Relentless Pursuit After Divorce-Chapter 54 - 0. Illegitimate daughter has nothing to do with
Chapter 54: 054. Illegitimate daughter has nothing to do with nobility_1
Chapter 54: 054. Illegitimate daughter has nothing to do with nobility_1
Both daughters of James Campbell, why did Elly manage to draw everyone near like moths to a flame, while she, Sophie Baker, deserved to be looked down upon?
But at the banquet, many people still showed considerable respect to James Campbell. James paraded Sophie around the room, and almost everyone knew of her by then.
Just as James and Sophie turned around, someone stood in their way.
Their posture could not be overstated as “haughty.”
“Elly?!”
James’s smile instantly froze on his face; clearly, he had not expected Elly to show up there.
Though she was the Campbell family’s eldest daughter, she never took an interest in business gatherings like these. Convinced she wouldn’t attend, he dared to bring Sophie.
Despite his reluctance to admit it, he harbored some fear towards his daughter Elly in his heart.
“Sister.”
Sophie’s voice was very small, sticking close to James, not daring to say much.
She hadn’t expected to see Elly there either. Each time she saw this woman, Sophie could not suppress her fear.
In such a setting, if Elly made her look bad, it was likely everyone would laugh at her.
“Sister, what a coincidence, you are here too…”
Sophie looked at Elly in a flattering manner, but she was stopped by a cold glance from Elly. The warning in her eyes made Sophie shiver involuntarily.
Knowing her place, she kept silent and then saw Adam Jones standing behind Elly.
Sophie felt even more aggrieved. She only had James Campbell by her side, but Elly had Adam.
She initially wanted to use Adam Jones to strike at Elly, but no matter how hard she tried, her so-called “importance” to Adam was only conveyed through Lily Jones’s words into Elly’s heart.
“Elly, I didn’t expect you to attend such a banquet. Father thought you didn’t like these kinds of events,” James said, his tone carrying obvious apprehension and appeasement.
Elly stood in front of him, silent with a cold face, but that presence made James feel a bit overwhelmed.
Although he was the father and she the daughter, the overpowering aura that Elly exuded made James feel too pressed.
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“Yes, if I had known the threshold for this banquet was so low that any riffraff could get in, I wouldn’t have come. I don’t like to lower myself in such ways at all.”
Though he had anticipated that Elly might not have a pleasant demeanor, he did not expect that once she spoke, her words would be so sharp.
Sophie turned white with anger, biting down hard on her teeth. She wished she could tear Elly apart at that moment.
But she couldn’t and didn’t dare to do so.
Her eyes reddened with a sense of aggrievement, biting her lower lip and leaning against James, “Sister…”
Her eyes brimming with tears, and a layer of mist rose on her long lashes. Her pitiful look made James even more upset.
“Elly, you should know your place at an event like this!”
He darkened his face and couldn’t help but defend Sophie.
“Did I say anything wrong?”
Elly raised an eyebrow, her eyes carelessly masking a trace of innocence.
Her gaze sized up Sophie from top to bottom, then she smiled—
“I haven’t heard of a bastard child born to a mistress having any connection to nobility.”
“Elly, you…”
James’s voice rose with anger, and at the same time, the commotion drew the attention of others.
