After a moment, Bailey whispers a grateful "thank you."
Ethan stopped in his tracks, a doting smile on his face as he reached out and rubbed her head, saying, "With your brother, there's no need to say thank you."
Bailey tilted her head back to look at him. Her tousled hair stuck up in a cute, disheveled way, giving her an endearing, slightly goofy look. This made the smile in Ethan's eyes widen.Just as they were about to talk some more, Ethan's cell phone suddenly rang.
Ethan glanced at the caller ID and then gestured to Bailey that she could feel free to wander around the garden while he stepped aside to answer the phone.
Bailey was about to take a casual walk when she inadvertently raised her eyes and saw two familiar figures walking slowly towards the garden gate. Upon closer inspection, it was Victoria and Chloe.
The two were led through the door by a butler in a smart suit, and as soon as they looked up, they caught a glimpse of Bailey standing in the booth.
In an instant, shock was written all over their faces.
"Why are you here?!" Victoria couldn't help but blurt out, an incredulous look on her face.
Victoria could never have imagined that Bailey, who she had kicked out of her house less than an hour ago, would meet her again in the garden of Alpha King's house.
At first, Victoria wore a startled look. In an instant, her eyes landed on a middle - aged woman in a nanny outfit next to Bailey, and she thought she understood everything.
The woman was probably Bailey's real mother, she thought to herself.
It's just a servant.
Also, Bailey's mother was from the slums . After all, what kind of decent job could she find? It's not bad to be a servant in an Alpha King's house like this.
Chloe obviously had the same thought.
Contempt and amusement welled up in her heart, but she quickly plastered a look of sympathy and concern on her face.
"Sister, so your family works here, but this is the Griffith family, so don't mess with things lest you be mistaken for a thief again."
When the butler leading the way from the side heard this, his face froze slightly, and just as he was about to open his mouth to explain, he heard Bailey respond coldly, "Don't worry about it."
Bailey's clear eyes swept behind Chloe, keenly catching sight of the pale gray shadow that clung almost immediately behind her, so she raised an eyebrow slightly and added, "If I were you, I'd be hurrying home right this minute, instead of running around embarrassing myself."
Victoria's face was so angry when she saw that Bailey had left her house and recognized a maid as her own mother, but her attitude was still so exasperating.
It was only because she was concerned about the presence of the Alpha family's butler next to her that she barely managed to hold back her anger, and turned to Chloe to persuade her, "Chloe, you're kind-hearted, but you have to decide to whom you want to treat her, she's just a white-eyed wolf who doesn't know how to be kind, so what's the point of persuading her."
After saying that, she turned to the housekeeper again, a helpless look on her face as she explained, "I'm sorry to see you laugh, this is the child our family adopted before, I didn't expect that after working hard to raise her for a while, she would turn her back on her real parents when she found them. This child was unconscionable before, she likes to steal and petty theft, in our family we can still tolerate her, in someone else's family, I really don't know what kind of trouble she will cause."
Victoria puts on a worried face, but everything she says implies that the Griffith family is afraid of trouble if they keep Bailey.
The butler was secretly surprised when he heard this. He thought to himself, does this Mrs. Victoria not know that the one in front of her is the princess that the Alpha family had a hard time getting back?
To be able to denigrate the Princess so much in front of him, the butler, I wonder what kind of life Bailey used to have at Victoria's.
Originally, because Victoria's family had raised Bailey, the housekeeper had always treated them as honored guests, but now that she heard these words, her attitude couldn't help but chill out.
Victoria, however, mistook the butler's cold face for one of her own words, and was secretly pleased that she had heard her words and had become displeased with Bailey.
She is waiting to see this "white-eyed wolf" to be thrown out, to see if she still dare to be so arrogant in the future.
As for the matter of asking Bailey to give up her delegate slot, Victoria thinks she has already hitched her wagon to the Griffith family, so she doesn't even need to nag her anymore, it's just a slot, and since Chloe wants it, she'll just grab it directly.
The maid on the side, who had been standing quietly without saying a word since Victoria and Chloe had come over.
After all, the Alpha family had strict rules, and servants usually didn't casually strike up conversations with their host family's guests.
Only, the more she heard what this guest said, the more wrong she felt. The other party had just said those words, as if they were talking about the princess next to her who had just been found. She couldn't help but mutter in her heart: this ......
The butler looked at the situation in front of him and couldn't help but speak, "Mrs. Victoria, Miss Chloe, you ......"
As soon as the words left his mouth, another voice was heard, "What's wrong?"
It was Ethan, who had found his way here after the phone call, and when he saw these people standing around Bailey, his steps unconsciously quickened, and in a few steps he came up to the crowd.
The moment she saw Ethan, Chloe's eyes snapped open.
Victoria eyed the young man in front of her with equal scrutiny, her eyes sweeping over the expensive watch and valuable cufflinks on his hands, surmising that this was the son of some important person in the Griffith family.
When the butler saw Ethan, his demeanor immediately became straight, and he was about to reply, but when he realized that Ethan was inquiring about Bailey, he closed his mouth and didn't make a sound.
Previously, remembering the old love Victoria how to deliberately make things difficult for her have endured, and now Victoria is in front of everyone rumors that she is a thief, Bailey does not want to endure, decided to return the favor and said, "Oh, they just make things difficult for me."
This one sentence, succinct and clear, but it instantly quieted the air around them.
Victoria, coming to her senses, immediately shrieked, "What the hell are you talking about, you little bitch?!"
The smile at the corner of Ethan's mouth instantly disappeared without a trace when he saw Victoria's movements.
Before he could make a move, however, he saw Bailey, who was supposed to be on the softer side, quickly raise her hand and grab Victoria's raised wrist with precision and dryness.
This sudden move of hers not only took Ethan by surprise but also left Victoria stunned.
Victoria, who clearly hadn't expected Bailey to dare to resist, subconsciously tried to yank her hand back.
But I didn't expect that Bailey seemed to be gently grasping, but the force on her hand was so great that Victoria couldn't break free for a moment.
Bailey looked at Victoria with an indifferent expression, loosening her grip, and said, "Don't forget, I'm no longer part of your family, and I'm certainly not at your mercy anymore."
With that, she simply let go of her hand, and Victoria stumbled backward from her sudden release.
"Mom!" Chloe exclaimed in shock as she rushed to hold Victoria who nearly fell, and when she turned her head to Bailey, her face was full of disbelief as she said, "Sister, no matter what, mom is the one who raised you, so how can you just say you're going to do it? You ...... you are too much!"
Even at this point, Chloe still doesn't forget to discredit Bailey. after all, in her opinion, no one would trust the character of a person who put her hands on her adoptive mother.
Bailey was really tired of seeing Chloe's hypocritical look, her eyes lifted up and she disliked back nonchalantly, "Which eye did you see me do it? You're blind yourself, don't think everyone else is like you."
Ethan listened from the sidelines, his eyes full of newfound amusement. He originally thought that his sister looked docile and was easy to bully, but he didn't expect to fight back so well. He secretly sighed in his heart: not bad, worthy of being a child of their family.
While he listened with interest on his side, Victoria was instantly annoyed that Bailey had dared to fight back.
She thought that since she had raised Bailey, it was her right to beat her. Now Bailey had the nerve to resist and even insult Chloe.
She didn't care that this was the Alpha family's turf, and pushed Chloe away from her as she rushed toward Bailey, screaming, "Bitch! Bastard ......"
Bailey watched with an expressionless face and took a step back about to make a move, but to her surprise, an Ethan beat her to it and stepped right in front of her.
The smile between Ethan's eyebrows has completely disappeared at this moment, and his body exudes a compelling aura, cold and majestic.
He snapped, "This is the Hardy Pack. It's not a place for people to run wild."