Chapter 465 Evidence and Strategy
As soon as Lily finished speaking, Peggy’s playful voice rang out from downstairs. “Honey, Mom, don’t just talk among yourselves! It’s my first day as a newlywed, and you’re already ignoring me? That’s not okay. If you keep this up, I’m gonna post online and ask the internet: ‘What should I do when my mother-in-law is glued to my husband every day?’”
“Oh lord, what a nightmare!” Lily’s face flushed with embarrassment. She pushed Owen toward the door. “Hurry up and get out of here. It’s just us lonely womenfolk in here–if that crazy woman starts running her mouth, I’ll be ruined…”
“Mom…” Owen hung his head in shame, but knowing Peggy was fully capable of making a scene, he had no choice but to leave Lily’s room.
Just as he stepped into the hallway, Owen saw Elsie coming out of a room in tears, holding her bedding.
He grabbed her hand, which was covered in bloody cuts, and asked in both worry and shock, “Why are you bleeding? What happened to your hands?”
Elsie quickly hid her hand behind her back, tears slipping down her cheeks. “I cut myself by accident while cleaning up the broken pieces for Peggy. It’s okay, it doesn’t hurt… As long as you and Peggy are happy together, I’m fine with it.”
Owen’s voice rose. “When was I ever happy with her?”
“She asked me to clean up the broken pieces, and you agreed, didn’t you?”
Owen fell silent.
He hadn’t really thought it through–he just didn’t want Peggy throwing a fit, so he had told Elsie to go along with it for now.
Seeing how badly injured she was, guilt surged in him. He gently took her hand. “How can it not hurt? That vase had been sitting there for ages–who knows if it was even clean? With all these cuts, you could get an infection. Come on, I’ll clean and bandage them for you…”
Just as they were about to return to the room hand in hand, they heard Peggy clucking her tongue from downstairs.
She was holding her phone up, the camera pointed right at them, tongue clicking as she edited a post. “Barely married, and my husband’s already sneaking around with his sister-in-law–proof right here, folks!”
Owen yanked his hand away from Elsie like it had burned him.
Then he stormed downstairs, reaching for Peggy’s phone. “What the hell are you posting now?!”
Peggy raised her hand and danced away from his reach, grinning. “What, mad that I exposed the truth?”
“Delete it!” Owen barked.
Peggy smirked. “Sure, I can delete it.”
She leaned in and offered her cheek. “Give me a kiss and I’ll delete it.”
Owen froze.
Peggy wasn’t ugly–she was actually quite pretty, with a full, curvy figure and a sultry kind of beauty.
If she weren’t so cruel and unreasonable, he might not have hated her so much.
But no matter how pretty that face was, he couldn’t bring himself to kiss it.
Peggy pouted but didn’t seem to care about his disgust. She casually raised her phone, ready to hit “send.” The glare on the screen showed Owen’s expression, and sure enough, he looked panicked.
The next second, with the air of a man facing execution, Owen pecked her cheek.
Peggy’s lips curled in a triumphant smile as she snapped a photo right at that moment–click.
The sound of the shutter sent a chill down Owen’s spine. He stared at her. “You took a picture?”
Peggy quickly typed on her phone, then gleefully turned the screen to show him. “Yup. I posted it on my Moments. I even invited our mutual friends to our wedding celebration.”
It felt like the sky had fallen. Owen saw the photo of him kissing Peggy’s cheek going public–and it was his own doing.
“Delete it!” Owen’s face turned deathly pale as he lunged for the phone.
Peggy twisted away, hiding it behind her. “Another kiss and I’ll delete it.”
Owen staggered back, on the verge of fainting.
Upstairs, Lily peered through the crack of her door, witnessing the entire scene.
She knew then and there that their home had been hijacked by a siren.
She had to find a way to break this spell.
“Elsie,” Lily called her to the door. “Yunice’s father’s memorial is coming up. Yunice will definitely return to visit his grave. You and Owen need to find a way to get her back here.”
Her eyes narrowed. “We need to use force against force. If Peggy pisses off Yunice, Wyatt will absolutely step in to defend her and punish Peggy.”
“When Peggy’s wounded and stuck in bed, that’ll be our moment for revenge!”
Elsie didn’t seem too impressed by the plan. “Mom, haven’t you heard? The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Those two are thick as thieves–no way they’ll turn on each other…”
Lily chuckled coldly. “That’s why you’re still green. When it comes to manipulating people, you’ve got a lot to learn. Just get Yunice here–and leave the rest to me.”