President’s Secret Obsession With Ex-wife

Victoria stood still, listening to the words with an expressionless face.

She’d been trying to convince herself that Dad wasn’t biased, that Daniel had been good enough for her since Mom died.

But this little bit of goodness was not a millionth of what it was to Cynthia’s children.

Victoria found it ironic to think that while she was still racking her brain to come up with a down payment here, Daniel easily just sent Gavin a multi-million-dollar villa.

Daniel and Cynthia soon found her.

Cynthia’s brow then furrowed, “Why are you here?”

Daniel looked over as well, inexplicably embarrassed at the sight of Victoria being followed by an agent in the same uniform.

“Tori, are you buying a house?”

Victoria’s heart was already covered with disappointment, but her face didn’t move, “Well, the apartment where I live got burglarized, so I thought I’d come over and pick a house with a higher security factor.”

Daniel mumbled his lips a few times, feeling a little guilty at the thought of Victoria living out there alone all these years.

“Then….”

The words were barely out of his mouth before Cynthia tugged at his sleeve.

“Don’t pretend to be pathetic in front of your dad. I heard that Mr. Andrews has given you a wedding house worth a few hundred million dollars, if you really don’t have a place to stay, just go there, and it will also bring you closer to Nick, and your dad will be much better off if you serve him well.”

“Auntie.”

Victoria glanced at Cynthia with an expressionless face and reminded her, “Even if I do act pathetic in front of my dad, it doesn’t seem to be any of your business. He can give a set of tens of millions of dollars of villas to another man’s son, do you still want to stop him from buying a house for his own daughter? Besides, my dad hasn’t said he’s going to buy it for me yet, what’s your hurry?”

It was a comment that made Cynthia flushed with shame.

Daniel was badly caught in the middle, and felt that Victoria had gone a little too far with that, in front of the two agents, Cynthia being her elder at least.

“Your aunt is such a character, don’t bother with her, whichever set you fancy, dad will buy it for you.”

Trying to use the money to get rid of the little bit of guilt he felt for his daughter.

Victoria tugged at her lips and lowered her eyes, “No need, dad and auntie keep watching. I’ll be elsewhere.”

She didn’t want to live in the same neighborhood as Gavin.

A flash of bemusement appeared on Daniel’s face as he was rejected, and Cynthia frowned outright.

“What do you mean? I don’t think you’ve thought of us as family since the beginning, and yeah, if it wasn’t for you, Linda wouldn’t still be hospitalized right now.”

“Aunty, I thought I had made it obvious enough, we’re all adults, why make it so embarrassing? I just didn’t want to be under the same roof as Gavin, that’s why I moved out, and now it’s because he’s going to live here, I’ve decided to look elsewhere, so is there a problem? Must I make it plain and clear that I’m not welcome to him?”

“You! Your mom must have been pissed off by you! I’m going to teach you a good lesson for your mom today!”

Cynthia raised her hand to slap, and Victoria’s beautiful eyes were so still that they curled with coldness as she grabbed her hand and slapped it back without hesitation.

The slap took everyone by surprise, and more so, it directly shattered the peace that had been trying to be disguised for several years.

Cynthia’s mind was reeling, covering her face in disbelief.

“I told you last time, didn’t I? If you did it again, I wouldn’t go easy on you again.”

As soon as the words left his mouth, Daniel shouted angrily, “Victoria!”

He lifted his hand in anger, his body trembling.

Of course he was her father and Victoria couldn’t return the slap. But from the moment he raised his hand, obviously she had expected this outcome, her heart still hurt uncontrollably and vaguely.

Daniel’s slap didn’t go down after all, pausing in the air long enough to look at her in disappointment.

“You used to know what you were doing, how did you become like this?”

He wrapped his arms around Cynthia for comfort, but when had Cynthia ever been treated so badly by her?

Her chest was shivering and she was screaming and about to lunge.

“Enough!”

Daniel’s tone was one of rare severity, “Apologize to your aunt, she is your elder after all, is that like you?”

Victoria turned her head to the agent, “I’m sorry. Show me around the rest of the place again.”

“Victoria!”

Daniel’s lips were a little white from the first time he’d ever been so angry; since when had this daughter stopped listening to him?

“Dad, my mom is dead.”

Victoria stopped and looked at her father without hiding.

“Who is Cynthia to make a move on me over and over again? You’re worried about Linda being in danger out there by herself, why don’t you worry about what I’ve encountered out here over the years? You raised someone else’s son around, but instead you let your own daughter go and marry a stranger, am I the one who’s overreaching or is Cynthia the one who’s overreaching?”

“And who is she to lecture me instead of my mom, she deserves it?”