The Real Heiress's New Family Adored By All novel Chapter 391

Chapter 391 The Secret of the Past

After more than ten years, it was time to talk about what happened back then.

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The moment Leighton saw Garrett weak and laid up in the hospital bed, he’d started to wonder if they’d both been wrong all these years.

Maybe they really should have talked it out sooner.

Now that Zora had brought it up, the last bit of doubt in Leighton’s heart faded away.

Leighton looked down. “Do you want to hear what happened all those years ago?”

“Really?” Zora was caught off guard.

She’d always heard this incident was a forbidden topic for the Pierce family, especially for Leighton.

“I don’t mind talking about it anymore. It’s been over a decade. I need to let it go.”

Young Leighton could never face that terrible memory.

But as the years passed, every time he visited his mom’s grave, he forced himself to accept the truth.

Vienne was gone, and she was never coming back.

When he was little, he couldn’t stand hearing anything about that kidnapping. Over time, everyone around them learned never to bring it up.

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“Seventeen years ago, a big kidnapping happened in Seacrest. My mom and I were both taken hostage.”

It all started when Garrett led his team to take down a major drug group.

Some of the drug dealers escaped. To get revenge, they kidnapped dozens of kids across the city.

Garrett knew the men were coming for him. He quickly told Vienne to take Leighton to the military base to stay safe.

On their way there, the drug dealers ambushed them.

They knew they couldn’t win a fight outright, so they used the kidnapped kids as leverage. They forced Vienne to obey them.

Neither Leighton nor Vienne could stand by and watch innocent kids get hurt because of their family’s trouble.

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They looked at the children tied up on the ground, all crying and shaking in fear.

Some kids had passed out from fright.

Some were covered in fresh wounds.

Leighton even saw a few kids with broken limbs and blood all over their faces.

They agreed to go with the dealers, as long as they let all the kids

go unharmed.

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And just like that, they became hostages too.

What Leighton went through next was something he would never forget.

Those drug dealers were cruel and heartless.

They took Leighton and Vienne to an abandoned building and took out all their anger on them.

One dealer kicked young Leighton hard, knocking him straight to the floor.

Another slapped Vienne across the face, drawing blood right away.

Leighton’s hands and feet were tied tight with rope. He thrashed wildly, wanting to fight back when he saw his mom getting hurt.

But all he got was another harsh slap that knocked him flat on the ground.

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His head throbbed with sharp pain. He’d always been protected and spoiled growing up. He’d never suffered such cruelty before.

Still, he refused to give in. The more they hurt his mom, the more he wanted to fight them.

He’d learned basic self-defense from Garrett as a kid, but it was nothing against these violent criminals. He stood no chance at all.

The dealers kicked him down again. One man pressed his foot heavily on Leighton’s chest.

Leighton bit his teeth hard, feeling like his insides were shifting. His face turned completely pale.

Later, the dealers tried to make Vienne sleep with them. They said it would stop her and Leighton from getting more hurt.

Vienne was known as the most beautiful woman in Seacrest. She was bright and stunning.

But she was also extremely proud and tough. She would never agree to such shameful

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Furious with her refusal, the dealers whipped her over and over again.

Vienne was a military doctor, so she was stronger than most people.

They tried to force her to spill Garrett’s military secrets, but she never said a word.

Leighton could only watch helplessly as they tortured her nonstop. Cuts, whip marks, belt bruises, knife wounds-her body was covered in injuries.

Her dark workout clothes were soaked all the way through with her own blood.

Leighton’s eyes turned red. He was pinned face-down in the dirt, completely powerless, forced to watch his mom get beaten half to death.

At one point, some dealers tried to tear off her clothes.

Vienne threatened to kill herself on the spot if they touched her.

The dealers couldn’t break her, so they kept finding new ways to torture her.

Her nice workout outfit was torn to pieces, exposing her bloodied, injured skin underneath.

Lying on the dusty ground, Leighton smelled the thick blood coming from his mom’s body.

His eyes burned with rage. He wanted to jump up and fight them, to make every single one of them pay.

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Vienne was already badly broken, and Leighton was in just as much pain.

In the end, the dealers realized they couldn’t get any information out of Vienne, no matter how hard they tortured her.

So they turned all their cruelty on Leighton instead.

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