A cold, arrogant voice echoed through the hall.
Which caused everyone's heart to seize violently for a second.
Savage and overbearing.
Contemptuous of all around him.
No one dared to make a noise.
Even Archer Hughes, who had been slammed onto the ground, was now looking pale as a sheet, writhing in agony and curled up like a shrimp. Seeming to have lost his breath, he could not even groan.
The majestic aura in the room was overwhelming.
The dead silence lasted a total of five seconds.
Finally, the silence in the hall was broken by the extremely sombre-looking Madam Hughes.
“Jack, you sidestepped the open path to heaven but insisted on barging into the doorless hell. So don’t blame me for not showing mercy!”
It felt as if a cold wind was blowing from the netherworld, causing the atmosphere in the entire hall to plummet to the freezing point all of a sudden.
George’s and Ivy’s eyes instantly flashed brilliantly with gleeful joy.
Grandma was in full rage, this bastard was not only going to lose his right as heir, he was also going to ...lose his life!
However.
"Bitch!"
Jack glanced at Madam Hughes and laughed at her with disdain.
Bang!
George slammed his palm on the table in indignation, and fiercely bellowed in fury, "You crippled bastard, will my mother allow you to insult her?"
"You were raised as a dog, a good dog does not bark back at the owner!"
Jack sat in his wheelchair, the aura about him completely changed.
He exuded an indomitable disdain for all around him.
Everyone present was dumbfounded, hardly believing what they saw.
Both the younger and the older generation had never seen anyone dared to be so flagrantly disobeying and overbearing at the Hughes family!
The Hughes family had always been high and mighty, enjoying power and status.
There had never been anyone, who had ever dragged the Hughes Family down from the clouds and hurled callous insults at the family.
And now ...Jack had done it!
With a sheer determination that would not buckle in the face of death, he showed contempt at everyone present.
Carter’s face twisted in rage and his urge for revenge was at boiling point.
His knuckles clicked noisily as he clenched his hands into tight fists.
Old Madam Hughes’ expression was dark as night, she was seething in blistering turmoil.
She was the eldest member of the Hughes family, even the head of the family had to show her some respect.
To think that now, she was not only being insulted by someone two generations junior to her, and he was even calling her a “bitch”!
A second later.
Madam Hughes said in a cold and murderous tone.
“I was only considering your handicap, so for the sake of the greater good, I had to remove your heirship. If you had been cooperative and had willingly given in your command and charges, I could still keep you alive.”
“However, you are so stubborn, the Hughes’ family iron law will not be tarnished by a mere crippled bastard like you. Rebellion, disloyalty, disobedience and contempt for the Hughes family, this is ... punishable by death!”
At those words, everyone suddenly looked solemn and murderous.
“Kill him!”
“Kill him!”
George and Ivy led the outcry.
As the original heirs of the younger generation, they were both qualified candidates to succeed as head of the Hughes family.
But Jack’s presence had burst their bubble.
They were the self-proclaimed elites of the Hughes family; moreover, in their opinion, Jack was nothing more than a stray mongrel.
What a despicable shame it would be for the elites to be defeated by the illegitimate son!
Even if they could not become the head of the family, they would still have to find a way to remove Jack’s entitlement to inheritance, or better yet, have him killed!
"Grandmother is right, if we don't get rid of the arrogant and rebellious son, Jack, he would become a scourge to the Hughes family in the future!"
Killian, who had been keeping his temper down, finally rose at this moment and angrily rebuked Jack.
However.
Clang clang clang ....
Jack coolly threw an object onto the table, instantly causing every expression to darken and the every pair of eyes to narrow to a slit.
On the table laid a shining cold dagger!
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