What?
The culprit is suddenly playing the victim?
“I’m just speaking the truth, but it’s up to you whether you want to believe me or not. Our original plan that year had been to completely wipe you out from existence and forget that we’d ever given birth to such a defective product. If I hadn’t pitied you, you would have disappeared because of that car crash a long time ago! What right do you think you have to stand in front of me pretending to be a victor and interrogate your own father?”
Ashton immediately started trembling, digging his nails into his palms so tightly that I could see the veins on his forearms.
In the Hall couple’s eyes, Ashton was not only an obstacle blocking their way, he didn’t deserve to continue living either.
From their point of view, “family” was nothing more than a manufacturing process. They expected only perfect products and destroyed any that were not “up to par” with the high standard of quality that they’d set.
But they were talking about a person. How could someone say “you should have died a long time ago” to another person so easily?
Ashton didn’t speak for a long time. I related to his feelings; the more precious something is to you, the harder it is to cope when it’s suddenly destroyed.
Yet, for some reason, Nicolas viewed his silence as silent agreement.
He turned his attention towards me, squinting at me as if we were the ones currently being locked up in a cage. “I must say: your grandma, Winona is a smart woman. She knew to team up with George Fuller and match you two together in order to resolve Ashton’s grudge against the Murphy family. Her hard work and care are large reasons why Ashton is where he is today.”
“Too bad that the lower-class will always stay lower-class for a reason,” he shrugged, starting to pace around the cell. “They never realize when the thing they’re trying desperately to protect is stolen from them right under their noses. No, that’s not the right way to say it. If it weren’t for that petroleum contract, I wouldn’t have returned to the Hall family so easily. I should thank her for that.”
“You stole the contract?”
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