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This time James hadn’te alone–he had brought many bodyguards with him.
When Bodger and Mergan tried to rush forward, the guards blocked them immediately. Mathilda’s face stung again as Ashton’s hand cracked across her cheek, blow after blow.
The two brothers, helpless for the moment, roared in fury, their faces dark with rage. “You’re a grown man beating on a little girl—have you no shame?”
“Little girl?”
Ashton gave a coldugh. “In my eyes, Mathilda is nothing but an animal. And I see no problem with beating an animal.”
“Ashton!”
Even though his fists couldn’tnd past the wall of guards, Bodger still swung them furiously. “You’re courting death!”
Mergan’s eyes glinted with malice. “Lay another finger on Mathilda, and I’ll kill you!”
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But Taylor, left unrestrained, stood frozen like stone, making no move to shield Mathilda.
The other two shouted at him urgently. “Taylor, stop him!”
“Taylor, protect Mathilda!”
Taylor only gave a bitter smile.
He had already regretted standing up for Mathilda before.
James wasn’t an unreasonable man. If he hade here in person, demanding Mathilda be punished, then she must have done something vile again. How could he protect a creature like her?
“Taylor…”
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Mathilda hadn’t expected Ashton to strike her so mercilessly. The fear was real now.
Her eyes welled with tears, her voice weak and pitiful. “That day I ran away because I was terrified–I panicked. I didn’t mean I didn’t want to save you… Taylor, it hurts so much…”
“A few ps and you call it pain?”
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Before Taylor could answer, James’s voice cut in, cold as ice. “Over four years ago, when you and Quincy and the others bullied Lily, how much pain do you think she felt?”
“What you did to her, I’ll make sure you pay back double today!”
“I didn’t!”
Mathilda’s voice cracked into a rasp, tears spilling down her cheeks.
Her chest twisted with hatred and humiliation.
She had thought James’s visit meant he finally cared for her, that he had softened toward her. Instead, he hade for Lily, to punish her for Lily’s sake. How could she not hate Lily for this?
Hershes trembled as she put on her innocent, pitiful mask. “James, I really don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve always treated Lily as family–why would I bully her? Did she tell you lies again? I care about her so much. I don’t understand why she nders me, why she wants to hurt me,/she-”
“Ashton. Continue.”
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James had no interest in her excuses. His face stayed expressionless as he gave the order.
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Ashton’s palms already throbbed from the force he had used, but hearing his master’smand, he didn’t
hesitate. He struck harder, splitting Mathilda’s lip, blood streaking down her chin.
“Ashton, stop!”
“James, make him stop!”
Seeing Mathilda’s mouth bloodied, unable even to form words, Bodger and Mergan were driven to madness, veins bulging at their temples.
In their eyes, it had always been Lily who bullied Mathilda. Fragile, delicate Mathilda could never have bullied anyone–that was what they believed.
Their voices thundered with rage. “Mathilda never bullied Lily! It’s Lily who’s ungrateful. The Ginger family raised her, and after we finally brought Mathilda back, she couldn’t even ept her!”
“What lies did Lily feed you?”
“She stole her ce, she’s selfish and vicious! She’s no good at all, yet you believe her? James, are you
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Hearing their blind defense reignited Mathilda’s courage.
Throughbored breaths, she whimpered, “I never bullied Lily… I haven’t done anything to hertely, I don’t know why she’s harming me…”
“You hear that, James?” Bodger and Mergan’s eyes zed with fury. “Mathilda said she never bullied Lily! If you dare hurt her again because of Lily’s nonsense, I’ll kill you!”
Bang!
James stepped forward, his iron fist mming into Bodger’s face without hesitation.
Before Mergan could react, another fist crashed into his jaw.
Mathilda deserved her punishment.
And the Ginger family, who defended her lies and cruelty, deserved theirs too.
Taylor still <i>stood</i>/in ce, numb and silent.
Once, he had been as blind as Bodger and Mergan,
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convinced Lily was the cruel one and Mathilda the
victim.
But with everything that had happenedtely, the truth was clearer every day: the one who was selfish,
venomous, and treacherous was not Lily.
It was Mathilda.
And James surely had evidence now evidence that Mathilda had bullied Lily again and again.
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