When Her Death Couldn't Break Him (Cecilia and Nathaniel) novel Chapter 2296

"Master Robert, the people from the second branch are here," the servant said.

The second those words landed, the whole room went dead silent.

The irritation in Robert's eyes showed plain as day.

"Damn it. What are they doing here?"

Adrian cut in right then.

"What else? They're obviously here to watch our family make fools of ourselves."

Robert shot him a hard look.

Then he was just about to send the servant back out and have them tell the others he wasn't home,

but he didn't get the chance.

Wren and the others came in uninvited.

Robert had never hated his younger brother Wren as much as he did today.

When Cecilia followed them inside, the first thing she noticed was Miranda on her knees, tied up on the floor, with that man of hers beside her.

Both of them were covered in injuries.

One look was enough to tell they'd been beaten.

Then Cecilia saw Robert sitting in the place of honor.

Beside him, Adrian was being held back by several bodyguards.

"Wren, what brings you here so late? You've had to see a family embarrassment," Robert said.

Then he turned to the bodyguards. "Take them away."

He meant Miranda and Julian.

Robert knew exactly why Cecilia and the others had come.

Of course he wasn't about to let them get what they wanted.

But bad timing hit right then.

Felix came back in from outside.

He threw himself at Miranda.

"Mom!"

Miranda's eyes had stayed steady the whole time, as if she still held to the idea that she'd done nothing wrong.

But the second she saw Felix, her face changed.

She looked like she wanted the floor to split open and swallow her.

She could say she didn't care about reputation or what people thought.

But in front of her son, she couldn't hold that up.

But Felix shook his head again and planted himself in front of his mother. "I'm not going back."

Miranda looked at her son standing in front of her, and her throat tightened.

Her voice caught as she said, "Felix, listen to Grandpa. Go back to your room."

Felix stayed stubbornly where he was and refused to leave.

Robert had no other choice. He could only order someone to drag him away by force.

The whole room filled with Felix's cries and struggles, his voice rising over and over as he refused to leave.

At that moment, there was no way Miranda could have stayed untouched by it.

She held all of it in and didn't let any of it show.

Once Felix was taken away, the room finally went quiet.

Robert let out a long breath. "Miranda, you saw it for yourself. This is the mess your sins brought on."

This time, Miranda didn't fire back.

Her eyes had gone red around the rims. She lowered her head and couldn't force out a single word.