Chapter 552 Do You Want To Be the Mistress?
Chapter 552 Do You Want To Be the Mistress?
Leigh took out her phone and dialed Amy's number. "Amy, I'm in Ed's room. Can you come over?"
Her task during her stay at Oasis Law Office was to take care of the two injured patients, Edmund and Amy.
She had been taking care of Amy for a few days, and they had become quite familiar with each other.
After hanging up the phone, she quickly sent a private message to Amy. 'Amy, act with me for a bit!'
Amy received the message just as she hung up the phone.
She read the message repeatedly, unable to understand what Leigh meant.
Act?
What act?
She couldn't guess what act they were going to perform, but she thought to herself that she must cooperate well.
She hadn't signed a contract with Oasis Law Office yet, so she had to perform well and earn the appreciation of her future colleagues!
After she put away her phone, she immediately went downstairs to Edmund's room.
The door was not closed, but she still stood outside and knocked on the door.
"Amy, why are you being so polite when you're coming to your fiancé’s room?" Leigh walked over, put her arm around Amy's shoulder, and brought her in front of Edmund. "Come, let me officially introduce you. This is Amy Atkinson, the sister of the famous economist Ewan Bennett, and also Ed's fiancée! Amy, this is Miss Sophie Foreman, his former fiancée who came to reconcile with him. I told her that Ed already has you, but she didn't believe me. So, I had to call you here to let her see for herself and give up."
Amy quietly looked at the three of them.
So, this is why I was called here to act.
Fortunately, she had already broken up with Noah, or else it would have been really difficult to act in this play.
But it didn't matter now.
She didn't have a fiancé or a boyfriend; she was free. She had no problem cooperating with Leigh and Edmund in this act.
She smiled and reached out to Sophie. "Miss Foreman, nice to meet you. I'm Amy Atkinson, Ed's fiancée. Nice to meet you!"
Sophie looked at Amy in shock and couldn't recover for a while.
Ed…has a fiancée?
He really has a fiancée?
How could he have a fiancée?
For more than three years, she only had Edmund in her heart. She didn't even bother to look at other men. How could Edmund be involved with another woman?
How could he dare to betray her?
Feeling as if her heart had been crushed by a boulder, she covered her chest.
After a while, she slowly turned her face to look at Edmund, her voice trembling and her gaze filled with sorrow. "Ed... How could you betray me? You are the man I chose. I have never liked anyone else besides you. How could you betray me?"
"Miss Foreman, you must be really good at talking to yourself while ignoring everyone else." Leigh sneered and looked at her with a mocking smile. "Three years ago, didn't you personally say that you wanted to cancel the engagement? Since the engagement between you and Ed has been resolved, and he is young and strong, it's only natural for him to have a sweet romance with another woman. What betrayal are you talking about?"
"But our marriage was arranged by my parents. Even if I said I wanted to cancel the engagement, he shouldn't like someone else!" Sophie shouted frantically. "No matter how I treated him, he should be loyal to me for his whole life. He is mine, in life and in death!" This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.
Leigh sneered. "According to what you're saying, Ed should still be devoted to you and never marry
anyone else even if one day you change your mind and marry someone else. He should just wait for you, you mean?"
"Yes, he should!" Sophie shouted. "His life was given to him by my parents, and he should be good to me for his whole life. I should be above everything else in his heart. He should be willing to do anything for me. It's a betrayal if he marries someone else. It's ingratitude!"
After listening to her furious yelling, Leigh sighed softly.
In wealthy families in Dusktown, it was common to adopt children. Over time, this custom spread to the surrounding areas, and many wealthy families in other cities also began to adopt children.
Many people who adopted children had the same mentality as Sophie—"I raised you, and everything you have is given by me. Therefore, you must accept everything I give you. If you dare to have any other thoughts, it's ingratitude, and it goes against the natural order."
If the adoptive parents were good people, Leigh thought that their way of thinking was not wrong.
Just like the Harts, Sebastian picked up Grayson and Lucas from the roadside when they were just a few months old and still in diapers. If it weren't for Sebastian finding them and bringing them home, they might have died on the roadside.
Kieran, who was picked up by Philip, was in a similar situation as Grayson and Lucas. He was on the verge of death when Philip saved him.
Without Philip and Sebastian, they would have died long ago and wouldn't have achieved their current success.
However, even though Grayson, Lucas, and Kieran's lives were saved by Philip and Sebastian, Leigh still believed that Philip and Sebastian could ask them to repay the Harts, but they couldn't casually demean their lives.
Philip and Sebastian were not that kind of people.
Philip treated these adopted children as if they were his own, and Sebastian doted on his younger brothers even more.
The degree of doting from Sebastian toward Grayson and the rest of them, especially, was something that even a biological older brother couldn't match.
The relationship between people was mutual.
Sebastian treated Grayson and the others so well. Even if Sebastian wrongly accused them of something one day, given their past emotional foundation, Grayson and the others should accept it without resentment, regardless of how Sebastian treated them.
But was Sophie like Sebastian?
She wasn't!
From the tone of her words, Leigh could tell how terrible she was to Edmund.
She didn't see Edmund as a person at all but as her personal possession.
In that case, how deep could Edmund's feelings for her be?
Even if there were some feelings, those meager feelings must have been greatly diminished after he was tortured by her time and time again, almost to the point of death.
However, Sophie still stubbornly believed that if Edmund didn't listen to her, he was being ungrateful and acting against the principles of loyalty and filial piety.
Perhaps a majority of the people who adopted children would agree with her view and think that she was not wrong.
However, Leigh thought that Sophie was wrong.
Edmund was Leigh's partner, after all.
No matter whether Edmund was right or wrong, she would stand by his side!
She chuckled and waved her hand. "Forget it, forget it. I won't argue with you anymore. You don't understand human language! Let's just talk about the result. The current result is that Amy is Ed's fiancée. They will have a wedding soon. What do you plan to do, Miss Foreman?"
Her gaze circled around Sophie's face a few times. "With your background and upbringing, Miss Foreman, you certainly won't insist on being the third party and interfering in Ed and Amy's relationship, right?"