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When Brian’s mother heard the words, her face paled even further.
“What are you blathering about? I would never hit him! I’m his biological mother. How could I do such a thing? You shouldn’t be slinging this filth at me!”
Given Joshua’s identity, she dared not utter anything too extreme, yet her guilty expression betrayed her inner disquiet.
Joshua sneered, “I’m lying? I witnessed it myself. Brian had wounds all over his arms, and he even had burns. Despite his tall stature, he falls ill frequently. He’s such a weakling, always fainting at the slightest provocation.”
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have managed to defeat Brian.
When Gabriel heard Joshua mention “fainting,” he furrowed his brow, experiencing a sense of familiarity.
The woman grasped Brian’s arm tightly, fearing that the secret beneath his clothes would be exposed. The pointed tip of her high heels kicked Brian’s shin, and she lowered her voice to caution him not to speak out of turn.
Brian hung his head mournfully, the bones at the back of his neck jutting out conspicuously. He stole a glance at the children being safeguarded by their parents and blurted out feebly, “It was Joshua who initiated it first…”
The woman’s mouth curved upwards in satisfaction, but then she heard Brian’s subsequent words. “But it was indeed me who provoked Joshua.”
He lifted his head and looked at Joshua, saying, “So we’re even now.”
Joshua glanced at him, feeling somewhat at a loss for words.
“If Brian couldn’t defeat someone shorter than him, it would be understandable. But, astonishingly, he couldn’t even overcome Leila, who wasn’t even two years old. Do his parents not feed him properly? Else, how could he be so frail?”
Reflecting on this, Joshua felt a tinge of sympathy for Brian’s plight.
Although his parents were divorced, they were kind to him and his brother. Brian’s parents, on the contrary, were not divorced, but his father never returned home and his mother frequently
assaulted him.
In comparison, he was already extremely fortunate.
Joshua looked at Gabriel and felt the gentle stroke of Gabriel’s large palm through his hair, while Gabriel’s words filled his ears, offering an overwhelming sense of security.
Gabriel said, “Joshua, how do you propose to settle this?”
In his heart, although Joshua was mischievous, he was very kind, and Gabriel was willing to safeguard this kindness within him.
“Dad, can you have Dr. Martin examine Brian’s wound? He looks truly pitiful.
“Once, I saw him crying in pain.”
Upon hearing Joshua’s words, Brian flushed with embarrassment and hastily clarified, “I didn’t cry! You misunderstood!”
Joshua nodded, “Yes, yes, you didn’t cry. It’s just that snot trickled from your eyes in the cold,
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okay?”
Brian was left speechless.
Gabriel shielded his two sons behind him and instructed them to sit on the chairs, leaving the matter to him to handle.
The woman’s eyes brightened when she saw him approaching and said, “Mr. Campbell, my son…” The Campbell Group boasted private hospitals.
Gabriel stated that he would be accountable for all of Brian’s subsequent medical expenses until his injuries were fully healed.
But the condition was that Brian needed to undergo a medical examination first.
The woman promptly grew panicked and said in a flustered tone, “Is a medical examination truly necessary? Brian has had a doctor overseeing his health since he was young, and I will take him to tend to the injury shortly.
“Mr. Campbell, you should offer some financial compensation.” Greed for wealth flickered in her eyes, bearing no resemblance to a well–bred lady.
While they conversed, Brian picked up the candies from the ground and carefully placed them in his pocket.
When he looked up, he met Leila’s gaze as she sat beside Hazel. He awkwardly turned his face away but caught a glimpse of her smiling at him.
Brian envied Joshua all the more.
He not only had such wonderful parents but also such an adorable sister. In contrast, no one in his family cared for him.
Leila noticed Brian’s wrist when he picked up the candies, and it was marked with numerous red scars. She surreptitiously glanced at Joshua.
She thought, “Did Joshua truly speak the truth?
“Brian’s mother seems like the wolf grandmother in the cartoon.”
She promptly ran to Brian’s side and, to his astonishment, rolled up his sleeve, revealing a dense pattern of red marks and bruises that left her stunned.
Brian stared at her blankly as she pulled up his sleeve, and then he saw Leila’s eyes widen.
And then…
Leila blew on his wound and said, “If I blow on it, it won’t hurt.”
Brian felt a warm current flowing gently within his heart. Just then, he caught sight of his enraged mother reaching out to seize Leila. He promptly carried Leila and ran towards Gabriel’s side.
“Leila!”
Jaxon and Joshua rushed over to check on Leila’s condition.
Hazel and Ethan had been keeping a close watch on Leila all along. Ensuring she was unharmed, they approached the woman. However, they held a dreadful impression of Brian’s mother. She rose and walked up to the woman, saying slowly, “There’s no issue in providing financial compensation to you.”
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When Hazel spoke, Gabriel wisely remained silent.
“But all the compensation will go to the child. You won’t receive a penny.”
The woman was incensed by her words that her eyes turned bloodshot.
At this instant, upon seeing Brian being led away by the police, panic intensified in her eyes and she hurriedly lunged forward, attempting to stop the child.
But the police halted her.
When Brian removed his coat, revealing a body marred with whip marks and cigarette burns, the police were astounded.
Brian’s grandmother arrived with the assistance of the butler.
The police informed the kind–hearted old lady about Brian’s situation, and within the entire White family, apart from her, everyone else lacked humanity.
However, in the past, Brian’s grandmother had often stayed in the church and worked for charity and hadn’t resided with the White family for many years.
“You vile woman! How dare you treat your son in such a manner!”
Brian’s mother’s actions had already constituted a crime, and she was well aware of the consequences, thus she decided to throw caution to the wind.
“How dare I? It’s all because of your son! He’s not content with just one or two mistresses; now he has dozens of them! Since he doesn’t care, why should I care about his son? Is the child mine alone?
“Just because I’m the mother of this child, did I deserve to endure all this? I once loved the child deeply, but what about Brian? He’d rather be close to the hussy his father keeps outside! As she spoke, Brian’s mother laughed wildly.
She turned her gaze to Hazel, her voice rife with confusion and bewilderment, even more so with a lack of clarity in her thoughts.
“Weren’t you the one who chose to divorce because of your husband and son’s closeness to gave them Gianna? Why are you now forgiving the child? We carried them for ten months and life. Shouldn’t they love their mother
moment they were born?
“Why? Tell me.”
from the
Brian’s mother couldn’t stem the flow of her tears as she spoke, her eyes brimming with confusion and bewilderment.
She used to be strict with Brian, all for his future to be smoother. But what about him? Brian despised her for lacking the tenderness of those mistresses and believed she didn’t love him
at all.
“I merely became the mother in his eyes who doesn’t love him. What right does he have to blame me? And what right do you have to blame me? Before I married into
have to blame me? Before I married into your White family, I was a radiant girl from a wealthy family. It was you who ruined me!”
The woman slumped onto the chair, crying and laughing simultaneously, appearing extremely mentally unstable.
And her furious outburst caused Jaxon and Joshua to turn pale. They didn’t dare to look into Hazel’s eyes.
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Because… their past behavior was no different from Brian’s.
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Even the well–behaved Jaxon, when Joshua was getting close to Gianna, felt it improper but didn’t stop it.
And Joshua at that time…
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