Chapter 528 Trash Her Reputation
Chapter 528 Trash Her Reputation
However, to Ally’s surprise, she heard loud discussions in the living room as soon as she entered the
house.
“Dad, you see how late it is? I think she won’t come back tonight.”
“Yeah, Zack. With all due respect, you’re too tolerant towards Ally. You may think your tolerance is for
her sake. But it's not good for her in the long run. If she keeps acting like this, how can she ever find a
man to marry her?”
“Exactly! She doesn’t have any self-respect. She’ll bring shame to our whole family. I feel so
humiliated!”
“Alas! Shall I send someone to look for her?”
Standing in the doorway and listening to the grossest insults, Ally was so irked that her lips began to
tremble.
She thought indignantly, “How have I been acting like? Why would it affect my prospect of getting
married?
“Did I do anything terrible? Why would I disgrace the whole family?”
Ally’s face paled with rage. Then, Sandra, the old maid, walked out of the kitchen and spotted Ally first.
She exclaimed, “Miss Ally!”
The discussion in the living room instantly halted.
With her lips pursed, Ally headed into the living room and keenly eyed Lindsey, Angie, Hardy, Mary, and
Zack, who was on the sofa.
They were stunned when they saw her come in. Yet, a moment later, they all sneered.
“Gee! Ally, you’re back! I thought you wouldn’t come home tonight!”
Lindsey was still the first one to speak. Her tone carried a heavy note of mockery.
Ally clenched her fists. Seeing that hideous face, she wished she could rush over and tear it up. But her
rationality made her hold back that urge. With a cold laugh, she said, “Whether I come back or not is
none of your business, is it?”
What she was implying was, “This is my home. I can come and go as I please. Butt out!”
Lindsey snorted and said, “Of course it’s none of my business. I was just standing in Zack’s shoes.”
Ally glanced at Zack.
Zack seemed a little cross. But unlike the others, the look in his eyes said he was not gratified by Ally’s
suffering.
Ally sighed inwardly. She walked over, handed her purse to Sandra, and sat down on the sofa. Acting
like she owned this place, she remarked, “Turns out that Mary is invisible in this family. Or my dad
wouldn’t have needed an outsider to stand in his shoes.”
As soon as those words came out, Lindsey and Mary both appeared miffed.
Lindsey’s husband died a long time ago. She painstakingly raised Hardy all by herself over the years.
Yet, she had no real ability to make money. Thus, other than spending her original assets, she did
some sordid deals to make a living, which was sort of degrading.
Usually, no one would mention this in her presence, because it would offend her to expose her
sorrowful past.
But Ally didn’t mind it now. Lindsey had tried to provoke her many times. Why should she spare her
feelings anyway?
Zack snarled, “Ally, how dare you talk to Lindsey like that? She is an elder in the family!”
“I don’t have such an elder in my family who talks behind other people’s backs!”
“How dare you!”
“Enough!” Hardy suddenly drew to his full height. He glared at Ally with a livid face and a pair of cold
eyes.
“Ally, you think we talked behind your back? But isn’t what we said true? Now you’ve done such a
disgraceful thing, why do you fear others would talk about it?”
“Heh!”
Feeling outraged, Ally laughed instead. She made to retort. Just then, Angie cast her eyes over her
neck, which lit up at once. She approached Ally in one stride and ripped Ally’s collar open.
Instantly, the hickey on her neck was fully exposed.
“What are you doing?”
Annoyed and affronted, Ally shook Angie’s hand off. But it was too late. Everyone had seen the hickey
on her neck.
Lindsey, Angie, and Hardy showed despise in their eyes. Even Mary, who revealed no emotion on her
face, snorted inwardly.
Zack’s face turned completely livid!
Seeing their reaction, Ally knew they had misunderstood. Just as she wanted to explain, a large hand
whacked her face!
Ally was stupefied!
She stared at her father in a daze. Although Zack had misunderstood her in many aspects over the
years, he had never hit her before.
With difficulty, she opened her mouth and called, “Dad.”
“Don’t call me dad! I don’t have a shameless daughter like you!”
Zack was so furious that he was shaking all over. Mary quickly came over and comforted him, “Calm
down. Ally is too young and insensible. You could just give her a talking-to. Why hit her?”
But a smugly smile fleeted through her eyes.
Ally saw all of it. Her heart prickled intensely. She wished to tell Zack things were not like what they had
imagined, and she didn’t do anything like that.
However, the words were stuck in her throat, and couldn’t get out.
It was because she knew no one would believe her even if she told them the truth!
Ally’s eyes turned red around the rims. Tears welled up in her eyes but didn’t drop.
She sniffed hard and said seriously, “I heard what you said just now. Dad, do you also think that I'm a
mistress now?”
Zack snorted in rage, not wanting to say a word to her.
A trace of despair flashed through Ally’s eyes. She fetched out the marriage certificate from her purse
and threw it to Zack. “Check this out!”
With that said, she stalked out of the house.
Ally walked very fast. A while later, she broke at a run. The wind at night blow her tears away and hurt
her skin.
But she didn’t stop. She kept running with all her might, as though this could help her vent her
grievances out.
She didn’t stop until she reached the sea. She put her hands on her knees, panting. Her face was
flushed due to the long run. The tip of her nose had reddened because of the cold.
Suddenly, she opened her mouth and shouted at the sea.
“Aaaaaah!”
“Aaaaaah!”
“Aaaaaah!”
…
She did that over and over again. At night in autumn, the beach was basically deserted. Thus, even if a
few passers-by spotted her and eyed her suspiciously, Ally could simply ignore them.
She needed to vent her feelings, or she would go crazy!
She cried in her head, “Why?”
“Why do they just have to treat me like that?”
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“They knew that couldn’t be the truth, but why did they trash me anyway?”
Ally felt wronged. Tears finally streamed down her cheeks despite her will. She buried her face in her
hands and collapsed onto the soft beach, crying hard and quivering all over.
She thought of what happened two years ago. Just like today, they pointed fingers at her and insulted
her to her face.
They called her a shameless b*tch!
She let it go then, because she couldn’t explain anything.
She then caught Hardy and Angie in bed, but Angie locked arms with Hardy to annoy her. She let it go
as well!
Because a love rat like Hardy didn’t deserve her tears!
However, the one who hurt her most was her father.
She was Zack’s daughter! Why couldn’t Zack believe her just once?
Zack misunderstood her at the wedding two years ago. Now, he was doing it again!