Chapter 566 Teaching Jessica a Lesson
As he thought about this, Will took a step back and retreated from these people. He had already witnessed that Jessica, who claimed to have loved him, was merely a gold digger. Now that she had encountered someone better-looking and richer than him, she immediately ignored Will and fixed her gaze on Toby, wishing nothing more than to be with Toby. Unfortunately, she was unaware that Toby was most disgusted by women like her.
Thus, Will wanted to see how Toby and Sonia would punish her.
After shoving Jessica aside, Sonia retreated to Toby’s side. Toby took her hand and held it close to his eyes as he carefully checked her paw.
A puzzled Sonia then asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Let me check whether your hand is injured.” Toby turned her hand over.
She laughed. “How could it be injured?” There isn’t any knife or anything similar that could have hurt me either.
Sonia was ready to withdraw her hand when Toby grabbed her hand and refused to let go of it. “Don’t move! Even if you’re not hurt, you still need to clean it. You just touched something dirty, so there will be germs.”
With that, he pulled out the decorative handkerchief from his left breast pocket and wiped her hand.
She was amused by his action, but didn’t pull her hand away and merely allowed him to do it instead.
As for Jessica, who was still on the ground, she was so angry that her nails dug deep into the flesh of her palms. She was so furious because the man had actually said that she was dirty and filled with germs! When Will heard that, he almost broke into a loud laughter. Sure enough, he knew that she would be punished by Toby and Sonia.
“Excuse me, sir.”
Jessica took a deep breath to suppress the anger in her heart before the corners of her mouth squeezed downward to indicate her faux sadness as she looked at Toby. “How can you say that? My sister pushed me to the ground. Not only did you not speak up for me, you suggested that I have germs instead. You’ve gone overboard—”
“Who are you to me?” Toby finished wiping Sonia’s hand and released it while he coldly spoke to Jessica.
With an undisguised disgust in his voice, he continued, “Why should I speak up for you?”
“I…” Jessica choked and was suddenly unable to speak as her face paled before it reddened. Soon after, she calmed down. As she covered her bruised arm, she stood up from the ground and bowed her head to say, “I know that I have no relationship with you, sir. However, even a stranger would also step forward to speak for the victim in the face of such a situation. Thus, you shouldn’t defend my sister just because you are together with her.”
A speechless Toby was stunned. What the hell is this woman talking about? Sonia is my woman, so who should I defend if not her? This woman is really mentally afflicted!
With that thought, Toby pursed his lips and icily replied, “Your sister is my woman. What’s wrong with me defending her?”
His words caused Sonia’s head to shoot up as she looked at him. “You—”
“What’s wrong?” He turned to look at her, his expression and voice becoming gentle all of a sudden.
She lowered her eyes to avoid his line of sight and shook her head. “Nothing.” If he wants to say that, so be it. I can’t go against him in front of Jessica. What’s more, when he said those words, he was also helping me out.
“Sir, you can’t do this.” Jessica looked up at Toby with a face of righteousness. “I know that my sister is your woman and you should defend her, but her character is too…”
She cautiously glanced at Sonia as if she was afraid that Sonia would be angered. Then, she hurriedly withdrew her gaze to lower her head again and continued, “Her character is too domineering and she likes to bully others, so if you defend her like this for no reason, it will only encourage her temper and cause her character to worsen. Soon, she will certainly get into big trouble.”
After hearing Jessica’s words of sullying and rumormongering, Sonia was about to explode with anger. She squeezed her palms and was about to rush forward to argue with her when Toby suddenly stretched out with his arm in front of her and shook his head, indicating for her to calm down first.
“Leave it to me.” He looked at Sonia.
When Sonia saw from his gaze that he meant business, her heart inexplicably calmed down and she nodded. “Okay.”
Toby lowered his hand and turned to Jessica, his eyes cold without a trace of emotion. “You said that Sonia has a domineering character and likes to bully people. So, do tell me, who did she bully?”
Jessica gripped the corner of her clothes and responded, “S-She liked to bully me since I was young. I grew up under her mistreatment, which is why I couldn’t resist escaping from the Reed Family 6 years ago. I happened to see my sister in the restroom today and I was even excited to greet her, thinking that we haven’t seen each other for 6 years. She should’ve been happy to see me, but I didn’t expect that she would still harass me. In fact, she held my head underwater in the sink and tried to drown me.”
Speaking of that, she wiped her teary eyes as she had actually cried.
A surprised Toby looked at Sonia, as if asking whether she had really done such a thing.
Sonia’s red lips moved but she did not speak, thereby admitting that she held Jessica’s head underwater. It was only then that Toby understood why she had spent such a long time in the restroom—she was taking out the garbage.
Next, he withdrew his eyes and looked at Jessica again. “Since Sonia had treated you this way, it means you must have done something wrong and angered her. Otherwise, why would she have done such a thing when she’s a kind person?”
The corners of Sonia’s lips curled upward as she was entertained by his words.
“Huh?” When Jessica heard this, she stopped crying and let out a strange sound instead. She looked at Toby incredulously; she was obviously unable to believe that he had actually defended Sonia to such an extent. Generally, whenever a man heard that their female companion had been so unkind as to hold people underwater, they would reckon that the woman was extremely vicious and be displeased by that fact. Will was such an example, but how was Toby so different with such an unreal behavior?
However, it was exactly this behavior of Toby’s that made Jessica even more determined to snatch him from Sonia’s grasp and tear their relationship apart. In short, as long as Sonia had something or someone, Jessica wanted a piece of it!
When she thought about this, Jessica spoke again, “No, sir, I didn’t do anything wrong. I just—”
“That’s enough!” Toby impatiently retorted. “You don’t need to say anything else to me. I don’t even know you, so what makes you think I’ll believe your words rather than my own eyes? Wouldn’t I know what kind of person Sonia is? Do I need you to tell me? You said that Sonia bullied you as a child, but why did I hear that it was you who bullied her as a child?”
“I didn’t!” Jessica’s expression changed and she hurriedly shook her head to deny the fact.
However, in her heart, she was wondering how Toby knew the truth. Was it Sonia who told him? No, he said that he didn’t know her in the past, so how could Sonia have told him something about her?
“You’ll know best about that.” Toby held Sonia’s hand in a comfortable manner and repeated, “In the past, you bullied her, but I couldn’t help her at that time. Now, before you even dare to harm her again, you should think carefully whether you can afford the consequences. Besides, you kept badmouthing Sonia and made her out to be someone vicious, but I’m afraid you forgot that you two are sisters by blood. Do you really think others can’t tell what kind of a person you are when you spread rumors and smear your own sister in front of outsiders like this?”
