Chapter 17 Didn’t You Hear Me?
He grabbed a flagpole and swung it down on his son!
The bronze flagpole bent the moment it hit his body.
Nicholas let out a miserable scream.
“Ah!”
But Bronson acted as if he didn’t hear him. He picked up another pole and continued to beat Nicholas.
Before long, Nicholas was covered in bruises.
Paisley, terrified by the scene, rushed forward, throwing herself over her son and shielding him with tears streaming down her face.
“Nick knows he was wrong! Bronson, stop!”
“No! That little brat hurt Fia today. No matter what, I have to punish him! Get out of my way!”
They were putting on a show.
Fiorella’s family looked on coldly. Not a single person stepped in.
Seeing that no one was stopping him, Bronson felt too embarrassed to stop himself, so he gritted his teeth and kept beating his son as hard as
he could.
“Is this how you turned out?! Hitting your cousin? Is this how I raised you? You’ve completely disgraced me!”
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The more Bronson yelled, the angrier he became. If he was pretending earlier, now he was dead serious.
He swung the pole again and again, Nicholas’s screams echoing throughout the room.
Soon, blood began seeping.
Paisley turned pale at the sight.
“Stop! Are you really trying to beat him to death?!”
“Do you know you were wrong?”
Nicholas was on the verge of fainting. As much as he wanted to keep his attitude, he also didn’t want to be kicked out by his grandfather.
After a long silence, he finally gritted his teeth and panted, “I… was wrong… I’m sorry, Fiorella…”
When he was finally done with Nicholas, Bronson gasped for air and grinned as he looked toward Fiorella. “Fia, your cousin wasn’t thinking before he spoke. Why don’t you forgive him, OK?”
He smiled, but Fiorella couldn’t help but sneer in her heart.
In her past life, Nicholas had humiliated her in every way imaginable. She had heard far worse, and Bronson, her uncle, had mocked her in the same sinister tone. He even let his son beat her without intervening.
And it was only because he feared she’d come back and fight for the
inheritance.
The scene just now was only for Harry to see.
The moment Harry changed his mind, Bronson would put on a totally
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With all that in mind, Fiorella gave a cold chuckle and said, “There’s nothing to forgive. I splashed water on my brother too… But if anyone deserves an apology, it’s my foster parents.”
Why should she forgive him?
Nicholas, hearing this, almost jumped up, but a sharp pain shot through his back, and with his mother still pressing down on him, the words stuck in his throat.
Fiorella’s remark made Bronson curse her inwardly. Damn brat, acting like she’s part of the family already? Apologizing to those paupers? Did they even deserve it?
But what could he do? His son had messed up, and the old man was clearly biased toward the girl…
The thought made Bronson inwardly resent his stupid son. He had brought this entire farce upon himself.
But the chick had better not get too cocky. The Huerta family wasn’t that easy to get into.
Just because Harry favored her for now didn’t mean she could do as she pleased. Nicholas used to be the one spoiled too. Yet what now?
If given time, that chubby little girl would show her true colors too.
With that thought, he gave Nicholas a hard kick.
“Didn’t you hear me tell you to apologize?!”
Nicholas clenched his jaw in fury.
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But he didn’t want to be kicked out, so he had no choice but to swallow his pride and bow his head.
After a long silence, he finally forced out through gritted teeth, “I’m sorry.”
Only then did Harry give a cold snort.
“This better not happen again.”
After that, Bronson added a few half–hearted remarks with a fake smile, finally bringing the matter to a close.
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