The Promise of Happiness novel Atalie and Samuel

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.

It’s bad enough for him to frame somebody for a crime. Worst of all, he framed

flurry of slaps

such brutal disciplinary actions, it was all she could do to

is finally

from Samuel’s embrace and knelt before the wretched woman on

almond-shaped eyes regarded

at home. What you and your son

she did not mind being misunderstood or even injured, she would not allow her

Samuel did not have my back today, I would be

who had been quietly sobbing, gave a start at Natalie’s voice and

this woman has got nothing on me! I can’t imagine how she’s Samuel’s woman. If I had married him instead, I might not

Minerva’s prolonged silence, Leonard aimed a kick at her back to prompt her into speech for fear of offending Samuel

you still waiting for? Hurry up and say

at her unctuous husband before swallowing her pride and

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