83 Chapter 83

"Well, you should finish your dinner first. I'm going downstairs to grab the first aid kit," Chloe said. She got up and went downstairs.

Vernon's eyes followed Chloe until she went downstairs.

Vernon then looked at his hand and the dinner that Chloe had made. His heartache worsened, so he clenched his fist, "Don't be weak, Vernon. You should use her. You're the one who told her that she is nothing but a maid and a woman you'll use for sex. Don't fall into her honey trap."

Vernon clenched his fist to shift the pain from his heart to his hand. His fist started bleeding, but he didn't care. It was far better than feeling this strange feeling in his heart again.

"Vernon, are you done with dinner?" Chloe asked as she climbed back to Vernon's penthouse.

She saw that Vernon had already eaten his fill and had already moved to the sofa.

"I'm done with dinner. You can return to your room now, sister-in-law," Vernon said.

"I will, but I need to take care of your hand first," Chloe said. She walked to the living room towards Vernon.

Chloe sat right beside Vernon on the long sofa, but Vernon quickly slid his butt away from Chloe.

"No need, all is good. You can go downstairs now," Vernon said.

"All is good after I treated your hand, show me your hand now," Chloe said.

Vernon gritted his teeth, "Damn, why are you so nosy? I told you to go back to your room!"

Chloe was startled, but she had a feeling that something was wrong. So she asked again, still gently, "Vernon, I need to see your hand. I need to treat it."

'',

"Urgh!" Vernon was annoyed, but in the end, he conceded and showed his bandaged hand in front of her.

Chloe was shocked when she saw the blood seeping out and turned the white bandage red. It was so grotesque that Chloe couldn't help but react strongly.

She grasped Vernon's wrist and checked the bandaged hand, "What happened to your fist?! I left you for ten minutes, and you're already bleeding again!" Chloe scolded. She was worried there might be an infection on his knuckles, so she unwrapped the red bandage and saw the wounds opened again.

"Oh my, what did you do, Vernon?!"

Vernon gritted his teeth, "It's not your problem! Just shut up and leave!"

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"How am I supposed to leave you like this?! Don't be unreasonable!" Chloe had a shot of courage again, she might not be the strongest, badass woman, but her family was the most important to her. When she saw Vernon getting hurt, she also felt that she was the one who got hurt instead.

Chloe busied herself treating the opened wounds while she kept scolding Vernon as if he was a child.

"You shouldn't be careless. Even if you're mad, that doesn't mean you can hurt yourself."

"If you have trouble, you should speak with me. I don't know if I can help in other ways, but letting out the negative emotion will make you feel better, right?"

"Hah! You act like you care about me!"

"I do!" Chloe retorted. "You're my…. My…"

Chloe wanted to say that he was still her cute little Vernon. But that would probably hurt his male ego, so she went silent after that and focused on treating Vernon's opened wounds.

Vernon stared at his sister-in-law with hatred, so much hatred that he held himself not to hit her. His hatred doubled when Chloe acted fake like this.

'Stop your innocent act. You're 35 already! I know you're acting like this to get male's attention, right?'

'Come on, show me how you seduce my big brother. Stop with this act. You're not going to trap me!'

Vernon tried to yank his wrist off her grip, but Chloe tightened her grip around his wrist and scolded, "Don't move! I'm trying to treat the opened wounds!"

"Stay still for a moment, will you? I promise it won't take long," Chloe said, still focused on treating his wounds.

Vernon knew that he had been nothing but rough and condescending towards her, and he thought all of them were deserved, knowing what she did and said about him back then.

But she didn't expect his sister-in-law to not retaliate back. She acted like a doormat!

"Heh, no wonder my big brother doesn't like you. You're acting like a complete doormat!" Vernon yelled. "You're so annoying, you know that?"

…

Chloe felt her heart pinched from inside. It hurt to be called a complete doormat.

But, she also realized that she was powerless against Vincent.

But it was mostly because of her position. She knew she had nothing compared to Vincent. Vincent always talked her down whenever she said she wanted to work outside, at least if he didn't allow her to work within his company.

Thus, she moved her interest to being a stay-at-home mom, cooking, laundry, taking care of their kid, even acting like a private tutor for Mackie, and managing the expense for the mansion.

But Vincent never appreciated her and told her that a mere maid could do all her job without a problem.

Because she was only a stay-at-home mom, a worthless job for a worthless woman.

"Vernon, you can yell at me whatever you want after this, okay? I… I just need to treat your wounds first…." Chloe said weakly as she started bandaging Vernon's hand with a new bandage.

"See? You're acting as if this kind of wound is so serious. Stop acting like a weak little lady!" Vernon yelled.

…

Chloe ignored him in the end, which made him feel even more complicated.

But in the end, he waited until Chloe finished bandaging his wound.

'',

"Okay, it's done," Chloe said. She picked up the first aid kit and said, "Don't hurt yourself again, okay? Your knuckles need to recover, or it might go bad."

"And so what if it went bad?"

"… That'd be painful, and we will have to go to the hospital. Medical expenses are not cheap, you know…."