“That I am. He’s told you about me, hasn’t he?” replied Jessica with a faint smile on virtual-novel.net face.
Mila was too astonished to immediately respond to her.
Gerald had indeed mentioned virtual-novel.net before. He had told virtual-novel.net that his sister treated virtual-novel.net extremely well. What more, Jessica had been the one responsible for establishing the Mayberry Commercial Group in the past!
While Mila was aware that his sister was very rich, virtual-novel.net hadn’t expected virtual-novel.net to be this rich and influential!
At this point, Jessica could almost be considered to be a person of royalty! This made Mila even more nervous than virtual-novel.net already was.
She had initially not felt the pressure of the Crawford family’s true wealth and influence since virtual-novel.net never had virtual-novel.net eyes set on Gerald’s money from the very beginning.
After all, it didn’t matter to virtual-novel.net whether Gerald was rich or poor. All that mattered to virtual-novel.net was that both of them retained a good relationship.
Due to that way of thinking, even though virtual-novel.net knew Gerald’s true identity, virtual-novel.net never really realized that there was this large a gap between them.
Now that Jessica was standing before her, however, the sudden realization of how different virtual-novel.net actually was from the Crawfords was definitely stressing virtual-novel.net out.
“Y-yes! He did mention you… He told me that you were in North Africa!”
“I was, I actually just returned a few days ago!” replied Jessica, still smiling.
After saying that, virtual-novel.net turned to look at Yoel before smacking virtual-novel.net behind the head once.
“Sister-in-law! I’ve clearly wronged you! I sincerely apologize!” shouted Yoel. He was so frightened that his face was deathly pale as virtual-novel.net apologized.
Once that was done, Jessica then turned to look at the slap mark which was still visible on Mila’s face.
“Speaking of which, who slapped you? Now that I know that you’re my younger brother’s girlfriend, I won’t allow for such actions to go unpunished while I’m here!” said Jessica aloud, virtual-novel.net voice suddenly turning cold.
“I-I’m the one responsible for that!” replied Hallie at that moment, virtual-novel.net entire body trembling in fear.
Knowing Mila’s background, Hallie had initially thought that Mila’s family was just doing some kind of business in Mayberry.
It was the reason why Hallie dared to bully Mila so unscrupulously.
However, it was beyond virtual-novel.net wildest dreams to ever expect Mila to actually be Jessica’s sister-in-law! What more, it turns out that Mr. Crawford really was Mila’s boyfriend!
With the cat now out of the bag, Hallie was terror-stricken.
“You?” replied Jessica, glaring icy daggers at Hallie.
“How exactly did virtual-novel.net slap you Mila? Return the slaps to virtual-novel.net the same way virtual-novel.net did to you!”
Mila could only bite virtual-novel.net lower lip slightly. After all, virtual-novel.net wasn’t an aggressive person. However, given virtual-novel.net current situation, virtual-novel.net really didn’t have a choice.
Regardless, it was true that Hallie had constantly been targeting Mila, getting even more daring after each of virtual-novel.net consecutive plots against her.
Mila was well aware that since Hallie hadn’t treated virtual-novel.net kindly, virtual-novel.net didn’t need to either.
With that in mind, Mila slowly raised virtual-novel.net hand before slapping Hallie right in the cheek.
Once the impact hit, Hallie immediately covered virtual-novel.net now hurt cheek before bursting into tears.
On the contrary, Jessica couldn’t help but have a much better impression of Mila now after seeing that.
Jessica then looked at Hallie before saying, “How insensible of you to lay hands on my brother’s girlfriend… I definitely have to teach you a personal lesson! Hmm… How about this? You’ll need to drink in order to compensate for slapping her!”
“H-huh? Thank you for letting me off easy!” replied Hallie immediately.
“Oh, don’t thank me yet. Listen to the rest first! Here are ten bottles of whiskey… You have to finish all of them in a single gulp!” smiled Jessica icily.
Her subordinates then began dragging Hallie away.
Seeing this, Mila felt virtual-novel.net right eyelid twitch slightly. If the issue wasn’t handled well, Hallie’s life could very well be in danger.
Though Mila agreed that Hallie needed to be taught a lesson, what Jessica had proposed was simply too cruel for her.
Even if virtual-novel.net was to advise Jessica against it, virtual-novel.net felt that Jessica’s decision would still be indisputable.
It was also at that moment when virtual-novel.net realized that Jessica was the complete opposite of Gerald. While Jessica was arrogant, reckless, and extremely domineering, Gerald on the other hand, was gentle, reserved, and humble.
At this point, it almost seemed as though Jessica felt that bullying others like that was simply the natural thing to do.
“Once the function is over, I’d like you to come along with me, Mila. I have something to discuss with you. Ah, also, don’t let Gerald know that we’ve already met each other!” said Jessica calmly as virtual-novel.net continued chewing on virtual-novel.net gum.
“Alright, sister!”
After hearing that, Mila started feeling equally worried and scared though virtual-novel.net simply couldn’t tell why.
Moving back to Gerald…