speak out.

After much consideration, a bold servant stepped forward, "Young Master, the Young Madam did indeed say Miss Shaw is a homewrecker, a mistress, and said many other things to humiliate Miss Shaw. She also suddenly slapped Miss Shaw, leaving Miss Shaw no chance to retaliate."

The servant testified for Rachel Shaw, and Rachel’s confidence instantly grew stronger.

Damien Lancaster’s aura suddenly turned cold as he looked at Ivy Summers, "Do you have anything to say?"

"Isn’t she?"

Whether it was five years ago or today, Rachel Shaw knew well Damien Lancaster had a wife and family, yet she stayed by his side, inseparable from him, always seeking his help with her tearful demeanor whenever something happened.

If that isn’t a homewrecker, what is it?

"Ivy Summers! You’ve gone too far! Apologize!" Damien Lancaster’s voice was as cold as ice.

"Damien Lancaster, why are you angry? Did I say anything wrong? Has your relationship with her truly been innocent from the day we got married until now?

Didn’t you ask why I aborted your child before? This is the reason—your feelings for another woman, your indifference made me not want to have your child. I didn’t want my child to call you father."

Damien Lancaster frowned, her words pricked something inside him, making him uncomfortable.

"You humiliate her, slap her, and then come up with all sorts of excuses to absolve yourself, making others think you’re justified. Ivy Summers, this is you."

The word "excuse" grated on Ivy Summers’ ears.

He denied Rachel Shaw’s wrong, he denied his own fault, as if blaming her for everything.

Ivy Summers looked at them, they even wanted to bring her child back to the Lancaster Family.

Bring her child back and bully her like they did to her?

Ivy Summers was even more determined in her heart, she would never let them discover the child.

"Wow!" Suddenly a loud cry sounded from behind Damien Lancaster.

Everyone turned their heads towards the source of the crying.

Ivy Summers, still simmering with anger, found the voice familiar, and looked over.

Seeing Sophie, Ivy Summers’ ears buzzed, and for a moment she seriously doubted her own eyes.

Sophie?

How could Sophie be here?

The little girl Damien Lancaster picked up at the airport was Sophie?

Sophie cried pitifully, as if she had been frightened.

Damien Lancaster, seeing Sophie, took a deep breath, calmed down a bit, walked over, squatted in front of her, and asked, "Why are you crying again?"

"Auntie, bad auntie."

Rachel Shaw’s heart lifted with joy, and she approached Sophie, "Don’t be afraid, little one, that bad auntie can’t hurt you."

Seeing Rachel Shaw approaching, Sophie immediately hid behind Damien Lancaster, her eyes filled with fear of Rachel Shaw.

Rachel Shaw’s expression froze.

Damien Lancaster looked at Sophie and asked, "Sophie, can you tell Uncle if you saw something just now?"

Sophie, crying, pointed at Rachel Shaw, "This auntie said that the other auntie had no family, called her a stray dog, and said her mom and dad should die young, said she should go join them, and also said... also said poor people’s lives are worthless. That’s when the other auntie hit her."

Rachel Shaw was stunned, "I didn’t, you’re lying."

Sophie cowered behind Damien Lancaster, seeing Rachel Shaw’s menacing look, and cried even louder.

Rachel quickly explained to Damien Lancaster, "Damien, I didn’t, this child is lying, she’s framing me."

Damien Lancaster’s face was even more somber than before.

This child didn’t know anyone here, there was no reason for her to lie for Ivy Summers and frame Rachel Shaw.

Especially since those words couldn’t be made up by a child without having heard them.

So Sophie couldn’t possibly be lying.

"Damien, believe me, I didn’t... she’s framing me..."

"She doesn’t know you or Ivy Summers, why would she lie for Ivy Summers to frame you? If she didn’t hear those words, could a child fabricate them?"

"I... I..." Rachel Shaw stood there speechless.

Ivy Summers just realized from her shock of seeing Sophie there, and noticed Sophie wink at her while crying.

This little smart one.

Ivy Summers didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at this moment.

Damien Lancaster glanced back at Ivy Summers standing there with a composed expression, caught a glimpse of self-reproach in his dark eyes.

In the end, it was Grandpa Lancaster who ended the farce.

Rachel Shaw talked nonsense, and Ivy Summers hit her, so it was evened out.

Rachel Shaw sat on the sofa with red eyes, comforted by Seraphina Kennedy.

Damien Lancaster glanced at Ivy Summers, then Sophie, seeming to search for some connection between the two, but found nothing.

Sophie, having cried, sat quietly in a chair while Julian Jacobs came in and said to Damien Lancaster, "Sir, the phone number of the child’s mother we found earlier couldn’t be reached."

Of course it couldn’t be reached. Ivy Summers was relieved that she only charged her phone for a short while, made a few calls that didn’t get through, and then turned it off again.

Damien Lancaster felt the little girl’s parents were truly irresponsible.

Time and again letting such a young child be alone outside.

Just like Ivy Summers back then insisting on aborting the child, equally irresponsible.

Thinking about Ivy Summers aborting the child, Damien Lancaster’s expression turned cold again, his deep eyes showing a cold gleam as he looked at Ivy Summers, "Her parents are just as irresponsible as you back then."