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?"

"What do you want, David? Haven't you done enough damage already? You took everything from him, and you're still

so far isn't

past, his eyes filled

like a dog. Can you even 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 once

ripped open his shirt, revealing several gnarly scars on his

times did I come close to death? It was only my hatred for you that kept

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

the first place. Thenmaybe I wouldn't have fallen from heaven into this living hell.

sorry,"

cut it. What hurts me

got with Christopher all on her own. If she bean really loved you, she could have waited for