Unfinished Business with You novel

Chapter 428

After listening to Olivia, he suddenly felt as if his heart was being submerged in a hot spring, and it made the blood in his body feel warm and fuzzy. All this while, he had thought that his blood was made of ice, except when it came to his father, Edward Nolan. He was obsessed with the thought of killing his father. “These are the happiest and most fulfilling days that I’ve ever had. I’m sure it’s the same for Brian too. Besides, it’s all due to your efforts that our relationship has improved to what it is today. In the past, I never dared to dream of a day where I would have a wife and a child. There was nothing else in my life except revenge.”

Olivia felt her heart breaking for him. “Did you stay behind for the sake of your revenge?”

He nodded in response. “Yeah, I guess. It was also because of Brian. At the time, I was only 15. I was still a student and didn’t know much about how to manage a company. Moreover, Brian kept following me around all the time. Meanwhile, the entire high society shamed and humiliated my mother. She could have returned to her family. My grandfather would not have said anything, but my uncles would have treated her coldly. In the first place, my mother had been framed. So, when her family refused to help her out and treated her coldly instead, there was no way she would continue to remain there with all the anger she felt toward them. Additionally, Brian would occasionally faint without warning. He would be in great danger every time it happened. It was potentially life-threatening if rescue came just a bit slower. If my mother had to take care of both my brother and me without any source of income whatsoever, how would she survive?”

considered all that at the

another man tied up on the floor and covered in lash marks. Edward was sitting on the sofa with a stern expression, yelling at my mother and asking for a divorce. Later, I learned that it was because my mother and that man had been caught in an illicit relationship by my father himself. More than 10 years ago, an unfaithful woman was not widely accepted by the public. Thus, high society was flooded with all sorts of unbearable rumors that spread like wildfire, especially since my mother was a well-known lady. You can never imagine what it feels like to be unable to clear one’s own name despite being set up. During their divorce, Edward was preoccupied with how he could get away with paying less alimony to my mother. However, all my mother wanted was Brian and me; she didn’t want anything else. Afterward, I heard from my

wasn’t as in-depth and detailed as what Eugene was telling her

could be broken up without just reason. It’s not wrong to say that it could lead to a domino effect. When Edward was unable to leave his marriage, he began to abuse my mother in all sorts of ways. When I say abuse, I don’t mean physical abuse. Instead, it was emotional abuse. He refused to go home. It might be an exaggeration to say that I never saw a glimpse of him throughout my childhood, but I only saw him occasionally. On those occasions, he was either having a screaming match with my mother or leaving the house after arguing with my