When There Is Nothing Left But Love Chapter 1534


    “Look at you two! You were made for each other. If I hadn’t nned all of that, do you think you would


    have ever met in the first ce? I was the one who gifted you with such a beautiful marriage, my son.


    How could you bear to me me for it?”


    What?


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    The culprit is suddenly ying the victim?


    “I’m just speaking the truth, but it’s up to you whether you want to believe me or not. Our original n


    that year had been topletely wipe you out from existence and forget that we’d ever given birth to


    such a defective product. If I hadn’t pitied you, you would have disappeared because of that car crash a


    long time ago! What right do you think you have to stand in front of me pretending to be a victor and


    interrogate your own father?”


    Ashton immediately started trembling, digging his nails into his palms so tightly that I could see the


    veins on his forearms.


    In the Hall couple’s eyes, Ashton was not only an obstacle blocking their way, he didn’t deserve to


    continue living either.


    From their point of view, “family” was nothing more than a manufacturing process. They expected only


    perfect products and destroyed any that were not “up to par” with the high standard of quality that


    they’d set.


    But they were talking about a person. How could someone say “you should have died a long time ago”


    to another person so easily?


    Ashton didn’t speak for a long time. I rted to his feelings; the more precious something is to you, the


    harder it is to cope when it’s suddenly destroyed.


    Yet, for some reason, Nics viewed his silence as silent agreement.


    He turned his attention towards me, squinting at me as if we were the ones currently being locked up in


    a cage. “I must say: your grandma, Winona is a smart woman. She knew to team up with George Fuller


    and match you two together in order to resolve Ashton’s grudge against the Murphy family. Her hard


    work and care arerge reasons why Ashton is where he is today.”


    “Too bad that the lower-ss will always stay lower-ss for a reason,” he shrugged, starting to pace


    around the cell. “They never realize when the thing they’re trying desperately to protect is stolen from


    them right under their noses. No, that’s not the right way to say it. If it weren’t for that petroleum


    contract, I wouldn’t have returned to the Hall family so easily. I should thank her for that.”


    “You stole the contract?”


    If that were the case, then what was the reason for Armond’s stubbornness all these years?


    A horrid idea abruptly crossed my mind as soon as the words left my mouth.


    Nics’ lips quirked up into an evil, satisfied smile. “I guess you’re not as stupid as you look. What do


    you think? Don’t you want to apud my perfect scheme and praise my smarts after realizing the


    truth?”


    Praise?


    Apud him for taking away the contract and manipte Grandma and George in his hands as if they


    were mere puppets and leading them to their demise?


    Or does he mean his scheme to make the Fullers and the Murphys hate each other so that Ashton


    would live the rest of his life in wrath and loathing?


    Ashton might have found himself unable to talk back to his birth parents, but I found no problem in


    doing so.


    “So you saw through the Murphys’ n since the very beginning and took the chance to pull the wool


    over their eyes,” I inhaled deeply to calm myself. “Not only did you take away the contract for the


    petroleum farming project, but you also used the fake death case to escape from the public eye. You


    left a bunch of crippled victims behind, then proceeded to let Ashton battle the Murphys tooth and nail


    all alone. Am I right?”


    If my assumption was correct, it would mean that I had also been a part of his calctions.


    Nics merely shrugged in admittance.


    The relief of closure was quickly followed by a wave of fury and shock, crashing down and


    overpowering my rationality.


    “You were the one who ruined Ashton as well as Armond! You knew that you could just take the


    contract away because of your background as a Hall, and the Murphys wouldn’t be able to do anything


    to stop you. Instead, you wanted Ashton to harbor those unnecessary feelings of revenge against his


    parents, and you wanted him to be tortured daily by nightmares and guilt! How could you do that to


    him?”


    Nics spread his arms wide in a show of self-proimed innocence. “If I could perfectly wipe out the


    bloody past, why would I need to take the risk and get myself involved with those low-ss vermin?


    Besides, I was merely acting in self-defense. The Murphy family had been nning for us to take the


    fall for their mistakes, but I was brainy enough to find a way out and escape my fate. They wanted to


    kill me, and Ashton is my son, so it makes sense that he would want to avenge me. What did I do


    wrong?”