My Wife is a Sassy Queen

Vincent sent away all the guests and then drove the children back home.

Alice, Liliana’s assistant, arranged for everything with the Petrova PR team and went to Liliana’s Villa with the three kids and Vincent.

She tried to console the kids, but there was not much to do.

After they recovered from the initial scare, the kids turned back to their sensible selves.

They were always like that. Too sensible for a six-year-old, making the adults guilty.

In the hospital, Mariana’s parents, Liliana, Jonathan, Liam, his grandmother, and Jacob were waiting in the OT waiting hall.

Henry and Jennifer were inside the OT. They had called in a trauma surgeon and a gynecologist for aid.

After around thirty minutes of waiting, they received word that Mariana was doing fine. While the operation was still ongoing, there was not anything critically wrong that would not recover with proper care.

Andrew and Merideth Jacobsen finally managed to regain some sort of calm after hearing that.

Liam’s grandmother was wondering about the relationship between Mariana and Liam.

She had never seen her grandson getting so close to any female.

Before Kyle had shown up, she was unsure if Liam was impotent or gay. After Kyle showed up, she was still not sure.

Even after Kyle, Liam seemed to detest all females. She had never seen him care for any woman – before or after he had Kyle.

Seeing him so close to Mariana and being alarmed at her condition made her wonder.

But then again, there was that fiasco with James and that nasty woman, Alice.

She was itching to question Liam but held back given the circumstances.

James had arrived with his parents, and it was pretty clear that they had fought.

James was too ashamed to ask what was going on. Seeing their son being so hesitant, the Millers resented Mariana even more.

When the news came that she would be fine, everyone felt they could finally breathe. James felt the heavy weight on his heart was gone.

But he knew that the pain in his heart would take much longer than Mariana’s injuries to heal.

Merideth Jacobsen took a few deep breaths and finally popped the question.

“You guys have been keeping things from me, Lil.”

She said it in a way that made Liliana lower her head in shame.

“I am sorry, aunty,” She said in a low voice, “we thought we could handle it.”

Andrew could not see his daughters being glum. He interrupted his wife.

“Don’t beat yourself with it. I am sure you guys did your best.”

He avoided his wife’s glare and asked, “Don’t you think you guys should tell us what is going on? Things have already come to this. We should at least know who our daughter is dating.”

Liliana did not know how to answer that question, “Uncle, Mer…I don’t know what to say.”

Mrs. Miller could not help but snort at that, which sounded loud and clear in the empty room.

James exhaled a deep breath and tried to clarify things, “Mr. Jacobsen, I…Mer and I.”

Mrs. Miller cut him off as she exclaimed, “Are you going to cover for her?”

James was beyond infuriated at his mother, “Mom, go home, please, I beg you. Let me handle this.”

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James tried to speak with Mariana’s father again, but he was too ashamed to form coherent sentences.

“Mr. Jacobsen, I am so sorry for what happened. I! Mer and I.”

Andrew lost his patience and told him off.

“Mr. Miller, I am quite aware of the grudge between you and my daughter. She bumped your car and pretended to be innocent when you guys were abroad. When you ran into each other here, you pestered her pretending to be her boyfriend. Is that it? Or did I miss something?”

James was shocked that Mariana would tell her parents about that. He looked at Andrew in surprise.

Andrew continued when James did not speak.

“I never meddled into your affairs because I trusted you all as adults to handle your matters well. Besides, it was indeed Mer’s fault. But this is taking it too far, don’t you think?”

James shook his head, “That’s…That’s not what I meant!”

Andrew took a deep breath to calm himself. He could not remember the last time he had been that angry.

“Mr. James, we did not press charges against your girlfriend and future wife for what happened in Tansy’s private club before. Just because we let a few things off the hook out of respect for our acquaintance does not mean my daughter, her reputation, her life, or that of my first grandchild is dispensable.”

James froze at the mention of the child.

He felt his chest constrict as he remembered the blood trickling down Mariana’s legs.

But he was aware that he had no right to feel that way.

He could only lower his head in shame to hide his heartache.

But the onlookers thought he was avoiding responsibility.