Petrified to the point of being unable to defend herself, Ivy peered at Ethan with pitiful eyes filles with grievance, everything about her expression was an obvious demand for intervention from Ethan. She could fight Emily and scheme against Hazel, but this mother-in-law of hers...Wrong, future mother in law, that's if this woman finally decides to acknowledge her as a daughter in law.
However, this was what hurt her the most, it was impossible for this woman who had always looked down on her to accept her, it was even an absolute impossibility for her to agree to her union with Ethan.
Perharps in the past when there was no Hazel, she could just drag on and make Mrs. Jackson realise that no one apart from her could change Ethan's marital status in being his legal spouse. However, every
