After all, as the saying goes, a brother-in-law is entitled to half of whatever his sister-in-law has.

“Mom, Dad, it was Ivy who got scared when she went into the bathroom,” Dr. Sullivan spoke up.

The mother-in-law froze for a moment, broom raised in her hand but not knowing where to put it.

The father-in-law also paused, then awkwardly took a few steps back.

Interrupted by all this, Eric Carter suddenly realized that at some point, the bulging veins on his arms had faded, and the intense pain had disappeared as well.

At that moment, he just felt so tired, so sleepy, and just wanted to go to bed.

He stood up, ready to leave the bathroom. As for his in-laws, Eric Carter really couldn’t be bothered to care. He had no interest in cleaning up the mess left by that coward Ryan Cooper.

But as soon as Eric Carter stood up, the sister-in-law shuddered several times in fright and squeezed herself into her older sister’s arms.

“Ah! Don’t come over here! Don’t come over here!”

Eric Carter frowned slightly. What did she just see?

“What on earth is going on!” The mother-in-law put her hands on her hips and questioned her younger daughter. This didn’t seem like she was just scared. “Ivy, my precious, tell Mom, what really happened? Did he do anything to you?”

The sister-in-law was honest, and she knew she couldn’t lie about something like this, or it would be a big deal.

“No, I just came to use the bathroom, opened the door and saw him sitting inside. It was so scary!”

After mustering her courage to say this, the sister-in-law buried her head back into her older sister’s arms.

Alright,

It was all just a misunderstanding in the end.

“You silly thing, going to the bathroom at night and not turning on the light?

Do you think this is your own house, being so stingy,

Can’t even bear to spend a little on electricity!

If you scare my daughter and something happens, how are you going to make up for it…”

The mother-in-law started scolding Eric Carter, her finger almost poking him in the face.

At this point, Eric Carter was exhausted. When people are extremely sleep-deprived, their tempers tend to flare up. Plus, Eric Carter had long lost patience with the mess Ryan Cooper had left him.

If they weren’t sleeping in separate beds,

Eric Carter might not have snapped.

But now that even the beds were separated,

Eric Carter couldn’t be bothered to put up with this snobbish mother-in-law anymore.

“Pa!”

Eric Carter waved his hand and directly slapped away the mother-in-law’s finger that was pointing at him.

“Don’t bother me.”

The mother-in-law’s eyes widened, clearly unable to believe that her usually timid son-in-law would dare talk to her like that.

“How can you talk to your mother like that? Don’t you have any manners!” The father-in-law scolded at this point.

“If you want your daughter to end up divorced, then keep lecturing me about manners!”

Eric Carter shot back directly, then bumped his father-in-law aside with his shoulder and walked back to the bedroom.

“Bang!” He slammed the door shut with great force.

“Outrageous, outrageous!” The father-in-law was so angry his chest was heaving.

The mother-in-law hurried to her husband’s side to soothe his chest.

But in the end, neither of them dared to keep making a scene.

After all,

What Eric Carter had just said was a real shock to them.

Although they didn’t know what had gotten into their usually cowardly son-in-law today, he was right: if their eldest daughter got divorced, she’d be a second-marriage woman next time, which would be bad for her reputation and the family’s reputation as well.

Besides, in their eyes, a woman who’s been married twice isn’t worth much and can’t find a good family.

In fact, a person’s character and whether their thinking is old-fashioned really doesn’t have much to do with their education or family background. It all comes down to their own personal qualities.

For example, at this moment, Ryan Cooper’s in-laws, no matter how angry they were, didn’t dare provoke their troublemaking son-in-law any further, for fear he’d really jump up and shout for a divorce.

Eric Carter lay on the bed, took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and tried to sleep. He was truly exhausted.

About fifteen minutes later,

Eric Carter heard a knock on the bedroom door:

“Ivy is scared, I’ll sleep with her tonight.”

It was Autumn Sullivan’s voice, and then she left.

As if you’re really going to sleep with me;

……

The next day at noon,

The father-in-law and mother-in-law were having lunch.

“He went to the bookstore?” the father-in-law asked the mother-in-law.

“He hasn’t gotten up yet,” the mother-in-law said resentfully.

“Unbelievable,” the father-in-law commented.

“Exactly…”

At that moment, the mother-in-law suddenly stopped talking, because she saw Eric Carter coming down the stairs. Eric Carter’s eyes were red, and he had heavy bags under his eyes.

The atmosphere was a bit tense.

Maybe because of what happened last night, Eric Carter’s status as a live-in son-in-law in this family had risen a bit. At least, at this moment, the in-laws didn’t say anything to provoke him.

Of course, it was also because Eric Carter now looked like he might go on a rampage at any moment.

His gaze swept across the dining table.

Eric Carter reached out and covered his chest.

The smell of food,

The smell of meat,

So disgusting,

He felt like throwing up again.

Eric Carter walked out the door, breathing in the cool, fresh air outside, and felt a bit better.