Married First, Loved Later : A Flash Marriage with My Ex's 'Uncle' novel Chapter 320

Chapter 320: Utterly Foolish!

Joe looked uncomfortable.

"Mom, it’s been so many years. Why are you still holding this grudge against Victoria... Anyway, Angelica is my daughter. I won’t let her be mistreated. Once we’re back in City H, I’m putting her on the family register and making her identity public."

"And besides, Kyle is Victoria’s son too—how come you’ve never once shown him the cold shoulder?"

Grandma Morris scoffed inwardly.

Kyle was at least a boy, and he’d been raised right under her nose. Any trace of that woman had long been erased from him. How could he and Angelica possibly be the same?

But since her son was still here, she didn’t want to cause a full-blown scene. So, she cast a lazy glance toward the so-called "Morris Family’s young lady."

But that one glance made her eyes go wide.

She realized instantly—this woman was not Victoria’s daughter.

Joe might’ve been foolishly searching for that woman’s child for years, but Grandma Morris had known all along what Victoria’s daughter was called, and where she lived.

And this woman in front of her?

Was not Selina.

So...

Grandma Morris’s eyes flicked with thought.

"Joe, leave us for a bit. I want to speak to Angelica in private."

Joe resisted.

"Mom, Angelica is Angelica. Victoria is Victoria. Even if you didn’t like Victoria, Angelica is still my daughter—"

"What, do you think I’m going to eat her?" Grandma Morris shot Angelica a glance.

"Come."

Angelica put on her most gentle smile.

"Dad, Grandma’s a good person. She won’t do anything to me, I’ll be right back."

She followed Grandma Morris into the study.

Before Angelica could say anything, Grandma Morris sat down with a smug, superior look on her face.

"I know you’re not Victoria Hill’s daughter."

Angelica stiffened instantly.

Wait—Victoria Hill? Wasn’t her last name Adams?

"Grandma, you must be mistaken. I’m my father’s—"

Grandma Morris cut her off, scoffing.

"Drop the act. I’ve known for years that Victoria’s daughter is named Selina. You’re impersonating her to get close to Joe, aren’t you?"

Angelica’s eyes filled with tears.

"I just—"

"I know you’re not his biological daughter," Grandma Morris said, completely uninterested in her act, "But..."

"I can make you one."

"When that woman Victoria was alive, she had my son wrapped around her little finger. Now that she’s dead, she’s still causing problems."

Her eyes grew cold, her voice chilling.

"Her daughter suffering out there? Serves her right."

Angelica’s eyes flickered. She hadn’t expected Grandma Morris to hate Victoria this much.

Oh, Selina... don’t blame me for this.

Even if you made it back to the Morris Family, you’d only be rejected. You weren’t born for this kind of life. Might as well let me enjoy it in your place.

...

Outside the door, Kyle stood frozen—completely stunned. He stumbled backward, panic rising, and ran off in a daze.

Angelica... wasn’t his real sister.

She had taken the identity of his real sister.

And his real sister was... the same woman he’d humiliated in public at the auction today—Selina.

It was over.

How had it all gone so wrong?

Because of Angelica, a massive rift now stood between him and his real sister.

Selina had even said... she and the Morris Family were enemies.

No!

What the hell was he doing?

He’d taken the side of a stranger and turned against his own blood. Against Selina.

Kyle smacked himself twice in the head, rage and regret crashing over him in waves.

How was he supposed to explain this to Joe?

Kyle knew exactly how his father felt about that daughter—how all his love and guilt for Victoria had been poured into her.

And now...