Chapter 231: Chapter 231: Delicate Fingers Cannot Serve Tea or Water
"Aunt June, since Brother Sebastian isn’t here, we’ll take our leave..."
Nina Shaw took the opportunity to suggest leaving.
However, June Keane blocked her with a smile, "Leave? Didn’t you want to be my daughter-in-law? Today I’ll give you that chance."
June said this and gestured for Ivy Kensington to sit on the sofa.
Ivy wasn’t sure what June meant, but knowing June wouldn’t harm her, she obediently sat down.
Harrison Shaw frowned, "Mrs. Keane, Nina is carrying a child from the Blackwood family."
Oh, now he’s threatening her.
June chuckled coldly; what did the Blackwood’s child have to do with her, she carried the name Keane! Besides, there’s no guarantee the child could even be born...
"Harrison Shaw, you have no say here!"
June said domineeringly.
Harrison’s face turned beet red, this June Keane was going too far!
"Nina, let’s go."
"Leaving would be great, but once you’re gone, don’t expect to ever enter my Blackwood family’s door. I, June Keane, will never acknowledge such a daughter-in-law!"
Nina’s footsteps suddenly halted.
Gritting her teeth, she turned to look at June, "Aunt June, what do you want me to do?"
June sat beside Ivy, slightly tilting her chin as she instructed Mrs. Langley, "Go make a pot of hot tea."
Mrs. Langley was quick, and the hot tea was brought out shortly.
"Madam, here you go."
The scaldingly hot tea was placed on the tray.
June glanced at it and said, "Nina, hold this tea and stand for half an hour; from then on, I won’t stop you from entering the Blackwood family."
What?
Nina was taken aback; holding such hot tea for half an hour, wasn’t that asking for her life!
Harrison Shaw said angrily, "My daughter has been pampered since childhood, it’s impossible for her to serve tea like a maid."
June, however, took Ivy’s hand and sighed, "Ah, outsiders only see the glamour of being a Mrs. Blackwood, not the hardships behind it. Ivy, it’s better you divorced; I, this ’evil’ mother-in-law, won’t trouble you anymore..."
The corner of Ivy’s mouth twitched, Mom’s acting skills are top-notch.
Nina knew June was deliberately making things difficult for her; her eyes flashed with malice—just wait, one day she’d make June repay this humiliation!
"I’ll do it!"
Nina grabbed the scalding cup of tea, almost about to throw it out.
June coldly said, "If you break it, you’ll never have a chance to enter my house again."
Nina: "..."
Harrison Shaw, watching from the side, quickly came up with a solution and whispered a few words into Nina’s ear.
Nina’s eyes flickered, her ten delicate fingers already burned with several blisters.
June glanced at her, showing no pity, and said to Ivy, "Dear daughter-in-law, go reward her with a cup of tea."
That word "reward" hit like a slap on Nina’s face, excruciatingly painful!
If she accepted, it would mean accepting her role as the mistress, forever inferior to Ivy...
Nina bit her lip until it almost bled.
Ivy didn’t hesitate and brought a cup of tea over.
"Miss Shaw, take it."
Nina’s eyelashes trembled as she finally chose to reach out for the tea in Ivy’s hands, however...
"Ah!"
Nina suddenly screamed in shock, "It’s so hot... Ivy, even though you hate me, Aunt June has already stood up for you, why are you still targeting me..."
Her pitiful words fell, and the mansion’s doors were pushed open as Sebastian Blackwood came back!
"Brother Sebastian..."
Nina ran to him helplessly, showing her ten miserable-looking fingers.
Sebastian’s eyes darkened, "What’s going on?"