Listening to Clark’s words, Melody was suddenly overcome with a wave of sadness.
’When does a person start to go bad?’
She looked at Clark, kneeling on the floor in a pathetic state, his expression savage. In him, she could no longer see any trace of the little cousin who used to trail behind her, calling out for his older cousin.
The moment Clark finished speaking, Colin strode over.
His brows shot up in anger. He aimed a vicious kick at Clark and snarled, "Are you insane? Who taught you to say such despicable things?!"
As far as the Summers family was concerned, their boys and girls were all the same. They never imagined Clark, at such a young age, would have developed such a sexist mindset all on his own.
Clark did look a little crazed. After being kicked to the floor by Colin, he quickly scrambled back up. He clutched at Colin’s pant leg, crying and begging, "Uncle, you have to help me! Just give me some rice and coal, or else they won’t spare me!"
The thought of what Saul Archer and Jay Lowell were capable of made Clark’s teeth start to chatter.
Just then, Melody let out a small laugh.
She looked at Clark and asked, "Clark, be honest with me... do you really only owe one hundred pounds of rice and one hundred pounds of coal?"
’If I’m not mistaken,’ Melody thought, ’Clark definitely owes more than that.’
When a gambler walks in with a hundred dollars, he walks out owing at least two hundred.
Or even more.
Clark had gambled away a hundred pounds of rice and coal in a single day. He definitely owed more than that.
Clark was lying.
He was still trying to hide the truth, which meant only one thing—Clark didn’t want the hundred pounds of rice and coal to pay his debt. He was planning to keep gambling.
’He’s a lost cause.’
Sure enough, under Melody’s stare, Clark’s eyes darted away. He didn’t answer her question. Instead, he asked resentfully, "You’re all my elders, and I’m only sixteen! You have to take care of me! If you won’t give me rice and coal, are you really going to stand by and watch me starve or freeze to death?!"
Hearing this, his grandmother let out a cold snort. She didn’t even want to speak to Clark anymore. From this moment on, as far as she was concerned, her son and grandson were both dead to her.
Grace Sutton was so angry at Clark’s brazen attitude that she laughed. She realized Clark was even more of a scoundrel than his father, Cameron!
Back when Cameron was begging the family to pay off his gambling debts, he was never as bold and entitled as Clark!
Grace Sutton sneered, "And now you’re blaming us? We gave you a hundred pounds of rice and coal just this morning. You’re the one who insisted on gambling it away! You deserve it!"
At Grace’s words, Clark’s submissive act vanished. He glared at her and shouted, "It was just a measly hundred pounds of rice and coal! You keep harping on it, acting like you did us some huge favor! That was ours by right!"
"My dad and Uncle Colin are both sons of this family. My mom and you are both wives of the family. So why do you and Uncle Colin get to live here in comfort, while my family has to live in some empty rental unit? It’s not fair!"
"For all I know, you’re the one who deliberately drove a wedge between them and got my parents kicked out! It’s all your fault we’re in this mess!"
Grace’s hands trembled with rage at Clark’s accusation. She pointed a shaking finger at him and cried, "What nonsense are you spouting?! When have you ever seen me turn anyone against them?!"


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