Before Noah could finish speaking, he heard a weird noise coming from the other side of the phone, and his call was cut off.
He tried calling Vicky again, only to be greeted by the sound of the automated voice message telling him that her phone had been turned off.
Noah was gobsmacked. "Oh, sh*t! I never thought Tyler would move so fast. He's crazy, absolutely crazy!"
He anxiously paced around the same spot over and over again with the phone in his hand.
Noah had ways of getting the latest news about Tyler, so had been keeping a close watch on him all this while. He heard that after Tyler was taken away, he was first locked up in a dark room for a week as punishment.
However, Tyler remained stubbornly obsessed after he was released from the room. Later, he was diagnosed as being mentally ill, so they administered electric shocks to his brain.
When Noah found out about this from his father James Canyer, he found the whole thing unbelievable instead of feeling happy.
"While it's true that Tyler isn't right in the head, he's still the eldest son of the direct descending line of the Hart family after all. Aren't they afraid that the electric shocks will fry his brain, or worse, kill him?"
James was known to have a fiery temple. He had been a soldier when he was young, and he firmly believed in the saying 'spare the rod, spoil the child'.
He would not hesitate to discipline Noah if he was unruly. His anger made it hard for him to go easy on Noah, but deep down, he always saw him as his son. As a father himself, he understood where the Hart family was coming from, but he would never use an extreme method like electric shock therapy to discipline his children.
James shook his head out of pity. "Senior Hart was the one who ordered him to be locked up in the dark room, thinking Tyler would give in by doing that. However, after Tyler was released, instead of showing any sign of repentance, he became even more extreme. In the end, the elderly Senior Hart became so angry, he nearly had a heart attack and had to be hospitalized.
"Tyler's parents had always preferred their adopted son over him, and now that Senior Hart is in the hospital because of him… Well, I'm not surprised they'd want to make him suffer as much as possible. He might be their biological son, but he hasn't been back home for so long that their relationship with each other is practically non-existent.
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Awesome story but too long winded...