Chapter 5

who were both lying half-dead on the floor. “Are they your subordinates?” he asked Thomas

me,” Thomas Dunn acknowledged with shame, “His name

a rage, “Tell me, who gave you the authority to send out the armed forces for no

accept

your resignation once you've returned to camp. You are not fit

I shall reflect on

Dunn won a nod of approval from

you still waiting for?” He barked at them, “Get on your

to their knees, groveling for forgiveness at Nathan's

apologize to my wife and daughter.” Nathan was

Penny and her daughter while sobbing with grief, “Mrs. Cross, Ms. Cross, it was all our fault. We were simply blinded by our own foolishness. Please have mercy on us

the pathetic couple before her, she suggested to Nathan, “Why don't we give them a chance, since they look like

pleases you, my dear.”

made her

softness in Penny's eyes that she had already forgiven them. “What are you two still waiting for?”He shouted at Walter Zahn and his

“Scram!”

the opportunity and stumbled to the door in feverish haste with

offered to throw a lavish welcoming party for Nathan, but the latter rejected his offer, making known his desire

knowing look in his eyes, Thomas Dunn

arms as the

gazed at her father. “Now that you're back, I'm

tone full of

listened quietly from the side with tears rolling down her cheeks.

...

- the center of

dilapidated building that was

no elevators in

climbed up six-stories

and messy,” Penny invited Nathan in as she opened the

dad, was

Leah Smith, was making dinner in

daughter bringing a man home

time Penny had ever brought a

Queenie on her own, blatantly refusing to attend the matchmaking sessions

down his papers and

looked puzzled when

Queenie had already answered in her bubbly voice, “He's my Papa,

mean that you're the beast who raped my daughter five years ago? So it's you who turned our lives into a living

front of him was none other than the culprit who had raped her daughter five years ago.

audacity to come and look for her! I

the air when a woman ran out from the kitchen, swinging a cleaver madly. Leah Smith's body

The sudden outrage from her grandparents shocked little Queenie

with all her might.

Penny clinging tightly to her body, Leah

pointed her cleaver at Nathan as she spat, “You've ruined Penny's life utterly and brought her nothing

his usual calm and orderly world had been upturned by Nathan's sudden reappearance. The Penny and Queenie's wails

Benson let out a roar that was uncharacteristic of his soft-spoken

effectively brought Leah's wild

hands. He pulled her into his arms to soothe her. “Get out of our house! Don't ever show your face again!”

in his eyes. With Queenie in his arms, his insistence to make up for his family was reflected in his solemn

me, I know the torment Penny went

be a path paved with diamonds. They are my family, my queen and my princess, and I'll make sure that they have the whole world under their

with diamonds?

mere empty promises to Benson. To him, only a guy full of crap would say such things, and those were the type of

like Penny would

bawled at Nathan, “Now get the

police if you insist on

homeless man who had raped his daughter. Nonetheless, he refrained from doing so as he could not bear to let Penny go through the torment

the tears on her face and

What?

stared incredulously

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