Chapter 700

“Penelope, I…”

“Don’t explain. I don’t care to hear it.”

Donald’s brow furrowed. “Don’t say that. I already feel terrible.”

“Guilty? For not being able to love me?”

“Penelope…”

A triumphant smirk flashed across Yvonne’s face as she decided to seize the

opportunity.

“Dad, I never want to leave you again. Let’s be a family, just like before, loving each other. Okay?”

This time, Donald didn’t hesitate. He shoved Yvonne away.

“You and your mother nearly killed me. Do you think I can forgive you?”

“Dad, I was wrong.”

“Don’t call me Dad!”

“I really was wrong. I don’t want to go abroad again.” Yvonne collapsed to the ground, sobbing. “Our house is so run down. My mom and I have to work just to get a full meal. It’s so cold that we can’t even sleep at night because of the freeze.”

“Not sending you to prison was the greatest mercy I could show!”

“Dad!”

“Get out!”

“Donald, drop the act! We were forced into this by you!” Judy had arrived, likely looking for Yvonne, and had overheard Donald’s words.

Donald looked at her with nothing but disgust.

“Judy, I can let Yvonne go, but you…”

“Go on, send me to prison! I’ll take a life sentence, I don’t care!” Judy gritted her teeth, pointing a finger at Donald. “But before that, I’m going to let your precious biological daughter see you for who you really are!”

Judy’s gaze snapped to Penelope. “Thirty years ago, did you really think Donald didn’t know that nothing e happened between your mother and Jack? That he didn’t know I teamed up with Jack to deceive her? That he didnt know she was alrea

pregnant with you? Or that year you came to the Bishop family begging for help to save your mother, do you think he was completely oblivious?”

The words hit Penelope like a physical blow, and her mind went blank. “What… what are you talking about?”

“Judy!” Donald scrambled down the steps, trying to shut her up.

But Judy shoved him aside, her eyes still locked on Penelope. “And for the past twenty-odd years, why didn’t he look for you and your mother? Why did he only hold some art exhibition to search for you after your mother

died? Hmph! Because by then, he already knew Yvonne wasn’t his biological daughter! That’s why he came looking for you! He knew your mother was dead long ago, but he never even visited her grave!”

“Back then, he left the Bishop family with your mother for the sake of so-called jove, but after a few hard days, he regretted it. To protect his image as a devoted man, he didn’t tell your mother directly. Instead, he faked an illness and set a trap, step by step, to make her divorce hip and bear the labels of an adulteress and a gold digger, while he returned to the Bishop family with a clean slate!”

Judy’s words were like daggers, each one plunging into Penelope’s heart.

No, Donald couldn’t be that kind of person.

In her heart, he had become a good father. He couldn’t be like that.

“Penelope, every word she’s saying is a lie! Don’t you believe a single one!” Donald grabbed Penelope’s arm, his voice tight with panic.

“You’re saying it’s all lies?” Judy let out a sharp laugh. “Was Edith stupid? Her life

was already so difficult, why didn’t she bring her child to find you? Because she had already seen you for who you were! But she didn’t see deep enough. She underestimated how despicable you are, which is why she sent Penelope to you that summer!”