Chapter 5

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

me,” Thomas Dunn acknowledged with shame,

instantly flew into a rage, “Tell me, who gave you the authority to send out the armed forces

was my mistake, Sir. I will accept any

returned to camp. You are not

I shall reflect on my mistake,” Thomas

Dunn won a nod of approval from Nathan for his

are you still waiting for?” He barked at them, “Get on your knees and

wife clambered to their knees, groveling for forgiveness

and daughter.” Nathan was impassive to their

with grief, “Mrs. Cross, Ms. Cross, it was all our fault. We were simply blinded by our own foolishness. Please have mercy on us and let us go, we

Her kind-hearted nature was easily swayed. Looking at the pathetic couple before her, she suggested to Nathan, “Why don't

dear.” Nathan's lips curved into

reply made

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

“Scram!”

stumbled to the door in feverish haste with their fat son in tow, as if they were running

rejected his offer,

knowing look in his eyes, Thomas Dunn disappeared promptly and left

as the trio

Papa.” Little Queenie beamed with pride as she gazed at her father. “Now that you're back, I'm sure that nobody would dare

my princess,” Nathan said in a tone full of indulgence. “Papa will never let anyone

down her cheeks. Queenie's elated face was a

...

the center of the

in an old, dilapidated building that was located downtown

no elevators in

Queenie in his arms, Nathan climbed up six-stories

place is pretty cramped and messy,” Penny invited Nathan in as she opened

room, Benson Smith, Penny's dad, was reading the newspaper with his reading

mum, Leah Smith, was making dinner in the

daughter bringing a

Penny had ever brought a guy

to stay single and had insisted that she would raise Queenie on her own, blatantly refusing to attend the matchmaking sessions they had arranged for

set down his papers and

looked puzzled when

had already answered in her bubbly voice, “He's my Papa, Grandpa. My Papa

you're the beast who raped my daughter five years ago? So it's you who turned our lives into a living

man who hardly 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 who had

audacity to come and

penetrated the air when a woman ran out from the

shocked little Queenie to the core, and

mother with all her might.

tightly to her body, Leah

were kicked out of the family mansion by Benson's dad.” Leah pointed her cleaver at Nathan as she spat, “You've ruined Penny's life utterly and brought her nothing

and orderly world had been upturned

a roar that was uncharacteristic of

brought Leah's wild emotions

house! Don't ever show your face again!” He

in his eyes. With Queenie in his arms, his insistence to make up

I know the torment Penny went

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

life? A path paved with diamonds?

like mere empty promises to Benson. To him, only a guy full of crap would say such things, and those

ladies like Penny would

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

to call the police if you insist

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 bear

wiped the tears on her face and said calmly, “Dad, Mum,

What?

stared incredulously at

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