The Lord Mayor Falls in Love with Me
Chapter 96 An aggressive and partial mother

Mrs. Linderman face darkened and she stood up to open the door.

"Mom...ah..."

The door opened. Joey looked up and her mother slapped her hard in the face.

"You little ungrateful daughter and sister, get your ass in here."

Joey was slapped by Vivian too. Vivian grabbed her arm, dragged her into the house and slammed the door. "Mom..."

Joey touched her burning face and looked at her mother in disbelief.

She was heartbroken. Her mother had punished her physically for many times since she was a little girl. But her mother had never slapped her so hard before. She found the expression on her mother's face horrifying.

Vivian gloated over Joey's physical suffering. She shrugged and put on a provocative smile, "My dear sister, I told you to give me the job and you wouldn't. Now this is what you deserve."

Joey laughed silently and pitifully. She stared at her mother like a hurt animal, "I should know better than to believe that you would care about me. You just pretended to care about me to get me back home and you hit me because you've believed everything Vivian had told you. How could you be so partial?"

Mrs. Linderman frowned, "You sister is younger than you and she needs an opportunity after graduation. As her sister, you despised her and refused to help her. I slapped you to remind you who I'm. I'm your mother."

Joey shook her head. If Vivian had been nicer to her during the interview, she might have considered offering Vivian a lower-level position as a clerk in the company where she could work hard for future promotion. Unfortunately, Vivian had been too proud and ambitious to sit down and have a nice conversation with Joey.

Joey was confident that she had never owed anything to Vivian in the past. Besides, Vivian had been cheating with her fiancé. She believed it wouldn't be necessary for her to be nice to Vivian anymore.

"It wasn't that I wouldn't give her the job. She isn't qualified enough for the job. Mom, you're so partial."

Joey slowly put her hand down, and stared at her mother with indifference. Now she was utterly disappointed with her sister and her mother.

"You're insane to speak to me in this way."

Her mother was somehow guilty and angry at the same time. She raised her hand, trying to slap Joey again.

She was stopped before she could hit Joey this time.

"Mom, as the saying goes, 'when parents hit their children, they feel twice the pain in their own hearts', do you think it's true? Didn't you feel sorry for me when you slapped me?"

Joey looked at her mother in pain, "Never mind, I would be a fool if I hadn't realized how cruel you've been to me in the past twenty-two years. Fine, I get it now. You did give me a good lesson. Are you happy now? Is there anything else I could do for you? I'm leaving." Joey turned around indifferently and reached for the door.

Mrs. Linderman had never seen Joey so indifference. She froze for a moment.

Vivian quickly pushed her mother with anxiety, "Mom, she is leaving. You've not told her about Ben and me."

Mrs. Linderman finally remembered that there was something else more important to do today. She rushed to the door to stop Joey, took a small notebook out of her pocket and handed it to Joey, "It's you and Bens' engagement paper. Sign your name and your engagement will be officially broken. Then you're giving your engagement presents to your sister and Vivian will be Ben's fiancée." It was a long list of presents for Joey and Ben Hawk's engagement, and both of them had signed the paper in the presence of their family members.

It wasn't legally bound, but it was the most socially official paper for their engagement other than a marriage license.

Joey was shocked to see the engagement paper in her mother's hands. She felt more pain than she had felt when she was slapped by her mother moments ago.

She looked at her mother in disbelief and asked with a trembling voice, "Mom, did you know about Ben Hawk and Vivian?"

Her mother nodded, suggesting that she had already known about it.

"Then why are you asking me to make way for them? Why? It's apparently Vivian's fault. Ben Hawk is my fiancé. Mom, aren't you mad at Vivian? Why are you asking me to break off the engagement to make way for her? Is there something wrong with my ears? Am I hearing it wrong?"

Joey was heartbroken.

She had been planning to break off her engagement with Ben Hawk. But it didn't sound right when her mother had decided to ask her to do it.