The Ceo’s Convict Wife

Chapter 178

The ward was currently silent, as no one made a sound. Rosalie could only feel Leonard looking at her very seriously, but his gaze seemed to carry a hint of disdain and disgust.

Next to Leonard, apart from a caretaker, there was also the man who had brought her here and claimed to be Leonard’s personal assistant.

“Do you know why I had you brought here?” Leonard’s voice finally broke the silence after some time.

“Yes. Because of Jonathan, Rosalie replied. Although she was only pretending not to be apprehensive or nervous on here, she felt oddly calm when she saw the contempt in Leonard’s eyes upon her arrival.

After all, she had already experienced the worst before, so things couldn’t possibly get worse today.

Leonard snorted. “It’s good that you’re aware!”

the way

“What do you want to say?” Rosalie asked bluntly. Perhaps due to her exhaustion from experiencing so much, she no longer wanted to beat around the bush.

“To think he actually let you move into the Youngblood residence. Did you really think a woman like you could enter the Youngblood family?” Leonard questioned coldly.

Right then, Rosalie understood that Leonard had purposefully come to assert his authority over her.

She lowered her head and remained silent. At this point, he probably wouldn’t believe whatever she said, anyway.

Leonard seemed to find her silence rather uninteresting and turned to his personal assistant to ask, “Tell me. What do you think my grandson sees in this woman?”

have some exceptional

“I can’t see anything exceptional, and this face is truly unpleasant to look at. Just ruin it, then. Let’s see if Jonathan will still want her,” he said,

Leonard’s personal assistant

her head abruptly to

“He

old man, says it so

to herself. I almost forgot that Leonard used to be a powerful man as well. Since he brought me here today, he naturally has more in store for me than just a few words of

could I have expected him to send me back with

to be Leonard’s personal assistant retrieved a dagger from his inner breast pocket and walked toward Rosalie. She looked at

surprised by

personal assistant asked as

like I’ll succeed anyway,” she replied calmly. After all, the fact that this man could work by Leonard’s side and bet assigned such

even if she could escape from this ward, she might not

to accept her fate, but there was still a sense of anger in Rosalie’s heart. She mused, Why am I destined to be manipulated by others like this? I’m a human being like everyone else. Why can’t I even fight back when someone

law in hopes of upholding justice. Yet

rather smart, the man

“So, this is what it’s like to be

she watched the other party’s dagger approach her face, her body shook even more. All of a sudden, she

she was restrained by two bodyguards who were already standing guard

mocked, “Weren’t you very courageous earlier? Turns our you were merely looking for a chance to flee. Alas, as you said,

even if she was like a lamb to the slaughter, she wanted to give herself a choice to

as she watched the dagger about to cut her face for real this

kicked