A Graduation Gift novel Chapter 417

"Yeah, this is the only way. But Lionel...be careful. Don't get involved with her again. I would never agree to something like that again!"

Jill warned Lionel strictly. Alas, the mother couldn't see the sadness in her son's eyes.

He couldn't tell her he wanted to get back together with Cassandra. In fact, he deeply regretted his decision of divorcing her before. However, it was sad that she just didn't want him anymore.

"Don't worry, Mom. I understand what you are thinking,"

Lionel said with a forced, bitter smile on his face.

He turned his head around to look inside the hospital room. Horace lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling.

Rufus's hatred towards his own father had completely destroyed him, despite how powerful he had been in the industry all his life. Now, every day was nothing but a nightmare for him.

Horace's mind started to fly back to the times when he was young. He was so ambitious and capable at the time. It was in those days that he had met a young woman from Ling family at a party, and had immediately fallen in love with her.

Lucky for him, she had fallen in love with him too. Soon, they started dating. But something always bugged Horace. It was the inheritance right of the family business.

The Ling family had already started to lose its power and status. They couldn't have helped him get the inheritance right. That was where Jill came into picture.

At that time, the Xie family was very powerful and influential. Jill was their favourite daughter. Tactically, it only made sense for Horace to be with her in order to get the support of her family.

Horace couldn't resist the temptation. He started to avoid seeing the Ling family's daughter and chose to get engaged to Jill instead.

What he didn't know was she was already pregnant with a boy. The boy in her womb was no one else but Rufus. She wanted to meet Horace and talk about him, but he simply refused to see her.

The Ling's daughter didn't want to kill the baby and go back to her family for support. She was left with no choice but to abandon her family and move out of the house. She not only bore Rufus for nine months in her belly but also raised him all alone.

All of this was due to Horace's ignorance. His faults made Rufus suffer for a very long time, eventually resting in his heart like a deep wound that could never cure.

Horace thought back his whole life. He'd been respected, envied and praised by so many people. And now...at this stage of his life, when he needed support the most, his own son had nothing to give him but hatred.