His Domineering Lover

Aleigha carefully read the casebook twice, and she felt like she had a knife stuck in her windpipe, suffocating her.

"Aleigha, who is this Miranda?"

Lennon was very curious.

"My mother, Marcos's original wife."

During the whole process, while Aleigha was reading through the casebook, not a single flash of surging emotions crossed her face.

Lennon was startled. He had never thought that this would be the answer.

"My mother was murdered by Lainey and her daughter. A tragic woman who was swept out of the house by them and was alone with her child."

"Even when she was reduced to that miserable state, they still wouldn't let her go. What do you think I should do?"

Aleigha slightly raised her eyebrows and looked at Lennon. Her eyes were cold, and she gave off a kind of indifferent and gloomy aura.

"Aleigha, there are some things that might have a better solution." Lennon knew of family struggles.

He had known too much of it ever since he was a mere child, which gave him a clearer picture of it all.

He knew the cruelty in it.

Therefore, although not knowing how many grudges Aleigha held within her, he still hoped she could cope with it in a rather calm way.

"Better solutions? Like what? Bringing them to justice? And that's gonna bring my mother back to life?"

"How dare you tell me there are better solutions when you haven't the faintest idea what I'd been through?"

"If I had to, I could kill both of them a hundred times and it still wouldn't be enough for the hatred in my heart to be erased."

Lennon's heart was filled with shock. He had never known what Aleigha had experienced that made her how she was. "Aleigha, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that," he said, a little regretful that he had said that before he knew everything.

"It doesn't matter. I'll be on my way." Aleigha was in a bad mood, although she had already known the truth.

But it still made her very uncomfortable.

She went downstairs to check out her own company. Everything was ready, and it was time for her to talk to Adrian about what would happen next.

Before she arrived at the company, she received a call from Charlotte. She could tell that Charlotte, who had always doted on her, was not really in the best of moods right now.

When she got back home, she heard crying, and blames shot out about her.

Aleigha's eyes were cold as she walked in.

As soon as she came in, Samantha shouted, "Aleigha, what's wrong with you?"

Aleigha's face was full of innocence. "Didn't I ask the salesclerk to tell you that I had something urgent to do?"

"How dare you talk like that? You told me to try the clothes on and you bailed, do you know how embarrassing it was?" Samantha was still complaining.

After hearing what she said, the people standing aside were a bit unpleased.

Charlotte's face sank at once, while Lainey sat aside with a gloating face.

"Oh, so that's what you are crying and fussing about? But you didn't tell me that when we first went out. You said that you wanted to go to the mall so I presumed you'd have the money, there's nothing wrong with that, right?"

There was a hint of a smile on Aleigha's white face. No one would have thought that she was doing it on purpose, not after seeing the innocence on her face.

"I thought you were a great, wealthy, and generous family. But now that after what I've seen, you are nothing but a bunch of stingy wannabes." Samantha said, her face exactly the same as her snobbish mother.

Without great ambition, she only cared about what she could and couldn't get at present, not thinking about what trouble her words could cause her in the slightest.

"Samantha, after all, Aleigha is your cousin. We all know your family's had it quite tragic and Aleigha was kind enough to bring you back here."

"Now why does it sound like you are not quite satisfied with it? Aleigha is a student herself."

"All the wealth of the Gardner family was earned through hard work. Wanting to buy some clothes at a place that extravagant..."

'Well, that's quite..."

Lainey was fanning the flames by the side, glancing at Dustin's reaction from time to time.

Dustin couldn't care less about how the younger generations spent their money yet what Samantha did cross a line.

For a moment, there was dead silence in the room, and the atmosphere became strange.

Perhaps Samantha realized that she had said something wrong, so she rolled her eyes and burst into tears.

"I know that you look down on me. It doesn't matter whether Aleigha did it on purpose. I'm the last person you'd wanna see here anyway!"

"I know I'm not worthy of being here in the Gardner family. I'll leave!"

Samantha stood up, but no one stopped her.

Aleigha almost laughed out loud. The Gardners hated it when people said they had no money.

Even Charlotte was the same.

She started walking out but her pace slowed as she realized no one was stopping her.

"Grandma, she's just a child. No need to get all worked up because of her," Aleigha walked to Charlotte's side as a smile crept up to her face.

Charlotte had always doted and fancied how sensible Aleigha was.

"Samantha, if you were half as sensible as Aleigha is, you'd know what should and should not come out of your mouth!" "Now, I hope you've learned your lesson today." "Since you want to stay in the Gardner family, you have to know the rules of the family. You are not really educated so I think we should make some arrangements for you to go back to school."

Hearing Charlotte's words, everyone else remained in silence in unison. Dustin got up to go upstairs.

Samantha knew that she had no status at all in the Gardner family. A few words from Aleigha could easily decide her fate.

Cursing Aleigha from the bottom of her heart silently, she, on the face, however, displayed a grateful expression.

She did not admit defeat because she was afraid of Aleigha, but because she did not want to leave the Gardner family. Seeing that the show was over, Lainey also went upstairs.

At dinner, Emilia was the first one to sit by the dining table. When Samantha calmed down, she immediately met her cold gaze.

She was so scared that she shivered and didn't even dare to say anything.

Emilia looked at her coldly. "Little redneck, got yourself quite the setback today, huh? There's no way you can go against her, not that b*tch." "And if I were you, I'd look inside the mirror to get a good look at myself before coming to the final conclusion that the only thing I should be doing is enjoying my life at the Gardner family."

"I would mind my own business and that's it, period."

Samantha hated Emilia, and even more so, she called her redneck, but she knew that she could not mess with Emilia.

Because at the end of the day, she was still a Gardner.

Samantha did not speak and obediently sat at a place the furthest from Emilia.

Sure enough, after what happened, Charlotte didn't tell her to sit next to her.

After dinner, Samantha took the initiative to go to Aleigha.

After dinner, Aleigha went upstairs to study. She often asked for leave and although she was not that behind on her schoolwork,

she had to be diligent and hard-working still.

Upon hearing someone knocking on the door, Aleigha got up and went to open the door with some displeasure. She looked at the person outside the door.

But she seemed to have no intention of letting her in.

"You are gonna let me in?" When they were alone, Samantha still treated and talked to Aleigha the way she had always done.

As she spoke, she walked in.

Aleigha did not stop her. She opened the door and stood at the door to see what she wanted to do.

As soon as Samantha came in, she felt more and more unbalanced in her heart. Her own room was small and dark.

Apart from the furniture, the room was basically empty.

Then, she looked at Aleigha's room. The dressing table was filled with expensive cosmetics, and the clothes in the wardrobe were even more shocking to her.

All kinds of stuffed toys were placed in front of the French windows, and the large and soft European-styled bed was placed in the middle of the room.

The more she looked, the more she realized what a member of a wealthy family should live.

In addition to envy and jealousy, she also wanted to have such a life.