Howard Fletcher was a calculating child, more precocious than other boys his age.
He could tell Zoe Kane despised Nina Summers and realized Nina would compete with him for the family’s resources. So, he resorted to all sorts of methods to bully her.
Taking advantage of his young age, he wreaked havoc every day. He poured water on Nina’s mattress, tore her clothes, spat in her food, and even destroyed the mementos Mindy Walsh had left for her.
Whenever Nina couldn’t take it anymore and wanted to give Howard Fletcher a beating, Zoe Kane would rush over to protect him and run to Caleb Summers, crying:
"My sister is gone, and now her only child is being bullied... If this is how it’s going to be, let’s just get a divorce! I’ll take Chester and Leo and leave... I’d rather starve on the streets than let my children be bullied by others..."
As soon as Zoe Kane threw a fit, Caleb Summers would punish Nina. He completely ignored Nina’s explanations, berating her for not acting like an older sister and only causing him trouble.
Nina had no choice but to swallow her tears and constantly compromise.
This went on until yesterday morning. Nina was sleeping groggily when, in her slumber, she felt a pair of cold hands slip into her pajamas and touch her chest...
Nina awoke with a start, and the first thing she saw was Howard Fletcher’s face.
Howard Fletcher’s young face was filled with an excitement and lewdness far beyond his years. Seeing Nina was awake, he didn’t panic at all. He just gave her chest two hard pinches before scurrying back to his bedroom.
After something like this, Nina couldn’t endure it any longer. She caused a huge scene at home.
After hearing Nina’s tearful account, not only did Caleb Summers not get her justice, he slapped her across the face several times!
Caleb Summers accused Nina of not respecting herself and trying to seduce her little brother, and then told her to get out of the house.
At her breaking point, Nina changed her clothes, grabbed her bag, and ran out of the house.
Hearing this, Grace Sutton slammed her hand on the table in a rage and cursed, "Has Caleb lost his mind?! He won’t raise his own daughter but runs off to raise someone else’s sons! When something like this happens, he doesn’t even stand up for his own daughter... Is he... is he even human?! He’s an animal!"
Grandma, however, stroked Nina’s head with heartache. Her eyes were red-rimmed as she said in a low voice, "You poor child. Your father is no man... You’ve really been wronged..."
Melody Summers was so stunned by Nina’s story that she couldn’t recover for a long time. She thought, ’How can a person be so two-faced? Was Caleb Summers’s good-father persona all an act before? Was he just performing for Mindy Walsh and his father-in-law?’
’If Caleb could really play the part of a good husband and father for decades, day in and day out, all to inherit his in-laws’ assets, then the man is truly terrifying...’
Melody looked at Nina with a complicated expression and asked softly, "So you just ran over here like that? Why didn’t you give us a call? If we hadn’t come back today, were you planning to just sit at the door and wait all night?"
Hearing this, Nina pursed her lips and answered in a small voice, "My phone... Winston Sheffield smashed it..."
"Who?" Melody asked instinctively. Then she remembered the man she had seen at Paige Walsh’s celebration party and said with dawning realization, "Oh, your boyfriend."
At Melody’s words, Nina’s face grew even paler. She was silent for a moment, then shook her head and replied, "He’s not my boyfriend anymore..."
After leaving home, Nina had nowhere to go, so she went to find her fiancé, Winston Sheffield.
She ran, disheveled, to the bachelor pad where Winston lived and knocked on his door, only to find a beautiful young woman inside.



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