Chapter 136 Cold Confrontations

• Charmaine's voice, laced with scorn, cut through the air sharply, silencing him mid-sentence.
• Her gaze was icy, as though a thousand frosts had settled within her eyes. One glance was enough to chill anyone to the bone.
• "Back when I was with the Nelsons, what I could do and what I couldn't was entirely up to your whims. I was a pathetic people-pleaser back then, wasn't I? Even when you labeled me uncultured, berated me as unruly, or mocked me for being ungrateful, I still bent over backward to appease you all. Remember how just calling me 'Grandma' would ruin Valda's appetite? How dare I, someone so beneath you all, taint your lofty existence with my words?"