Chapter 43: 043. Not Willing to Settle_1 Chapter 43: 043. Not Willing to Settle_1 Adam Jones watched her retreating figure, his eyes gradually growing deeper.
That damn woman, she actually dared to compare him to cats and dogs.
Sophie Baker saw that Adam Jones’s face had become extremely somber, and she couldn’t help feeling secretly pleased.
Elly Campbell’s attitude was practically suicidal, pushing Adam Jones away with all her might while giving Sophie an ample opportunity to draw closer to him.
She cautiously looked at Adam Jones and whispered apologetically, “I’m sorry, Adam, I didn’t mean to upset your sister on purpose. I just didn’t want there to be any misunderstandings between you two because of me.”
Adam Jones was already exceedingly irritable. Sophie’s little schemes in front of him only added to his annoyance.
“Don’t worry about it, your presence won’t affect my relationship with her.”
With a cold expression, he dropped these words and left without looking back.
Watching his indifferent figure walk away, Sophie’s lips turned white from biting them.
Adam Jones’s words made it clear that in his heart, she didn’t weigh enough to affect his marital relationship with Elly Campbell.
Even when Elly Campbell publicly called him a pair of her worn-out shoes, he didn’t take it to heart.
Sophie’s heart was filled with unquenchable resentment and an even greater sense of unwillingness seeped from the depths of her eyes.
From the first time she saw Adam Jones, she knew that he wasn’t a man she could easily control, so she used every means at her disposal, carefully planning every step she took.
Yet, with a single sentence from Adam Jones, she was harshly snapped back to reality.
Just like her mother, she would always be a mistress who couldn’t stand in the light, never replacing the lawful wife’s position.
No, to be more precise, she wasn’t even a mistress; from the moment they met until now, Adam Jones never gave her a proper glance.
The reason he treated her as a friend wasn’t that he respected her, nor because he harbored feelings for her; it was purely because she had saved his life, as well as that of his most cherished sister Lily Jones—nothing more.
All Adam Jones could offer her was an equivalent exchange.
Sophie knew this well, but she never wanted to face it, nor could she reconcile herself with it, and she certainly didn’t want to accept it as her fate.
Once she became part of the Campbell Family, gaining the same status and identity as Elly Campbell, then she would be worthy of Adam Jones.
Sophie naively thought to herself, her eyes beginning to shimmer and swell.
“Brother, you’re so good to me. You’re so busy with the company, yet you still come to the hospital to keep me company.”
Lily Jones coquettishly leaned her head on Adam Jones’s shoulder. Although a mother, her face still had the full innocence of a young girl due to being pampered all her life.
In front of Adam Jones and her husband Christopher Moore, she was purely a little girl.
Her nature wasn’t bad; her dislike for Elly Campbell was solely because of Sophie Baker and also because, like Adam, she believed Elly had used tactics to force Adam into marrying her.
Adam’s parents had passed away early in an accident, and within the entire Jones Family, only his grandmother, the Old Lady, and his sister Lily remained.
Adam was cold to everyone, except for Lily, who he doted on excessively. His indulgence in her from her youth was nothing short of spoiling.
Adam stretched out his hand and ruffled her hair, but upon hearing Lily’s words, he felt somewhat guilty inside.
Just then, the door to the ward was knocked, and a middle-aged doctor close to fifty walked in with a smile.