Emilia cried bitterly with red eyes.
Rebecca immediately withdrew her hands in fright. Then she glared at Emilia fiercely, “Stop crying, or I’ll throw you off the top floor!”
Rebecca hated the guts of Leo and Lydia, and so she hated their daughter. There was no way that she would treat Emilia nicely.
Emilia cried louder after hearing that.
“Mom did nothing wrong, don’t hit her!”
“Dad, where are you, Dad? Come and save Mommy!”
Emilia was about to run out crying but was caught by Rebecca.
“Shut up!”
Rebecca glared and threatened her, “Don’t you think I dare not to beat you. You’re a jinx, just like your parents! You may as well be dead!”
Emilia huddled herself in the corner and cried out of breath.
Seeing that Emilia was crying louder instead of being scared, Rebecca was afraid of being heard by someone else. She softened her voice and said, “Grandpa is joking. Can you stop carrying?”
“Grandma is a badass! I don’t want to stay with you!”
Emilia ignored her and kept crying.
Rebecca was anxious and reached out her hands to cover Emilia’s mouth.
Emilia suddenly opened her mouth and bit Rebecca’s arms.
Then Rebecca screamed loud in the ward.
“Argh!”
Rebecca retracted her hand as if she had been shocked by electricity. She looked at it and found blood.
Her expression turned gloomy immediately.
“You little bastard. How dare you bite me! I’ll give you a fat lip!”
Rebecca said and raised her hand.
Bang!
Just by then, the door of the ward suddenly opened. Caroline stood at the door angrily, watching what was happening inside.”
Rebecca panicked and quickly explained, “Caroline, it’s not like that… The kid bit me! Come and see my fingers!”
Caroline didn’t listen to her. In disbelief, she looked at Rebecca and said, “Mom, are you crazy? Emilia is only five years old. How could you hit her like that?”
“No, she bit me first…”
Rebecca still wanted to pass the buck.
Caroline sneered, “Bit you? I think you can use a better excuse. She’s a sweet five-year-old girl. Why would she bite you if you hadn’t done anything to her?”
She said and pushed Rebecca away. Then she hugged Emilia and wiped the tears on her face, asking softly, “Emilia, tell me, what happened just now?”
Emilia pointed at Rebecca and couldn’t stop crying.
“Grandma wanted to slap Mom, and I stopped her. So she wanted to hit me…”
Hearing Emilia’s words, Caroline opened her eyes widely and asked Rebecca in disbelief, “Mom, is that true? Were you going to slap Lydia?”
Rebecca looked more and more flustered. She explained anxiously, “How’s that possible? What does she know? She’s only five years old!”
“I’m telling the truth!”
Emilia screamed. She opened her hands and protected Lydia with her tiny body.
Caroline looked so shocked. She pulled Emilia behind her and said in trembling, “Aren’t you a good mom? Leo asked me to take care of Emilia. Now look at what you’ve done! You wanted to hurt Lydia and Emilia when I was out for fresh air. Why do you hate them so much?”
Caroline’s eyes suddenly turned red, and she continued, “I know what kind of person you were when you forced me to marry Hudson. I’m just a sacrificial lamb to you. You would’ve ruined my life weren’t it for Leo. Now you wanted to hit Lydia and Emilia? You don’t deserve to be my mom!”
Boom!
Rebecca’s head spun. Being yelled at by her own daughter made her stunned.
When she came to her senses, she decided to tell Caroline the truth.
“Caroline, Lydia is…”
“Shut up!”
Before Rebecca could say the word ‘daughter’, Caroline screamed and stopped her.
Caroline pointed to the door and said, “Now get the hell out.”
“Caroline…”
“Get out!”
“You won’t be allowed in until Dad and Lydia are awake!”
Caroline was furious and scared.
She couldn’t imagine what would happen if she let Rebecca stay alone in the ward.
Rebecca was stunned for quite a while before she came back to her senses. She glared at Caroline.
“I did everything for you, and you’re driving me out…”
“Okay, I hope you won’t regret it!”
Rebecca said as she stormed out of the ward.
Having watched Rebecca leave, Caroline finally sat down on the chair with tears on her face.
She never thought her happy family would fall apart like this.
Her father is in a coma, and her mother acted like a stranger,
“Aunt Caroline…”
Emilia called her timidly.
Caroline put her smile back. She picked Emilia up and said earnestly, “It will all be fine!”
The car stopped slowly. Leo strolled into the Perry family, followed by Nadine and Millie.
The Perry family was heavily guarded at that time. Guards who had surrendered to Jimmy could be seen everywhere. They looked at the three people indifferently.
Millie’s heart was pounding, while Leo’s face remained unchanged, as if these guards didn’t exist.
Nadine was even blunter. She was playing several daggers in her hand.
The three of them came directly to the Perry family’s living room.
The living room was full of people, led by Jimmy, Theo, and Andrew.
Behind them were a few of Ryan’s illegitimate sons Leo had never seen, but Leo could guess they were not of high status.
Andrew looked at the three people and laughed, “Leo, here you are.”
Leo didn’t have any expression on his face. He skimmed over all the people in this place and asked, “I heard that you were looking for me?”
“We need to find you for something.”
Jimmy narrowed his eyes and looked at Leo, “You have something with you, but it doesn’t belong to you. Hand it over, and we’ll let you go.”
As soon as he said that, Millie became intense.
Leo grinned a thin smile, “You mean the property in the will? I’m sorry, I’ve given all of it to Millie.”
Jimmy’s face suddenly became grim. He looked at Millie and said, “I think you should hand it over to us, Sister. You don’t stand any chance to win!”
Millie seemed anxious, but she still shook her head, “I’m the most orthodox heir to the Perry family. You’re just unspeakable bastards. Why do you think you can get it from me?”
Millie’s words didn’t make Jimmy mad because he thought Millie could never be his match in terms of tactics and resourcefulness.
He looked at Leo, “You should persuade my sister to hand it over. She is my little sister anyway. I will not kill her. I may even find a nice guy and make them a match.”
“Stop daydreaming, Jimmy!”
Millie was boiled off by the rage when she heard that.
Leo shook his head, “I didn’t want to get involved in your family business because I wanted to train Millie and spare you life. However, you’ve apparently chosen a way leading to death.”
“Are you threatening us?”
Jimmy put on a weird smile.
Leo continued to shake his head, “I never threaten people. I do what I say.”
“Really? So you want to get this done in a hard way.”
Jimmy sneered and looked at Andrew. “Get her here.”
Andrew waved his hand immediately, and the two guards brought up a woman with a black cloth over her head.
As Andrew took off the cloth, Millie couldn’t help scream out, “Sandra!”
“Woooo!”
With the rag stuck in her mouth, Sandra could only whimper from her throat.
“I doubt if you dare to disobey us.”
Andrew laughed wildly and said with a vicious face, “She’ll die if you don’t give the will to us!”