Chapter 146

“Come on, kiddo, greet your grandpa,” Rhett tousled Summer’s hair, his voice a deep rumble.

The silence in the treatment room was palpable. Everyone was taken aback.

Rhett’s gesture was more than a claim of authority, which was a declaration to the Haywood family about where Summer stood in his heart.

Particularly to Holcomb, he was acutely aware of the actual ‘marriage‘ between Kristin and Rhett.

Holcomb darkened his face further as he spoke with a chilling tone, “Outside, now!”

“Grandpa…” Summer’s timid call was met only with a frosty glare from Holcomb.

Feeling slighted, Summer turned and buried his face in Rhett’s shoulder, whispering, “Mr. Rhett… Grandpa doesn’t seem to like me.”

“Just call me Dad,” Rhett said again.

Stunned, Summer looked up into Rhett’s eyes, searching for confirmation. “Could I really call this man Dad?” he thought.

After a long and intense gaze, Summer hugged Rhett tightly and called out with a shy voice, “Daddy…” His joy was unmistakable.

Summer liked Rhett.

Rhett felt a lump in his throat, his grip tightening around Summer involuntarily. He was surprised by how much he had come to care for this child.

Hertha’s eyes welled up with tears as she confronted Rhett. “Do you have to humiliate me like

this?”

Adopting a wild child as his son and letting that unknown kid call him dad in front of the Haywood family was an immense disgrace to Hertha.

“Humiliate? Where is this coming from?” Rhett asked calmly.

“Rhett, the FitzGerald family has already agreed to a merger with the Haywood family. Here your are, in front of Hertha, having some random kid call you dad. What are you playing at?” Richter pressed, clearly struggling to maintain his composure. “Holcomb, what is Rhett’s intention here?”

Holcomb was also a mask of barely concealed anger, signaling a warning to Rhett that he better know his place.

was still on the ground,

It’s outrageous! There’s no way the Haywood family is going to

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gone too

and her

have to do with Kristin? Adrienne was my doing.” Melissa greeted Holcomb with

notice the Lawrence family was

been a while.”

respect to the Lawrence family, after all, Melissa now had full control over the Lawrence family’s

at home, then someone else has to do it in public. Don’t thank me too much. I did my best, but some are just beyond help,” Melissa declared with a proud

turned

Lawrence.” Holcomb whispered an introduction.

family grew even darker. “Isn’t this a bit too much for

don’t you ask Adrienne what she did first?” Melissa replied, shocked. “I was thinking on my way over, maybe the Haywood family only had one uneducated member, but it seems like the whole lot of you are cut from the same cloth. Adrienne and her bodyguards trashed my boyfriend’s

Melissa could

he become

shocked by Melissa’s words, then glanced at her brother

of excitement,

Was

he finally

and Ruby, Garner had faced controversy, enduring as much slander and defamation as she had.

hoping that a woman who loved

rest of his

“Dad, I don’t care who she is.

stern as he grunted. “It seems like you’re all ganging up on

a classic case

teaching a mute how to speak,” Melissa mused as she stepped forward and kicked Adrienne right in front of Abigail. “Come on then, I’m waiting

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me a lesson. Today I want to see

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