The Promise of Happiness (Natalie and Samuel) novel Chapter 318

Chapter 318

“Is that the pendant?” Minerva exclaimed.

Milton froze conspicuously at the sight of the pendant, his bruised-covered face showing signs of panic. His clumsy reaction was not lost on his parents.

With a surge of fury, Leonard leaped to his feet and gave his son a resounding slap across the face. “Tell me the truth, Milton. What is really going on here?”

As he was the sole heir of the Swan family for the third generation in a row, Milton was accustomed to the most luxurious circumstances and throwing his weight around as the elders of his family doted on him.

At the first slap ever received in his life by his father, Milton clutched his cheek and began to cry.

“Daddy… I… I am jealous of them!” he confessed through broken sobs. “Though they are clearly not as rich as us, the teachers and the girls seemed to like them more than they like me. I hid the pendant under my blanket to teach them a lesson, but I didn’t expect it to…”

I’m used to getting what I want! If I can’t be more likable than they are, I will have to give everyone a reason to dislike them. I didn’t expect this to get so far out of hand!

Milton and Minerva’s face grew ever paler than before.

The instigator turned out to be our good-for-nothing son all along! It’s bad enough for him to frame somebody for a crime. Worst of all, he framed a member of the Bowers family!

With another roar of fury, Leonard rained down a flurry of slaps across his son’s face until the boy began howling.

Though Minerva was heartbroken to witness her child being subjected to such brutal disciplinary actions, it was all she could do to cry alongside him.

The truth is finally out.

At that moment, Natalie freed herself from Samuel’s embrace and knelt before the wretched woman on the ground.

Her almond-shaped eyes regarded Minerva’s bloodshot ones calmly.

“Stop crying, now. There’s plenty of time for you to do that at home. What you and your son need to do right now is to apologize to my children.”