Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 7

Hector's voice successfully dragged Sheila back to her senses. Her anger was extinguished like water on flames, and she abruptly halted.

At the same time, the commotion finally attracted the attention of the people in the manor. Adam came out and approached them. "What's going on here?"

As the current president of Jensen Corporation, Adam constantly appeared in newspapers and magazines. Sheila recognized him immediately and forgot about dealing with Shannon.

She beamed and turned to Adam. "Mr. Jensen, I'm Sheila White. My husband is Francis Gray, the president of Gray Corporation. I'm so glad to see that you're at home; I was worried you were out."

Adam's gaze traveled between Shannon and Sheila. His expression remained aloof as he said, "Nice to meet you, Mrs. Gray. Did you come over because you had something to say?"

With his status, there was no need for him to be so polite with anyone, and he himself wasn't the type that liked to waste time on pleasantries. Still, he knew Sheila was from the Gray family and had raised Shannon, so he forced himself to be patient. He thought Sheila was there to tell them about Shannon's habits and such.

Sheila had no idea what he thought. All she knew was that her ego was very much stroked when she heard Adam ask whether she had something to say. He was the president of Jensen Corporation, yet he wanted to hear what she had to say!

It was evident how important Gray Corporation was to him. Her anger from Shannon's retaliation finally dissipated, and she even puffed out her chest. "I do have a few things to say, actually."

She gave Shannon a smug look and pulled Rachel over. "Mr. Jensen, this is my daughter, Rachel Gray."

Rachel quickly said politely, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Jensen."

Sheila said, "Here's the situation. I know that the construction of Seastone City's landmark has already concluded, and the government intends to pick eight students from the four most prestigious universities in the city as ambassadors for the city's image.

"As ambassadors, they'll need to film a promotional video for the city. I also know that the final name list will be submitted by Jensen Corporation."

She paused, then continued, "Due to certain reasons, the slot that should've been Rachel's was taken away by someone else. That's why I came over—I hope Jensen Corporation will help me switch that person out and put Rachel's name on the list. It's a simple matter, really."

Adam frowned slightly. He knew about this matter but hadn't asked much about it because Adrian was the one handling it.

He actually didn't like people pulling strings and using connections to get their way, but he decided to give Sheila some leeway since she was from the Gray family. He would consider this a way of repaying them for raising Shannon.

At that thought, he said, "Who took your daughter's slot? I'll have my secretary look into it."

"It's Shannon," Sheila said almost immediately.

Adam paused while pulling out his phone. He looked up at her, evidently taken aback. "Who did you say it was?"

"Shannon. Shannon Gray," Sheila repeated. She thought he didn't get what she meant, so she pointed at Shannon and said, "I'm talking about her. She used to be my adoptive daughter, but she's actually an ingrate. She has a bad temper and is a compulsive liar.

"I didn't expect her biological parents to be working at the Jensen residence. It's not that I want to badmouth a child, but people are born with fixed personalities. No matter how hard I tried to pull her back onto the correct path, she just wouldn't listen. You really can't force these things…"

Sheila went on and on as she badmouthed Shannon. Hector's expression turned stormy as he listened to her ramble. Now, he knew what Shannon had meant when she'd said Sheila and Rachel had been trying to make her look bad.

Thomas and Carla were stunned. They couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with Sheila for her to talk bad about Shannon to Adam's face.

Shannon was already used to Sheila slandering her. It hadn't bothered her even as Sheila had rambled to Thomas earlier. But now that Sheila was doing it to Hector's and Adam's faces, Shannon couldn't help getting mad.

These were her family members, and they'd just acknowledged her presence among them. She'd just started harboring hope for her family to love her, yet Sheila was ruining everything. Why was it that she just couldn't allow Shannon to have something nice in life?

Didn't Sheila know what her words would make people think of Shannon? She knew, of course, but she didn't care. She just purely wanted everyone to despise Shannon.

This was the way things had been even during Shannon's childhood. If any teacher displayed a liking for her and praised her, Sheila would do everything she could to ruin the teacher's impression of Shannon and make the teacher think Shannon was a bad child.