“Is this how you should treat your elders?” Mike growled, unused to being treated with such disrespect.
“Well, is this how you should treat your juniors?” Jane retorted, her previously dull eyes now filled with fiery anger.
“If it weren’t for you, would I be in this state right now?”
Mike’s throat tightened as he saw Jane like this for the first time.
“Regardless, I am still your elder and you shouldn’t treat me with such an attitude,” Mike’s expression turned cold as he looked at Jane who was now pale and without her previous kind smile.
The tension between the two grew increasingly strained. Patrick could see that things were not going well and signaled to his servant to escort Mike out of the room. Feeling defeated, Mike left as per Patrick’s suggestion.
“Don’t be angry,” Patrick tried to console Jane but she ignored him completely and refused to even look at him.
Patrick frowned in surprise that even he had been included in her silent treatment. “If you’re upset then tell me what can make it better?”
As soon as these words came out, Jane turned her face away.
“Really?”
“Of course.”
Patrick nodded, then propped his head up and thought for a moment. “Since you’re upset, why not send him abroad as well?”
Upon hearing this, Jane frowned the next second.
“No.”
If she sent Mike abroad, it would be giving him a peaceful place instead.
You see, Mike was already old, long retired. Going to some unfamiliar place abroad would actually give him a quiet place to spend his later years.
If he didn’t experience her pain, he would never know the pain of others.
“So what do you want then?”
Patrick asked when he noticed Jane’s expression was off.
“He harmed my child, and I’m not some saint. I won’t let him off the hook so easily.”
Jane pursed her lips, which also made it difficult for Patrick.
“I know this has caused you a lot of grievances.”
Looking at Jane’s pale face, Patrick couldn’t find any words to refute her.
“I want him to apologize to me.”
As soon as she said this, Patrick’s pupils involuntarily contracted.
Mike had been proud his whole life. How could he lower his head and admit a mistake to a junior?
But this time, it was indeed Mike’s fault, and he should bear the consequences.
“Don’t even think about it!”
Just then, Mike’s voice came from outside the door.
He had been silently watching the surveillance in Jane’s room, but upon hearing those words, he couldn’t sit still anymore.
“Grandpa, you…”
Patrick wanted to stop Mike, but Mike coldly told Patrick to step aside.
“As your senior, I let it slide before because of your miscarriage. I didn’t expect you to take advantage of it!”
Jane raised her head and stared coldly at the old man in front of her.
“If it weren’t for you, would I have had a miscarriage? I just want a fair and just apology.”
Jane’s icy words rang out, making Mike’s heart tremble.
“Don’t go too far.”
“You are the one going too far.”
Jane touched her abdomen and gritted her teeth. “If it weren’t for you forcibly sending me here, would my body be in this state? I just want a fair and just apology.”
You see, Mike, as the pillar of the Pansy family, had always been respected. He had never apologized to anyone in all his years.
Now, he was being asked to apologize to his junior. If this were to get out, his reputation would be ruined.
“It’s impossible.”
Mike firmly refused, and their relationship grew even more tense.
Patrick was caught in the middle, unable to take sides. He stood there, unable to say anything for a while.
…
That night, Mike lay in bed, tossing and turning, with Jane’s face constantly appearing in his mind.
He genuinely felt sorry for Jane, but seeing her repeatedly disrespecting him because of this incident, he felt increasingly displeased.
Until late at night, Mike couldn’t fall asleep.
Suddenly, he heard the sound of the door being locked from outside.
This instantly startled Mike, and he sat up, trying to open his own door, but it was locked and no matter how he turned it, he couldn’t unlock it.
“Who is it?”
He growled lowly, but there was no sound outside the door.
Soon, the silence returned outside the door, and Mike tried to make a phone call for help. Unfortunately, the signal around him was being disrupted, and he couldn’t get through to anyone.
This made Mike even more anxious. He pounded on the door and shouted, but no one responded.
As the sky grew brighter, Patrick walked out of his room, preparing to check on Jane’s situation.
Yesterday, due to Mike’s incident, Jane requested separate rooms to sleep in.
However, what puzzled him was that Mike usually woke up early, but today it was already so late, and his door remained tightly closed.
This struck Patrick as strange, so he approached the door and lightly knocked.
“Patrick?”
Soon, Mike’s voice came from inside, “I don’t know why, but my door won’t open.”
Patrick realized that something was amiss. He turned the lock a few times, but the door wouldn’t budge.
In that case, a key would be needed.
Suddenly, a figure flashed in his mind-Jane!
Patrick went to Jane’s room, “Did you lock my grandfather up?”
Jane raised an eyebrow but didn’t reply.
If Mike could do such a thing to her, she wanted him to experience being imprisoned as well.
“He’s an old man. He can’t handle this treatment from you.”
Patrick’s tone softened a lot. He knew that if he sounded too harsh, it would only annoy Jane.
“I’m pregnant, and I can’t handle the way he treated me either.”
Jane locked eyes with Patrick and confronted him directly.
“You’re not an irrational person,” Patrick said. “Give me the key.”
Jane coldly glanced at him, then followed Patrick to Mike’s door.
“Grandpa, you should apologize to Jane, or else I might not be able to save you either.”
Patrick anticipated that if he only took one side, it would anger Jane, so he shouted loudly towards the room.
There was silence for a while inside. Jane turned to look at Patrick, and the next second, Mike’s voice reached their ears.
“I’m sorry, it was my mistake this time.”