At the wedding, he held me with one hand and Margaret with the other, and said with a smile that he was the happiest person in the world.
They held hands with their fingers interlocked, and the distance between them was even closer than that of us. I was so embarrassed but could only smile bitterly.
Margaret also had the key to our new house and always entered without knocking on the door.
I wore casually at home and liked to go to the toilet in the morning without closing the door of my bathroom.
While I was playing with my phone in the bathroom, she quietly appeared in front of me and commented satirically, "Why don't you close the door when you go to the toilet? It seems that the rich don't have good parenting.
I was so startled that I screamed and pulled my nightgown down hard, even trying to cover my toes.
"I'm in the bathroom. Please stop staring at me!" I said.
She scanned my body a few times, then raised her chin proudly. "Why are you yelling? I have what you have, too, and mine are even bigger than yours."
I didn't dare retort her and wanted Matthew to take her key back.
But he refused me irritably, "She worked hard all her life to raise me, and you want to keep her out of our house? If you really can't stand it, just close the door when you go to the toilet."
I opened my mouth but didn't know what to say.
Was this my home or hers?
Hearing that, Brandon couldn't stand it anymore and rolled up his sleeves to break the door.
I stopped him and said, "Calm down. Matthew and I bought all the things in the house together. Don't break them."
He stamped his feet in anger. "Can you leave alone these trivial matters when someone is bullying you?"
The door was suddenly kicked open.
Matthew strode in and shouted at me, "How dare you cheat on me?"
I had never seen such a fierce side of him, being too stunned to dodge his slap.
But Brandon grabbed his arm and shouted back, "How dare you try to hit my sister?"
Freezing for a moment, Matthew's fist turned into a pat on Brandon's shoulder. "You're Sherry's brother, right? Why didn't you tell me to pick you up from the airport when you came back?"
Brandon shook his hand off and pulled me to his side. "If I had told you that I came back, I would have missed the show today! I'll tell my father what you and your mother did to my sister!"