Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 113

Chapter 113: Chapter 113: Justifiable Homicide

Joel Lawson felt a chill on his neck, followed by a piercing pain.

He immediately screamed. "AH—! AH—! Help me! Somebody, help me! I’m going to die! I don’t want to die! I’m just a kid! Somebody, please, come save me!"

Seeing the blood trickling down Joel Lawson’s neck, Colin Summers froze. He never thought Adam Lawson would actually dare to do it!

He stared at Adam Lawson in disbelief, his voice a mixture of shock and confusion. "Adam Lawson, you... have you lost your mind?! That’s your own son! How could you do this to your own son? Isn’t he the precious heir you value so much?"

Officer Tanner quickly intervened. "Put the boy down, now! I’m warning you, killing your own child is still murder. Do you really think you can escape if he dies?"

Ignoring Joel Lawson’s struggles, Adam Lawson lifted him and spun around, roaring at the police and security guards who were trying to close in. "Stay away! Back off! All of you, get back! Or I’ll kill him for real!"

Adam Lawson’s expression was frenzied, his eyes shot with red. He screamed toward Officer Tanner, "I didn’t want this! Don’t force my hand! If you come any closer, you’ll be forcing me to kill him! You’ll all be murderers of a child!"

Held in Adam Lawson’s arms, Joel Lawson felt the cleaver press deeper into his neck. Terrified, he screamed, "Dad! Dad, don’t kill me!"

At his son’s plea, Adam Lawson roared, "Shut up, you little bastard! Say one more word and I’ll chop your head off!"

Melody Summers raised an eyebrow in surprise.

She shook her head with a private sigh. ’Aunt Grace’s judgment is viciously accurate. To think she actually called it!’

Joel Lawson really wasn’t Adam Lawson’s son.

Pinned tightly in Adam Lawson’s arms, Joel Lawson couldn’t move. He could only shrink away, trying to dodge the cleaver at his throat. He clamped his mouth shut, not daring to make another sound as tears of grievance streamed endlessly from his eyes.

Joel Lawson couldn’t understand why his father was treating him this way. He had always been his father’s favorite. He had been a little emperor at home since he was a child; Adam Lawson gave him anything he wanted. Even his full-blooded sister, Joelle Lawson, was treated like his slave and servant.

But in the past two days, Adam Lawson’s attitude toward him had changed drastically. He would hit him for no reason and call him a "little mutt."

Joel Lawson remembered his parents and grandparents using the term "little mutt" before, but they always used it to curse his father’s ex-wife’s daughter, Melody Summers. Now Adam Lawson was using it on him, and he couldn’t understand what he had done wrong.

Panting heavily, Adam Lawson glared at Joel Lawson. His grip on the cleaver didn’t loosen in the slightest; he just held it flush against the boy’s neck.

He had been filled with doubt ever since listening to Grace Sutton a few days ago. He didn’t have money for a paternity test, so he used what little he had left to buy blood-typing test cards and ran a secret test.

The results showed that he was type A and Noelle Quillan was type O, but shockingly, both Joelle Lawson and Joel Lawson were type B!

He had looked it up online: it was absolutely impossible for a type-A person and a type-O person to have a type-B child!

Joelle Lawson and Joel Lawson... neither of them were his children!

Adam Lawson thought back to when he had secretly used Winnie Summers’s money to support Noelle Quillan. He remembered his joy upon learning Noelle had given birth to a son, and how he had triumphantly brought that son with him to ask Winnie Summers for a divorce... Adam Lawson felt his entire life was a joke.

He was filled with regret. He couldn’t believe that after half a lifetime of twists and turns, the only person who had ever truly been good to him was Winnie Summers.

If he hadn’t divorced Winnie Summers, he could be living the good life in her villa right now, enjoying the air conditioning, the fine food and drink, and the cozy life with a wife and daughter.

Adam Lawson decided then and there: no matter what, he had to get back together with Winnie Summers!

Adam Lawson continued shouting at Winnie Summers, who stood by the supermarket entrance. "Winnie! I know I was wrong! I must have been out of my mind to go after Noelle Quillan! That bitch seduced me! Winnie, just give me one more chance! I swear, you’ll be the only woman for me for the rest of my life!"

Hearing this, Winnie Summers just stared at him coldly, saying nothing.

When Winnie Summers remained silent, Adam Lawson yelled again, "Winnie, you haven’t remarried all these years. Weren’t you just waiting for me? You’re over forty. What other decent man are you going to find besides me? Wake up! No other man will have you!"

Colin Summers’s anger flared. He wanted nothing more than to rush forward and kick Adam Lawson, but Officer Tanner quickly stopped him, signaling him not to be impulsive. After all, Adam Lawson still had a hostage.

Seeing that Winnie Summers was still silent, Adam Lawson softened his tone, pleading, "Winnie, don’t be like this. Do you want people to say Melody is a fatherless child for the rest of her life? Don’t you want to give her a complete family?"

"Winnie, hasn’t it been hard being on your own all these years? Give me another chance. I’ll take care of you from now on. You won’t have to struggle like this anymore!"

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