Chapter 53 Witnessing Her Downfall

Everything happened too fast. Since Josephine didn’t make any noise after the bullet was shot in her face, everyone thought that Caleb was just pretending to shoot at her.

“Josephine!” Of course, Lewis witnessed the scene. He quickly reached out to steady her on her

feet.

Josephine was in so much pain that a burst of colors exploded before the darkness that was known as her vision. She almost lost her balance due to the pain.

Only when Lewis shouted her name did everyone finally turn around to see what happened. Then, they realized Caleb had just shot Josephine.

Lily quickly wrapped her arms around Caleb and pulled him away while pretending to be mad at him. “Behave, Caleb!”

However, Caleb refused to obey her command. Instead, he struggled against his restraints because he wanted to shoot Josephine again. His father, Derek Moss, quickly put a stop to his mischievous

antics.

“Now is not the time for you to fool around, Caleb! Hand over your toy!” Derek grabbed the toy gun intending to snatch it from his son’s hands but the latter continued hugging it to his chest

stubbornly.

“It’s mine!”

Lewis let go of Josephine’s hand so that he could check her eye’s condition. Fortunately, the bullet only made contact with the corner of her eye, but thanks to the shot, her eye was completely red.

He tilted his head to look at Caleb, who forgot to react out of fear toward his icy gaze.

Lily quickly did her best to ease the atmosphere. She approached Josephine and pretended to examine her reddened eye in concern. “I think she’s fine. It’s just a toy gun, so the impact

shouldn’t hurt.”

However, Josephine’s affected eye was extremely red. The spot that was hit by the bullet started to show flecks of blue and purple as well, signifying the formation of a bruise.

Lewis glanced in Lily’s direction. “How did you know that it wouldn’t hurt at all, Lily?”

“It’s just a rubber bullet, isn’t it? How much pain can it cause? Lewis, I know you care about Josephine a great deal, but you shouldn’t be arguing with a child over this petty matter.”

“Then, should I argue with you over this so–called petty matter? As his mother, how are you going to resolve this situation?” A trace of mockery flashed across Lewis‘ eyes.

choked on her words the moment she heard Lewis‘ answer. She tried to suppress her anger as she tried to defend her son. “It’s just a toy

Lewis interrupted

anything about Lewis, so she

Robert. “Dad, it’s difficult for us to make the trip here,

If you don’t want to see us, there’s no need to invite us back to this manor! This asn’t a diner gathering it’s

speak up immediately Lily, that’s where you’re wrong If we truly viewed you and Youn tamly as outsiders, we wouldn’t have invited you

he started. berating loudly It’s just a petty matter, yet all of you insist on making a big deal out of it! Should I build a stage for you to continue

silent immediately once Robert

anything about Josephine getting injured, despite the long speech he had just given At the end of the day, it showed that

you this–are you still having dinner here or

burning in pain. It was true that rubber bullets weren’t able to hurt people, but it also depended on the

were shot

pain caused to her by the

it necessary for us to stay here and have dinner with the rest of you?”

coldly in return. “What

have dinner for the rest of you now. Do you really think we can all sit

was clearly affected by the incident,

minor misunderstanding. We’re all family here, so we can’t ruin the harmony between

matter,

his face. Then, what do you propose?”

from his lips. “It seems that I’m making a fuss

what I

it dinnertime already? Shall we eat?” Lewis interrupted Derek’s words abruptly, now wearing a normal expression. It was as though he wasn’t the

and spoke up at that moment. “Let’s move to the dining room instead of hanging

around here

head to glance at him, a mildly glum expreston on her lace

look at Josephine as he raised his hand to stroke the injured spot

thinking that his

behave like that Sometimes, he would be awfully close to her, making him seem like a moon’s reflection that could

she attempted to touch the reflected moon oft the surface, she would realize that everything was nothing but a facade that would shatter at the slightest

who would slowly lend Josephine to the edge of

search of the moon that could never be held with her hands. Then, she would slowly

from the shore. That man

in order to conceal the thoughts that were reflected in

comment on her eye anymore. Instead, he took her hand and led her to the

room.

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