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The words had barely left his lips when Zachary’s face darkened with fury. He leapt to his feet, snatched a cane from the butler’s grasp, and marched menacingly towards Chasel

“Ugh!”

A sudden, searing pain shot through Chasel’s legs as, out of nowhere, two bodyguards appeared behind him. A strike from their batons sent him crashing to his knees!

“You ungrateful brat! After such a colossal screw up, you have the gall to laugh! The nerve to talk back?”

Zachary’s eyes were bloodshot as he swung his arm violently, the rigid cane whistling through the air before thudding against Chaser’s back with a chilling thump!

But Chasel barely made a sound, just a single grunt.

Blow after blow rained down on him like a hailstorm of agony, his arms pinned helplessly by the bodyguards, his insides screamed as if being twisted into knots. His vision blurred, the taste of blood thickening in his throat.

Yet he refused to plead, refused to bow his head!

The brutal beating made Warner shudder and turn away, unable to watch.

“A first–rate man needs no guidance; a second–rate man responds to stern discipline; but you, an ignorant, aimless, ungrateful wretch, you only learn from a beating!”

With that, Zachary raised the cane high and brought it crashing down with all his might!

a

sturdy as a

ensuing silence was broken by a wave of gasps!

ashen, his blood drained until he was nearly translucent, his body trembling uncontrollably as

on his lower lip, the blood staining his lips a stark, tragic

“Dad!”

Let’s think this through for the long term. If you

it wasn’t about pity for his own brother.

was all about preserving the dignity of the head of

broken cane slipping from

from the force

his head hung low, his expression unseen, yet his laughter was mocking and defiant, “Is that all you’ve got?

“Beast!”

vein throbbing wildly on his forehead as he flung the remains of the cane away,

I change, what

were forged anew, his teeth clenched as he shakily stood, battered and bruised, to the shock of everyone present–even Zachary’s face went

doctor, what have I

sick and save lives, that’s what Grandpa taught me since childhood. To this day, his study still bears the plaque ‘To serve those in need‘. I thought that was the Bright family’s creed! But it turns out, the so–called family rules are just an outlet for your personal vendettas! To you, Chairman Ashbourne is an enemy. But to me, he’s just

pit was much live that tea sunt a spirit

defense etenced the room, teaving vinyes

with resenhapes, Taband

that was in tallers, peen the touted and authentic bonsai ta the quands at the door turned away,

personal doctor is on ins Way,

Bright family never

resistant, Im a doctor too, I know my own comman hatter than

out helplessly, leaving

the door shut, Chasel collapsed to the floor, a mouthful of blood he had been holding Back sping onto the husuma Bat

hurts, it hurts

agony, his sweat mingled

beating, his anger had numbed the pain, but now alone, his

hurts so bad

a grown man, cried out in pain, looking more pitiful than a

were indistinguishable, were they for the beating, or for the longing for

didn’t

door of the Bright family mansion, Cassius stood alone in already misting with unshed tears.

reaching for his phone to call his little fox.

heard the voicemail, his heart

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