There He Is Again My Ex Husband by Emily Jenkins

What was more, when Shania was speaking, David remained silent. In despair, Mrs. Brennan knew whom David supported.
Distinctly, he did not stand by his parents' side.
Mrs. Brennan had a son! She had once believed that David was the best son in the world and he would definitely back her
whatever happened between her and her daughter-in-law.
Mrs. Brennan had also been confident that she would have had overpowered her daughter-in-law and made the girl obedient. In
her fantasy, she would have kicked the girl's ass, if she was not submissive.
However, she found it just the opposite—Shania overpowered her.
Mrs. Brennan could no longer make a scene as usual, but she was not going to be tolerant of it. She grinned with dissatisfaction
and argued with Shania, "Your parents run many companies abroad, but it seems they don't teach you good things. Will a well-
educated lady come to her parents-in-law's house to coerce and threaten them?"
Shania gave her a bright grin. "I wonder whether you know that businessmen do whatever to make profits. My parents' big
business is built on their ‘shrewdness'."
Shania freely introduced her parents with self-deprecating humor—being scolded as an ill-bred girl did not irritate her in the least.
Mrs. Brennan, instead, could not utter a word. To her surprise, Shania did not become furious, while Mrs. Brennan herself was
angry and went very red in the face
Shania went on, "And, since you know about my parents, I shall inform you. When David and I give birth to our babies, you don't
have to worry about who takes care of them. My parents will come to help, and you can just enjoy your later years at home."
Mrs. Brennan had dreamed of going to a big city and helping David look after his son all the time. However, what Shania said
excluded her from their life, and thus, her dream fell.
Moreover, Shania's decision showed an undisguised dislike for her.
At this point, David took Shania in his arms and said, "We have lots of things to do. And we don't eat here."
Then, David decided to leave with Shania—he did not want to see his parents and stay in the house any more.
Shania, too, wanted to leave. They did not plan to stay here for long.

Mrs. Brennan shouted at David in great anger, "David!"
David stopped and turned, staring at her in anger, "I don't want to know you defame my sister again."
Mrs. Brennan never saw her son look at her in this way—fiendishly and determinedly, with deep disgust. She froze.
David left with Shania after saying that, without looking back.
He had deemed himself as a filial son who did not stop his parents from asking Maisie for lots of money in time. What he used to
attempt to do was giving back those money to Maisie.
However, he gradually realized that he was completely wrong. If he expressed his strong objection to his parents' preference for
him as a son from every beginning, they might not have belittled Maisie as a girl.
His mother, Mrs. Brennan, kept saying all the time that she worked hard to bring up Maisie and him. But the truth was she did
not, either did his father. They never paid for the two children's education, because the two siblings had been needy students
since little, and studied on grants.
When they went to high schools and studied abroad, both were funded by the Hughes' charity foundation, due to their excellent
academic performance. Mr. and Mrs. Brennan never worried about their children's tuition.
David and Shania walked towards their car parked beside the gate of the house. David opened the trunk and took out piles of
gifts which Shania recommended to buy for his parents.
Shania said, whatever his mother thought and did, these gifts were to show respect for his parents in front of the neighbors.
That was true. The piles of presents made up for their early departure.
Not far away was a flock of bystanders. David fought back the disgust and said goodbye to his parents after all the presents
were fetched out. Then, he just drove away with Shania.
Mrs. Brennan managed to force a smile with teeth gritted in front of the neighbors.
When the car receded into the distance, the bystanders gathered around Mrs. Brennan and asked why David and Shania left so
fast. She could do nothing but make an excuse. "Shania, my daughter-in-law, is pregnant. She just threw up inside the house
and felt bad. So, they are in a hurry to go to the hospital, since the medical condition is satisfying in the big city."

The excuse made sense. People around sent their congratulations to Mrs. Brennan for the good news. As for how much sincerity
there was in their good words, it remained unknown.
Owing to her stone-hearted son and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Brennan was not in a mood to entertain her neighbors and went back
home after small talk.
After she was back, Mrs. Brennan threw herself on the couch and signed and complained, "The old saying is true: once your son
has a wife, he will forget and abandon his mother."
People like Mrs. Brennan would never find her own faults but always think it was others to blame. Thus, she would only complain
about others but never introspect her own manners.
Although David gave her a shattering blow, she still did not know why she ended up like this—and she could not do anything
about both David and Shania.
She was quite sure that Shania, though looking delicate and pretty, was no pushover along with her super rich parents.
If it had been the days before, Mrs. Brennan could vent her anger on Maisie or go to Riverside on the pretext of visiting Maisie
and getting David and Shania into trouble. But she had disowned Maisie now. She probably could not call Maisie on the phone,
not to mention Ezra, the demonic man, who was around Maisie.
Mrs. Brennan could only sigh on the sofa at the thought.
After David and Shania left, Shania let out a long sigh and leaned back in her seat. David glanced at her uneasily and asked,
"Are you angry?"
Shania replied, "I don't mind it. I just feel really bad for Maisie. And for you, too. If I have a son and a daughter, I will treat them
fairly. If my son has one toy, so does my daughter. There will be no favoritism."
Shania had lived abroad since childhood and her parents only had one child. That was her. So she simply did not experience any
patriarchal discrimination. In fact, she had experienced it. Many people around advised her parents to have another child,
preferably a son. Something like that.
But Shania's parents never wavered over the decision of having one child nor belittled her because of her gender. Now she ran
several of her parents' companies and all the companies would be handed over to her—it was the best recognition for her.