Love Is a Sweet Addiction

At night, she returned to the Gibson’s. As soon as she stepped into the living room, Anne sized her up and said in a mocking tone, “Look at your expression! You must have trouble in finding the evidence…”

“You felt cool when you said those words, but now you know how difficult it is…” Beside her, Sarah looked up at her lightly and then kept looking at her phone.

Esther ignored them and went upstairs.

After she was invisible, the two of them looked at each other. Sarah mocked, “Looks like Terence has been implicated a lot by her.”

“He deserves it.” Anne still felt angry at the thought of how Terence disliked her.

Terence, didn’t he like to protect Esther? Didn’t he help her get away again and again? Then he had to endure the consequences of being framed by his wife.

Esther spent almost the entire night thinking about the wedding dress. She wondered what she should say so that the Gibsons would believe her and let Terence go.

She didn’t care about being punished by the Gibsons, but she did not want to implicate Terence.

She tried unsuccessfully a night to figure out a plan.

Sure enough, the next morning, Amanda said in the dining room, “Esther, it will be two days tonight. How’s the evidence going?”

Everyone at the table turned to look at her in unison.Content held by NôvelDrama.Org.

Esther tightened her grip on her chopsticks, not knowing what to say.

“Looks like she found nothing.” Sarah mocked.

Anne said nothing as she wanted to pretend to be tolerant in front of the elders of the Gibsons. Besides, others would say what she wanted to say.

Looking at Esther’s ashen face, she secretly rejoiced.

Just as Esther was anxious under their gazes, James, who had been silent the entire time, suddenly said something shocking. “Well, you guys stop forcing Auntie. I broke the wedding dress on purpose and stepped on it. It has nothing to do with her.”

Everything including Esther was stunned at his words.

She looked up and stared at James, unable to figure out why. He hated her so much, so it wasn’t to help her. Besides, he was not so magnanimous.

But why did he tell a lie in front of everyone? Could it be he wanted to provoke her relationship with Terence?

She secretly looked at Terence, who was beside her. Sure enough, his face was gloomy…

“James! What nonsense are you talking about?” The first to react was Amanda, who was so angry that she punched James on the arm.

So was Anne. In her opinion, James was clearly helping Esther get off the hook, afraid that she would be punished.

She had just married him for three days, but James had already protected his ex-girlfriend in front of everyone. This embarrassed her so much that she was furious.

“James, you have to be responsible for your words. Are you sure you are telling the truth?” She stared coldly at James, her hands hanging on her legs tightly clenching into fists. She tried not to let herself flip out in front of the family members.

Esther immediately said before James, “Mr. Gibson was just trying to settle this matter as soon as possible so that you can take care of your unborn baby. You know Mr. Gibson too well. He dotes on you so much, so how can he bear to watch you being affected by such a trivial thing?”

With that, Esther turned to the elders and said, “Dad, Mom, I have made it clear. Although I know that you won’t believe me, I still have to say it. It was indeed ruined before I gave it to Anne. But I really did not know anything about it before. It was one of my colleagues. When she was helping me alter the wedding dress, she was unfair to me and did something to it secretly.”

Amanda immediately laughed mockingly, “Esther, you really know how to pass the buck. You would have nothing to do with it once you said it was your colleague, right?”

“I’m telling the truth.”

“When you argued that there was nothing wrong with the wedding dress before you gave it to Anne yesterday, you also claimed that you were telling the truth.”

This was within Esther’s expectation. So she did not explain too much. She just calmly said, “Although my friend did it, I should be responsible for it. So…”

She looked at the two elders again and said seriously, “It’s okay with me no matter how you will punish me. But could you not punish Terence? It has nothing to do with him.”

Gill slowly enjoyed her breakfast. After a while, she looked up and glanced at Esther. “Yesterday, Master Gibson already said that as Terence’s wife, you made such a small mistake because he didn’t teach you well.”

“But…”

“Enough. You haven’t apologized to Anne yet” Clark interrupted her.

Esther stopped.

Because of James’s defense for Esther, everyone hated her so much now. Anne did not dare to speak, but Amanda asked directly, “Dad, so how will you punish Esther?”

After that, she added, “Dad, don’t blame me for not letting go of this matter. Anne is my daughter-in-law. She was framed not long after she married into this family. As her mother-in-law, I naturally have to seek justice for her.”

Clark nodded and hesitated for a moment before saying, “Then use the family rule.”

Esther had known the family rule the next day after her wedding. She knew that she had been kneeling in the auditorium for three whole days. The rule of the Cusack family was not as ruthless as this, but it was also cruel.

She thought her legs were going to be crooked if she kneeled for three days.

Of course the rule was serious. So after breakfast, Esther followed Lauren to the ancestral hall in the backyard to be punished.

She had been there on the day she married in. Inside there were dozens of memorial tablets of ancestors. The incenses burned all day long.

Places like this were always scary. Besides, Esther had been scared a few times before, so she felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange and scary even if it was in the daytime.

She grabbed Lauren, who was about to leave, and her face was a little pale. “Are there someone guarding outside?”