Chapter 9

Lucille froze.

When Aunt Zelda got dismissed from the house, Lucille merely understood that Elijah did it for Sally. She did not know the reason behind that.

The truth was that Aunt Zelda had insulted Sally?!

She pursed her lips. If she knew that this was the reason, she would not have brought this up!

Daniel lightened the atmosphere with a small laugh. “Elijah is a man.”

“Sally is a daughter-in-law to the Moses family, nonetheless. She mustn’t be made fun of by the servants!”

Lucille lost the argument. She huffed coldly and retreated into silence.

Grandfather Moses shifted the topic smoothly into catching up with Sally.

It was then that Daniel’s phone rang. Glancing at the number on the phone, his face turned pale drastically. “Excuse me, let me take this call. Please continue chatting.”

Elijah’s voice was indifferent with a hint of coldness. “Later, Uncle Daniel.”

Not long after Daniel left, Wendell walked through the door in an uncouth manner.

After looking around the living room, Wendell sat in a chair directly across Sally and started throwing all sorts of flirty looks at her.

Looking at Wendell’s shrewd face, Grandfather Moses spoke angrily, “This is your sister-in-law!”

“I know.”

Wendell winked at Sally. “We bumped into each other at the door just now. I’ve gotten to know Sal, my sister-in-law, rather thoroughly.”

Wendell intentionally lowered his voice when uttering ‘rather thoroughly’. Sally’s eyebrows were tightly knitted.

She turned around to see servants who were busy preparing dinner.

“I’ll help out in the kitchen.”

Immediately after saying that, she stood up and walked toward the kitchen.

Wendell sat across her, and she did not want to see his face for a minute longer.

Upon taking a second step, her wrist was caught by a coarse and strong hand. “There are plenty of servants in Grandfather’s house. Don’t trouble yourself.”

“That’s right.” Lucille laughed as she sneered, “Is there anyone here who doesn’t know that you’re from the countryside and loves to do rough work?”

“Even so, with so many servants around. You should just sit down obediently and act like a lady.”

Sally’s face turned pallor and returned to her seat.

Shortly after she was seated, they heard a noise coming from outside the house.

The butler hurried in and said, “Sire…”

The butler looked at Wendell, who was eating fruits in a slovenly manner.

Grandfather Moses was displeased. “Speak!”

After hearing that, the butler opened his mouth and fearfully said, “Outside… Mr. Greene has brought his daughter over, saying that they’re here to seek justice…”

“They said… Master Wendell did something rude to Miss Greene a few days ago…”

Grandfather Moses gave Wendell a cold glare. “What happened?”

Wendell continued eating his fruits without a care in the world. “They’re making a mountain out of a molehill.”

“That day, I drank at the nightclub and accidentally gave Chelsea’s butt a tiny pinch. What’s with that?”

The atmosphere in the living room froze for two seconds.

At the third second, Grandfather Moses snatched up an ashtray and hurled it at Wendell. “You bastard! If this isn’t being rude, then what is?!”

The Greene family was also a reputable one in A City. If news about this matter were to spread, it would surely sully the Moses family’s reputation!

Wendell dodged the ashtray. Despite not hitting him, the ashes still landed on his body.

Wendell, who was clad in a suit, now had an ashen face.

“Grandfather, you’re making a mountain out of a molehill too.”

The corner of Wendell’s lips twitched. “It’s not my fault!

“Chelsea Greene went to the nightclub and wore such a short dress. When she sat next to me, I could nearly see her underwear. What was she doing if not tempting me?”

“So, I just gave her a pinch. She’s not done with that?”

Grandfather Moses hurled another cushion over in anger.

“Wendell,” Elijah broke the silence that he religiously practiced and said, “You’re not a child anymore. The Greene family has brought the problem here. Since you’re not dealing with this yourself, are you waiting for Grandfather to clean up after you?”

Wendell rolled his eyes at Elijah. “If I go out now, what else would the Greenes do if not beat me to a pulp?”

Elijah’s voice retained his usual indifference. “Wendell, I have never thought of you as an irresponsible person.”

“If I’m not mistaken, didn’t Grandfather just elected you as the CEO of a subsidiary company not long ago?”

“If you have to hide behind Grandfather for trivial matters like this, how long would you last as the CEO if the company shareholders found out just how irresponsible you are?”

With that being said, Wendell could not shirk this responsibility even if he had wanted to!

Lucille rose to her feet and dragged Wendell with her. “Our Wendell is capable of dealing with a small matter like this. You don’t have to be sarcastic!”

Sally watched with furrowed eyebrows as Lucille dragged Wendell away.

Wendell did not think that he was at fault at all…

Could anyone be sure that things would not worsen after he got out there?

She turned around to see Elijah sipping his tea in a relaxing manner.

Troubled, Grandfather Moses summoned the butler and whispered into his ear.

After the butler left, Grandfather Moses gave Elijah a cold sneer. “The Greene family has always been unforgiving when they have a reason to. You saw that Wendell did not feel a single shred of guilt about it too. With your intelligence, you should be able to guess what’s going to happen if you let him come face-to-face with the Greenes.”

As Grandfather Moses said that, the noise outside grew louder.

Sally could hear Wendell yelling at Chelsea Greene at the top of his lungs.

Things had indeed… Taken a turn for the worse.

“Get outta here from the back door. I’ll pretend you were never here tonight!”

Grandfather Moses rose from his seat angrily and glanced coldly at Elijah. “Since you’re younger and have poor health, I’ll not hold you responsible for the instigation just now. Don’t let me hear that for a second time!”

At that, Grandfather Moses left with an angry flick of his sleeves.

Elijah sat unmoved in his wheelchair. An arrogant smile danced around the corners of his lips.

After asking the servants for the location of the back door, Sally obediently pushed Elijah away.

The fight outside the door became more aggressive.

After leaving the house, Elijah remained silent.

Initially, Sally thought the back door would be easy to find.

However, the winding paths at the backyard of the Moses family house proved to be too complex to make out, in addition to the various colorful flowers that decorated the place… Sally was utterly lost.

“I think I’m lost.”

Sally looked at the gravel path that she seemed to have turned into for the tenth time in despair. She sighed helplessly. “If I knew this would happen, I should’ve asked one of the servants to lead the way.”

“The servants here will not lead you anywhere.”

Sally quipped, “Why not?”

“This is Grandpa’s house, and you are Grandpa’s grandson!”

Elijah cocked a one-sided smile at her. “It seems like you still don’t understand your husband enough.”

“The most infamous jinx in A City, Elijah Moses. Both his parents died when he was nine.”

“At thirteen years old, he caused a massive fire out of mischief. The fire burned his dearest sister and the two servants who took care of him to death. He lost both his eyes and a leg in the fire.”

“His ominous reputation made him a taboo among members of the Moses family. Nobody dared to approach him.”

“Therefore, he was sent out of the Moses family to live alone. Until today, he has lived in that villa for thirteen years.”

Sally’s jaw fell open in shock.

That meant… He had lived alone in the villa that she moved into on their wedding night for thirteen years now?

The man’s tone of voice was seventy percent arrogance and thirty percent desolation. “In the past thirteen years, I’m only granted the right to come to the Moses family house for a meal every new year.”

“Today, the only reason we can be here today is that we just got married yesterday.”

At that, he smiled. “Not a single servant in this house will respect someone who was chased out of the family.”