Farrell entered the room, looking livid.
Miranda hastily exchanged a look with Rachel when she saw him, and both of them shut up. Miranda got up and took a step forward with a smile. "Why are you back so early today?" She asked.
She subconsciously wanted to take Farrell's bag from him, but when she held it, she found that Farrell hadn't let go.
Surprised, a puzzled Miranda called out, "Farrell?"
As soon as she said that, Farrell suddenly reached out. A loud smack rang out as he gave her a tight slap across the cheek, causing Miranda to see stars as her head turned to the side.
She was absolutely stunned.
The Woods had always been a scholarly family who preferred to talk things out rather than resorting to violence. Farrell was also a gentleman among gentlemen. During all these years, he had never even raised his voice against her before, let alone hit her!
After a stunned moment, Miranda finally reacted. She shouted shrewishly, "What are you doing, Farrell? How dare you hit me! Are you looking down on me because my family is down and out right now? I just knew it would be like this! The Woods are kicking me while I'm down! That's it, I'm leaving! I'm going back to my parents' place!"
Farrell gazed at his wife in front of him with a sharp glint in his eyes. The somewhat disappointed man let out a contemptuous laugh and said, "You're right, I'm not blessed enough to have a daughter of the Sonnets with me. I'll have someone pack your things and send you home right away!"
A dumbfounded Miranda was in shock.
Rachel hastily rushed over and shouted, "Dad, what are you doing? If you're sending Mom away, then you can send both my younger brother and me away, too!"
Farrell glared at her. He suddenly raised his hand at her, frightening Rachel into squeezing her eyes shut in a hurry.
However, when the smack rang out, Rachel didn't feel any pain on her cheek. She opened her eyes in shock and saw that Farrell's cheek was red—he had slapped himself instead...
Farrell stared at Rachel with great grief and said, "Spare the rod, spoil the child! It's my fault for thinking that you should be raised by your mother because you're a girl! That's why you became mad with jealousy, narrow-minded, and petty at such a young age!"
Rachel, who found his scoldings ridiculous, said, "Did my aunt say something to you again, Dad? How can she do that? She forgave us and called you on the surface, and then immediately complained to you the next moment?
She's too much!"
Miranda also nodded. "Yes, it must be her!"
Farrell stared at the mother-daughter pair in front of him and shut his eyes in pain.
He had still thought that it was impossible that they would ever do something like that when he received the call from Mr. Hunt earlier that day. His wife and his younger sister didn't get along, but there were just verbal disagreements. His wife was always trying to get the upper hand over his younger sister.
He didn't believe that his wife would do something like that. Had it been someone else who had called him, he would definitely have trusted his wife without any hesitation.
However, the person who had called him was Justin Hunt.
Mr. Hunt would never make trouble for a woman without any reason!
Moreover, he had also outright given him the evidence of them bribing Roxanne, as well as of them paying to have the live-stream trend on social media!
No matter how incredulous Farrell was, he had no choice but to believe it after that.
He waved somewhat tiredly and said, "I'll give you two options."
Miranda was stunned.
Farrell lowered his head and said, "The first one— someone will monitor all your actions in the future, but I will continue to give you the title of Mrs. Wood. The second—we divorce."
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