Reborn Through Fire

Chapter 1520

"Why can't we go back?" Madalyn asked, urgency lacing her voice.

"If we return to the Kooper residence, things can be just like before. You still have Jensen, and you—"

"Enough!" David cut her off with a snap, his tone dripping with sarcasm. "Damn, you've really lost your edge. You're a smart cookie, how did you not figure out that I'm the one who kidnapped you, and that I'm behind the fall of GK? I set it up so your precious grandson would have nothing, and I took over the Kooper residence, leaving you and your grandson with no place to go. You're just trying to suck up to me, flatter me, and even repent, all to save your grandson's *ss. You used to be all about your son, but now you only care about your precious grandson. Jensen and I are just pawns in your perfect little game, am I right?"

Madalyn looked at him with a complicated expression, unable to say a word. Finally, her feeble voice broke the silence. "I know I messed up, and if you want to get back at me, then do it. Just spare Gilbert. He still respects you as his elder."

"Heh!" David scoffed. "Gilbert is all you give a damn about now. If I really want to get revenge, I've got to hit you where it hurts, isn't that right?"

enough damage already? You

so far isn't

filled with

imagine what it was like to be the once-glorious son of the Kooper family, reduced to nothing but a pitiful, trash- picking beggar on the streets of some godforsaken foreign land? Did you see me, a

ripped open his shirt, revealing several gnarly scars on

for target practice. How many times did I come close to death? It was only my hatred for you that

her hand over her mouth, shaking her head sadly. " Stop it. It's... it's my

eyes. "Sometimes, I wish you never adopted me in the first place. Thenmaybe I wouldn't have fallen from heaven into this living hell. You raised me only to abandon me. You ruined my

sorry," Madalyn

his head, his laugh laced with bitterness. "Sorry isn't going to cut it. What

woman was a goddamn snake. She got with Christopher all on her own. If she bean really loved you, she could have waited for you to come