Kern rushed to the Shaw’s mansion.
“You were behind it, weren’t you?”
He shouted to Master Shaw who was enjoying a cup of tea.
“You came here for no reason … Is that how you treat your grandfather?” Master Shaw put down the cup. His face darkened.
“You ordered Mr. Venus to do that, didn’t you? Otherwise, Mr. Venus wouldn’t dare to do that.”
“What are you talking about?”
“You were behind Grace’s car accident, weren’t you?” Kern was furious.
Master Shaw’s face turned cold when he heard Grace’s name. “Do you want to go against your grandfather for her?”
“That means …You admitted it.”
Kern clenched his fists. His body shivered in anger. “How the hell did she provoke you?”
“Every part of her is provoking me.”
“She’s just a woman. How did she offend you? She could even call you grandfather. You watched her grow up. Why do you hate her so much and set her up?”
“Did I set her up?”
“Don’t tell me you didn’t set her up in Wallis’ death. Don’t tell me you had nothing to do with it. You set her up back then. Now you even ordered Mr. Venus to create the accident. You just won’t stop messing with her, will you?
“I don’t understand how the hell she provoked you! Why don’t you stop?”
Master Shaw was enraged and smashed the cup. “How did she provoke me? Every part of her is provoking me! Are you all seduced by her? I should have ruined her face so she couldn’t seduce anyone!”
Kern couldn’t believe his ears. “How could you say that as a noble senior?
“Seduce?
“What a rude word!”
“Am I wrong?
“My two grandsons have gone against me for her. They’ve even given up the family business for her. She’s a scourge. I should’ve abandoned her when she was an infant! Then my two grandsons wouldn’t lose themselves for her sake decades later!”
“Infant?” Kern heard something suspicious. “What are you talking about?”
Master Shaw sneered.
“It doesn’t matter what I say. What matters is that both of my grandsons are intrigued by her!
How could the offspring of the Shaw family throw themselves at a woman’s feet?
They should be ambitious, wise, and decisive. They should never be limited by a woman!”
“Is that your reason? Is that why you keep messing with her?”
“Precisely. That’s why. You’ve both ignored the family business and spent all your energy on her. How could the offspring of the Shaw family act like this?”
Master Shaw looked cruel. “I tell you what, she was only lucky this time!”
He was implying this was far from the end.
Kern took a deep breath in fear.
“What else do you want?”
“What else do I want? First of all, I want you to do what you should as an offspring of the Shaw family! We don’t value romances!”
Kern was furious, but he couldn’t do anything to the old man in front of him.
Kern couldn’t protect Grace forever. If Master Shaw kept messing with her, something bad would happen to her sooner or later.
His body trembled in rage. After a long while, he released his clenched fists like a defeated rooster.
“If … I don’t get in touch with her from now on, will you stop hurting her?”
Master Shaw would have said “Of course not”. But when he saw the plea in Kern’s eyes, he raised his eyebrows.
“Sure. One of my grandsons is already hopeless.
“If you don’t care about her anymore, I won’t hurt her again. You have my word.”
Kern took a deep look at the old man and said with great determination, “You must keep your word.”
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The readers' comments on the novel: I've Been There Before (Grace and Caden)
How can a woman suffer so much? How can a man be too cruel initially robbing her of dignity and all, then deceiving her after he knows he loves her? How can they not remarry, making their offspring illegitimate? The line between love and hatred is truly fine indeed! Thank you for this story....