Before she left, she still wore a look of deep reluctance, her eyes flickering toward Adam Jones with unspoken words, her gaze filled with grievance and heartache, as if the accusation of her eloping with another man had been a slanderous fabrication by others.
"Adam, then I'll be leaving first, I..."
Daisy Thompson tried to say something more, but noticed that Adam Jones was no longer looking at her. Instead, he turned and draped an arm over Elly Campbell's shoulder, taking her into the house without looking back.
Watching the couple's retreating backs, both Daisy Thompson and Sophia Green gritted their teeth in hatred, but even more so, they felt a profound sense of injustice.
Sophia Green was merely green with envy towards Elly Campbell, but it was Daisy Thompson who truly felt aggrieved.
In her eyes, that outstanding, wealthy, and powerful man was her own flesh and blood; without her giving birth to him, there would be no Adam Jones today.
