The Promise of Happiness novel Atalie and Samuel

Chapter 539 It Is True

“Samuel, you are-”

Natalie could feel Samuel’s anger through the tight grip with which her wrist was being held.

“You don’t have to cast your dignity aside just to please him.” Samuel gazed at Natalie with tenderness. “I’m sorry for my late arrival. You must have suffered a lot.”

Samuel took the blame upon himself for not being there sooner to have prevented his grandfather from abusing her.

Natalie tried to pull her wrist out of his grip to no avail.

“It isn’t like that, Samuel!” Natalie looked up to meet his eyes.

“Don’t defend him, Natalie.”

Samuel’s gaze remained cold as he vividly recalled Kenneth whipping Natalie with a cane. It was from that moment that he had lost hope in his grandfather.

Natalie was amused and exasperated at Samuel’s stubbornness.

defending

“I don’t believe you.”

“It’s true!”

Natalie, who did

children leaped to their

“Daddy, you’ve misunderstood Great-grandpa!”

nicer to Mommy

force Mommy

was no quarreling today. All

much rather suffer in silence themselves than see their mother in pain. It was also improbable that they would lie for their

what were you…” Samuel let her wrist fall limply from his grip as his voice trailed

“I was on my knees to pick up the pieces,” she explained. “The board fell over earlier and sent the pieces scattering to the floor. As Grandpa and Jeffords are elderly, I didn’t want them to

saw the pieces in

up from his wicker armchair and sighed heavily. “Am I really such an unreasonable

“Wasn’t it you who

when it