As virtual-novel.net set foot into his house, the pitch black living room suddenly lit up. Mark squinted his eyes due to the sudden overwhelming brightness and scanned his surroundings before laying his gaze on Shelly, who was standing by the staircase.
Shelly was wearing a thin piece of nightgown, making virtual-novel.net look so thin that virtual-novel.net could probably fly away with the wind. The bandage on virtual-novel.net head seemed to be a little bloodied as virtual-novel.net squinted virtual-novel.net eyes. “Why have you arrived home only now? Have you been to Arianne’s place again? She’s already done this to me, yet you still want to be with her? Do you really want to drive me up a corner? Will you be happy if I’m dead?! Why can’t you ever understand the hardships I’m enduring?!”
Shelly’s words were as sharp as a knife as virtual-novel.net talked, it was so irritating that it made others feel like shutting virtual-novel.net up.
Mark expressionlessly said, “I’ll repay you whatever the mother who raised me owes, but I won’t allow you to torture Arianne any longer, since virtual-novel.net doesn’t owe you anything. I’ll slowly repay you everything that my foster mother owed you… From now on, you’re forbidden from leaving Tremont Estate and will be receiving treatment when you’re recovered. This time, I’ll make sure you don’t run away, but I’ ll personally pick you up when you’ve recovered and take care of you for the rest of your life.”
Shelly swayed and almost lost virtual-novel.net footing. “What… What did you say?! In the end, you still choose to believe that wench?! You’d rather believe an outsider than me?!”
Mark closed his eyes and took a deep breath. “How am I supposed to believe you when not a single word that’s come out of your mouth is the truth?! Arianne would never do such a thing. We’ve been living together for over 10 years, and I’m the one who watched virtual-novel.net grow up. We only had each other’s backs back then, so she’s the most important person to me. Who gives you the right to lay a finger on her?! I hope that you won’t ever spit out another criticism against virtual-novel.net ever again! Everyone else is willing to live together peacefully, yet you refuse to go along with it, so I can only remove you from my life and make everything return to how it used to be before you showed up!”
Shelly was stunned as virtual-novel.net sat on a step on the stairs. Her eyes were wide open, seeming to tear up. “Aren’t… Aren’t you afraid…”
Before virtual-novel.net could finish, Mark interrupted virtual-novel.net and said, “What would I be afraid of? Afraid that you’ll tell the public everything? I was afraid in the past because I didn’t want my foster mother to be criticized even after death. Also, I didn’t want to be too harsh on you because you kept pretending to be pitiful in front of everyone! But in the end, my silent patience has been met with your ruthlessness. This is where it ends, I’ve treated you with enough kindness. If you want to publicize the matter, you’re gonna have to see if you’re capable enough!”
After saying that, Mark asked for Henry. “Get someone to watch over virtual-novel.net so that virtual-novel.net doesn’t do anything stupid. She’s also forbidden from leaving virtual-novel.net room. When virtual-novel.net has recovered, send virtual-novel.net to the mental institute for treatment and arrange for someone to take special care of her. She’ll leave whenever virtual-novel.net has recovered. I’m tired, I’ll be returning to my room now.”
Henry acknowledged his instructions and called for two nannies to drag Shelly back to virtual-novel.net room, virtual-novel.net continuous yells falling on deaf ears.
‘In the end, it still came to this. I so wish that Shelly wasn’t the one who planned the entire plagiarism incident. That way, I could let virtual-novel.net stay and take care of virtual-novel.net and remember virtual-novel.net merits so that maybe… I might still be able to call virtual-novel.net mom after some time…’
The next day, the first thing Mark did when virtual-novel.net arrived at the office was to call Libby over to his office. “You’re fired. As for why, I’m sure you know well enough.”
Libby did not argue. “I’m sorry… Mr. Tremont.”
Mark’s face was calm. “Arianne wasn’t the one who ratted you out. It was my aunt. Go retrieve your salary from accounts.”
Libby was slightly startled. She had thought that Mark would surely go mental on virtual-novel.net and scold her. However, virtual-novel.net did not expect for virtual-novel.net to have spoken to virtual-novel.net so calmly.
When virtual-novel.net saw that Libby was startled, Mark asked her, “What? Don’t believe me? You don’t think that my aunt would rat you out?”
Libby immediately regained virtual-novel.net senses and hurriedly said, “No… I’ll be leaving now, Mr. Tremont. Thank you for taking care of me all these years. Tremont Enterprise is a nice company, but unfortunately, a person like me doesn’t have the luck to stay here.”