Chapter 8
Faced with Chloe’s baseless accusations, Carlos and the others knew she was lying. But none of them stepped forward to stop her.
Instead, they stood by in silence, allowing her to smear me with every malicious word.
I coldly pulled out my phone and dialed my lawyer.
“Mr. Andrew, please come over right away.”
Carlos’s face darkened instantly.
“Camila, must you push things this far?”
His voice was filled with disappointment, as if I had wronged them.
I let out a cold laugh.
“I thought the three of you had lost your voices.”
“Turns out you only speak up when it’s time to scold me for standing up for myself.”
My mother-in-law suddenly collapsed to the floor and began wailing, “Oh, why is my fate s bitter?”
‘How did I end up with such a heartless and vicious daughter-in-law?”
‘She’s arrogant and abusive, she’s been mistreating me for years! Now she even wants to driv us out of our own home!”
‘It’s over… It’s all over! Marrying the wrong woman has doomed three generations of this family!’ Chloe rushed over to console her, but not without ensuring the camera was recording ever
angle.
‘Grandma, don’t get so worked up. The netizens will see everything clearly.”
‘Our family is kind and decent. We won’t let one wicked woman bully us like this.”
The grandmother clutched her chest and rolled on the floor with exaggerated sobs, while Chlo held her phone high, broadcasting live.
Her story? That I was abusing the elderly, cold-hearted, cruel and kicking them out to starve.
The viewers in the livestream exploded with fury.
They hurled insults at me, calling me a disgrace to womanhood, wishing me dead.
Caleb stormed up to me and grabbed my wrist.
“Mom, we’re a family! Why do you have to push everyone to the edge before you’re satisfied?”
I yanked my hand back.
“Family?”
“If
any of you had truly treated me like family, this meal would never have happened.”
Just then, Mr. Andrew, my attorney arrived.
But before he could speak, the grandmother pointed at him and shrieked, “If you dare to help her, I’ll lie down at your doorstep!”
“I’m old! I have all sorts of health problems!”
“If I collapse at your house, can you afford the consequences?”
Mr. Andrew hesitated.
Carlos stepped forward and said coldly, “Mr. Andrew, this is a private family matter. I suggest you stay out of it.”
Chloe pointed her camera at him and cried out to her audience, “Look, everyone! This evil mother-in-law even hired a lawyer to force us out!”
“She’s heartless, driving out her own husband, child and mother-in-law over money!”
The comments poured in, one more venomous than the last:
[How can someone be so cruel?]
[Expose her information! We will make her pay!]
[That lawyer’s just helping the devil, shame on him!]
Mr. Andrew, flustered, leaned toward me and whispered,
“Ms. Camila… this situation is a bit…. delicate. Let’s take a step back for now. We can talk another day.”
Without waiting for my reply, he turned and left.
Watching his retreating back, something inside me shattered.
This family… was completely rotten.
After the lawyer left, Chloe, Caleb and my mother-in-law physically forced me out of my own
home.
As I walked out of the neighborhood, passersby whispered and pointed.
‘Isn’t that the evil woman from the livestream?”
‘She looks wicked. Just like they said, lazy, abusive and leeching off her son!”
