Prosperous Marriage: Married to My Brother-in-law-Chapter 434 - 433: Singleton or Multiples (3)_1

Adele Horne’s face turned even paler.

"How about this, Adele? Take some time to think it over these next few days. If you truly don’t want to keep it, I’ll accompany you to the hospital for an abortion."

Adele Horne nodded, thought for a moment, and then implored Julia, "Sister-in-law, please don’t let the family find out, okay? I don’t want them to worry about me anymore."

Julia hesitated but finally nodded, sighing inwardly. Her sister-in-law really has matured, she thought, but the price for it seems a bit too steep.

Glades Horne had been searching for the man surnamed Hei who had violated Adele Horne. There were many men with the surname Hei in the country, and investigating them individually would take a lot of time. So far, he hadn’t found any plausible leads.

Glades believed that for someone to have built such an impenetrable security system, one that even he, with all his local clout, couldn’t breach, the man’s resources and influence had to be greater than his own.

No matter how powerful the other party is, I won’t let him get away with ruining my sister!

Adele Horne had initially planned to throw away the Cartier men’s necklace but ultimately couldn’t bring herself to do it. However, she no longer wore it. Instead, she placed it in her jewelry box, locked away in her vanity drawer. A month had passed, and their bank cards had long since been reactivated. To distract herself from the necklace that occasionally surfaced in her thoughts, she bought many new ones, deliberately displaying them all over her vanity, hoping to forget the one bearing the ’Hei’ inscription.

The two sisters-in-law sat on the sofa, each lost in her own silent thoughts, so neither of them heard Glades Horne knock. When Glades entered, they remained oblivious until he leaned in close and stole a kiss from Julia’s lips, pulling her back from her reverie.

"AH!"

Startled back to her senses, Julia saw an enlarged handsome face before her and shrieked, genuinely frightened.

Both Glades and Adele were startled by her scream.

"Glades, is that you? Why are you here? Didn’t I tell you to come after work? And why didn’t you knock when you came in? You ambushed me! Don’t you know scaring people like that can give them a heart attack?" Having regained her composure and realizing it was her husband who had startled her, Julia immediately fired off a barrage of questions like a machine gun.

Glades felt he had been more unjustly accused than anyone in history. He *had* come in after work. He *had* knocked, but she hadn’t responded. He had been standing right in front of her, and she still hadn’t noticed him, which is why he couldn’t resist a little teasing ambush.

"Julia, it’s already twelve o’clock. Your employees have all gone to lunch, yet here you are, the General Manager, still sitting idly." Glades looked down at his beloved wife. His deep eyes sharpened as he sensed that both his wife and sister had encountered something significant; otherwise, they wouldn’t have ignored him so completely.

Being completely ignored by the woman he loved most... It was distressing!

Huh? Julia glanced at the time and saw that it was indeed the end of the workday.

Then, "Glades, let’s go home," she said, her earlier machine-gun onslaught replaced by a sheepish, gentle smile. She stood up, took Glades’s arm, and also pulled Adele up, guiding them towards the door.

This girl is hiding something from him! Glades thought.

He glanced at Julia but didn’t immediately ask what she was keeping from him. If she didn’t want him to know, pressing her would be pointless. He believed Julia would tell him eventually.

「A City, Ruiz Family.」

Madame Ruiz walked into the house, furious, and flopped down onto the sofa.

Matthew Ruiz, who hadn’t gone to the office that day, was leisurely flipping through a newspaper on the sofa. Seeing his wife storm in, he quickly folded the paper, tossed it under the coffee table, and asked with a forced smile, "Ellie, who managed to anger you this time?"

Madame Ruiz glared at him fiercely and said irritably, "Who else could it be? Besides that precious eldest son of yours, who else? Tell me, how did we end up with such a son? Ignoring all those accomplished young women from good families to insist on that penniless farm girl!"

She had just found out that Hansen Ruiz had brought his girlfriend for a formal introduction to the family.

It’s enough to drive me mad!

Her eldest son seemed born to defy her.

She was his mother! And for some ordinary young woman, he had even dared to warn *her*, his own mother!

She had only ever heard of "fatal beauties" causing disaster, never that an "ugly woman" could be one too.

Her dissatisfaction with Rachel Bailey grew. She felt Rachel’s existence was the cause of the rift between Hansen and herself. She even unreasonably blamed Rachel Bailey for Hansen’s departure from home to T City years ago, holding Rachel responsible for his actions.

"Hansen is no longer a child," Matthew said. "He’s always resisted our control, so you shouldn’t worry about it anymore. Let him marry whomever he loves. As long as he’s happy and willing to get married, that’s all that matters." Compared to his stubborn wife, Matthew Ruiz was much more open-minded. "Besides, aren’t you the one who gave birth to him?"

It’s not like the boy came from *my* belly, after all, Matthew thought wryly. So why is all the blame falling on me?

His wife had always been domineering and authoritarian. She had controlled his entire life and similarly kept a tight grip on the paths of their two younger sons. They couldn’t take a single step off the path she dictated. Only their eldest son, Hansen, dared to defy her. In fact, in terms of spirit, ability, ruthlessness, and domineering personality, Hansen had surpassed her.

Actually, among their three sons, only the eldest was most like his mother in character—truly a case of the student surpassing the master.

"You... You didn’t go to the office today just to stay home and infuriate me to death, did you?" This only fueled Madame Ruiz’s anger further.

Matthew Ruiz’s expression changed abruptly. "Oh, I almost forgot!" he said quickly. "There’s actually something very important I need to handle at the company. I’ll head over now. Don’t wait up for me for dinner. I’ll be... uh... meeting a client." 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

With that, Matthew Ruiz darted off like an old rabbit—WHOOSH!—and was gone.

Madame Ruiz’s expression darkened further.

She resolved to make another trip to T City and have another talk with Rachel Bailey.