Chapter 2 My Family Is Not Humane
The moment I opened the door, my feet stopped moving and my tears still couldn’t stop trickling down
my cheeks. I was really unwilling to sever our connection just like that. I was really unwilling as I
pleaded onest time, “Mr. Redford, I really rate highly of your skills, so if you want to get together
again, you can call me anytime!”
“I’m bored of you!” Marlon’s voice was icy cold without any trace of wanting to reconnect anymore.
My fingers wired themselves around the knob of the door, and droplets of tears were forming dark blots
on the floor. I really didn’t want to go. I wanted to see him and touch his face again and again despite
the very unlikely scenario of getting the cold treatment again and again. It doesn’t matter. I could take
all of that. However, Marlon didn’t seem like he nned to give me a second chance.
“Then, nothing I can say now. Goodbye, Mr. Redford!” I said these words with all my might before
shutting the door and severed the connection between us. I was really afraid that I would rush back to
him and beg him to let me stay with him while hugging him.
I knew that Marlon would never go back on his words no matter what. My incessant clinging to him
would only amplify his disgust towards me.
Thest thing I ever wanted was for him to hate me!
I pulled my luggage and started to walk out of hispound, but rain suddenly fell heavily with the
water soaking every nook and cranny of my body. I didn’t care. I just let the rain water merged with my
tears as everything trickled down my body. I could barely walk with the immense pain from my lower
body that was constantly pegging me, but at the same time I thought that it was actually nice to have
this constant stream of pain flowing through me. It made me unable to differentiate the source of this
endless pain.
With a loud bang, I suddenly slipped and my body crashed to the ground. Pain was all I felt, and to
cope with that pain I cried my hearts out in the ever expanding puddle of water.
I didn’t know how long I had been crying, but by the time no tears came anymore, the rain also
stopped. I looked for a hotel to settle myself, but the moment I lied down in bed, my eyes could never
shut. Sleep never came.
At that moment, my phone suddenly rang, and I frantically grabbed it without even checking the caller’s
identity. I answered the call with the hopes that it was Marlon regretting his decision, but I only heard
silence on the other end of the phone. I nced at the screen once and saw that it was not any number
that I knew. I hesitated slightly before calling into the phone, “Davidson, is that you?”
There was still no sounding from the other end, “Davidson, I know this is you, right?” I spoke in the
gentlest way possible.
“You little monster, I can’t believe you slipped in here without my knowledge.” Suddenly, a woman’s
screeching voice broke the silence, and there was some noise that indicated a scuffle or conflict was
happening.
“Shania, don’t touch Davidson! You don’t have the permission to touch him!” I screamed, but I could
hear the muffled noise of a scuffleing from the background. I screamed angrily, “If you do anything
to him, I will kill you!”
“Great, you cane and kill me if you can, nothing can change my mind now. I need to teach this
mute barbarian a lesson. What can you do to change my mind?” Shania replied smugly. Then, she
hung up the phone, and she didn’t pick up anymore no matter how many times I tried to call her.
With my heart racing, I scurried back home. Based on my understanding of Shania’s personality, she
would definitely torture Davidson.
The moment I entered the Cornell family house, I wanted to p myself so bad.
In the midst of a heavy downpour, a fragile and thin figure was standing in the rain. He was soaked
thoroughly.
“Davidson!” I ran towards him and hugged him tightly.
He was my real brother and the only rtive I had in this world and he was only five years old.
However, he was soaked all over and his body felt abnormally cold. There wasn’t even a trace of
warmth at alling from his skin. His face was colourless and deathly pale like a sheet of paper and
his fragile body was full of wounds and bruises.
“I’m sorry, I’m really sorry, Davidson. I amte, I’m really sorry!” I hugged Davidson with all my strength
and let my tears merge with the rain water as streams of water trickled down my cheeks.
Davidson stretched out his hand and wiped away the tears on my face. He revealed a weak smile on
his pale face, and the sight of that deeply hurt me as if my heart was getting shed.
I knew that Davidson was trying to make me feel better despite feeling painful all over. There was no
way he could endure such gratifying pain. A surge of anger was burning in my chest. Shania was too
evil. How could she have the heart to abuse a five-year-old kid?
I swept Davidson off his feet and stormed into the house angrily.
In the majestic living room, Shania was wearing a one-piece dress which was made from expensive
silk. Her feet were enveloped in a pair of diamond-engraved high-heels, and she was sitting gracefully
by the dining table while enjoying her breakfast. At the sight of us intruding into the dining room, she
nced at us disdainfully, “Why you two soaked animals have the nerve toe into the house? The
ceramic tiles on the floor are going to be ruined by you!”
I settled Davidson safely on the sofa and picked up a vase to hurl at Shania. Shania jumped up with a
shriek as she was trying to dodge the iing vase. She looked very funny while she was doing that.
My head was totally ovee with fury and I couldn’t stop myself from picking up random stuffs and
hurling at Shania. I wanted to exact revenge on her two-fold the damage she had inflicted on Davidson.
This woman was the one person I hated the most in my entire life. She had taken away everything that
used to belong to my mother, and in the end she even pushed my mother to the brink of death.
I would never forget the moment my mother smashed into smithereens after jumping off the second
floor. If it were not because of this woman, my mother would still be alive and Davidson would never
be mute in the first ce. My family would not be as broken as it was now.
After doing all of that, this woman even wanted to abuse Davidson.
I waspletely consumed with hatred as I picked up a chair nearby, wanting to smash it on Shania.
“Help! Help me!” Shania was curled up in a corner and she was protecting her head with both of her
hands. Her face was written with fear and upon seeing her expression, I couldn’t help but feeling
strangely ted and victorious.
Bang!
Before I could smash Shania with the chair, a seething pain assaulted my head, and I copsed to the
floor involuntarily. I felt my field of vision going dark for a moment and the chair had somehow
disappeared from my hand. All I was feeling at the moment was immense paining from all parts of
my body that assaulted my sense in waves.
My head was nk for some time, and by the time I forced my eyes open, I saw a man mming the
chair I was holding a moment ago onto my body repeatedly with obvious fury. His face was so
contorted as if he was trying to crush me to death.
As I watched him repeating that bashing, a smile formed on my face. That furious man was none other
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than my biological father, Marvin.
“Marvin, I am so scared just now, luckily you’re here in time. Otherwise, I think I will be no more!”
Shaniained tearfully with her frame shaking visibly, “I was going to feed Davidson breakfast in
the morning, but suddenly Rachael returned home and without any reason, she started to…”
“My wife, you don’t have to worry. I will never let this ungrateful daughter hurt you in any way!” Marvin
consoled Shania in a gentle tone, and the sight of him doing that felt so revolting for me. Shania was
looking at me smugly with apparent pride in her eyes. It was then that I finally realized that she had
been nning to stage this all along. She must have known that Marvin wasing here soon, so she
had deliberately allowed herself to look like the victim by not dodging my attacks.
I couldn’t help but smile. This was Shania’s tricks which she was proficient at. Even after so many
years, Marvin never failed to abide by her tricks to the point that his original wife was pushed to the
brink of death because of it. Now, his daughter was going to get bashed until she was on the verge of
death because of the same tricks.
“You unfilial daughter, you still can smile! Let’s see if I will beat you to death!” Marvin raised the chair
and was about to smash it on me once again, but Davidson suddenly rushed over frantically to stop
him.
“No!” I tried to stop Davidson froming over but as I just let out a shout, Marvin was alreadyshing
out and kicking Davidson away. Davidson’s feeble body fell to the ground and his head smashed onto
the wall hard.
“Davidson!” I ran over worriedly to check Davidson out, but before I could do that, Marvin suddenly
grabbed my hair and kicked me hard.
“Marvin, you bastard!” My eyes were reddened as the burning inferno of anger inside me pushed me to
get into a fight with Marvin. However, I was no match for Marvin’s strength as I was pinned on the floor
by him and felt the countless fistsing down on my body.
My body was like a piece of sponge that couldn’t fight back in any way. I could only let the punches
connecting to my body and my heart was a deste wastnd. The one doing this to me was none
other than my biological father!
“Marvin, you better kill me now, or else I will make sure that I will kill all of you!” I screamed my lungs
out.
“You little bastard, I will make sure to beat you to death today!” Marvin cursed.
After listened to his words, I revealed a smile on my face. Death was an escape for me at this point. I
had been going nowhere in this dead-end situation for too long, and I was so tired. I felt so exhausted!
However, the final sense of pain that I was expecting never came. The moment I opened my eyes, I
immediately froze.
It was Marlon!