When a woman's eyes looked like those of a horror-stricken elk, a man's inner beast is most likely to be awakened.
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Molly's words of objection, which slightly contained fury, passed through the phone to Brian's ear. Hearing this, he squinted slowly and looked ahead with sharp light emanating from his falcon-like eyes. As the hair on his temples quivered, he sneered and said, "I can do anything to him without hesitation just because he's not my son, right?"
"Brian Long!" Molly roared with fury, "What on earth are you doing?"
"Don't you have an idea what I'm doing?"
Molly forcibly exerted force onto the cellphone she was holding in her hand that Brian even heard a grappling sound on the other side of the phone. Gritting her teeth, she said, "Don't you feel ashamed to trouble a kid?"
"Ashamed?" Brian sneered slightly, while his face was filled with mockery, a kind of self-mockery.
He couldn't help but mock himself after thinking all the things he had done for Molly which he was not supposed to do or had even imagined himself to do
Ashamed?
Ridiculous!
Yet deep inside, he did not mind doing one more thing that he would be ashamed of.
With coldness in his eyes, Brian said slowly, "I care about the result, but of course, the process needs to be effective!"
"You're a heartless beast!" Gritting her teeth, the words squeezed out from the gap between Molly's teeth. At the moment, her heart was quivering uncontrollably. She seldom slept at night. The few times she was so tired to snooze off, she would wake up from the same nightmare, in which Brian found out that Mark was his son. She did not know how to get along with Brian right now, but she knew that she should by all means prevent him from knowing that fact. Otherwise, it would be certain that Brian would take Mark away from her.
It seemed that Brian turned a deaf ear to what Molly has said. After a while, Brian said in a low voice, "Now, you still have a half day for you to consider!"
Before he was able to say anything more, a beep sound came through the phone, indicating that the line was hung up. Brian pulled in his thin lips in an almost invisible way, while the light from his eyes turned deep and cold.
He thought, 'After several years, this hedgehog's temper has turned worse!
Mol, have you turned fearless now because you're certain that I won't maltreat Mark Su or is it because you have really forgotten my measures?'
All the while, Mark had been sitting at the dining table with one of his hands holding a fork tightly while looking at Brian, who was giving off an undeniably cold atmosphere from head to toes.
He did not know whom Brian was talking to, but he heard him mentioned the word "custody". 'Isn't this uncle together with his child?'
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