Chapter 996
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“Jayceon, please, help me! Get her to let go; my arm hurts so badly! She’s going to kill me…” Tina’s dramatics only made Jayceon’s patience grow thin.
Jayceon knew Tina’s personality well—she had a habit of making a fuss over nothing. But he also disliked Brenna. Still, Brenna was his good friend’s sister, which left him in a difficult position. He scowled, choosing to stay silent and see how Brenna would handle the situation.
Brenna caught sight of Jayceon’s silence and figured he might not be as unreasonable as she had once believed.
She fixed her eyes on Tina, her grip only growing stronger. “Answer me, Tina. Did I ever call Ms. Mendoza fat or not?”
Frustration burned in Tina’s eyes, but she stayed still, unwilling to risk any more pain. “Why does it matter? Tons of people have called Ms. Mendoza fat before. What’s the harm in adding one more? Even if you said it, what could she do? You’re the daughter of the Harper family. Are you really scared of her?”
“So you’re still trying to stir up trouble,” Brenna said, sounding almost amused at Tina’s insistence. Despite facing real pain, she still clung to her schemes. Judy’s anger reached a boiling point. She couldn’t unleash it on Jayceon, but Tina was an easy target. Even without her bodyguards coming to her rescue, she wasn’t afraid of hurting Tina.
Judy slapped Tina across the face a second time, leaving her with a bright mark on each side of her cheek. “So you were just lying earlier, weren’t you? Seems you’re in need of a lesson!”
Brenna let go of Tina at last, and Tina wasted no time scrambling behind Jayceon’s wheelchair.
“Jayceon, do something! Brenna is insane; no one can reason with her!” Tina cried, waving her arm for him to see. “Look what she did! She almost broke my arm! You need to stand up for me!”
“I’ve heard enough out of you. You’ve made a scene already. Go home, and don’t show your face at events like this again,” Jayceon said, his patience wearing thin. Tina’s antics had pushed him to the edge.
Tina sulked, massaging her sore arm as she threw a secret look toward Ethan. Her heart sank when he didn’t even glance her way.
Only after the chaos faded did Gracie make her way over. “Alright, that’s enough. Everybody, go back to what you were doing. No sense in lingering here.”
Judy’s eyes swept over her outnumbered bodyguards. She silently wished she had brought more muscle this time. Her gaze shifted to Brenna, whom she disliked.
Many men were protecting Brenna, while she had only Denis, a useless man, on her side.
The envy in Judy’s eyes could not be missed. “This isn’t over,” she said to Brenna.
Brenna showed no reaction. She acted as if Judy’s threat held no more weight than the whining of a child. “I expected better from you. After all this chaos, you still haven’t realized that I never called you fat.”
“But you always look at me with such contempt! I know you judge me for my weight inwardly!” Judy blurted out, her frustration spilling over.
A short laugh escaped Brenna. She realized that Judy was just absurdly unreasonable.
“So what if I do? You are fat, and that is just a fact.”
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