That night was not a calm night.
To the occupants of the Newton residence, especially, it was a sleepless, painful night.
Jasmine had paid a visit to a relative of her mother’s. She was unreachable because she had turned off her phone.
After Gwendolyn and her group left, Craig ordered the bodyguards to locate Jasmine immediately.
Five hours later, at daybreak, Jasmine was dragged back from her relative’s house and flung into the ancestral hall.
“Hey! Go easy, would you? Are you trying to kill me?”
She massaged her sore buttock as she grumbled at the bodyguard.
Without a word, the bodyguard departed the ancestral hall after one last bow.
With a bang that startled Jasmine, he slammed the doors to the ancestral hall shut.
In the pitch-black darkness of the night, the candles in the ancestral hall remained lit. Shivering at the Occasional cold breeze, Jasmine swallowed guiltily as she got to her feet.
“Remain on your knees.”
An icy male voice that chilled her to the bone sounded behind her.
Jasmine shuddered with a fear that penetrated her bones when she heard the voice.
Clumsily, she whipped around and saw Craig standing before the plaques of their ancestors with a menacing scowl. Even more frightening, he was holding the cane used to uphold their familial laws.
The slick-looking cane looked imposing. It was plain that it had been soaking before it was produced. prepared especially for her.
Terrified, she braced herself before stepping forward and kneeling, giving a weak chuckle as she did so.
did I do wrong to warrant the use of the
speak. His face, contorted with rage,
about this, Craig. My skin is too delicate to withstand
an act of indignity by
down imperiously. His tone was
find out you’re lying,
vigorously, “I won’t. Ask
you seek
repeated reminders earlier that
coming home today, but you sent
studied her expression.
nervous. She reminded herself to answer according to
not survive the
thought, she looked up innocently. “Yes, they’re
rage. He brought the cane up with
down! That would hurt so much.
his hesitance to lunge at him and
I’ve always been good. What did I do? Could you at
welled up with tears as
cane. “You seemed to have forgotten the virtues of our family I have taught you, Jasmine,” he continued coldly. “When did you learn
his leg tighter. Gazing up in confusion, she met his
Are you insinuating that I stole the crystal earrings? Preposterous! I am the heiress of the Newton family, and I have seen
Craig’s brows tightened.
raised his own sister, he knew her temperament
was for that reason that he had her brought to the ancestral hall to question her instead of dragging her there to subject her to
that had happened in order,”
him the story she had rehearsed many
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