“…”
Jasper stood there, his breathing getting heavier and heavier, but he didn’t say a word.
Seeing the increasingly tense atmosphere between father and daughter, Beinice on the side frowned and said, “Blanca, haven’t I told you about the stakes involved here? Why are you becoming more and more paranoid? If you can’t use someone, you have to kill them. You weren’t like this before.”
“Didn’t my father teach me to be like this?”
Blanca said, standing up from the floor, looking at Jasper word by word, “At that time, I called you and said that I still had Marian by my side and I couldn’t leave. Could you send someone else to solve things? You said that nothing was more important than the Folsom family’s great cause. If I didn’t do it, I wouldn’t be a member of the Folsom family. After I heard that, I left the child who was only two days old to work for the Folsom family.”
“…”
“I lost my child, but I still worked for the Folsom family! I didn’t complain once! I told myself that this was the destiny of a Folsom family member!”
Blanca stood there, shouting out each word with clenched teeth, her reddened eyes staring directly at Jasper. “But now, you’re doing this for a stranger, why? What I couldn’t have with my daughter, why give it to a stranger?”
She refused to accept it!
She refused to give in!
She let out a loud roar.
The whole audience fell silent.
Everyone looked at Blanca in disbelief. They had never heard Blanca talk about these things before, and they had always thought that Blanca was purely career-minded…
Jasper looked at her in shock, as if he had been slapped in the face out of nowhere, and he took a faltering step back.
Beinice hurriedly helped him from the side.
“All these years, you’ve been hating me,” Jasper looked at Blanca’s face, understood everything, and his voice suddenly aged and became hoarse.
“I don’t hate you. To hate you would mean that you were wrong, and I was wrong too. I should die, to atone for my daughter’s life. You should also die, to atone for your granddaughter’s life. The Folsom family, which has no regard for any kind of affection, deserves to be slaughtered.”
After saying that, Blanca turned her face away.
She said she didn’t hate, but her bloodshot eyes were full of hatred. That emotion was like a knife, slowly cutting into her flesh and bones over the years.
“Blanca, don’t talk nonsense. The loss of the child was not the old man’s wish,”
Beinice said, as he helped Jasper. He could clearly feel that the former strongest member of the Folsom family, the head of the family who had guided the Folsom family to a quick recovery, was truly old. He could hardly stand anymore, and could no longer support the Folsom family with the fierce measures of the past.
He almost felt his father’s life slipping away little by little.
Beinice hurriedly helped Jasper to his seat and sat down. Jasper sat there with an expressionless face and dark eyes without a glimmer of light. “You’re not trying to kill Paige, you’re trying to kill me.”
He understood.
He understood completely.
When the old man said such things, it shook the people in the room to the point where they almost knelt.
Someone hurriedly said, “Blanca, don’t be so extreme. Since you were young, the old man has loved you the most. He even said in front of everyone that he wanted to pass the position to you, which shows how much the old man values you.”
“Yes, I know the old man loves me,”
Blanca said indifferently, turning around to look at Jasper, her eyes red as she smiled cruelly, “so the father and daughter should continue to be of one mind, with no selfish thoughts for the great cause of the Folsom family, cold-hearted and ruthless, killing anyone who gets in the way, destroying anyone who stands in our way. You cannot change, and I will not allow you to change.”
“…”
The entire hall was deathly silent.
Everyone didn’t know what else to say.
Jasper sat there with his head down, not speaking again for a long time, except for his shoulders sinking a little.
“Younger aunt…”
Kelsey, whose eyes had long since reddened, slowly stepped forward and said weakly, “You don’t have to be like this. I believe that the old master has regretted it for many years. Yesterday, I overheard a little of his conversation with sister Paige. The old master said that sister Paige is very much like you when you were young.”
“…”
Beinice was shocked to hear that this was where the old master’s ‘change’ came from.
He looked at the silly Brangelina again. Brangelina had been mistaking Paige for Blanca the whole time. Perhaps only simple-minded people could see the truth at first glance.
Beinice looked back at Blanca, thinking that she would be moved. However, Blanca was not moved at all. She gave a cold laugh, “So what if she looks like her? If you treat her well, will that make up for everything? It’s useless, Father. I’ve already lived your life. Don’t even think about living it again.”
Neither father nor daughter should ever live again.
Every word she spoke now was like a slap in the face of Jasper, the head of the family.
“…”
Jasper sat there, looking at Blanca’s paranoid silence in her eyes.
He knew full well that nothing could be undone.
“Grandpa! Uncle! Auntie!” A voice that was not steady came from afar.
Eduardo ran in from the snowstorm outside. He was so thick-skinned that he didn’t notice the atmosphere was wrong, and he ran directly in front of Blanca. “Auntie, I’ve heard that a large number of cars have entered Eastdown and are heading straight for us. I don’t feel right about it.”
“What?” Beinice was taken aback. “How many cars and people are there exactly?”
“I’m not sure exactly. They just said there are a lot of people. Should I take some people over there first to see what these people want?” Eduardo asked anxiously.
Before Beinice could reply, the sound of propellers could be heard outside, faint and indistinct.
Eduardo blinked twice, “Oh, I forgot to mention that they’ve also deployed a helicopter. They dare to fly in such bad weather.”
“…”
You forgot something else!
The Folsom family could hear the sound and knew that things were not good. They hurried outside and stood in the snow, looking up at the sky.
They saw several helicopters flying from afar, not entering the manor grounds, but hovering in the fine snow in the distance, flying very low. At such a distance, they could not see any aggressiveness, but it had already provoked the bottom line of the Folsom family.
“Find someone to shoot it down. How dare they fly over the head of our Folsom family!” Someone said angrily.
“No one in all of Eastdown would dare to act arrogantly in our Folsom family’s place. There must be a reason for this, let someone go and ask,” said Beinice cautiously.
As soon as the words fell, another bodyguard ran over, only to be seen in a sorry state, his face bruised and swollen, with blood at the corners of his mouth.
The bodyguard panted as he ran in front of the group, “Sir, something’s happened, all the roads leading out of the manor within 20 kilometers have been blocked, and the people on duty have been captured.”
“All blocked off?”
Casey was shocked. Those on guard were all armed and not bad at all.
“Yes,” the bodyguard wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said, ‘They let me come back and give the old man a message.”
After Jasper and Blanca caused such a scene, neither of them said a word.
Beinice frowned and asked, ‘What message?”
Everyone looked at the bruised bodyguard.
The bodyguard swallowed dryly, a little unwillingly, and paused for a few seconds before speaking each word clearly, “Release Paige immediately, or after dark, the Folsom family manor will become a dead city.”
What a rampant tone.
Everyone was so shocked that they couldn’t speak, and then they all understood.
This is-
Enrico, here.