“Look at you two! You were made for each other. If I hadn’t planned all of that, do you think you would have ever met in the first place? I was the one who gifted you with such a beautiful marriage, my son. How could you bear to blame me for it?”

What?

The culprit is suddenly playing the victim?

“I’m just speaking the truth, but it’s up to you whether you want to believe me or not. Our original plan that year had been to completely wipe you out from existence and forget that we’d ever given birth to such a defective product. If I hadn’t pitied you, you would have disappeared because of that car crash a long time ago! What right do you think you have to stand in front of me pretending to be a victor and interrogate your own father?”

Ashton immediately started trembling, digging his nails into his palms so tightly that I could see the veins on his forearms.

In the Hall couple’s eyes, Ashton was not only an obstacle blocking their way, he didn’t deserve to continue living either.

From their point of view, “family” was nothing more than a manufacturing process. They expected only perfect products and destroyed any that were not “up to par” with the high standard of quality that they’d set.

But they were talking about a person. How could someone say “you should have died a long time ago” to another person so easily?

more precious something is to you, the harder it is to cope when

some reason, Nicolas viewed his silence as silent

me as if we were the ones currently being locked up in a cage. “I must say: your grandma, Winona is a smart woman. She knew to team up with George Fuller and match you

always stay lower-class for a reason,” he shrugged, starting to pace around the cell. “They never realize when the thing they’re trying desperately to protect is stolen from them right under their noses. No, that’s not the right way to say it. If it weren’t for that petroleum contract, I wouldn’t have returned to the Hall family so easily. I should thank

“You stole the contract?”

then what was the reason for Armond’s stubbornness all these

mind as soon as the words left my

quirked up into an evil, satisfied smile. “I guess you’re not as stupid as you look. What do you think? Don’t you want to applaud my perfect scheme and

Praise?

taking away the contract and manipulate Grandma and George in his hands as if they were mere puppets and

Fullers and the Murphys hate each other so that Ashton would live the rest of his life

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