Tiffany seemed to have a clue after scrutinizing him for quite a while. The next second, she burst into laughter and yelled gleefully, “Hahaha! It must be retribution! Retribution indeed! See how he ends up paying the price for his heinous deed!”
The smile of schadenfreude on her face seemed to indicate that she had been expecting this moment long ago.
As a member of a prominent family with higher social status, Nicholas had his nose in the air. He was very particular about the excellence of the Halls’ new generation in order to maintain the prestige of the family. Ever since he discovered that Ashton had a genetic defect, he straight away treated him as an inferior who would be a stain for the Halls. Somehow things had turned the other way round. The so-called descendants of the excellent genes had betrayed him by adding insult to injury. I wonder how he feels being betrayed by his outstanding children whom he had nurtured throughout all these years!
This was indeed the typical materialistic phenomenon as observed in most of the well-to-do families. Clinking glasses with each other jovially at the feasts did not really mean anything. It was common that whenever any of their family members encountered financial crisis or other issues, the others who were self-centered would choose to ignore them and even cut their ties with them so they would not be affected.
Ashton looked at her with complex emotions in his eyes. After a while, he instructed Joseph, “Head straight for the Hall family’s villa in the western district.”
Upon hearing his words, there was a change in Tiffany’s expression. Her complacency was utterly erased by her agitation all of a sudden. ”What’s your intention? How did you find out about the place?”
She seemed to have lost her mind and shrieked hysterically. There was even a ferocious look on her face.
On the other hand, Ashton remained nonchalant at all the time. He turned calmly and gave Joseph a meaningful glance, hinting him to take her away immediately.
The next moment, Joseph gestured to his subordinates in order to drag Tiffany who was still rebuking non-stop out at once.
After they had left, the living room was finally back to peacefulness again. Ashton turned and glanced at me before shifting his gaze away hastily. As we locked gazes momentarily a while ago, I could sense that he was troubled by something at the moment. However, he was pretending as if there was nothing amiss and moved back to sit beside me.
Throughout years of striving hard for survival under crucial situations, he was sort of well-trained to act indifferently under any type of circumstances. Hence, he could easily hide his feelings from me most of the time. Yet if I could still sense something awry at the moment, it indicated that he was actually not intending to hide it from me. It was just not the time for him to pour out everything to me yet.
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