Mila Gray listened to Tyshawn Scott's decision and screeched, "No way, you can't ruin my only daughter like this. She's only 25. How can you make her marry a man over fifty years old?"
"There isn't a single normal man in town who would marry her. I'm doing this for her own good. The wedding will be in a week, and there's no room for negotiation! You have two choices: one, you leave the Scotts, or two, Bella Scott gets married."
Tyshawn Scott rendered his verdict, knowing Mila Gray's greatest love was for herself.
As for Bella Scott, she would agree to marry for Mila Gray's sake.
As expected, Mila Gray fell silent and stopped objecting.
When Bella found out and hurried back to the Scotts' house, she discovered that her lifelong fate had been decided like this, without anyone even consulting her. Even Mila Gray, the one she had depended on all her life, did not object.
In the face of self-interest, her life didn't matter at all. Marrying a decrepit old man with one foot in the grave was probably considered a blessing for Bella by everyone in the Scotts' family, right?
"Mom, do you also think I should get married?" Bella asked without hope.
Mila Gray opened her mouth, but in the end, she chose to remain silent.
Bella was still unwilling to accept this fate and confronted Mila Gray, "Leave the Scotts with me! So many years have passed, and Mr. Scott isn't going to change his mind. Mom, haven't you realized you've become a joke in this family?"
Mila Gray was Tyshawn Scott's ex-wife, yet she lived in the most remote corner of the Scotts' villa. Twenty years ago, she told Bella that her father would one day realize his love for his first wife.
Twenty years later, Tyshawn Scott's other two daughters had grown up, but Mila Gray was still waiting for him to turn back. Wasn't this just too foolish and stupid?
Mila Gray shook her head, "I cannot leave!"
Even if she died in the Scotts' house, she couldn't leave. If she left, it would prove that she had truly lost.
Bella understood and felt upset. "So since you won't leave, I have to get married, right?"
Anabelle Martin, seeing this situation, comforted Bella, "Bella, it's actually a good thing. Besides Mr. Brown's age, he is wealthy and powerful. You won't be at a loss after marrying him."
Bella laughed bitterly, "Then why not have your precious daughter Elyssa marry him?"
Anabelle Martin couldn't argue with that and tried to save face, "Everyone knows that our Kallie already has a boyfriend."
"I have a girlfriend too, a fact that everyone acknowledges!" Bella said, throwing the newspaper on the table at Anabelle Martin's face. "Open your damn eyes and see for yourself!"
It was probably Anabelle Martin who plotted this all along, trying to ruin Bella completely, and even staged a vulgar scene of catching cheaters just last night!
"Bella Scott! How dare you speak to your mother like that?!" Tyshawn Scott yelled in anger.
"My mother is right here, and her surname is Gray!" Bella pulled Mila Gray over. "Mom, why can you tolerate all these perverts in this house?"
Why was her mother so weak?
"Bella, stop it..."
Mila Gray barely spoke when Anabelle Martin interrupted, "Mila, are you sure Bella is your daughter? You're the one at fault for not raising her properly, turning her into such a degenerate."
"Shut the hell up, Anabelle!" Bella glared at her furiously.
Not backing down, Anabelle Martin added fuel to the fire, "Bella, you weren't like this before. You used to be such a cute child. Now look at you, neither male nor female. What normal man would dare to marry you? Mr. Brown, with his status, is only doing this because he's counting on your youth to carry on the Brown family line."