Chapter 118
Mercilessly, Hermann exposed him.
“I’d just filled my tub up, Granddad. I wasn’t avoiding you. Besides, would I
need to resort to that?”
Emmanuel’s expression darkened.
It was not often that Mackenzie saw him like that, so she was curious as to
what had made him so upset.
“You’d better not! Emerson has been detained in South Manchernius, and
his ransom is a hundred and sixty thousand. How much do you have on
hand? Give it to me. Your uncle’s life is at stake.”
Hermann spoke as if it was a matter of fact.
Emmanuelughed. “I’m Uncle Emerson’s nephew, not his father! I have no
obligation to wipe his *ss after he sh*ts the bed. Besides, I have no money
to help him.”
“How dare you, you little sh*t!”
Hermann’s rage erupted. “Your uncle has been a father figure to you since
your father died, and you should treat him like one! How could you stand
aside and watch when he’s currently in trouble? You disrespectful little
sh*t.”
Those words drew Emmanuel’s own ire.
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He had known who his grandfather was all along–a misogynist who
treated his grandchildren through his sons well but not his daughter’s
children.
Hermann never treated him and his mother with respect, so Emmanuel
had never enjoyed visiting his grandfather.
I can’t believe he has the audacity to call me that.
“I will being over, so you’d better be prepared with a gesture of
sincerity of at least eighty thousand. If something happens to your uncle,
I’ll haunt you for the rest of your life. Your conscience will never be clear for
as long as you live.”
After making his point, Hermann hung up without another word.
Emmanuel was seething like a teapot on a boil. Why is my grandfather
such a jack*ss?
“What’s wrong?” Mackenzie asked in concern when she saw how angry he
looked.
We live together, after all. I can’t not care.
Emmanuel told Mackenzie everything.
Mackenzie frowned in disgust as he spoke. With her experience, she
surmised that Emmanuel’s uncle must have been involved in some shady
business to have been detained in northern Manchernius.
hical people like that would tear families apart for the sake of profits
and are worse than sc*m. They deserve to die.
Unfortunately, such a person was Emmanuel’s uncle. Furthermore, he
”
could not say no to his grandfather, who had personally asked him for
money.
“Then what do you n on doing?”
Mackenzie was not concerned with his uncle’s life but only with how he
was going to deal with it.
“I don’t have eighty thousand. I wouldn’t give it to him even if I did.”
With his steely resolution, Emmanuel appeared like a different person from
his serene self. “This uncle of mine has never cared for his children for as
long as I remember, much less me and my sister. He always asks my
mother for money and takes our things whenever he visits. We don’t owe
him anything, and there’s no reason for us to make sacrifices to repair his
mistake. We need to eat, too.”
Mackenzie was relieved to hear that.
She was worried that Emmanuel would ask her for money again. Though
she had plenty of it, and that eighty thousand was nothing to her, she did
not wish to spend it on sc*m.
If I bail him out, he may harm many others in the future.
“Then don’t give him a dime. When your grandfather shows up, I suggest
you and your mother ask him for the thirty thousand he borrowed.”
Mackenzie’s suggestion was nothing short of savage.
Emmanuel was stunned by her words.
Though he did not intend to give his grandfather any more money, he
never even considered doing such a thing.
Mackenzie knew from a nce how conflicted he was feeling, so she said,
“People like your grandfather and uncle will not be grateful for the help
you have once given them but will instead hold a grudge against you for
being unable or unwilling to help them now. If that’s the case, you might
as well burn that bridge. Demand for that thirty thousand, and they will
think twice before asking you for money again.”