Chapter 232
If Nicole didn’t think the Hammond family had her back, she never would’ve dared to pull something like this.
So her ex-dad and ex-brothers have to take half the blame too.
Meanwhile, at the hospital…
After Diana finished roasting Kevin and his brothers, she just left them hanging outside the hospital room.
Mavis, meanwhile, was bawling her eyes out as if she were the one who’d been deeply wronged.
Since marrying Leo, this was the first time anyone had ever chewed her out so mercilessly.
She genuinely felt wronged, but at the same time, she was silently cursing her daughter for being so useless.
Seeing her like that, Kevin and his brothers were just speechless and totally fed up.
‘How did we never notice before that Nicole and her mom were basically walking disasters?’ the brothers couldn’t help but think.
Austin had the worst temper, and he didn’t give a damn about seniority.
He said coldly, “Crying isn’t going to fix anything. This is all thanks to your darling daughter.
“She’s off hiding, and we’re the ones stuck here getting yelled at and apologizing for her.”
He yanked at his tie, looking seriously annoyed. “If you’re gonna cry, go do it somewhere else. It’s honestly exhausting just looking at you.”
His company was already a mess lately, and now he had to come here just to get chewed out.
Seeing his stepmom sobbing only pissed him off even more.
‘No wonder Nicole’s always crying-she must’ve inherited it from Mavis, Austin thought.
Mavis never thought Austin, who usually kept things civil, would just straight up say she was annoying.
She was really upset, but there was nothing she could do about it.
She gripped the strap of her handbag tightly, head down, not saying a word.
With Leo not around to back her up, there was no way she was going to go up against her
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three step-sons.
Seeing this, Kevin turned to his assistant. “Take Mrs. Hammond to the hotel to rest. We’ll handle things here.”
Having Mavis around was just making Diana even angrier.
Honestly, the brothers were getting pretty frustrated with her too.
She was always more trouble than help-just dragging everyone down. Sending her to the hotel was definitely for the best.
Mavis felt secretly relieved when she heard that.
She really didn’t want to stick around and get chewed out any longer, so she looked up at Kevin and said, “Sorry to trouble you guys with this.”
With that, she didn’t hesitate to follow Kevin’s assistant out of the hospital.
Austin scowled, “Dad said marrying her was supposed to be for our sake, but honestly? She’s just a jinx dragging us down.
“If she wasn’t always scheming and teaching Nicole how to plot against Ally, Ally never would’ve cut us off.
“Our family’s been cursed with bad luck lately. Like Ally said, all that crying from those two just brings nothing but bad vibes.”
The more trouble piled up, the more Austin was convinced-those two crybabies were nothing but bad news for the family.
It’s like those two have totally jinxed the Hammond family-ever since they showed up, it’s been nothing but bad luck.
Kevin let out a sigh. “What can we do? Guess we’re just stuck with it.
“Unless Dad divorces her, we’re just gonna have to deal.”
But they all knew their dad was totally hung up on Mavis-there’s no way he’d ever kick her to the curb.
Unless Mavis does something truly unforgivable.
Thinking it over, Kevin said, “Maybe we should start by looking into her ex-husband-see if we can dig up any dirt on her.
“Nicole’s been playing us for years. If her mom raised her to be like this, there’s no way she’s really all sweet and harmless like she pretends.”
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Chapter 230
What happened today completely flipped their view of Nicole as a step-sister.
Plus, now they were starting to wonder if the mother-daughter duo had people in their pocket around them.
The three brothers were seriously creeped out and suspicious of them now in a way they’d never felt before.
Austin agreed, “Yeah, we should definitely look into what happened before, too.”
Kevin said he’d get a private investigator to dig into Mavis’s ex-husband.
Nicolas was still unconscious, so they couldn’t really leave yet. All they could do was just wait it out in the hallway outside his room.
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Getting caught up in this mess thanks to Mavis and Nicole just made them even more pissed at the two of them.
All they could do now was pray Nicolas pulled through-if not, who knows what kind of disaster would hit next.
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Lucia Morh is a passionate storyteller who brings emotions to life through her words. When she’s not writing, she finds peace nurturing her garden.