Elena Bush’s face was not the least bit relieved as she looked at the unresponsive Roger Scott and then at the butler before saying seriously, “Mr. Butler, Mr. Scott is a little tired, so I’ll ask you to arrange for him to be sent back, and remember, make sure he is returned safely to his place!”
The last few words she said were heavily worded and could not be denied.
The butler, who had remained outside and was unaware of the situation, nodded along with her, and on the rare occasion that Elena Bush ordered him to do something, he replied, “Don’t worry, Miss Elena, I’ll make sure you get everything done properly!
Roger Scott still looked hesitant and his eyes fell somewhat uneasily on Elena Bush, “Is it really going to be all right if I leave?”
“That’s for sure.” Elena Bush nodded immediately and then snickered out, “You’re only causing me a big problem if you stay, so by all means, just leave in peace and come back tomorrow if you want to see me again.”
Roger Scott was sceptical, thinking that Edward Ford cared so much for Elena Bush that he wouldn’t do anything bad.
So he agreed to leave, worrying about her before he did, and Elena Bush waved him off as if he hadn’t heard anything.
When she returned to the house, Edward Ford and his assistant were in the living room together, and Edward Ford, with a grim look on his face, looked at her as she walked in from outside the house and said with a sneer, “Elena, did you think you could get away with this?”
Elena Bush took a step over to the couch in front of him and sat down, “I don’t think so.”
She just …… wanted Roger Scott to leave in peace, as for herself …… she never thought she could be safe.
“Snap!”
Edward Ford bruised and threw the paper at her, the paper hitting her forehead, not painfully but as if she had been humiliated.
She picked it up carefully and glanced through it, and sure enough, what she had thought was true.
Edward Ford’s deep eyes fell on her body, his emotions were so intense that he couldn’t even control his voice, “Elena, this is the divorce agreement you agreed to sign.
“You forced me to do it.” She confessed, “Edward Ford, I never meant to lie to you, let alone do anything I shouldn’t have done, but when you had me on the bed to do it to my child …… it was the only thing I could do.”
That was all she had to do to save the baby, to save her marriage to Logan Brown ……
“Ridiculous!” Edward Ford raged, “Elena, what the hell has Logan Brown ever done for you, why have you come to this point and never even thought of leaving him, what the hell has he put you under to make you so delirious!”
“No, he didn’t do anything!”
Elena Bush’s eyes were fishy red, “You don’t understand love, and nothing I can say to you will help …… because you simply can’t understand, let alone read, what I feel for him and me!”
“I don’t understand?”
“Yes, you don’t understand!”
Elena Bush said with certainty, if he did, he would know that what he was doing was pointless, if he did, he wouldn’t have done so many things he shouldn’t have!
Edward Ford’s face grew hard, “Elena Bush, it seems you really think I’m too nice to talk to and that’s why you keep challenging me, right?”
“I ……” Elena Bush listened to his words and inexplicably put up her guard, “What are you trying to do?”
“Elena, I told you that you could only choose between the baby and Logan Brown and to cut off all thoughts of it, but you didn’t listen, first you pretended to sign the divorce papers, but then you changed your name behind your back!”
He laughed, but it was an ugly laugh, “Elena, you are my daughter, I have kept you by my side for so long without you being able to call me father, but what makes it so easy for him, Roger Scott, to gain your trust!”
What gives him the right to take her as his daughter without permission, he has clung to Logan Brown’s mother all his life, then he is doomed to be childless and alone for the rest of his life!
But …… why, why had Elena Bush chosen him anyway?
Elena Bush pursed her lips and did not answer.
She knew that every word she spoke was about to irritate him, so it was better to choose silence than to annoy him.
Apparently, Edward Ford was not so patient this time, and when he saw that she was not answering and thought she was protecting Roger Scott on purpose, he got up and stepped forward and grabbed her by the hair.
His heart did not waver as he watched her pained expression, it was all anger at having been betrayed and deceived!
“Speak!” He forced a smile, “Elena, I have tried so hard to get you to behave, why do you have to go against me, why don’t you just stay at the Fords? Or am I not treating you well enough, so I’ll treat you twice as well!”
“But I don’t need you to be nice to me!”
Elena Bush was finally cornered, “Edward Ford, you never knew that you were nice to me not because I was Elena Bush, but because of Joanna Lake, because I had the same face as her! So consider me begging you to leave me alone ……”
If she did have to stay in the Fords then she would go mad, she didn’t really want to see herself like that, she was free, not a puppet, let alone a stand-in for anyone!
“Who said that?” Edward Ford lowered his voice as he stroked her face in denial, “It’s not what you think, I’m only being nice to you because you’re my daughter, but you’ve adopted someone else as your father behind my back. And how can I possibly still condone you!”
“Edward Ford ……”
“Shhh.” He interrupted her, “Elena, be good, I won’t do anything to you.”
Elena Bush looked at him with an unconscious look of unease in her eyes and moved her body to the side in an attempt to escape his grip.
He smiled harmlessly at her, “I haven’t done anything yet, why are you running?”
“Edward Ford, calm down, I’m Elena, Elena Bush, don’t pin Joanna Lake’s feelings on me and don’t get angry at me because of Joanna Lake, I’m not betraying you because I didn’t belong to you in the first place!”
She explained desperately, trying to suppress his emotions, her slender hand resting against his chest, her whole body radiating a signal of resistance to him.