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“What are you doing?” Dereck was both shocked and enraged.
Natasha sneered, cracked her whip, and said, “Can’t you tell? I’m whipping you.”
“I’m his father!” Dereck had never in his life seen a daughter–inw dare to whip an elder.
“To be considered an elder, you need to have done the raising and nurturing, to be worthy of respect. Who are you? How dare you put on a fatherly air in front of Alexei? Do you think he’s still a who has no one to protect him?”
“Alexei! Control her!” Dereck had never heard such hurtful words. He trembled with rage as he urgently and awkwardly called out Alexei’s name.
Natasha said, “Calling him is useless. You and I have no blood rtion, and whipping you is what you deserve.”
Alexei’s coldness had long dispersed. He smiled, spreading his hands helplessly. “You heard it. I’m not the one who calls the shots in my family.”
Dereck was livid.
He realized that trying to talk sense into them today was his biggest mistake.
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She was incredibly arrogant!
He awkwardly rolled and dodged Natasha, feeling as helpless as he did during Edgar’s birthday party when Teri wildly pped him with a thorny branch in the dark.
“Stop, stop! If you don’t want to save Chloe, then don’t. I’ll just leave!” Dereck was truly afraid of her.
Dereck was frustrated. ‘Why did he end up with Natasha?‘
Natasha grew even angrier upon hearing this, her eyes red with rage. “Anyone in this world can plead for Chloe, but you cannot!”
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She felt a deep sense of injustice for Alexei. “Where were you when Alexei and his mother were being bullied and humiliated by everyone at the Turner Mansion? You couldn’t even protect your wife and child. Now you’re ying the hero, pleading for the niece of someone who bullied them. Dereck, how audacious of you! Can you even sleep well at night?”
Recalling the unbearable photos from that time, she furiouslyshed out again, “How could you treat him like this?”
He had never been kind to Alexei, yet he expected a few regrets would make Alexei acknowledge him as a father.
Why should he?!
Dereck froze when she mentioned Unity.
His eyes showed confusion, as if all his strength had drained away, forlornly gave up resistance.
Instead, Alexei was the first to stop the enraged Natasha.
and he
It wasn’t for Dereck; rather, it wasn’t worth letting outsiders upset her.
He hugged her and kissed her reddened eyes. “Baby, do not be angry. He can’t bully me now. I’ll make him leave, alright?”
“Good girl, don’t cry.” He stroked her back, soothing her emotions.
Natasha was also enraged by Dereck’s shamelessness. It was clearly Alexei who was wronged. She hugged him tightly, mumbling, “Don’t let hime to our house.”
“Alright, as you wish, dear.” He tenderly touched her forehead with his lips.
When he looked at Dereck again, his gaze was like ice.
The servant from the Turner Mansion who had pushed Dereck in appeared with several ck–d bodyguards.
The servant’s eyes widened in shock, witnessing the jarring scene: the disabled Dereck fallen on the ground, unattended, while his own son, Alexei, was gentlyforting his wife.
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Meanwhile, the bodyguards calmly strode forward, violently grabbing Dereck and his wheelchair and throwing them out of the vi.
‘Why am I so unlucky today? I was chosen toe along. The servant wished he was blind.
He fumbled to help Dereck into the car, then cautiously asked, “Dereck, should we go to the hospital?”
Dereck, however, asked an irrelevant question, “Have you seen what Alexei looked like when he was a child?”
Stumped by the question, the servant scratched their head and replied, “Uh, I camete.”
He started working for the Turner family long after Alexei had already grown up. He only knew they had a bad rtionship, but didn’t know what had happened or what Alexei’s past was like.
Dereck closed his eyes and turned his head away. “No,” he said, “let’s go home.”
Unnoticed by anyone, two streams of tears rolled down his ageless yet deeply
weathered face.
*****
In the vi, ying with the top was out of the question. Alexei carried Natasha in his arms to the sofa, had her sit sideways on hisp, and softly kissed her face.
Natasha had gotten over that phase and stopped crying long ago, now tickled andughing by his teasing,
She giggled, pulling away from him, “Alexei, don’t be like Daron!”
Was he washing her face?
Seeing her happy, Alexei also smiled, “Daron is imitating me. Did you secretly kiss it again? Didn’t you say you’d only kiss me from now on, baby?”
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Natasha felt weak all over, and her voice was soft. “I didn’t kiss Daron. I just hugged Daron.”
She cupped his face, leaned in, and pecked his lips twice like a puppy. “I love you
the most.”
Alexei’s heart feltpletely full, as if filled with warm water. “I know.”
His voice was low and husky, with a smile.
In this world, he was no longer alone; someone loved him wholeheartedly, felt his pain, cherished his every desire, and grew thorns for him, brave and fervent.
He buried his head in her neck, inhaling her scent. “Baby, thank you for loving
me.”
Sometimes he would fear that if this was just a beautiful dream, and he woke up to find there was no Natasha in the world, how would he continue to live?
As if sensing his fear, she gently clutched his hair, making him lift his head from her neck, and kissed him deeply. “I won’t leave you. Alexei, we have a home now.”
Alexei paused, then tightly gripped her waist and held the back of her head. He deepened the kiss, a forceful embrace, as if to fuse her into his very being.
On the sofa, two figures gradually sank back, intertwining.
*****
The Westwood family doted on Chloe, unaware that a greater crisis was imminent.
Leaving aside Alexei’s old grudges with Teri and the Westwoods, just considering Chloe’s attempt to use the kidnappers to eliminate Natasha, Alexei could never let
her off.
Today might be called an ident, but who knew if she might hire assassins
herself in the future?
However, Shawn and Dn didn’t do anything to her. They merely made Chloe witness an interrogation of the kidnappers, which was somewhat bloody and
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Chloe was a pampered youngdy raised in a wealthy family. She was terrified when Alexei tied her and the kidnappers together and handed them over to Shawn and his team.
She had thought that encountering him in the cockpit meant she was saved.
The continuous trauma from the entire night made her terrified at the mere mention of Alexei’s name, seeing everyone as a viin, and ultimately, she was too frightened to speak.
Teri watched Dereck return, wanting to ask if Alexei had told him how Chloe ended up in such a state.
Dereck, looking distraught, walked past her and went straight to shut himself in the study.
Teri stood at the door, looking bewildered and lost.
Inside, her husband, whom she had gone to great lengths to win but could never truly connect with, remained elusive. On her phone, her brother and sister–in-w’s relentless interrogations, reproaches, and even vicious curses continued.
Teri’s eyes were vacant.
She had once tried to kill Unity’s son, and now Alexei had harmed her beloved niece, who was like a daughter to her.
Would his revenge stop here?
Life seemed like a cycle. She felt dizzy and disoriented.