Joshua gently knocked the table with one hand." When Ms. Gwen wanted to expose Ms. Hailey during the press conference, I also stopped her. I did this because of the relationship between the Lynches and the Walters. I’m willing to save the Walter family some face in front of the Sea City public."
Then, Joshua raised his eyebrows. "Of course, if Ms. Hailey thinks that I'm framing her, I could only reveal all this evidence to the media. I’ll let the public be the judge."
Joshua looked at Hailey with an extremely sharp gaze. "Let them judge for themselves whether I am framing Ms. Hailey or is she targeting my staff?"
The entire dining room was in dead silence upon his words.
Old Mr. Walter looked at Alice, who was eating with her head lowered. Then, he looked at Hailey, whose face was miserably pale.
He harrumphed coldly and slammed the table fiercely. "You unworthy daughter, kneel!”
Hailey was stunned. She immediately got up and knelt on the ground
Old Mr. Walter was so furious his face was flushed. He pointed at Hailey on the ground with a trembling hand. "I have already told you earlier that some things
are not meant to be! You insist on having them! Now that you have them, you started to act all high and mighty. Just because you think that you have the Walter family to support you, you do whatever you want in Sea City. Is that it?"
On the surface, Old Mr. Walter was reprimanding Hailey, but in fact, he was directing it at Alice who was eating with her head lowered.
Alice buried her head and kept eating non-stop. However, looking over from Gwen’s angle, one could still see that her face was miserably pale.
"Starting from today, you are no longer my child. You have no relationships with the Walter family!" Old Mr. Walter rebuked coldly.
Hailey, who was kneeling on the ground, looked at Old Mr. Walter in shock. "Master...what nonsense are you talking about? I..."
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