“It’s all right.” Isabelle walked around me, crossed her arms, and laughed as she saw the scar on her face. “Tsk tsk, I think you must have provoked Nathan, and he hurt you. Am I correct? Nathan appears to be gentle, but when enraged, he is not to be trifled with. There is a time where he has single-handedly beaten a gangster who flirted with me until he ended up in the hospital for three months.”
“Isabelle, you b*tch! You’ll die a horrible death!” Scarlett was enraged by Isabelle and yelled angrily at her, “The Tanners is my daughter’s. It should all belong to my daughter. Who do you think you are? Why do you have to take away my daughter’s inheritance? You’re just a shameless b*tch who eloped with a stranger. You have no right to do this!”
What Scarlett said was far too excessive. It had an impact on Mark as well. I was also feeling very uneasy about it. When I looked up at Isabelle, she was expressionless in response to what Scarlett said. She did not even have a guilty expression on her face. Instead, she was becoming happier and laughing even louder.
“Even Nathan and Natalie will show me some courtesy and refrain from speaking loudly to me when they are in my presence. You’re just a mistress who destroys another person’s family with your children and body. Do you really believe you have what it takes to be the lady of the house?” said Isabelle.
“Bullsh*t, Nathan and I have genuine affection for one another. When he first met me, he told me that he had long been bored with you because of your cheating behavior. Yvonne is proof. You continue to date other men after you’ve married. It’s entirely your fault that Nathan dumped you. I’ll tell you right now that if you don’t return my daughter’s properties to her, I’ll end your life,” Scarlett replied.
Isabelle’s smile was getting wicked, and she lifted Scarlett’s chin with her hand and looked at the scar on her face. She then laughed and said, “I’m standing here right now. Let’s see how you want to end my life.”
She then turned to the bodyguards and said, “Are you all statues? Mrs. Tanner is being disrespectful. Shouldn’t you do something to shut her up?”
For a brief moment, the bodyguards were stunned. Then one of them suddenly pulled Scarlett’s hand behind her back, and the other began slapping Scarlett in the face. He did not appear to be having mercy on Scarlett, and her face was swollen as a result.
“Ahh… Isabelle, let go of me. It is entirely your fault that you are unable to keep your husband. What does any of this have to do with me? You can’t force love. Ahhh… If Nathan truly loves you, I will not be able to break your family apart. Isn’t it difficult for you to accept that you have been kicked out of the family years ago? If you have the guts, you can simply tell Nathan to kick Yvette and me out and take you back in the Tanner family. If not, you should return the Tanner family’s properties to my daughter.”
“You’re still going to be spouting nonsense? Continue!” Isabelle did not seem to have any intention of relenting, and it was not very comforting to see. I let go of my mom’s hand, thinking that she was a total stranger to me at the time.
“Please don’t hit my mom. Let her go!” Yvette appeared out of nowhere and ran over to Scarlett, hugging her and trying to free Scarlett from the two bodyguards.
As Isabelle did not order the bodyguards to stop, they did not dare to stop and continued slapping Scarlett together with Yvette.
Yvette did not dare to plead with Isabelle. Instead, she sobbed and begged me, “Please, Yvonne, tell them to stop. Everything I’ve done to you in the past has been under Crystal’s orders. It was her ideas, and I only do what she tells me to. Isn’t it true that I am the most pitiful member of the Tanner family besides you? We are the daughters of the Tanner family. However, we have been treated poorly, worse than Crystal, our cousin. Tell them to stop hitting Mom, please.”
The mother and daughter were screaming and crying as they hugged each other. Finally, I could not stand it any longer and gently pulled Isabelle’s hand. But she shrugged my hand away and did not respond to me.
I felt uncomfortable and really did not like to see this kind of scene. So, I yelled at the bodyguards, “Stop it!”
The bodyguards continued because Isabelle had not ordered them to stop. Fortunately, Mark had ordered them, “Do you not hear Ms. Yvonne telling you to stop? Let Mrs. Tanner go.”
