Adults and their endless troubles and knots and drama! As a kid, Felix was pretty sure the best course of action now was to skedaddle out of there, go to his room, and sleep.Jeanette’s face was already marred with tears. “My mom, Damon! How is she? Tell me the truth, please!”“I was only hiding this from you because I didn’t want you to panic.”“Then what are you going to do? What’s gonna happen to my mom?” Jeanette asked frantically. If Damon’s exhaustive effort had brought him no closer to
The mental institution that could only be reached after a lengthy two-hour drive turned out to be nothing less than a remote and night-deserted place.Jeanette never thought this was what her father deemed fit for Juliana—a building so decrepit it bordered on being abandoned. There were plenty of mental institutions and rehabs surrounded by idyllic landscape and picturesque sceneries nearby, and yet this one was small, outfitted with run-down buildings and an entrance so dilapidated, the paint
“You think you’ve won, Jeanette? You think becoming his wife means anything at all? His family detests you, stupid girl. You’ll get nothing from them, not even in the future!”“Goddamn it, Juliana. Do you want me to sign this or not?”“The Godfreys’ inheritance will never be yours! But the Leightons’… It’s in your hands. If you’re gonna give up your birthright for your mother’s pathetic life, then be my guest!” Juliana bristled.Jeanette’s hand suddenly stopped shy from signing. An abrupt tho
“You’re as illegitimate as they come, Jeanette. And now, ooh, Grace’s son is an illegitimate bast*rd himself! You two are practically two peas in a pod already, aren’t you? I wonder… Now that he’s finally got a son on his own, will Magnus still hand his fortune to you?”Jeanette sneered. “Sorry to disappoint you, but I never wanted any of the Leightons’ fortune anyway.”“Pfft. Everybody can moralize loftily like that when they are privileged enough.”“I really don’t. So let my mother go, and
No matter how much she cried out to her, Jeanette could not wake her mother up.Why was she not waking up?“She’s gonna be fine. She’s getting treated in the hospital; she’ll be fine,” Damon comforted as hard as he could.Jeanette watched doctors and nurses set her mother down onto a sickbed before wheeling her into the emergency room. She tailed them, always just a few paces behind, until finally she was stopped by the swinging door leading to the emergency room.The cold, heavy door slamme
The waiting time for the operation was long and filled with anxiety. Jeanette wasn’t sure how she managed to maintain one action for so long.Damon would either receive calls from time to time from a subordinate. The police had arrived at the rehabilitation center and apprehended Juliana.However, due to her history of mental illness, it would be difficult for the court to issue a heavy sentence.“Don’t worry. Even if she feigns mental illness to escape justice, I’ll make sure that she spends the rest of her life in a living hell.”Jeanette closed her eyes and silently wept. She wasn’t in the mood to think about what the law would do to that criminal. All she wanted was for her mother to be safe.At that moment, she realized that she was just like any other person. She had the simplest wish. All she wanted was to see evil brought to justice and for good people to receive kindness in return.Unfortunately, God was not always fair.The emergency room door finally opened after some
Grace smiled. “That woman is a complete idiot. She thinks that I can be bought over, just because she’s spent a little money on me, and that I’d work for her. Obviously, she never considered that I’d rather be the lady of the Leighton household. It’s much more beneficial to me than the money she’s given me.”The woman sat in her spot, grandly. She had no idea what Juliana would think if she had seen how the woman she had used had now usurped her throne.It would seem that questioning Grace would be useless.Damon refused to waste any more time on her. He reached out his hand and waved, signaling for seven to eight heavily armed bodyguards to enter and surround the Leighton household.She panicked. “Mr. Godfrey, what is the meaning of this?”“Keep an eye on her. Don’t let her leave, and do not let her contact anyone from the outside world,” Damon ordered.One bodyguard immediately stepped forward and snatched Grace’s phone away from her.“What… What are you doing?”She tried to
Lucia attentively served him a cup of coffee and some dessert. She was about to walk out when Damon stopped her.“Do you need anything else, sir?”“You’ve been transferred to Leighton Inc. for quite a while now. Could you give me more details on Leighton Inc.’s current situation?”Lucia used to work for the Godfrey Group. Thus, she naturally complied with Damon and quickly told Damon everything she had seen and heard over the past few days.Some of her descriptions were pretty close to the things he had heard. However, the internal employees would have a better knowledge of certain details. After listening to Lucia’s description, he found out that Leighton Inc. was really a big umbrella that hid many unpredictable things.Damon was suddenly hit with regret. Maybe he shouldn’t have rushed to make Jeanette take over Leighton Inc. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been put in so many predicaments.However, Lucia said, “Jeanette may have complained about those conceited directors in secre