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Valerie cast a glance at Carlos and then at the stairs.
“Where’s your wife?” she asked in a cold voice.
Carlos sat at the table and answered casually, “Sleeping off the jet lag.”
James banged his chopsticks on the table and shouted, “Then why didn’t
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtMegan have to sleep off the jet lag? I swear that woman is so delicate!”
Megan was sitting opposite Carlos. Her face went pale. At the mention of her name, she began, “I… I didn’t… get any sleep Last night.”
“What happened? I thought you had gotten used to New York time,” said
Valerie, concern in her voice.
Megan looked at Carlos, who was placing a table mat in front of himself. He raised his eyes and saw her reddened orbs.
“Why are you crying?” he asked indifferently.
His words caught everyone’s attention. Tabitha’s heart broke when she saw how sad Megan was. She handed Megan a tissue and asked,
“Sweetheart, what happened? Are you okay? Just tell us if anything is wrong.”
Megan was always a cheerful girl, and the Hilton family seldom saw her cry. They all looked at her, wanting to know who had bullied their beloved girl. Miranda, however, was an exception. She always
thought
Megan was a troublemaker and disliked her. She thought this woman was two-faced and cozied up to Carlos too much. As if she heard nothing, she continued eating her breakfast.
“I… I got cyber-bullied last night…” Tears streamed down Megan’s cheeks. She dropped her chopsticks, her voice choked with tears.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmValerie was anxious.
“Tell us what happened.”
Megan wiped her tears with the tissue and said with a sad smile, “I’m sorry, grandma, James, Tabitha. I’m okay now. Please—just keep eating.”
Carlos furrowed his eyebrows, but he said nothing. He just ate his breakfast silently.
After the breakfast, Tabitha dragged Carlos to a corner out of earshot and told him, “Megan cried Last night. And now she’s crying again. Put your people on this. Find out who this cyber-bully is and deal with
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Tabitha treated Megan like her own daughter and couldn’t bear her beloved girl suffering from any kind of bullying.
The moment Megan said she suffered from cyber-bullying, Carlos knew why she was crying. He had already knew that the media had talked about him flying back to New York with his wife.
Emmett kept him informed as well, and let him know that Kasie was the one who had caused this stir.
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