It’s already morning when Jamie arrives at home.
Her father, Jack Moore, who is in charge of the whole family, sits uptight on the sofa, with poker face.
Jack stares at Jamie, and says disgustedly when he realizes Jamie was out all night, ”no wonder you are acting under-bred. After all, you're raised by that filthy woman.”
Jack’s words hurt Jamie, like a knife stabbing into her heart. Her all–night abscence is just an action without manners in her father’s eyes. And her mother, who has dedicated her whole life to him, is just a filthy woman in his eyes.
Such a father doesn't deserve her love and respect.
However, now she stays at the Moore’s house in servility. Not for herself, but for her mother who is lying in the hospital. So Jamie has to lower her head, secretly clenching her hands, and says timidly, “Sorry father, it won't happen again.”
“Now that you're part of our Moores, you have to drop your bad habits, and learn the rules of upper class. If you make one more mistake, you will be punished.”
Jamie trembles a bit instinctively when she hears the words.
Family rules of the Moore, is to be whipped for 100 times, by the one who is in charge of the family.
These whippings are still fresh in Jamie’s memory.
When she first came to the Moore family, she kept her mother’s advice in mind all the time. Thus, everything is done with great care.
However, she still fell into a trap.
She just accidentally touched Jacqueline’s watch, which was placed on the desk. But she got framed of stealing it. So Jack whipped her 100 times regardless of the truth. He beat her so hard that her back looked like a bloody pulp. She had been lying on bed for three months to get better.
“Sorry father, it won't happen again.” Jamie repeats. Jack is impatient, but still tries to restrain, “Now your sister has engaged with William, you need to discipline yourself. Don't disgrace your sister and the family.”
Jamie can't help to think of the night with Dan when she heard the wordWilliams, which made her blush.
However, Jack gets angrier when he sees this. He can't believe that this coward and timid person is his son, whose head is lowering and clothes is clenched by hands.
He would have driven him out if Jamie wasn’t the only son for succession.
Finally, Jack let Jamie go back her room. Out of sight, out of mind.
Jamie goes back to her room, and locks the door carefully. Then she grabs some clean clothes and walks into the bathroom.
All her clothes are loose and saggy, in case someone will notice that she wears corset bar. Besides, her body is too slender to support those oversized clothes, which makes her have no masculinity at all.
No wonder Jacqueline always calls her a sissy.
Layers by layers, Jamie takes off the bra’s strip, which exposes her great body shape.
At the same time, Dan has returned to the enterprise, the assistant already has the camera’s record for him. Dan asks, “What have you found?”
“President Dan, the lobby’s camera was sabotaged purposely last night, so it didn’t shoot who put drug in your wine in the engagement party.” The assistant sweats while he speaks, “but the camera shows that on the way to your room, it was a man who carried you into the room.”
Dan responses, “Do you know who he is?”
The assistant passes a printed picture to him, and Dan takes a glance.
Dan never meets the man on the picture before. When he looks into it, he finds that the man on the picture is more like an immature boy.
Judging from the picture, that boy has a pretty face, a head shorter than him. And Dan can tell that the boy’s body is weak. Because he just slightly leaned on him, but the boy looked like he was almost crushed.
Dan is sure that he never meets this person before.
The assistant continues his report, “the camera was broken from here, so we can’t find out when the man leaved the room.”
“Go find out.” Dan squeezes the photo, his tone sounds stately.
This boy must have something to do with him being drugged, Dan thinks.
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