Chapter 604

Melody Summers’s sudden appearance left everyone present, including Kylie Walsh, stunned.

When she recovered, Kylie Walsh glared venomously at Melody Summers and said through gritted teeth, "Well, well, if it isn’t you... I haven’t even settled the score with you yet..."

Melody Summers smiled at her words, asking with feigned confusion, "Settle the score with me? What are you talking about? If anyone’s settling scores, it should be me with you, right?"

At this, Melody leaned closer to Kylie. She lowered her voice and whispered in Kylie’s ear, "You don’t actually think that just because you have Autumn Sawyer as a scapegoat for what happened at The Serene Leaf Teahouse, the rest of you can get away with it, do you..."

Hearing Melody’s words, Kylie recalled being summoned by the police some time ago, and a flash of panic she couldn’t suppress appeared in her eyes.

Seeing this, Joy Jennings, who had been standing aside just watching the show, chimed in at the right moment. "What teahouse? We have no idea what you’re talking about. Miss, without any proof, you shouldn’t go around making baseless accusations..."

Joy Jennings said this with a smile, but the smile didn’t reach her eyes.

Melody heard her and looked at Joy, asking in confusion, "...And who are you?"

Before Joy could speak, Kylie jumped in and answered, "She’s the eldest daughter of the Jennings Family, and also my nephew Yuri Walsh’s fiancée."

Kylie finished, looking smugly at Melody. Then she glanced at the sisters, Joanne and Lucy White, and said pointedly, "In our high-society marriages, we value matching social status. Some people from common backgrounds still dream of marrying up and becoming a phoenix. It’s utterly delusional!"

Melody ignored the sarcasm in Kylie’s words. The mere mention of Yuri Walsh’s name disgusted her. Remembering how he had harassed her before, she felt physically ill.

Melody suppressed the urge to gag and said to Kylie, "Right, I can tell your background isn’t common. After all, you dare to make a scene and hit people in public. What common family would be as unreasonable as you? It must take a high-society marriage to produce a shrew like you!"

"Your bloodline is so pure, passed down through generations. You’d better keep it that way. Don’t go spreading your shrewish genes to us common folk."

Hearing this, Kylie’s face instantly flushed beet red. She pointed at Melody, too furious to speak. "You... you... how dare you..."

Melody rolled her eyes and said dismissively, "What’s there to not dare? You have the nerve to hit someone here, and you’re questioning my nerve? That’s enough, just get out of here! Or I’m calling security!"

Seeing this, Joy Jennings pulled back Kylie Walsh, who looked ready to lunge. She looked at Melody and said with a frown, "Miss Walsh is Mr. Simmons’s elder. She doesn’t want her junior corrupted by some unsavory woman. What’s wrong with that?"

"At the end of the day, this is their family’s internal affair. What right do you have to stand up and criticize them?"

Melody ignored Joy’s words. She glanced back at Lucy and Joanne White behind her. Seeing the anxious and uneasy expressions on the sisters’ faces, she sighed inwardly. She had a pretty good idea of what was happening.

’Nine times out of ten, Lucy secretly brought Joanne’s child out to see his mother, only for Kylie Walsh to catch them red-handed!’

’How could these two be so unlucky?’

Melody was speechless inwardly, but she said aloud, "I don’t care about your elders and juniors. That’s no reason to hit someone! If you don’t leave right now, I’m really calling security!"

"Call security?" Kylie was unfazed. She pointed a sharp fingernail at Lucy White and said harshly, "Perfect! Let’s blow this wide open. Let everyone see how this little bitch betrays her own people!"

Seeing Kylie’s confident expression, Melody couldn’t help but frown. ’Looks like Kylie is dead set on making a huge scene...’

’If Zane Simmons and Paige Walsh find out that Joanne met with the child in private, how will they deal with her? And what will they think of Lucy? In a situation where a wealthy family keeps the child and gets rid of the mother, would they even allow the child to have contact with her again?’

’In that case, wouldn’t blowing this up make it impossible to resolve?’

Just as Melody was hesitating over how to handle the situation, Sophie Thorne stepped out from a corner.

She looked at Kylie Walsh and Joy Jennings and said, "There are important guests at the banquet today. You two should probably not cause a scene here..."

Before Sophie could finish, Joy let out a snort of laughter.

She blinked her charming, almond-shaped eyes and teased Sophie, "Well now, I was wondering who it was. Turns out it’s Miss Thorne..."

At this, she suddenly covered her mouth, feigning a look of sudden realization. "Oh! No, wait! I shouldn’t be calling you Miss Thorne anymore!"

"...After all, Mr. Thorne colluded with foreign powers, committed treason, and fled the country, only to die in a plane crash! Since Mr. Thorne is gone, there’s naturally no ’Miss Thorne’ anymore, wouldn’t you say?..."

Listening to Joy’s malicious voice, Sophie subconsciously clenched her fists so tightly her nails dug deep into her palms.

Seeing this, Kylie also chimed in with a smirk, "You can’t possibly still think you’re the great Miss Thorne of the past, can you? To actually have the nerve to stand up for someone else..."

"Sophie, dear, as your elder, I have to give you some advice. I suggest you learn to keep a low profile! Otherwise, what will you do if the Rhodes Family kicks you out one day...?"

Kylie Walsh’s attitude toward Sophie Thorne had done a complete one-eighty.

Before, in order to marry Roman Rhodes, she had spent no small amount of effort trying to curry favor with Sophie, who was already married into the Rhodes Family. But Sophie had remained unmoved, causing Kylie, as an elder, to lose a lot of face.

Now that this had happened to Sophie, the Rhodes Family would almost certainly ask for a divorce! That being the case, she was naturally going to vent all her previous frustrations on her!

The moment Kylie’s voice fell, another voice suddenly called out from the other end of the hallway: "Kicked out? Who’s being kicked out?"

Everyone turned toward the voice. When she saw the newcomer’s face, Joanne White’s expression instantly turned deathly pale—

It was Paige Walsh!

Paige closed the distance in a few steps and asked in confusion, "What are you all talking about? Why aren’t you in the main hall? What are you all doing gathered here?"

"Cousin!" Kylie’s eyes lit up. She hurried to Paige’s side and said, "You’re finally here!"

Paige nodded. "I came as soon as I saw your message. You said it was urgent. What on earth happened?"

Kylie ignored Melody Summers and Sophie Thorne, instead quickly recounting what had just happened to Paige.

With unconcealable excitement on her face, she pointed toward Joanne and Lucy White and said, "Cousin, these two sisters were plotting together, trying to trick Miles! It’s a good thing I found them in time. Otherwise, they would have corrupted him!"