An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

Chapter 4

“Mom, take James to the hospital. I’ll deal with this.”

After a moment’s silence, Dahlia finally made her decision.

“Dahlia, you must defend your brother! Don’t let that bastard off so easily!” Florence said hatefully.

“Don’t worry, I know what I should do.”

Dahlia nodded, gesturing for two guards to send Florence and James to the hospital.

“What do you think, Lyra?”

Dahlia rubbed her temples. She felt a headache coming on.

“It’s obvious, isn’t it? It was Dustin who assaulted them first. The security guards were witnesses, so that can’t be a lie,” Lyra said.

“But my mother’s not exactly an honest person…” Dahlia began. She knew her mother and brother well. They were a hot-tempered and ruthless duo.

“Either way, it’s still wrong for him to throw the first punch!” Lyra said righteously. “Even if there was a misunderstanding, why couldn’t he talk it out? Moreover, it was James that he beat up. Your brother! He didn’t think of how you would feel when he attacked your family. This alone is proof that he’s not a good person!”

Dahlia’s frown deepened along with her doubts. Lyra was right. Even if her mother and brother were rude and unreasonable, there was no reason for Dustin to assault them physically, nor was there any reason for him to hurt James so badly. It would seem like her decision to divorce him was right.

“You can’t just let this go, Ms. Nicholson. You have to teach him a lesson!” Lyra said.

Hearing this, Dahlia became angry. She took out her phone and called Dustin. At the same time, Dustin was sitting in a silver Bentley and frowned when he saw the call coming in. Despite his reluctance, he still picked up the call.

“Dustin, I need an explanation!” Dahlia demanded.

“What explanation?”

“Did you hit my brother just now?”

“I did. But…”

could finish,

to be such a person! Are you taking revenge on my family just because I divorced

so aggressive. She hadn’t even stopped to listen to what he had to say.

you think of me? You knew that I hit your brother, but have

what he did, you still shouldn’t have hit

it didn’t matter who was in the wrong. She clearly favored her brother over

you another chance. Go to the hospital right now and apologize to James, and I’ll

to call the police on me,

really going to throw away

me? Anyway, I did beat up your brother, so do

was cut off as Dustin

threw out her phone in anger. Dahlia had always been good at hiding her true emotions. It was one of the reasons why she had managed to get

need me to arrange for

Dahlia took

“But…”

to say more

of this. I need to work on more important matters,

got anything to

the Quine Group. If we do well at this ball, we could be the Harmon

go make the arrangements

…

an old man was laying on the bed. He looked pale, and his lips were dry and cracked. His breathing was weak as if he was close to death. Several doctors surrounded him, but

here. These doctors are

the second daughter of the Harmon family,

everything we could. There’s nothing else we can do for him,”

nothing you can do, then let someone else take over

Rhys will

“Mr. Rhys?”

had strange expressions on their faces. Dustin looked too young to be a good

looked shocked. “He looks about the same age as I am.