Chapter 568 - 567

568 Chapter 567

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Keira immediately reached out her hand.

That photograph didn’t look very large. It must be a very old item, and it was a black-and-white one.

But before her hand could touch the photo, a hand suddenly reached over and snatched the photo away.

Keira turned her head sharply and saw Vera holding the photo in her hand. She glanced at it and sneered. “She’s not allowed to see it!”

Scott’s face darkened even more. “Vera, don’t go too far!!”

Erin also got angry and rested her hands on her hips. “Vera, this is the photo my brother gave me. I’m going to show it to Keera. What does it have to do with you? Give the photo back to me!!”

Vera glanced at the photo and then looked at Keira. “I said no, and that means no!”

“You…!”

Just as Scott was about to rush over to snatch it from Vera’s hands, old Mr. Martin strode over. “What’s going on?!”

His appearance immediately quieted everyone.

Vera immediately said, “Sir, your precious grandson here wants to break our engagement and is getting all cozy with Keira here. Are you just going to let it happen?”

Old Mr. Martin frowned upon hearing this, turning to look at Scott and Keira.

Scott immediately explained, “Grandpa, there’s nothing going on between Miss Olsen and me. We were just talking, and Vera didn’t even allow it. She’s being way too domineering!”

He expected his grandfather would support him, but he was taken aback when old Mr. Martin merely frowned and grumbled, “You’re about to be engaged. How can you still be involved with her? That’s not proper at all!”

Scott’s face stiffened.

Vera laughed. “Sir, since Scott and I are getting engaged, shouldn’t you also take a stance regarding the Olsen family?”

Old Mr. Martin’s brows knitted together.

Ellis immediately stepped forward. “Sir, that’s not necessary, is it? Our two families have no feud. Why raise the issue of the younger generation to the level of a family conflict?”

Old Mr. Martin sighed softly after hearing this.

Vera sneered. “Grandpa, are you unable to make a choice? Or do you want to have a foot in each camp? If that’s the case, then I might have to report this back to my family…”

At her words, old Mr. Martin’s face slightly changed.

After a long moment, he sighed heavily and addressed the members of the Olsen family. “The Martin family won’t welcome you from now on. The engagement ceremony hasn’t started yet, so you should leave!”

All those present were stunned.

Erin was particularly puzzled as she exclaimed, “Grandfather, have you gone mad? For the sake of one woman, you want to make an enemy of the entire Olsen family? I’m going to marry Charles!”

Old Mr. Martin simply gave her a look. “The Martin and Olsen families will never be united in marriage, so get that out of your head!”

Erin panicked. “Grandfather! That’s too much! You might control my brother, but you can’t control me! I’m telling you, I’m going to marry Charles. I won’t marry anyone else but him!”

Old Mr. Martin’s eyes widened as he rebuked, “Then leave the Martin family and never be a part of it again!”

Erin apparently didn’t expect her grandfather to utter these words, and she looked at him with heartbroken despair. “Grandfather?”

Old Mr. Martin sighed. “You have no part to play in the event today. Go upstairs and stop making a scene here. Keep your distance from that Olsen boy from now on!”

Erin’s eyes turned red. “I won’t!”

Pointing at Vera, she shouted angrily, “What drug did this woman give you to make you so partial to her? Grandfather, I think you’ve gone senile!”

“Slap!”

Suddenly, a hand flashed before her, and Vera smacked Erin’s face, then shouted sternly, “How dare you speak like that? I’m teaching you a lesson on behalf of Grandpa!”

Erin was stunned by the slap, and when she regained her senses, she lunged forward. “You dare hit me?”

It looked as if she was about to hit back, but in the next moment, old Mr. Martin grabbed her wrist. “Enough! I said the Martin family would choose between Keira and Vera. It was Keira who gave up your brother! How long will you keep creating trouble here?!”

Erin looked at old Mr. Martin in disbelief, covering her face. “She hit me! Grandpa, she hit me, and you’re not going to do anything about it? You have never laid a hand on me in all my life!”

Old Mr. Martin sighed. “Can’t you tell whose fault it is? After Vera and your brother get engaged, she’ll be your sister-in-law, and the Martin family will be handed over to her to manage!”

Erin clenched her fists.

Charles rushed to her side. “Erin!”

Old Mr. Martin bellowed. “Break up with that brat immediately!”

Erin’s eyes were red, and tears streamed down her face as she whimpered, “I won’t!”

“If you don’t break up, then never come back to the Martin family!”

Old Mr. Martin roared.

Instantly, Erin shouted. “I won’t come back then! Do you think I want to come back to such a home?”

After she said that, she threw herself into Charles’s arms, crying pitifully.

Old Mr. Martin looked at her, let out a deep sigh, and no longer paid her any attention but turned to Keira. “Miss Olsen, I’ve made myself clear. I ask you to take your brothers and leave immediately. From now on, you won’t come through the doors of the Martin family again.”

After old Mr. Martin said this, he waved his hand, and the security guards outside immediately rushed in, surrounding the Olsen family members.

Vera sneered. “Keera, you better hurry up and take these people away! I know the Olsen family can fight, but even if you win, what’s the point? Today’s engagement party will go on no matter what!”

She was arrogant and haughty.

Keira looked at her and knew that she was going to lose.

She lowered her gaze, slowly saying, “Fine, we’ll leave.”

As soon as she said that, everyone lowered their guard.

The Olsen family members immediately turned to leave.

Keira walked up to Erin, patting her shoulder as if to comfort her.

Vera sneered. “Keera, what do you have to compete with me?”

She turned and took Scott’s arm as if declaring her territory.

But the next moment, everything blurred.

Keira appeared before her, reaching out and grabbing the photo in Vera’s hand!

Keira knew that what she was doing was a bit too much.

But her intuition told her that this photo was extremely important.

She felt like as long as she had this photo, she might find a clue to solve the puzzle! She could get out of the current predicament!

Her movements were lightning-fast, and she soon had the photo in her grasp.