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She knew that Tanya was a little resentful toward Karl at this instant.
If one thought about it carefully, Karl had indeed let Jill down.
He was obviously in a relationship with Jill, yet he had just upped and left without taking any responsibility. Neither had he told Jill about his whereabouts, which led to Jill approaching Margot and losing her life.
If he hadn’t killed anyone, he should have trusted the police.
Tanya lowered her head. “He had even persuaded Margot to surrender, so why did he refuse to trust the law himself? He was a coward!”
She covered her face with her hands.
Nora sighed and put her hand on Tanya’s shoulder.
Tanya raised her head again. “He had already made a mistake once back then, yet he still ran away again this time…”
Nora sighed silently.
To be honest, if Karl had obediently gone to jail, Tanya might not have been so angry. However, Karl’s second escape made her very uncomfortable.
He was being a coward again!
Nora said, “Perhaps he has his own difficulties.”
Tanya scoffed, “I don’t understand, what kind of difficulties could have made him abandon my mother back then? And what about now? What kind of difficulty could he be facing?”
Nora did not say anything.
Someone knocked on the door at this point, and then a middle-aged couple walked in. At the sight of them, Tanya hurriedly got up and dabbed at the corners of her eyes with her head down.
Nora looked at the couple.
The woman was pretty and delicate while the man was calm and steady. He looked a little like Ian.
After the two entered, the woman spoke first. She said, “Hello, I am Joel’s mother.”
Tanya hurriedly greeted her respectfully. “Hello, auntie.”
The woman nodded in a distant manner.
As for Nora, enlightenment suddenly dawned upon her.
They were Joel’s parents! So, that made them her uncle and aunt?
After Ian inherited the Smiths, everyone in the same generation as Ian had moved out one after another, leaving only the young ones in the manor.
Joel had grown up under Ian’s care and was not close to his parents.
Joel’s mother said indifferently, “Today is your wedding with Joel, so we’ve come. Well, some things are hard to say at the wedding, so I can only come over to speak with you in private.”
Tanya was very respectful. “Please, go ahead.”
Joel’s mother lowered her head and a look of disdain appeared in her eyes. She said, “We all know your background…”
Tanya bit her lip.
Joel’s mother went on. “We will not fault you for having an ordinary person as your mother and a criminal as your father, but I hope you can let us take Mia and bring her up.”
As soon as she said that, Tanya’s eyes widened and she said, “No, you can’t!”
The moment she said that, Joel’s father snorted and sneered, “Why not? Can someone like you bring up a child well? We won’t allow you to groom the third generation of the Smiths into good-for-nothings!”
Joel’s mother was surprisingly gentle as she said, “Don’t get us wrong, Tanya, he doesn’t mean anything wrong. It’s just that your father is ultimately a very unsavory man. Now that he has even escaped from prison and become the talk of the town, we are just worried that Mia will be negatively impacted…”
Tanya clenched her fists.
A sense of shame surged up in her. She stared at the two people in front of her, never expecting that her in-laws would say such things.
Tanya was shaking. “What’s wrong with my father? He was wronged back then. He was forced into his current situation!”
Even though she was complaining about him just now, she couldn’t help but defend him when others badmouthed him.
Joel’s mother sighed and said, “Don’t be so averse to us. We are Mia’s grandparents, we won’t harm her.”
Pretty much right after she said that, though, an icy-cold voice came from the door. “The two of you don’t have to worry yourselves about this.”
Joel strode in.
The man, who had always been a wolf in sheep’s clothing, didn’t have a smile on his face at the moment. He looked at the couple in front of him very coldly and said, “Neither are you two Mia’s grandparents.”
At the sight of Joel, the couple looked a little flustered.
Joel’s mother sighed and said, “Joel, you can’t say that…”
Joel raised his eyebrows. “Didn’t the two of you already say so back when I was five? That you don’t want a son like me anymore! That you’re severing ties with me! You even wanted to kick me out of the Smiths at that time… If it weren’t for Uncle Ian, I’d probably have already starved to death.”
Joel’s father suddenly shouted angrily, “Watch the way you’re talking to us! No matter what, we are still your parents!”
Joel chuckled. He sounded a little sarcastic as he repeated, “Parents?”
His words made both his father and mother shut up.
Nora looked at them.
Although she had heard from Louis a long time ago that Joel didn’t get along with his parents, she hadn’t expected it to be this bad.
What exactly did they do to Joel to make him dislike them so much? To the extent that he would even mock them for calling themselves his parents?
Was he saying that despite being their son, they didn’t even treat him as well as Ian, who had adopted him?
While she was wondering, Joel’s mother said, “Joel, you’d better not be so ungrateful! If it weren’t for us, you would never be what you are today! Let alone inherit the Smiths!”
Joel smiled. “It’s Uncle Ian who agreed to me inheriting the Smiths, not the two of you.”
His words made both his parents choke.
Joel narrowed his fox-like eyes. “If you don’t want me to get angry, then please leave and live your own lives. Don’t ever attempt to dictate mine.”
His threat made his father choke. Then, he snorted, turned, and went out.
Joel’s mother took a deep breath and said, “Do you think I want to meddle in your affairs that much? You have no idea how many people out there secretly look down on that woman you’re marrying! Everyone is saying that she doesn’t even have an elder to give her hand away today! This wedding is no different from a joke!”
She raised her chin and said, “Doesn’t matter if you acknowledge us or not, I won’t attend such a wedding. I will never accept a daughter-in-law whose father is a criminal! Goodbye!”
When Nora craned her neck, she saw the woman saying something to her husband. Then, the two of them left the place for real.
As parents, they weren’t even going to attend their son’s wedding?
What weirdos.
Nora frowned.
Joel had already walked behind Tanya and was holding her shoulders.
Tanya was still shaking and there was sadness in her eyes. She suddenly asked, “Did I embarrass you?”
Joel hurriedly replied, “Why would you? Don’t talk nonsense. Don’t worry, I have already made all the arrangements for the wedding.”
“… But they are all gossiping in private…” Joel sneered, “Do you know why they only dare to say those things in private?”.
“Why?”
“Because they don’t dare to say it in front of me!” Joel said coldly and seriously, “Who would dare to badmouth you in front of me? And how would they dare to talk nonsense in front of you? Aren’t they afraid that Mrs. Smith would get angry and make them bankrupt overnight?”
“Pfft!”
His words made Tanya laugh.
Joel was about to say more when the door was pushed open. Justin strode in. He was here as the best man today.
He stood beside Joel and slowly said, “Mr. Rogers has called it quits.” Mr. Rogers was a middle-aged man with a lot of prestige to his name in New York. The few of them had approached him to ask him to give Tanya’s hand away today. After all, without a father to give her hand away, the wedding would seem incomplete.
But why had he suddenly called it quits?
Joel’s brows drew together. “What happened?”