CHAPTER 12: CHAPTER 12: YOU ARE CALEB FAULKNER’S MOTHER

Rosalie Ray was furious, rushing over with concern. Upon seeing Faye Sterling’s reddened cheeks, her expression darkened immediately.

"Faye, are you alright?"

Faye Sterling covered her face, tears constantly falling, looking pitiful.

Rosalie Ray gritted her teeth and glared at Eleanor Sterling, shouting sharply, "You beast, how could you hit Faye? Apologize to her right now!"

Eleanor Sterling showed a smile devoid of warmth, her eyes suddenly cold, "If I want to hit, I hit. Do I need to pick a time?"

Faced with such an arrogant and prickly Eleanor Sterling, even Old Master Sterling couldn’t help but furrow his brows.

"Eleanor!"

It’s wrong to be the first to hit someone, especially in such circumstances, so Old Master Sterling couldn’t help but step in.

Eleanor Sterling gave Old Master Sterling a light glance, and said calmly, "Grandfather, you don’t really expect me to apologize, do you? I don’t even know where I’m wrong?"

Faye Sterling gritted her teeth and said, "Grandfather, she seduced Alaric!"

"Ha." Eleanor Sterling laughed, "So just entering together in your eyes is seduction."

She looked at Faye Sterling with contempt, "Don’t know if you lack the confidence to hold on to Mrs. Faulkner’s position, or if you think any man would catch my eye?"

With one sentence, Eleanor Sterling insulted both Faye Sterling and Alaric Faulkner, making Faye Sterling lose control out of guilt.

And Alaric Faulkner had been watching the scene unfold all along. Now, being addressed like this by Eleanor Sterling, he couldn’t help but frown.

The disdain was obvious.

Did he mean so little in Eleanor Sterling’s eyes?

Faye Sterling glared at Eleanor Sterling, wishing she could slap her back.

At this moment, her cousin Chelsea Sterling rushed out to defuse the tension, "Alright, Faye, it seems like a misunderstanding. Eleanor might have just happened to run into President Faulkner and came in with him, don’t think too much of it."

Chelsea Sterling certainly wouldn’t help Faye Sterling. She had long been jealous of Faye Sterling’s ability to become Mrs. Faulkner and was secretly pleased to see her slapped.

Now speaking to downplay the incident as a misunderstanding, she only made it harder for Faye Sterling to retaliate after being slapped, making her even angrier.

Old Master Sterling cleared his throat, giving her an out.

"Alright, today is a good day, what does it look like for family members to bicker like this!"

With Old Master Sterling speaking, Faye Sterling could only forcibly swallow her anger.

She walked to Alaric Faulkner’s side, pitifully saying, "Alaric, I was slapped."

Her meaning was for Alaric Faulkner to stand up for her.

Now she was Alaric Faulkner’s woman, the mother of the Faulkner Family’s little heir. Hitting her was like offending Alaric Faulkner.

Alaric Faulkner cast her a nonchalant glance, unmoved.

Faye Sterling felt more aggrieved and choked up, "Alaric, Eleanor Sterling is so indiscreet, unmarried and pregnant, the Sterling Family has already abandoned her. I’m just worried she’d think of you."

Alaric Faulkner instinctively frowned, a touch of impatience flickered in his eyes, and he said expressionlessly, "You are Caleb Faulkner’s mother."

Implying that, with her status as the child’s mother, even if he was desired by other women, it wouldn’t affect her position.

It sounded like he was reassuring Faye Sterling, but he didn’t deny Faye Sterling’s words.

Faye Sterling didn’t catch it, only feeling Alaric Faulkner had affirmed her status, smiling sweetly.

Caleb Faulkner, that bastard wasn’t born by her, keeping him by her side was always unsafe. She needed to give Alaric Faulkner another son to secure her position.

After today, everything would be different.

Thinking of her plan, the anger that Jane Sterling had suppressed just now dissipated a lot.