Chapter 281 I didn’t do it
Tess Baker stood transfixed, taking in the disgusted measuring glances and murmurs of the servants, her heart a cold chill.
Just now she saw clearly, when Wendy Summer was injured, Bowen Carter reacted faster than anyone else … Heh, the beloved woman is treated differently ah!
He didn’t even bother to answer her distress calls, but Wendy Summer was injured and he was nervous like this!
Tess Baker looked at her hands, clearly it had done nothing, but would anyone believe it?
“Young granny, the old master wants you to come over.” The maid said.
Tess Baker licked her dry lips, her voice a little raspy, “… Let’s go.”
After saying that, he followed the servant.
Sr. Carter lived in a separate courtyard, and when Tess Baker arrived in the small courtyard’s living room, Sr. Carter was leaning on his cane with his back to her, his back all but radiating anger.
“On your knees!” Those two words were roared out by the old man.
Tess Baker lowered her eyes and looked supple, but didn’t do what the old man wanted, “I haven’t done anything wrong, why should I kneel?”
She will never deny what she has done, but no one will force her to admit what she has not done!
“Still dare to say you did nothing wrong?” Elder Carter turned around angrily and raised his cane, but looking at her large belly, he forced himself to put it down again, “I’ve told you that her child was born and given to you to raise, and then sent her away, why are you still pushing her?”
Tess Baker looked at the old man with indifference, her eyes not hiding for a second, “I didn’t push her. Even if I had victimized her as well, I wouldn’t have chosen to do something so stupid in public.”
“You didn’t push her, so these witnesses are all blind?” The old master was so angry that he took his cane and pointed it one by one over those servants who had just served in the dining room, his voice was like a bell, “Say, you guys say what you saw, I want to see how she can argue with me!”
This daughter in law doesn t usually seem like a stupid person, how come she does things so … small and petty?
What a disappointment to him!
“After dinner, Miss Sheng said that going for a walk would be good for a pregnant woman’s labor, and invited Master Carter and Young Granny to go for a walk together. Young Granny said that her feet hurt if she didn’t go and asked Miss Sheng to get out of the way, and then she pushed Miss Sheng down.”
“Miss Sheng hit the table and then fell on the floor, there was a lot of blood under her, she said her stomach hurt, and Master Carter carried her away.”
“Miss Sheng tried to yank on Young Granny when she was pushed down, but Young Granny pushed Miss Sheng away with force, and Master Carter can testify to that as well.”
Three servants stepped forward and lowered their eyebrows about what they had seen in the dining room.
“No one is allowed to say anything about this, and if I find out who has broken their mouths outside, they will not be spared! Everyone go down!” Elder Carter was so angry that his head hurt and his heart, liver and lungs were about to explode.
The servants responded in unison and retreated.
Elder Carter leaned on his crutches and looked at Tess Baker with a look of hatred, “You have two children, even if Wendy Summer had a baby, it wouldn’t affect your position, how could you do something as stupid as this?!”
Between Wendy Summer and Tess Baker, the old man still favors Tess Baker.
As for the lovers, all of them are not respectable, if not for the fact that Wendy Summer is pregnant with Mike’s child, and the second daughter-in-law begged him to keep this child, he would never let Wendy Summer live in the Carter family old house!
“Believe it or not, Grandpa, I haven’t done what you say I’ve done.” Tess Baker’s torso was straight, she could go to great lengths to please Gramps and solidify Mrs. Carter’s position. But what she hadn’t done, she would die before admitting!
“What so many people saw, you still want to argue with me?!” The old master really wanted to fling his cane over, each and every one of them didn’t give him a break, “Let’s forget about this time, if there’s a next time, the bracelet that symbolizes the main mother you can return it!”
“It can’t be left at that!” Carter’s mother came in raging and raised her palm when she reached Tess Baker, “Snake-hearted woman!”
But the slap missed Tess Baker’s face as she grabbed Carter’s mother’s hand and looked unchanged, “You have no business hitting me.”
She will tolerate her mother-in-law’s irrationality once or twice, but feels that she won’t put up with it all the time!
“You’re killing my grandson, and I’m not qualified to take you? You let go!” Carter’s mother struggles to hit Tess Baker.
Tess Baker frowned and put pressure on her wrist, pushing away Carter’s mother, who was a shrew at the moment.
She is also a human being, even if she grew up without her parents’ favor, she is not someone who can beat up whenever she wants! What makes her mother-in-law think she is superior to her? Just because her mother-in-law comes from a better background than her?
“Dad, look at her, she’s not just harming your great-grandson, she’s trying to harm me!” Carter’s mother has never been disobeyed, but since Tess Baker came along, her son won’t listen to her and Tess Baker is against her all day long.
It was her bad luck to meet such a daughter-in-law!
“Who told you to go up there and hit someone, don’t you know she’s pregnant?” Elder Carter hated disputes in the house, and every time he was so angry that he got a headache.All content © N/.ôvel/Dr/ama.Org.
“She’s a pregnant woman and Lucia isn’t a pregnant woman?” Carter’s mother spoke with tears baring down her face, “Dad, I put Lucia in the mansion because I trusted you to protect the baby in her belly. But now you …”
“Alright!” The consistently strong daughter-in-law suddenly cried, and the old man couldn’t handle it, “Tess, go kneel at the shrine, and come back out when you’ve knelt enough for three hours!”
“Only punish her for kneeling?” Carter’s mother still had tears in her eyes and was clearly not happy with the punishment.
“And you’re not allowed to say it again!” Elder Carter tapped his cane hard on the ground several times, “Wendy Summer is your grandson in her womb, but Tess is not your grandson in her womb?”
The old man’s mind was made up, and Carter’s mother had no choice but to glare hard at Tess Baker.
“Grandpa,” Tess Baker’s voice was calm as she ignored Carter’s mother’s angry glare, “I didn’t do anything wrong, so why should I be punished?”
Just because everyone misunderstood her and involuntarily gave false testimony, she’s going to be punished?
On what grounds?
She’s not convinced!
The old man wrinkled his brows at her, the grandson in-law said so, the daughter-in-law must have quit again!
“Dad, look at her, she’s trying to get people killed and she still doesn’t feel she’s done something wrong. If this kind of person stays in the Carter family, aren’t you afraid that she will teach your grandson to be a black-hearted one too?” The more Carter’s mother looked at Tess Baker, the more she felt displeased, this black-hearted vixen was like a thorn in her heart, always on her mind!
With a wave of his hand, the old man instructed the two bodyguards, “Take Tess to the shrine, and let her come out after she’s knelt for enough time to last three hours!”
“Dad, you can’t just count …” Carter’s mother was only halfway through her sentence when she was interrupted by the old man’s chiding, “When is it your turn to question my decisions? ”
Carter’s mother didn’t dare speak again, but her eyes were full of resentment.
Two bodyguards walked up to Tess Baker, “Young Granny please.”
“I’m right.” Tess Baker twisted her head and said three words to the old man before following the bodyguard and heading out the door. She couldn’t resist, but she had her attitude laid out.
Even if she did kneel, if she did take the punishment, she wouldn’t accept the pot of blackmail that Wendy Summer had thrown at her!