Only then did Jonathan snort coldly and stomp away, holding his walking stick.

Sebastian remained expressionless and was about to leave too when he heard Devin grunt in pain. The latter was dragging his injured leg behind him.

Sebastian stopped in his tracks before turning around and holding Devin’s arm.

“Don’t you know how to resist?”

“What?”

“You deserve to be beaten to death. How could you just stay motionless like that?” demanded Sebastian coldly. “Do you know your actions are what caused him to develop such a twisted personality?”

 

Devin was at a loss for words.

He glanced at Sebastian and chuckled helplessly.

 

I had to endure it. It’s not like I can just retaliate, right?

The two brothers helped each other out of the military zone. Jonathan and Mark were already gone as they had expected. Before getting into the car, Devin paused.

“Sebastian, are you really going to return to Avenport?”

“Yeah.”

“Why?” He panicked again since neither Jonathan nor anyone from the military was present there.

“Are you still furious about what Grandpa said? Well, if you’d like to be the heir of the Jadesons, I—”

Sebastian cut him

was forced to come here, and I’ve never thought of this place as my home. My home is in Avenport, where my parents and the rest of my family are. It’s the place that nurtured me. The same goes for Sasha, understand?” He emphasized every word, reiterating his stance clearly. His tone was heavy and laced with a hint of impatience as Devin kept refusing to believe

never thought of this place as his home after all this time? Devin was speechless, feeling a little upset. However, it was not the time to say anything else. Neither of them spoke on

was about to get out of the car, Janice walked out to welcome

from the Woods was merely putting up a show. Don’t

Huh?

Devin was stunned.

he returned to his senses and wanted to clarify

did he know that it was

footage, wasn’t he the one who dragged the person in? He was not present, so how did he

into

Devin? Are you

a while, he looked at Janice and asked, “Aunt Janice, do you know where the surveillance footage

smashed it with his foot

what happened that morning when he brought

If it was just some footage, why did he have to smash it? What made him

Devin’s heart pounded rapidly.

the evening, Mark came back and told Sasha that Sebastian

my God! Are we

she did not know

the elevator and

to Avenport was

so many years, she had been struggling to hold on for the sake of her fragmented family. She did not

even fathom how much she yearned

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