Chapter 1181
“Ahem…”
Grandma May cleared her throat. When Duncan looked at her, she reminded him, “Duncan, Sonny wasn’t scared by the robbers but by you. Look at how he’s struggling to get off you to the ground.”
“Dunc, let go of me,” Sonny asked again.
The little guy’s small face was tense. It was obvious that he was mad.
Dunc was too strong, hence Sonny could not break free from his embrace.
Duncan immediately put Sonny down and squatted as well. He grabbed Sonny’s shoulders instead and said gently, “Sonny, as long as you’re okay, as long as you’re okay.”
Sonny looked at Duncan with his big twinkling eyes.
Dunc treated him quite well.
Sonny could sense Dunc’s sincerity toward him.
Dunc was not teasing him and really liked him.
Sonny lifted his small hand and placed it on the scar on Duncan’s face. He lightly touched it and then retracted his hand as if he was afraid. Seeing as Duncan was not in pain, Sonny reached out his little hand again to touch the scar.
“Dunc, does it hurt?”
“Not anymore.”
It was extremely painful when Duncan was injured back then, and his handsome face was stained by blood. His mom was so frightened that her legs went weak, thinking that he would die from severe injury.
Duncan’s sick grandmother almost died learning about his injury. Although she later knew that he was only marred by a scar, she was so terrified that her condition became worse. She died not long after.
When that happened, Duncan finally regretted it and turned over a new leaf. He quit the so- called underworld and started afresh.
He kept the scar as it was both a testimony to his prime in youth and a reminder that his rebellion led to his grandmother’s premature death from illness.
The doctor had said that his grandmother could have lived for three to five more years with good conditioning and care…
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