Trash Husband, I'm the Top novel Chapter 48

“It’s all Aurora’s fault,” Jordan blurted out, cutting in. “She shouldn’t have laid a hand on Dan—he got hurt because of her.”

The office fell silent for a moment.

Mrs. Chambers turned to the doctor. “Didn’t you just say Dan fell on his own?”

The doctor looked genuinely aggrieved. “That’s what Mr. Chambers told me.”

Mrs. Chambers’s gaze turned icy as she fixed her eyes on Aurora. “You hit Dan?”

Aurora’s throat was dry; she couldn’t get a word out.

Daniel had told the doctor he’d slipped, hoping to protect her, but Jordan, eager to clear himself, just exposed the lie.

“Speak,” Mrs. Chambers demanded, her voice rising, her expression hardening.

Jordan let out a long, theatrical sigh. “Listen, Mrs. Chambers—”

But Mrs. Chambers shot him a sharp glare. “The sort of daughter the Quinn family raised. Can’t even take care of my son, and now you dare to lay a hand on him?”

Seeing his goal was met, Jordan fell silent.

“Out. All of you.” Mrs. Chambers waved the doctor and Jordan away.

She settled onto the sofa, regal and perfectly put together, her eyes sweeping over Aurora with harsh contempt.

“Aurora, I was against this marriage from the start. You brought no family standing, no education, nothing. Now you’ve only been by Dan’s side three years and you already think you’re someone important, bold enough to hit him? Who gave you the nerve?”

“And your sister, too. First she runs away from her own wedding, now she has the audacity to show her face here and chase after Dan.”

“If you two sisters want to play at some ancient myth, sharing a husband, that disgrace belongs to the Quinns, not to the Chambers family.”

“Utterly shameless.”

Aurora clenched her fists, listening as Mrs. Chambers tore her down from head to toe, not sparing a single kind word.

She couldn’t even defend herself—she could only endure in silence.

It wasn’t until Daniel appeared that Mrs. Chambers finally stopped.

From across the room, Daniel reached out a hand to Aurora. “Come here.”

Head bowed, Aurora walked to his side.

Jordan, however, seemed rather pleased with himself, even smiling. “Dan actually cares about Aurora.”

Fiona looked at him, baffled.

Jordan lowered his voice and recounted how he and Grandma Grace had come to see Aurora earlier, and then explained what had happened in the doctor’s office—how Daniel had lied about his injury to protect Aurora.

“Believe me, I did it on purpose. I wanted to see where Dan’s loyalties really were.”

“If Dan cares for Aurora, things will be much easier for our family.”

For three years, he’d always worried Daniel might become dissatisfied with Aurora, that he’d end things with her and cut all ties. He never dared get too close, let alone publicly claim the title of ‘father-in-law.’

But then Eleanor came back, and Daniel still treated her just as he always had. That’s when Jordan began to hope.

Now, with Daniel clearly invested in Aurora…

Honestly, whichever daughter ended up with Daniel, it could only mean good things for him.

Fiona, however, looked fretful. “Aurora’s never really been close to us.”

“With her grandmother living at home, though, she’ll have to behave herself.”