A Caged Songbird's Escape: Into the Arms of a Predator novel Chapter 600

However, the next second, a resounding slap landed squarely on Rex's face!

Clear red marks surfaced on his handsome cheek.

Rex frowned from the impact. He ran his tongue over the blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, his gaze indifferent as he looked at the middle-aged man in front of him.

Instead of looking at his father, it was more like looking at a stranger.

Laurel froze. In the next instant, she grabbed Rex's arm. Seeing the injury on his face, the usually aloof woman felt a flicker in her eyes. She turned to Tristan, her voice sharp with warning, "Even Grandpa has never laid a finger on Rex!"

When they were young, they had all been punished by Old Mr. Wilkinson.

But even though the old man always complained about Rex being a menace, aside from Vera, Rex was the one he doted on the most.

"Since when did you learn to use Grandpa to pressure me?"

Tristan was furious. "Didn't you hear the garbage coming out of his mouth? Is that how he should talk to Maya?"

He thought the siblings were just fighting because Maya had messed with the paternity test.

"Maya?"

Rex gave a hollow smile, his voice chilling. "If memory serves, my mother only gave birth to Vera."

"Who the hell is Maya? Your illegitimate daughter?"

Sporting the red mark on his face, Rex acted utterly reckless. "We don't recognize her."

"What kind of nonsense are you spouting?!"

Tristan exploded in rage, raising his right hand high once more.

"Tristan, if you hit Rex one more time, we're getting a divorce!"

Suzanne's voice suddenly rang out from the doorway.

Jesse had brought her upstairs.

Seeing the injury on her youngest son's face, Suzanne felt a chilling cold sweep over her. "You never cared about the children I bore you anyway."

Even when two-year-old Vera was lost by Maya, Tristan merely made a big fuss but ultimately let it slide.

Seeing the resolute coldness in his wife's demeanor, Tristan looked back at his three children, finding the exact same expression on all of them.

Except for... Maya.

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