Chapter 196
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Brenna gently refused, pushing the card back toward him. “I have my own money,” she said.
Ethan smiled and said, “Listen, you’re going to be my wife. What belongs to me belongs to you. I want you to spend my money.”
Brenna smiled, finding it hard to refuse him. She had no choice but to accept the card.
In the hospital.
Fresh out of surgery, Harlan was wheeled from the operating room, his right hand heavily bandaged, mirroring the many other injuries on his battered body.
Anxiously waiting by the doorway, a middle-aged couple stared at the operating room’s light, which finally dimmed.
As the doors swung open, the mother burst into tears at the sight of their son still unconscious.
“We should have eliminated that woman and her son when we had the chance! Look at the agony they’ve caused our boy! If I ever lay hands on that person, I’ll rip him apart!” she exclaimed.
Her gaze lingered painfully on Harlan’s battered form, especially his mangled right hand, deepening her distress.
Hesitant even to touch him, she cried out, “His hand is destroyed! We must do something! Send someone to track down that man immediately. I want the satisfaction of killing him myself!”
Roberto Moreno shared his wife’s intense anger, his expression darkening as he took in the severity of his son’s injuries. “That kid has been running wild for years, and now he returns to pull this stunt? He shows me no respect whatsoever! If I catch him, I’ll kill him myself!” he shouted in fury.
His wife’s voice turned harsh. “Cut off his hands! How could he be so heartless to his own brother? Harlan never wronged him, yet this is how he’s treated!”
𝗢𝗻𝗅𝘆 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝘁 𝗀𝖺𝗅𝖓𝗈𝗏𝗲𝗅𝗌⍿ⅽ𝗈𝗆
Regret gnawed at her as she continued, “I regret the day we spared him. Had I known this would happen, I would have killed him back then. You need to find him now!”
Nearby, a secretary took a tense phone call. He glanced at the seething Moreno couple, struggling with the timing of his news. Once Harlan had been transferred to a standard room and his parents had calmed down, the secretary cautiously approached Roberto, holding out his phone. “Mr. Moreno, please take a look at these photos,” he said.
Roberto’s gaze remained fixed on his secretary’s phone, which displayed a post rapidly going viral, amassing over a hundred thousand views and thousands of comments.
The post, authored by someone directly affected, recounted the violent demolition of a city village three years prior. It described how a demolition squad, backed by the Moreno family’s company, had aggressively destroyed homes and personal belongings. The post accused the Moreno family’s company of purchasing the land and forcibly evicting residents, resulting in a tragic incident where a person was killed by an excavator during resistance to eviction.
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