Chapter 371 The Devil in a Suit
Lauren was speechless. Okay, you do realize I’m starting college soon and you’re still in elementary school, right? I don’t care if you’re older than me physically. Technically, I outrank you–you should be calling me senior.” I really don’t think I need you to have my back.”
She grinned so widely her teeth showed, playing it off like the innocent little angel everyone thought she was,
But her body was still too small, and the party wasn’t even over before her eyelids started to droop from exhaustion.
She didn’t even know how she ended up back at the Mavis family estate.
While she slept soundly, things outside were already turning upside down.
David and Alice had both been officially placed in holding. Meanwhile, the Bennett Corporation in Hoverdale took a major hit–Balewood’s four powerful families united against them.
By the time the pair were released half a month later, the company had gone bankrupt. Nearly twenty years earlier than in the previous timeline.
And it wasn’t just the Bennett family that collapsed–the Jackson family was also dragged down, thanks to Corinth.
Mr. Timely and Madam Shirley had learned about Corinth’s little plan to “teach Lauren a lesson.”
The fact that she dared to try something like that on Lauren’s birthday, in the middle of a grand celebration, only showed that the Jacksons had no respect for the Mavis family.
In that case, there was no need for the Jackson family to keep existing.
In her last life, Corinth had obsessed over Felix well into his twenties. To keep other women away from him, she even spread lies–saying Felix was impotent, twisted, and emotionally unstable. She smeared his name constantly.
Felix didn’t care about the rumors. But he was sick of her clinging to him.
That’s why he eventually bankrupted the Jackson family and shipped Corinth off to another country.
This time around, the Jacksons went bankrupt more than a decade ahead of schedule.
As for Casey–she didn’t fare any better.
She was the one who’d provoked Corinth into going after Lauren in the first place.
The night the party ended, Felix walked into his father’s bedroom holding a knife.
Kyle saw the blade and immediately paled, “What are you doing with that?!”
He knew all too well how ruthless his son could be. He wished he could lock Felix away y in the old family estate and never see him again.
But Felix refused to leave the villa. And over the years, he’d trained both Kyle and Casey into submission. Neither dared to even breathe loudly around him.
Felix’s eyes were dark, his face unreadable.
He turned the knife in his hand. “Casey told Corinth to hurt Lauren. So now I’m going to cut out her tongue. Sounds fair, doesn’t it?”
Over the years, Kyle had grown used to obeying Felix. At this point, he was practically brainwashed.
Faced with that cold, bottomless stare, he found himself unable to speak–he even nodded without thinking.
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Chapter 371 The Devil in a Suit
Kyle picked it up with shaking hands. When he looked at Casey, he hesitated. But defying Felix wasn’t an option.
“Don’t! You can’t do this to me!” Casey cried out, horrified.
Kyle looked like he was going to cry, “I don’t want to, honey. But I have to listen to Felix.”
If he didn’t, Felix would chop off something a lot worse. It had happened before.
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The night Kyle brought Casey home–right after his first wife’s death–Felix had pushed her down the stairs, killing their unborn child.
And that same night, while Kyle was asleep, Felix had… severed something.
It had been surgically reattached, but he was never the same. He lost his manhood, literally and figuratively.
Felix had done that at five years old.
Now he was t
ten. And crueler than ever.
“You’ll still be alive without a tongue,” Kyle said, trembling. “But if you say no again… you’ll lose a whole lot more.”
Casey shook her head frantically. “Call the cops! Let’s call the police right now! We’re adults–why should we be afraid of a ten–year–old? He doesn’t even have the knife anymore. We can overpower him easily. Once we do, we’ll have him committed to a psychiatric ward. Lock him up for life.”
Kyle wavered.
Then Felix chuckled.
“Knew you wouldn’t behave.”
He reached into his pocket and pulled out a lighter.
“Oh, I forgot to mention–I turned on the gas earlier. The whole house is full of it. If I flick this… what do you think will happen?”
Kyle and Casey’s eyes widened in horror.
“You’re insane!” Casey screamed.
Kyle nearly pissed himself. “Don’t! Felix, don’t do anything rash! I’ll do it. I’ll cut her tongue. I’ll do it right now!”
A gas explosion would level the entire villa. No one would survive.
Kyle couldn’t believe this monster was his son.
Sometimes he wondered if Felix even belonged to the human race.
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