A family meeting was merely a way to give Jiaying an out. In reality, Luo Xia had simply announced outright that he was taking Skye away. Officially, they were going to look for their daughter together, but he believed Jiaying understood what he meant.
Luo Xia had needed less than three seconds to see through Jiaying's little scheme, having been tempered by countless melodramatic palace-intrigue dramas. This ambitious woman had always intended to make the Inhumans a ruling class above all other races.
Even the highly similar Mutants were people Jiaying wished she could trample beneath her feet.
When she discovered that her granddaughter possessed tremendous power, countless plans sprang to mind. The most vicious of them was undoubtedly killing Luo Xia.
While Luo Xia had only one child, if he died, everything he possessed would naturally be inherited by her granddaughter. In that case, the Inhumans would gain AllSpark Company's resources and naturally grow far stronger.
That thought had actually emerged when Skye was pregnant, except at the time, Jiaying had only hoped Luo Xia would never return. Unfortunately, not only had Luo Xia returned, he had become even stronger than before.
After learning the outcome of the battle in Egypt, Jiaying understood perfectly well that she could never kill someone so powerful. Thus, before this malicious plan could be put into action, it could only remain forever buried in her heart.
But Jiaying did not know that her granddaughter had understood everything before she was even born. So, not long after her birth, she had run away directly. No one could have imagined that a five-day-old baby would possess the power of spatial teleportation and vanish without anyone in the entire Inhumans noticing.
And now that Luo Xia had come knocking, both sides understood each other. With just