Stuffing women into Christopher Moore’s life was something Adam Jones might very well do.
Anger was choking Lily Jones; she grabbed Sophie Baker, turned, and started to head outside, but felt too resentful to just walk away like that.
She stopped at the doorway, turned her head back unwillingly, and shot a fierce glare at Elly Campbell, who stood beside Adam Jones with a totally indifferent demeanor. She held back, but ultimately couldn’t restrain herself.
"Elly Campbell, what are you so proud of, bullying the weak with your power?"
The accused Elly Campbell of being the oppressor: "..."
Lily Jones just called her a bully for using the power of Adam Jones and for oppressing the weak like Sophie, didn’t she?
Elly Campbell’s gaze remained calm as she looked at Lily Jones, without a trace of emotion in her eyes, as if watching a joke unfold before her.
Lily Jones felt her heart waver under that gaze and couldn’t even bring herself to look Elly in the eye—especially when her brother’s sinister gaze turned her way, it made her feel incredibly uneasy.
She stepped back, ready to leave with Sophie, only to find her hand clutching at air.
Turning her head, she saw Sophie had taken a couple of steps forward. With teary eyes and a thin layer of mist forming in them, she looked pitifully at Adam Jones:
"Adam, it’s okay if you don’t like me, but... but how could you just push me off onto someone else so casually?"
The hidden innuendo in those words was blatantly deliberate, causing Adam Jones’s expression to darken further.
His gaze, almost reflexively, shifted to Elly Campbell, as though he was nervous, afraid that she might misinterpret something.
Yet Elly remained unfazed throughout this drama, like a spectator who was only half-heartedly watching a play.
Realizing this, Adam Jones frowned slightly, feelings of annoyance beginning to stir.
Of course, he couldn’t vent his annoyance on Elly, so he’d have to take it out on whoever had provoked it.
His gaze landed icily on Sophie, sending a tremor of fear through her.
Just now, when she spoke those words, it was out of resentment, hoping to make Elly’s life difficult, thinking that with the backing of the Campbell Corporation, Adam Jones wouldn’t be able to do much to her even if he got angry.
But now, faced with Adam Jones’s look, her heart shook uncontrollably, and her feet turned cold.
Adam Jones suddenly spoke in an unexpectedly gentle voice, causing Sophie to be surprised and even secretly pleased.
She knew Adam wouldn’t be so heartless toward her, looking at her in such a distressed state, he surely must have softened.
She thought Adam’s reassuring "Don’t worry" was to comfort her, only to freeze on the spot when she heard his next words.
"Even if you throw yourself at Christopher Moore, he wouldn’t want you."
This time, Lily Jones, surprisingly, didn’t speak up for Sophie, precisely because she heard in Sophie’s words a disdain for her own husband.
Although she always considered Sophie a close friend, she wouldn’t allow anyone to look down on her husband.
What did it mean? The legitimate heir to the noble Moore Clan, the head of Moore’s Group, with wealth, good looks, and background—at what point did it become Sophie’s place to scorn him?
Lily Jones was a fiercely protective person, which was evident from the way she fearlessly stood up for Sophie in front of Elly.
But she was even more protective of her husband. While she disliked other women setting their sights on him, it didn’t mean others were allowed to scorn him.