Chapter 18
Mira thought, “What the heck is Hugh talking about?
“I used to think that he was good–looking and decent. I was so wrong.”
Mira looked around and saw the looks on the faces of everyone in the Leopold family. Their eyes were full of disgust.
She knew that each one of them could easily ruin her, yet she would never compromise.
“You’re right. I love money, and I admit it. Who doesn’t love money? You don’t? Then why are you trying to make so much money when you’re already that rich?”
She looked into Hugh’s eyes without dodging. “You call me greedy? Have I ever taken a penny from the Leopold family?”
Hugh said nothing while Sylvia beat him to it, saying, “Marrying you costs us 33 million dollars. Your family is full of misers. Are you saying that you aren’t greedy?”
Mira sneered, “Everyone knows that a while back, Hugh was in an accident, and even the doctors had given up. You wanted to wake him up, and therefore you went to my family, asking me to marry over in exchange for a large sum of money. Who would marry a dying man if it wasn’t for the money? Given the offer you made, I guess it’s pretty clear
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that you knew well that if the offer was any less tempting, no one would marry over at all. And now that he’s awake, you call the Boyle family greedy? Then you shouldn’t have made that offer in the first place.”
“Mira, you’re getting out of line.”
Brenden could tell how sarcastic her words were. At such
an age, being mocked by a girl who was the age of his granddaughter so utterly made him both irritated and humiliated.
“Am I wrong? It was Hugh who said I was greedy for money.”
Mira looked at Hugh coldly. “Other than the 33 million dollars, have I ever cost you a penny or taken anything from you since I married you?”
Hugh parted his thin lips a little, but when he opened his mouth, he realized he couldn’t retort at all.
Such a realization annoyed him.
If eyes could kill, Mira would have been killed by him a million times by now.
Seeing that he did not speak, Mira scoffed, “Given that, who gives you the right to call me a thief without any proof? I might as well call you greedy for money. The doctor told you to take half a month off, and what did you do? You went to work as soon as you got out of the hospital. Who loves money as much as you do? You love money more than your life.”
Hugh was so angry that his eyes were bulging, and his chest was heaving.
The police were stunned.
They thought, “Though the woman looks delicate, she is eloquent. She should have been a lawyer.
“See? None of the people from the Leopold family can be her match.”
“Stop being unreasonable, Mira.”
Hugh was impatient, and he didn’t want to argue with her anymore. “Take out the necklace now, and we’ll forget about it. If we find it in your luggage, you’ll be sent to prison for good. After all, it is worth 830 thousand dollars.”
“I don’t want to waste my time on you. Just start searching.” Then Mira said to the police calmly, “Since they call me a thief, and I never left the place, I’m sure you’ll get to the bottom of it. We’ll know who the thief is through the fingerprints.”
“No! No search!”
Taryn refused, “There are countless rare treasures we have in our villa, No one gets to search here.”
Mira was annoyed. “What do you want? You called me a thief, and you didn’t want me to call the police. Now that the police are here, you refused to let them search. You’ve got no proof. You just claim that I stole the necklace. Don’t tell me that you get to convict someone nowadays, simply because you say so.”
“You…”
Taryn was pissed off, and even her body trembled a bit.
Hugh’s eyes were cold. “Watch your mouth when talking to my mom, Mira.”
“I’ll only be respectful to those who respect me. Yet no one here seems to treat me with respect.” Mira looked him in the eye without flinching.
Hugh thought, “How dare you look me in the eye?
“I’m pissed off.
“Everyone treats me with respect, and even my own parents are somehow scared of me. Only Mira…”
