Chapter 146


    “Come on, kiddo, greet your grandpa,” Rhett tousled Summer’s hair, his voice a deep rumble.


    The silence in the treatment room was palpable. Everyone was taken aback.


    Rhett’s gesture was more than a im of authority, which was a deration to the Haywood family


    about where Summer stood in his heart.


    Particrly to Hob, he was acutely aware of the actual ‘marriage‘ between Kristin and Rhett.


    Hob darkened his face further as he spoke with a chilling tone, “Outside, now!”


    “Grandpa…” Summer’s timid call was met only with a frosty re from Hob.


    Feeling slighted, Summer turned and buried his face in Rhett’s shoulder, whispering, “Mr. Rhett…


    Grandpa doesn’t seem to like me.”


    “Just call me Dad,” Rhett said again.


    Stunned, Summer looked up into Rhett’s eyes, searching for confirmation. “Could I really call this man


    Dad?” he thought.


    After a long and intense gaze, Summer hugged Rhett tightly and called out with a shy voice, “Daddy…”


    His joy was unmistakable.


    Summer liked Rhett.


    Rhett felt a lump in his throat, his grip tightening around Summer involuntarily. He was surprised by


    how much he hade to care for this child.


    Hertha’s eyes welled up with tears as she confronted Rhett. “Do you have to humiliate me like


    this?”


    Adopting a wild child as his son and letting that unknown kid call him dad in front of the Haywood family


    was an immense disgrace to Hertha.


    “Humiliate? Where is thising from?” Rhett asked calmly.


    “Rhett, the FitzGerald family has already agreed to a merger with the Haywood family. Here your are, in


    front of Hertha, having some random kid call you dad. What are you ying at?” Richter pressed,


    clearly struggling to maintain hisposure. “Hob, what is Rhett’s intention here?”


    Hob was also a mask of barely concealed anger, signaling a warning to Rhett that he better know


    his ce.


    “Dad…” Adrienne was still on the ground, beingforted by a crying Abigail.


    “Richter, look at our daughter and look at how they are bullying her. It’s outrageous! There’s no way the


    Haywood family is going to let Kristin get away with this!” Abigail cried out. “Kristin,


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    you’ve gone too far.”


    Kristin kept her head down and her hands clenched tightly.


    “What does this have to do with Kristin? Adrienne was my doing.” Melissa greeted Hob with a nod.


    “Mr. FitzGerald, long time no see.”


    Only then did Hob notice the Lawrence family was present.


    “Melissa? It has been a while.” Hob acknowledged with a nod.


    He had to show some respect to the Lawrence family, after all, Melissa now had full control over the


    Lawrence family’s international business.


    “To not discipline your child is your failing as parents. Adriennecks manners. If you don’t teach her at


    home, then someone else has to do it in public. Don’t thank me too much. I did my best, but some are


    just beyond help,” Melissa dered with a proud face.


    Richter and Abigail turned stormy. “This is…”


    “Melissa Lawrence.” Hob whispered an introduction.


    “The Lawrence family?” The Haywood family grew even darker. “Isn’t this a bit too much for my


    daughter?”


    “Why don’t you ask Adrienne what she did first?” Melissa replied, shocked. “I was thinking on my way


    over, maybe the Haywood family only had one uneducated member, but it seems like the whole lot of


    you are cut from the same cloth. Adrienne and her bodyguards trashed my boyfriend’s ce and even


    hurt my kid. We haven’t even settled that score yet.


    Garner looked up sharply. Melissa could lie with such ease.


    Since when had he be her boyfriend?


    Kristin was also shocked by Melissa’s words, then nced at her brother blossoming?


    Kristin felt a surge of excitement, her eyes rimming with tears.


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    he finally


    Over the years, due to her and Ruby, Garner had faced controversy, enduring as much nder and


    defamation as she had.


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    Kristin felt for Garner, hoping that a woman who loved him would be willing to apany him


    for the rest of his life.


    “It hurts, really,” Adrienne cried out in pain. “Dad, I don’t care who she is. You have to teach her a


    lesson today.”


    Richter was stern as he grunted. “It seems like you’re all ganging up on my daughter.”


    Melissa rolled her eyes. It was a ssic case of the pot calling the kettle ck.


    “Talking sense to the senseless is like teaching a mute how to speak,” Melissa mused as she stepped


    forward and kicked Adrienne right in front of Abigail. “Come on then, I’m waiting for


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    you to teach me a lesson. Today I want to see what the Haywood family can do to me.”


    After that Melissa dragged a chair over and sat beside Adrienne. “Hurry up, I’ve got ces to


    be


    Adrienne was terrified and cried as she hid behind Abigail


    “My goodness, what kind of upbringing is this to raise such a bandit? Who would dare marry you?


    You’re nothing but a bad seed. Abigail said shaking with anger as she held Adrienne close.


    “Whoa? But I’m a tough cookie, you know? Cross me, and you’re toast. Melissa said with her usual


    brazen ease.


    All the while, those words were the same ones that had been slung at her online and the spiteful gossip


    that swirled through Silvergrove City.


    Yet she could füp them around and wield them like a weacon with such breezy confidence.


    Kristin looked on with envy, knowing deep down that she’d never be able to pull that off and live with


    that fearless ir.


    “Absolutely outrageous!” Abigail fumed, clutching Adrienne as they stepped aside. “Doctor! Tend to my


    daughter’s wounds immediately and call the cops if you must.”


    ‘I’ll be calling them too.” Connor said coolly, medical kit in hand as he approached Adrienne.


    “Adrienne’s bodyguard is guilty of uwful detention, causing a public disturbance, interfering with


    medical treatment, harming a child, and vandalizing property. Isn’t she still on probation?”


    Threats aside. he was a doctor first and foremost,mitted to his duty.


    “Mom! I don’t want him treating me. He’s in cahoots with them.” Adrienne cried out in panic, her voice


    reaching a fever pitch.


    Connor shrugged. “If she’s not cooperating, there’s nothing I can do.”


    Abigail turned ashen. Adrienne couldn’t afford to stir up more trouble.


    “Why the hell did you leave the house to make this mess?” Abigail hissed at Adrienne, well aware that


    the Lawrence family was not one to be trifled with.


    But Adrienne, spoiled as she was, wailed for her mother to take her side.


    ‘Rhett…” Hertha’s voice broke as she looked at him, eyes welling with tears. “Adrienne is my sister, and


    I apologize for whatever she’s done wrong. I’m also fond of Summer. It hurts to see him like this. But


    please don’t use this incident to punish me. It’s not fair. We’re about to get engaged and you promised


    to take care of me. You know I can’t handle this…”


    Hertha was known to everyone as someone battling severe depression. Rhett pushing her like this was


    something she couldn’t bear. Clearly, Hertha was much smarter than Adrienne.


    Her words might not have seemed forceful, but they sent a chilling message to everyone that if they


    pushed Hertha over the edge, she might just end it all and they were all to me.