Meanwhile, Aubree was sitting in her bedroom. with a gloomy expression on her face. The Queen family! It turned out to be the Queen family!
While busy handling the mess in the past few days, she didn’t forget to investigate the culprit sabotaging things behind the scenes. Initially, she thought that it would be some other family who seized that opportunity to hit them while they were down.
Never had she imagined that it would be Jonathan. She could surmise without even having to ponder upon the matter that it was definitely Lucian who instructed him to do so.
If he hadn’t received an order from the latter, he wouldn’t have had the guts to make a move rashly. Ah, Lucian! I never expected him to be so ruthless to me that he’s determined to push me to a dead end!
As she was fuming, her room door was suddenly pushed open. Snapping back to her senses, Aubree snapped her eyes up and swung her gaze in the direction of the door. Just when she had made out the person who barged in, a slap from Samuel sent her tumbling back onto the bed.
“Samuel!” Gina had also been exhausted in the past few days because of the Pearson family’s downfall. Coupled with the blow she suffered earlier upon learning that they would have to move out before tomorrow, she was pitifully weak in the legs.
By the time she finally arrived at Aubree’s room, she was greeted by the sight of Samuel slapping their daughter.
Although Aubree had done something wrong, she was still Gina’s flesh and blood. It was as though that slap from Samuel struck her squarely, for her heart abruptly clenched. In a flash, strength infused her legs, and she sprinted over to shield her daughter..
“Get out of my way! I’m going to teach this. imbecile a lesson today!” Samuel snarled coldly. “Calm down. Things are already set in stone anyway. Besides, Aubree hasn’t had it easy either these few days. She’s already trying her best to make amends for her mistakes.” Gina sounded mournful.
When Samuel saw that she was still defending Aubree, his temper spiked further. He was so enraged that his temples throbbed violently. “Buzz off! Otherwise, I’m going to hit you as well!”
After bellowing that, he chastised furiously, “This is all on you for spoiling her! If you hadn’t encouraged her, she wouldn’t have ended up with such attitude today!”
Gina was both panicked and fearful, her lips quivering uncontrollably. “Step aside, Mom,” Aubree urged softly, gathering her wits about her at long last.
Then, she stepped out from behind her mother. Holding her head up high, she regarded her father with obstinacy etched across her features. “I did nothing wrong!”
Samuel lifted his hand and slapped her again. “Even now, you’re still unrepentant? Are you only going to admit to your mistake after I personally send you to prison?”
Aubree cradled her cheek, madness brewing in her eyes. I did nothing wrong! If I really did something wrong, that was merely loving Lucian too deeply at that time. He has absolutely no regard for me! I hate him!
Noticing that both women were utterly unremorseful, Samuel was so incensed that he almost burst a blood vessel. He calmed himself for some time before he finally managed to suppress his wrath forcibly. “Get up and pack your things!” When Aubree heard that, she lifted her eyes and looked at her father in puzzlement.
In turn, Samuel glared at her sharply. “The Pearson family has gone bankrupt! On top of that, this house is no longer ours! It’ll be seized tomorrow, and we’ve got to get out of here quickly!”
Bankrupt? Despite knowing ages ago that they would have to face that fact sooner or later, Aubree still found it hard to believe upon hearing it from her father with her own ears.
How could that be? How could it come to pass so quickly? Worse still, we don’t even have at house in the end! I’ve got nothing left! “From now on, you’d better behave! If you were to create trouble again, we might not even be able to come out of it alive!”
Worried that he would really go off the deep. end and pummel the two women to death if he continued to stay in the room, Samuel spun on his heel and left after saying that.
For the first time in her life, panic swamped Aubree. She turned to her mother for confirmation. “Was Dad telling me the truth earlier, Mom? We’re really moving out?”
Gina was likewise exceedingly reluctant to move out. Unfortunately, she had no other choice but to face reality. She nodded with a grim expression on her face. “Yeah. Very soon, we won’t be able to live here anymore.”
After saying that, she urged earnestly, “Listen to your father, Aubree. Don’t do anything foolish again. Now that the Pearson family has ended up in such straits, we wouldn’t be able to help. you even if we wanted to do so if something were to happen to you!”
In the past, others might give the Pearson family some respect because of the Farwell family. At present, however, things had soured between the Farwell and Pearson families. In fact, the Farwell family went just short of announcing that they were the ones who brought the Pearson family down.
Therefore, no one would care about the Pearson family anymore, let alone when the Pearson family had no money then. Aubree stared at Gina blankly for a few seconds before lifting her eyes and sweeping a gaze over the room that had belonged to her since childhood. In a heartbeat, tears streamed down her face.
“What gives? Why is it that we’re even losing our house, yet that b*tch still gets to live in the lap of luxury?” Hearing her daughter’s grievance, Gina panicked. “Calm down, Aubree!”
Regretfully, her words fell on deaf ears. Aubree. got to her feet and pushed her mother out of the room. Subsequently, the door was slammed shut in Gina’s face with a bang.
No matter how much Gina pounded on the tightly-closed room door, she received no response from inside. Thus, she could only wait anxiously outside.
Lifting a hand, Aubree wiped her tears dry. Shel then took out her phone and called Frieda. At the Queen residence, Frieda was aware of her brother’s actions in the past few days.
For that reason, she had been worrying herself. sick recently. She was afraid that with her brother targeting Aubree and bringing about the Pearson family’s downfall, Aubree wouldn’t sit back and do nothing.
To make matters even worse, the latter would likely take it out on her. Alas, it was precisely the matter she dreaded most that came to pass.
Just as Frieda was fretting that Aubree might seek her out, she received a phone call from the latter. Glancing at the caller ID, she was beyond reluctant to answer the call. But in the end, she still took it.
Aubree had lost her mind then. As such, Frieda couldn’t guarantee that she wouldn’t accidentally trigger Aubree, resulting in the woman telling Lucian about her being Aubree’s accomplice. Verily, she didn’t dare risk it.
“Aubree…” she answered the call carefully, sounding a touch servile. On the other end of the phone, Aubree’s voice was slightly hoarse, but the fury within it was still distinctly audible. “Come over to the Pearson residence right this instant!”
At that demand, guilt showed on Frieda’s face, and her voice turned conflicted. “Um… my brother is watching me like a hawk, forbidding me from going out. Let’s just talk on the phone if there’s anything!”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.