Walking up to Joshua, Lucas raised his leg and stomped on the former's chest. As he increased the pressure in his foot, Lucas stared at Joshua indifferently. “Joshua, how dare you put your filthy hands on my sister?”
Fresh blood began to ooze out of the corner of Joshua's lips.
The greater the pressure Lucas applied, the faster the blood gushed out.
Amidst the agonizing pain in his chest, Joshua could feel that he was losing more air than he was taking in.
“L-Let me go! Your dad and mom... They sold Naomi to me. I had nothing to do with it.”
As blood flowed relentlessly out of his mouth, Joshua struggled to finish his words and almost suffocated to death while doing so.
“Since Franklin and Livia were the ones dealing with you, why don't they sleep with you instead? As they are the ones who have taken your money, you should be looking for them!” Lucas looked down at Joshua with eyes filled with hostility. “Scum like you are not worthy to lay a finger on my sister. Even if she... remains single for the rest of her life, she will never marry you!”
Ashlyn was startled by Lucas' remarks.
His frosty demeanor had caused her to assume that he never cared for his siblings.
When Naomi was poisoned back then, Ashlyn had noticed the concern Lucas had for her, but it never occurred to her that his emotions were so intense.
Walking up to Joshua, Lucas raised his leg and stomped on the former's chest. As he increased the pressure in his foot, Lucas stared at Joshua indifferently. “Joshua, how dare you put your filthy hands on my sister?”
The last time she had seen him so riled up was during his manic episode.
Upon the realization, she had finally seen through him. Underneath that expressionless face of his was a heart that was filled with passion.
Curling up feebly in Ashlyn's arms, Naomi looked at Lucas with a stunned expression.
“Lucas...”
It was the first time she felt her brother protecting her from all the hurt in the world, just like an impregnable shield.
All this while, she had thought she was closer to Blair. But in that instant, she suddenly realized that Lucas and Ashlyn were the ones who kept Blair and her safe as if they were their children.
There was a saying that the eldest sibling was like a father, while his wife was similar to a mother.
The idea had never dawned upon her until now.
Consequently, she began to hate how foolish she had been in the past. Back then, she didn't know better when she looked down upon Ashlyn and ridiculed her.
Evidently, she couldn't have been more wrong to think that an exceptional lady like Ashlyn was a parasite trying to leech upon the Nolan family.
Regretting her actions, she felt her heart flooded with complex emotions.
Even though Ashlyn was divorced, she still came to Naomi's rescue whenever the latter was in trouble.
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