Atrophy of Love: Mr. Harris, Stop Fooling Around! novel Chapter 77

Leah hurriedly took out her handkerchief and handed it to Jenny, comforting the latter, “Don’t worry, Aunt Fisher, Will and I are here now. Where’s my mom and the others?”

“In the living room… They’re inside.” Jenny wiped her tears and sobbed, “After Soph and Sterling did those things, the fact that the two of you are still willing to come help is just so… I really don’t know how to thank you anymore.”

Leah said gently, “There’s no need to be so formal with me. Come on, let’s just go in.”

The three of them went inside together, where Madam Jones was standing off against James and Sterling White. The tensions were high. The servants were standing nervously to the side, wanting to stop the fight but too afraid to try. One of them was holding some emergency heart medicine, just in case.

“You’re just like Sophia! You’re also a heartless little animal!” Madam Jones jabbed a finger at Sterling’s nose and burst out shouting at him. “Every time you visited us in the past, Leah had treated you and Sophia perfectly nicely!

“When you were going for your National College Entrance Examination, your results were poor, and Leah even asked her brother to tutor you so that you can get into a good university! She followed you everywhere, calling you Sterling, Sterling. How could you treat her that way?”

When she grew agitated, her spittle sprayed all over Sterling’s face.

Sterling wiped the spittle from his face. After taking so much flak for so long, he had long since lost his patience. “I respect you as an elder, but don’t push me past my limits!”

“Or else what? Will you hit me?” Madam Jones took a few more steps toward him, stabbing her nail into his face. “You heartless monster, I never held you accountable when Sophia nearly killed Leah, but now you’re paying our kindness back with spite! How dare you bully Leah!”

When he heard that, Sterling finally went off the edge. He shoved Madam Jones aside and roared, “We can’t even be sure who was at fault two years ago! I’m warning you, stop touching me! I never said I don’t hit women!!!”

“Mom, are you okay?” William rushed over to help Madam Jones up.

The latter had not expected Sterling to actually shove her. She panted heavily, unable to form any words for a long time.

“Sterling, how could you attack Aunt Jones like that?!” Jenny walked up to Sterling and said anxiously, “Hurry up and apologize to her!”

“I’ll never apologize to the Joneses in my life!” Sterling spat at the floor and yanked his tie off, slamming it into the ground.

He was unnaturally emotional right now, yelling at Madam Jones and the others, “Soph is your real daughter, so why don’t you and Dad believe her? Why do you side with outsiders instead? I’ve never seen parents like you!”

Usually, if he said anything so disrespectful, James would definitely tell him off for it. Today, though, Madam Jones had angered James so much that he did not say a word about it.

“Sterling, don’t say such nonsense!” Jenny said hurriedly.

“Hah!” Sterling said, “Mom, it seems to me like both you and Dad had your consciences dunked in fly crap!”

He often caused all sorts of trouble out there, but he had never been so rude to Jenny before. She looked at him in disbelief, tears dripping down her face.

William was still holding his mother, fury burning in his amber eyes. “Sterling, this time you’ve gone too far.”

“I’ve gone too far?” Sterling pointed at himself, his eyes bloodshot. “You f*cking made my sister kneel at the club door until…”

He choked on his words. “She knelt until her knees were swollen, and that’s not going too far? Leah Jones poured boiling water all over my sister, and that’s not going too f*cking far?!!”