Chapter 5

who were both lying half-dead on the floor. “Are they your

me,” Thomas Dunn acknowledged with

you the authority to send out the armed forces for no valid reason, other than to parade

will accept any punishment.” Thomas

in your resignation once you've returned to camp. You are not fit for

I shall reflect on my mistake,” Thomas Dunn said humbly and

nod of approval from Nathan for

the couple on the floor. “What are you still waiting for?” He barked at them, “Get on your knees and apologize! If you upset my Sir again, I'll make sure you

his wife clambered to their knees, groveling for

and daughter.” Nathan was impassive to

in front of Penny and her daughter while sobbing with grief, “Mrs. Cross, Ms. Cross, it was all our fault. We were simply blinded by our own foolishness. Please

her initial shock and fear. Her kind-hearted nature was easily swayed. Looking at the pathetic couple before her, she suggested to Nathan, “Why don't we give them a chance, since they look like they have genuinely repented? Besides, they have already

long as it pleases you, my dear.”

made her flush

the softness in Penny's eyes that she had already forgiven them. “What are you two still waiting for?”He shouted at Walter Zahn

“Scram!”

frantic couple seized the opportunity and stumbled to the door in feverish haste with

to throw a lavish welcoming party for Nathan, but the latter rejected his offer, making known his

look in his eyes, Thomas Dunn disappeared promptly and left Nathan with

as the trio made their way out of the

she gazed at her father. “Now that you're back, I'm sure that nobody would dare to bully Mama

said in a tone full of indulgence. “Papa will never let anyone bully you and Mama

with tears rolling down

...

center of the

in an old, dilapidated

elevators in

in his arms, Nathan climbed

is pretty cramped and messy,” Penny

was reading the newspaper with his reading

mum, Leah Smith, was making

to see his daughter bringing

Penny had ever brought a guy

that she would raise Queenie on her own, blatantly refusing to attend the matchmaking

and walked

this gentleman?” He looked puzzled when he saw Queenie

already answered in

five years ago? So it's you who turned our lives into a living

raised his voice. He flew into a rare fit of rage when he discovered that the man standing in front of him was none other than the culprit who had raped her daughter five years ago. He was the one

come and

the air when a woman ran out from the

grandparents shocked little Queenie to the

mother with all her

her body, Leah could

of the family mansion by Benson's dad.” Leah pointed her cleaver at Nathan as she spat, “You've

been upturned by

roar that was uncharacteristic

bellow effectively brought Leah's wild emotions

arms to soothe her. “Get out of our house! Don't ever show your face again!” He

look in his eyes. With Queenie in his arms,

torment

never let them suffer in silence anymore. They deserve a life that is happy and blissful, and their future will be a path paved with diamonds. They are my family, my queen and my princess, and I'll make sure that they have the whole world under

and blissful life? A path paved with

sounded like mere empty promises to Benson. To him, only a guy full of

young, vulnerable ladies like Penny would

what my husband just said? He asked you to leave!” Leah bawled at Nathan, “Now get the hell out of my house!”

right. I'm going to call the police if you insist on staying,”

was that Benson would have already done so when he found out that Nathan was the homeless man who had raped his daughter. Nonetheless, he refrained from doing so as he could not

the tears on her face and

What?

stared incredulously at

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