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Chapter 25 The Child Must Stay
Jodie was cursing loudly but Melissa did not seem to hear it. From her point of view, Bria had been
affected by Amelie in a negative way, and the girl should begin to accept the teachings of the Alston
Family. Anyway, the balcony was equipped with soundproof glass, and it was far away from other
buildings, so no matter how much Jodie cursed, she would not be heard by outsiders.
Jodie had found a punching bag and naturally spared no effort. She even stretched out her hand to poke
Bria’s forehead. “Sure enough. What Amelie produced is useless!”
Bria glared at her with red eyes.
“Look, look! She’s become rotten due to Amelie’s bad teachings!” Jodie pointed again.
In the past, Bria was timid and afraid. She never dared to stare at Jodie like this.
Then, Jodie twisted Bria’s ear and pushed her against the wall. “You’d better stand here for a time-out, or
I will starve you to death!”
Leila stood outside the door. Watching Bria being bullied like this, she could only shake her head and
sigh. Nevertheless, she was just a servant, so what could she do? It was not until she saw that the clock
struck eleven that she breathed a sigh of relief and walked over.
“Bria, it’s time to go.”
“Go? Where are you going?” Jodie just finished teaching Bria a lesson, and she finally felt a little better.
Now that Leila was taking Bria away, Jodie was naturally unhappy.
“Mr. Leo called earlier and told me to send Bria to the door at this hour. Miss Dillon is waiting,” Leila
hurriedly mentioned Leo.
Jodie actually did not like children at all and wished Bria could just disappear from her sight. But
suddenly, a toxic plan came to her mind. Since Amelie treated her like that, she wanted to take revenge.
The highest means of revenge was to inflict pain on the people Amelie cared about the most. In this
case, Bria was the perfect subject.
Thinking of this, Jodie quickly ran to Melissa and tugged on the corner of her mother’s clothes. “Mom,
what is going on with Leo? Bria is the flesh and blood of our Alston Family! How can Amelie take her
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At that moment, Melissa’s expression was not pretty. “I don’t know what’s wrong with his brain. Isn’t he
afraid of gossip when an Alston descendant is sent out into the world like that?”
Although she did not like Bria, reputation was the most important thing.
“Miss Potts, Bria isn’t going anywhere! She will just stay at home!” she ordered.
“This isn’t appropriate.” Leila stopped helplessly and looked at Bria uneasily. “Miss Dillon is waiting
outside. So, what if she causes trouble?”
“Tell her to come in and I’ll inform her myself.” Melissa spread her body and responded coldly.
Leila had no choice but to walk out empty-handed to find Amelie. When Amelie followed Leila in, Melissa
was leisurely leaning on the couch like a queen, looking elegant. As for Jodie and Bria, both had
disappeared.
“Mrs. Alston, Miss Dillon is here.” Leila saw that Melissa did not plan to get up, so she could only inform
her.
Then, Melissa pointed and gestured for Leila to leave. Leila glanced at Amelie worriedly, but Amelie
nodded her chin gently toward her, mouthing “I’m fine”.
Thus, Leila turned and left.
Melissa finally sat upright, but she did not give Amelie any attention. She simply held a cup and drank
tea by herself.
“Where’s Bria?” Amelie asked, not in the mood to play with Melissa.
Melissa frowned out of dissatisfaction with Amelie’s rudeness. “Greeting the host is the most basic form
of courtesy.”
Ha. A woman with no courtesy is teaching me courtesy?
Amelie found Melissa’s words extremely ridiculous. However, she did not intend to argue with Melissa as
there was no need.
Amelie simply agreed with her. “Hello, Mrs. Alston, may I know where Bria is?”
Melissa held the teacup lid and gently moved it against the teacup. After blowing the hot tea, she opened
her mouth again. “I think Bria should stay here. You are dealing with the boss of Starlight Media, and it is
inconvenient to bring Bria with you. Besides, Bria is a child of the Alston Family, and the Alston Family
can afford to raise her, so there is no need for outsiders like you to intervene in her upbringing.”
Is Melissa planning to take away my own child from me?
The indifference on Amelie’s face suddenly disappeared, and her brows twitched abruptly.
“Mrs. Alston, I’m not an outsider, but Bria’s biological mother. Bria was born from my pregnancy of ten
months. It’s natural for me to raise her. Besides, isn’t Mr. Leo going to marry Miss Clayton? How can I let
Bria stay and affect their relationship?”
Amelie responded quickly after Melissa spoke, refuting Melissa’s every word.
The corners of Melissa’s falsely indifferent brows quickly tightened, showing her displeasure with
Amelie’s refute.
Amelie had been staying with the Alston Family for a long time in the past and had learned to observe
Melissa, so she could see that Melissa was unhappy. However, Melissa was no longer related to her, so
it did not matter whether Melissa was happy or not.
“In addition, you don’t really care about Bria when she lived here before, and I think that’s because my
status isn’t reputable enough. It’s fine now though as Elyse has returned and her identity is definitely
reputable. Mrs. Alston, you might as well have her give birth to a few more descendants of the Alston
Family.”
Amelie’s words were true.
However, Melissa strongly felt that her stature was threatened, so she slammed the table so hard it
shook a little.
“Amelie, do you really think I don’t know anything if I don’t expose you?” she started shouting.
“Your divorce with Leo is the same day as the day the boss of Starlight Media obtained a divorce! Even a
fool can see that you two had plotted together! You cheated as early as while you were in marriage, and
Bria will only learn bad things by being with you! It is absolutely impossible for the Alston Family to hand
over our granddaughter to a woman whose private life is not in good order! You’d better give up your
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Ha!
Jamie posted the divorce certificate just to prove that Amelie was divorced, but Amelie did not expect
that it would be misinterpreted by Melissa like this!
“Are you sure you’ve made a firm decision?” Amelie stopped refuting and asked with a smile.
Melissa picked up the teacup again and returned to her originally graceful appearance.
“Send her off!”
Mr. Cooper came over and looked at Amelie uneasily with sympathy in his eyes, but he could only say,
“Miss Dillon, please leave.”
Amelie gently nodded at him, and then said in a low voice, “You’d better not regret it.”
She spoke lightly without the slightest anxiety and anger. Melissa could not help but look at her back with
slight astonishment.
“Mom, why did she suddenly leave without her child?” Jodie, who was hiding in the dark, came out with a
puzzled face. She originally wanted to take advantage of this fight to make Amelie suffer.
Melissa could not figure out what Amelie meant either. Could it be that Amelie did not even want Bria
back?
Just when the two of them were wondering to themselves, there was a loud crash from inside the house
and Leila ran out with a pale face.
“Oh no, Bria heard that you refused to let Miss Dillon take her away, so she got angry, and she… Alas,
Mrs. Alston, Miss Alston, you’d better go and see for yourselves.”
At once, Melissa dropped her act and rushed into the room with Jodie. In the room, Bria had broken a
vase and was still holding another in her hand. Those vases were blue and white porcelains from an
ancient dynasty which were auctioned at a high price! Each was worth tens of millions, and one of them
was now gone just like that!
Melissa could hardly breathe properly as her body shook violently.
Pointing at Bria, she kept trembling while saying, “Y-You… You b*stard!”
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