Mrs. Neal was shocked by Eugene’s cold and hostile stance. She stuttered, “She… wasn’t willing to come back and insisted on getting down. It’s not like I could force her to come back.” “She’s missing now. If anything happens to her, I’ll make you pay for it!” Eugene’s eyes and brows were overcast. There was a murderous glint in his gaze. When he loosened his hold on her, she felt her legs turn to jelly. She almost fell down, but Sydney supported her just in time. “Eugene, what are you doing? My mother did it for our sake. She just wanted the child to help out—” “Rue isn’t involved in anything that happened between us!” Eugene glared at the mother and daughter coldly. His voice turned icier than it was before. He stared at Mrs. Neal and said, “You’d better be telling the truth!” After that, he grabbed Fern’s arm and left. “Eugene…” Sydney’s face paled. Did he come back just for Rue? “Let him look for the child.” Mrs. Neal held her daughter back. Although she was still sha
“Wifey, are you alright?” Hound saw her lying motionlessly on the floor. Her clothes were torn from the whipping and there were bloody gashes on her back.He felt extremely pitiful. “My little cutie, why are you being so disobedient? Let me see your wounds.” He had finally gotten a wife with much difficulty. He could not allow her to get beaten to death. He inched closer. Rue, who had been motionless all along, suddenly moved. She endured the pain and evaded him. “Go away! Don’t come close to me!”“Look at you. This isn’t right. You’re hurt, and I’m your man. Why can’t I take a look at your wounds?” Hound then thought of something. Suddenly, he smiled lustfully. “Are you shy?” He approached her again. Rue was hiding from him in the corner. There was nowhere else she could hide. She kicked him with all her might. “Don’t come over. Scram…”“You little thing, you’re already hurt but you’re still capable of causing such a ruckus. It’s no wonder you got beaten up by my mother. If y
“Where’s Rue?” Eugene asked as he entered the room.“The young miss is over there.”Eugene looked in the direction that Wyatt was pointing and caught sight of the little girl. She was trembling all over while hiding in a corner of the room. His heart instantly lurched.“Rue!” He walked over in a few steps as his gaze darkened. “Daddy!” Rue cried loudly as she threw herself into his arms.Eugene noticed his daughter’s ragged clothes and the gashes on her skin that were caused by the whipping. The urge to murder someone instantly arose within him! He glanced at the bleeding man, who had fallen at the side, and the woman the bodyguards were holding onto. He was able to guess what had happened. A terrifying cold glint flashed across his gaze. He took off his suit jacket and wrapped it around Rue. He then carried Rue, who was still trembling in fear. He turned around and spoke to Wyatt in an emotionless voice, “You should know how to handle this situation, right?” Wyatt looked
Fern rushed over to the hospital as soon as she received Eugene’s call. She saw Eugene standing outside a ward in the hospital corridor. She took a few steps over and grabbed his arm. “Where’s Rue? How is she?” Eugene looked at her and spoke to her in a heavy tone, “She’s inside. The doctor is inspecting her and carrying out treatment.” “Treatment? Is she injured? Where is she injured?” She bombarded him with a few questions at one go. She wanted to go in to see Rue at once. “She has some injuries, but they aren’t very serious.” He only told her that because he did not want her to worry too much. Actually, he was not sure about Rue’s condition as well. “How did she get hurt?” Fern still did not know that Rue had been sold to a family in the mountains. She simply received a call from Eugene, who told her that he had found Rue. She then rushed over immediately. Eugene’s gaze darkened as he looked into her eyes. He pursed his lips without replying to her question. The e
Fern caressed her daughter’s head pitifully. She then asked Eugene to leave the ward with her. When they were in the hospital corridor, she asked, “Tell me. What happened to Rue?” “Some human traffickers sold her to a family in a poor mountainous district. The family bought her to be their child bride,” he told her about the horrendous incident with the simplest words he could think of. “What? She was sold…” Fern was shocked. The next moment, she was filled with extreme anger. “How did she become the target of human traffickers?” She could not imagine how frightened Rue must have been after being sold like that. Were the injuries on her body inflicted by the person who bought her?It was no wonder that her emotions were highly unstable now. She was even suffering from psychological trauma! Eugene’s expression suddenly hardened. He spoke to her in an icy tone, “She wasn’t targeted by human traffickers… Sydney’s mother was the one who sold her to the human traffickers.”
At this moment, Eugene resembled a cold-faced gladiator. He emanated a terrifying sense of iciness and hostility. It seemed that he would take Mrs. Neal’s life the very next second! Mrs. Neal had been confident that Eugene would never be able to find Rue after the human traffickers sold her to an isolated mountainous area. However, she had underestimated Eugene’s capability and the Newton household’s authority. “I… I…” Mrs. Neal started to panic as her face paled. She stuttered and said, “Who told you such nonsense? How could I have done something like that? You’re accusing me!” Flames of anger burned in his gaze. If she were not Sydney’s mother, he would not even bother wasting time talking to her. He would send her to the police station straight away. “The two human traffickers you worked with are now being detained in the police station. Do you want me to bring you to see them? Shall I ask them if they know their seller?” Right then, Mrs. Neal’s legs turned wobbly. She f
Mrs. Neal protested and struggled against their hold with all her might. “I won’t go! Don’t touch me! Otherwise, I’ll sue both of you for molesting me!” Just as she was about to get dragged away, she shouted at her daughter, “Syd, rescue me right now! Your man is sending me to prison. He’s going to take my life…”Sydney finally started to panic. She got on her knees in front of Eugene and hugged his leg as she pleaded with him, “Eugene, I beg you not to send my mother to prison. She knows her mistake now. Just let her go this one time.”Eugene narrowed his piercing eyes as he looked at Sydney, who was kneeling on the floor before him. His expression turned colder as he pursed his lips tightly. He had no intention of forgiving her.“Eugene, I beg you… She’s my mother, please let her go. She did all this just for me…” Sydney started crying.However, the cold-hearted man did not do anything. He watched as the bodyguards dragged Mrs. Neal out and sent her away. “Syd, save me…” Sh
“You…” Sydney stared at the cold man in front of her in shock. Suddenly, she could not bring herself to say anything.Eugene noticed that she seemed to be shocked. He sneered and said, “You don’t need to be afraid. I don’t have a mental illness. But, I have those genes in my body. If I have a child, the genes will definitely be passed on to the child. You won’t want to give birth to a child with a mental illness, right?”Sydney still could not accept the fact. “But Rue seems pretty healthy…” She could not tell that Rue had inherited those genes.Eugene’s gaze darkened. “Does that mean you want Rue to suffer from an illness?” “No… No...I didn’t mean that.” She just found it odd. “Rue inherited my genes, but the genes aren’t dominant. She’s considered lucky. However, she has had some health problems since birth. Those health problems were inevitable.” Rue was born with a congenital heart problem. She had gotten slightly better now, but she had not fully recovered from her cond