How I Accidentally Married a Billionaire

Chapter 111: Chapter 111

Josh the journalist was stubborn and always needed to investigate things he found unreasonable.

It was like this for her before.

It was the same with Isla now.

Keira Olsen lifted her lips in a smirk, “It’s good to let her go, lest Isla really thinks she is some kind of heroic figure.”

Just as she put away her phone, she heard Isla’s pretentious voice, “Auntie, it’s not that Kiera is ignoring you, it’s just her personality. Please don’t take it personally…”

Keira Olsen: ?

Turning her head, she noticed that Melissa Knight’s expression had darkened. Upon hearing this, Melissa sneered, “Miss Olsen, didn’t your mother teach you to be polite when visiting someone’s home? How can you ignore someone when an elder speaks to you?”

Lewis Horton sat opposite and upon hearing this, his eyes darkened. Just as he was about to speak, he saw the glamorous woman lazily lift her eyes and say, “What did you just say?”

Melissa Knight sneered, “I said to let Isla sit next to old Mrs. Horton, as she has a lot more to tell her. You wouldn’t mind, would you?”

At this, Keira Olsen shook her head.

Melissa Knight thought she meant she didn’t mind and was about to say something else when Keira Olsen slowly said, “Sorry, I do mind.”

Melissa Knight was taken aback: “You!”

Keira Olsen shrugged: “I have no home training, so of course I don’t know manners well, do I?”

“…”

For a moment, Melissa Knight was rendered speechless by her retort.

Prominent families always value face the most. How come Keira Olsen doesn’t play by the usual rules?

Deliberately, Keira Olsen picked up the cutlery she had pushed aside.

Isla then spoke, “Auntie, please don’t blame Kiera. It’s my fault. Her mother’s position is special and didn’t teach her well from childhood. As her older sister, I also didn’t play a supervisory role…”

Melissa Knight scoffed, “What does this have to do with you? An illegitimate daughter can’t be shown in public!”

At this, Lewis Horton suddenly looked at her, his deep eyes exuding a chill, “Is that an appropriate thing to say, sister-in-law? Denigrating a guest to her face, is that the Dawson family’s upbringing?”

Melissa Knight choked, then looked aggrievedly at Nathan Horton, “Dad…”

Nathan Horton, in his sixties, slapped the table hard, “Lewis, who taught you to speak to your sister-in-law like that?”

Lewis Horton’s expression was indifferent; he didn’t say a word.

Yet the nearly eighty-five-year-old Old Mrs. Horton clapped her hands on the table, “Enough! Did you come here to eat or to cause trouble? The daughter-in-law is the brat’s wife, and she is the lady of this house! Show her some respect!”

Everyone was startled and turned to look at Keira Olsen, “Daughter-in-law?”

Isla quickly explained, “Great Grandmother mistook Kiera for Mr. Horton’s wife…”

Then everyone understood.

Melissa Knight said in a mocking tone, “I was wondering why you were suddenly so nice to a stranger, but some people should have a little self-awareness, should know exactly what their status is… Lewis, you just tacitly let the old Mrs. Horton misrecognize her, but when your wife returns to the country, how will you explain it to her?”

Lewis Horton glanced at Keira Olsen and said indifferently, “She won’t mind.”

When Melissa Knight wanted to speak again, Old Mrs. Horton directly turned to her, “It seems to me that you didn’t come here to eat at all. Speak up, what is your purpose in coming here? Hurry up and leave after you’re done, don’t spoil my mood to dine with my granddaughter-in-law!”

Melissa Knight immediately forced a smile and looked towards Oliver Horton.

Oliver Horton, who was forty-two, coughed and said, “Grandma, it’s like this, Isla Olsen is an outstanding person who graduated from Oceanion University, and now she has become quite famous online. You might not know, but the internet is all praises for our family’s integrity, saying we choose spouses based on their character. The news about Isla helping the police solve cases has already spread, shouldn’t such an excellent great-granddaughter-in-law be rewarded?”

Old Mrs. Horton furrowed her brow, “Then reward her yourself!”

Oliver Horton twitched the corners of his mouth, said nothing, and turned to look at Melissa Knight.

Melissa Knight felt that getting a word out of her husband was truly difficult, so she had to return to the topic, “Grandma, we gave her something, but shouldn’t you also show some gesture?”

Old Mrs. Horton didn’t understand, “What am I supposed to show?”

“When Lewis got a wife, you gave his wife three percent of the shares. Now it’s Isla’s turn, didn’t you say last time you would give two percent?”

Old Mrs. Horton took a deep breath and glanced at Isla Olsen, “I’m not giving it to her.”

Melissa Knight was taken aback, “Why not?”

Old Mrs. Horton said, “I don’t like her.”

Isla Olsen immediately bit her lip, bowed her head, and a hint of hatred flashed in her eyes.

Stupid old hag!

She pleaded grievously, “Great Grandmother, I know I made mistakes before, but I have changed… How will I stand in the Horton family if you do this to me?”

She bowed her head, wiping her tears.

Jake Horton furrowed his brows, “Great Grandmother, you…”

Before he could finish, Lewis Horton gave him a stern look, scaring him into shutting his mouth immediately.

It was Melissa Knight who disregarded everything, “Grandma, you can’t be so biased! You have always favored Lewis since he was young, which we understand, but what about now? All the wives married into the family from outside, and you being so biased, do you have an issue with our first branch of the family?”

After that, she started crying and looked at Nathan Horton, “Dad, when I married into the family, I didn’t get any shares. It all started with Lewis. It was agreed upon that Jakewould get two percent when he married. Now that Isla is so outstanding, awarding her the shares would sound so commendable! Why is Grandmother so biased? Does our first branch of the family even have a status here anymore? Or is it that, for Grandmother, only Lewis is her grandson and our first branch isn’t?”

Nathan Horton then looked at Old Mrs. Horton, “Mom, as the Family Head, you can’t be so biased! It was okay to dislike Isla and not give her anything before, but now that Isla is so outstanding and everyone outside is praising her, if you, as the head of the family, don’t make some gesture, it’s really disgraceful! Even for the sake of the Horton family, you should at least give her some symbolic reward!”

Seeing this, Isla Olsen immediately went up to Old Mrs. Horton, “Great Grandmother, I really know my mistakes, if you are still angry, then punish me… Whatever you ask, I will do, just to appease you! Should I continue to kneel in the ancestral hall?”

Upon hearing this, Melissa Knight spoke up, “You are now seen as a hero by the public, kneeling in the ancestral hall, how would that look if it gets out? Do we, the Horton family, want to lose face like that? Is this how you treat someone about to be awarded by the police, and highly recognized by society? What if the media writes something disorderly? Grandmother, can’t you consider more for the reputation of the Horton family?”

While the group was confronting Old Mrs. Horton, Keira Olsen’s phone buzzed again.

She picked it up and saw a tweet from Josh: #Miss Olsen never provided any evidence, she deceived everyone!#