“Take her away?”
Leo looked at Summer in astonishment. He never expected she was trying to convey such message to him by leading him to the hotel room.
Soon, Leo showed deep eyes and asked, “Why? You are Benedict’s mother, right?”
Summer was supposed to be happy on her son’s wedding day. However, Leo couldn’t sense any joy on her face, instead, he could only find Summer was carrying a solemn expression.
It seemed that Benedict’s marriage was the end of the world.
Summer nodded and then remarked worriedly, “As Benedict’s mother, I know his temperament quite well and don’t want him to harm other girls.”
“What do you mean?”
Leo showed a serious look and asked.
“Do you know the Hudson family’s scandal?”
Leo nodded.
Every family had their own scandal, so did the Hudson family. Leo remembered Benedict was his mother’s illegitimate child with other men. If not for the Hudson family’s dignity in the public, Summer would be killed by Ewan.
Summer showed a bitter smile and remarked, “I don’t love Ewan at all. I am just an ordinary girl before marrying into the Hudson family. I only looked more beautiful than other girls.”
Summer’s expression became tough when recalling the past.
She didn’t speak highly of her beauty. Although she was near her fifties, she still had a good figure and tense skin. Most people would believe it if she told others she was thirty years old. It could be told that she was a gorgeous woman when she was young.
“Ewan liked me and kidnapped me to the Hudson family. He imprisoned me for more than a year. During that year, he adopted a range of methods to torture me in order to let me fall in love with him. In the end, I couldn’t bear the suffering and agreed his proposal.”
“I don’t think it’s a big think to marry someone I don’t love at all. I thought our marriage would end my endless suffering. However, the reality proved I was wrong.”
Summer showed a miserable look, saying, “My family name is not Hudson. After we got married, Ewan forced me to change my family name. If Caroline married to Hudson family, she would also be forced to change her family name.”
“It’s not a big deal. The worse thing is their family’s domestic violence. I was beaten over a hundred times during the past thirty years.”
Summer then rolled up her sleeve to present the dotted bruises on her arm to Leo.
“That’s only a tip of the iceberg. I still have more bruises on my body.” Her calm expression conveyed the fact that she already took it as a normal thing.
Leo’s expression completely changed. He couldn’t help asking, “Have you ever thought about running away?”
“Of course, I have. However, it doesn’t work at all.”
Summer shook her head and replied, “I will still be captured and get beaten. There is no use to call the police either. The police won’t mind my business under the Hudson family’s great power.”
Leo remained silence but felt extremely angry in his heart.
He thought Benedict beat Caroline out of impulse. Now it seemed he inherited domestic violence from his family line.
All members in the Hudson family were nerds.
If Caroline really married into the Hudson family, she would only suffer from endless torture.
“I was forced to depart with my true love by Ewan. However, my love didn’t abandon me. After I got married, he came for me several times and wanted to run away with me. In the end, he got captured by Ewan.”
Summer then continued in a low voice, “Ewan killed my love in front of me, but what he didn’t expect was that I was already carrying with my love’s child at that time.”
“I didn’t tell him about the baby and delivered Benedict on my own. I had raised him for several months until I was found by Ewan. At first, he wanted to throw Benedict on the ground to kill him. I threatened him with my life. That was how I finally saved my baby.”
“However, Ewan still separate me and Benedict in different places to imprison us. During that time, he was the one who took care of Benedict alone. It was good that Benedict was a smart boy compared with Marcel. That was why Ewan gave up to kill him for the greater good.”
Leo showed a cold expression. Parenting was really important. Benedict was raised up by Ewan and his character would also be infected by him under such environment.
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