Chapter 284
After a brief pause, he said sternly, “Did you have a fight with someone?”
“Dad!” Xander’s eyes shot daggers at Zavier as he hissed angrily, but he seemed to have overdone it
and hurt the wound on his face with all that movement. So instead, he donned a weak grin and pointed
at his face with a trembling hand. “Does this look like I fought with someone? Besides, I’m not a child
anymore; I’m done fighting with other people!”
Feeling pain was his greatest fear. He would rather kneel and beg for mercy than try to start fights he
knew he wouldn’t win.
Zavier’s face softened a little at that. “Then, tell me. Just… Just what in the world happened to you?”
“How would I know? I’m even more confused than you right now.” Xander was dumbfounded. But he
went through the sequence of events in his head again and said. “Just as I got off the car, someone hit
me from behind, and I fainted. I have no memory of anything that happened after that.”
Xander continued, “When I woke up, there were injuries all over my body, and everything hurt.” As he
thought about that, he started to cry again and turned toward Isabe. “Mom, you have to help me.
Look at what they did to your son; you can’t just let the culprit go.”
Isabe was as furious as she was worried. “How can I help you like this? You don’t even know who hit
you.”
Zavier looked at the two of them wordlessly, then turned around and walked out of the ward. After
thinking for a bit, he took out his phone and was about to make a call when it suddenly rang in his
hand. When he saw the name of the caller, his eyes flickered with emotion.
He stared at his phone for a brief moment before raising it to his ear. “Chris.”
Christopher merely said, “I heard Xander was admitted to the hospital. Is it serious?”
Zavier snorted and chuckled drily. “You’re well-informed, Chris. In such a short amount of time, you
managed to sniff out that Xander had been admitted to the hospital.”
To that, Christopher replied, “Can’t I be worried about my rtives?”
Zavier didn’t say anything more. He already had a vague idea of how Xander got hurt.
Christopher continued, “I’ll wait until dawn, Zavier. If Roe’s still not home by 8 a.m. tomorrow, it wouldn’t
be just Xander’s legs that are broken.”
And before Zavier could speak, Christopher had already hung up the phone.
As soon as Zavier heard the phone call ended, his expression darkened horribly. and his contorted
features trembled with anger. “First, he came to my house to say some nice, sincere words. Then, with
a turn of his head, he ordered someone to break my son’s legs. What a perfect disy of deference
before violence,” Zavier mused.
Zavier paced back and forth in the quiet corridor with a gloomy face. Finally, he whipped out his phone
again and called his eldest son, Logan.
On the other side, Logan was lying on his bed. However, he was unable to fall asleep due to
overexcitement.
Although he noticed the iing call, he didn’t answer it immediately. He turned around and looked at
Josie, who was fast asleep. Only then did he pick up his phone, lift the nket, slide out of bed, and
walk out of the bedroom to answer Zavier’s call.
“Dad, it’s sote—”
Before Logan could finish his words, Zavier interrupted him, “Is Roe with you?”
Sensing that Zavier’s tone was off, Logan didn’t speak immediately. After a while, he leaned against the
handrail in the corridor and asked casually, “Dad, you called me sote at night for this?”
Zavier ignored all that and sternly ordered his son, “I don’t care what you were nning to do to him;
send Roe back to the Sce residence right away!”
Logan frowned, confused about his father’s words. So, he exined his ns to Zavier, word by word,
and said, “Dad, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. As long as Christopher’s son is in our hands, he
won’t be able to do anything!”
He didn’t believe Christopher would dare to do anything when his son’s safety waspromised.
“You idiot!” Zavier cursed, loosening his necktie as his anger red. Pacing back and forth impatiently,
he continued, “Why did I give birth to such a useless son like you? If you were half as talented as
Kendrick, I wouldn’t be doing things so passively now!”
Hearing that, Logan’s face darkened immediately.
Zavier had beenparing him with Kendrick since he was a child. As Kendrick was a few years older
than him, he was always living in his brother’s shadow when he was growing up. In Zavier’s eyes, he
was a useless piece of trash-a person who couldn’t do anything.
He bit back at his father immediately, “Yeah, I’m not as good as Kendrick. But half of it is your
responsibility, no? If my father’s genes weren’t even good, to begin with, what could I do as his son? If I
could, I’d choose another father!”
After saying that, Logan calmed himself down and said, “If you have nothing better to do, you should
just sleep earlier!”
“Sleep?” Zavier sneered coldly. “How do you expect me to sleep when both of your brother’s legs are
broken due to your stupidity?”
Meanwhile, Isaac had added some sleeping medicine to Yuliana’s cup of salt water, letting her sleep for
hours on end. And as the effects of the medicine faded away, she fell into a dream.
In the dream, Yuliana heard Rowan crying. His sobs went on and on, the sound breaking her heart
each time it rang out.
Although Rowan’s crying seemed toe from nearby, she couldn’t find any trace of him even after
searching through every corner. Only the sound of his crying was present.
The anxiety she felt was soul-crushing.
Soon, the sounds of crying slowly faded away, which stunned her momentarily. Then, a deeper fear
rose from the depths of her heart. That prompted her to run around again, continuing her crazed search
for Rowan.
And finally, she found him.
Rowan was lying in a crib wearing a light blue shirt. She tiptoed over and stared lovingly at Rowan’s
chubby face, her whole heart seemingly melting in that instant just by looking at her baby.
“Oh, Roe. Mom’s little Roe.”
Yuliana smiled and touched Rowan’s face gently.
However, her expression shifted in the next second.
A thought crept into her mind, “Why is he so cold?”
Yuliana quickly ced her palm t on Rowan’s face, which was as cold as ice.
She panicked and tried to press her forehead against Rowan’s. And that was when she realized that
Rowan wasn’t breathing at all.
Time seemed to stop at that instant.
Yuliana seemed to have frozen as well.
After a while, she carefully backed away and ced a finger under Rowan’s nose… And at that
moment, Yuliana’s mind broke down.
She picked Rowan up and held him tightly in her arms. The pain in her chest was unbearable, and her
mouth gaped open in a soundless scream. She felt like crying, but she couldn’t. The veins on her
forehead bulged as if her head was about to explode.
A momentter, a wet, tearing sound ripped out of her throat, and tears began to fall from her eyes.
After Christopher returned, he sat by the bed and watched Yuliana quietly, his mind filled with many
thoughts.
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But suddenly, the woman on the bed burst into tears. Her small face became contorted, and her arms
were tucked in front of her chest tightly. She seemed like she had just experienced an extremely
dreadful dream.
Christopher grabbed her hands and whispered softly, “Ana.”
Yuliana tried to escape from his grasp, struggling fiercely in her sleep. Christopher simply pulled her up
from the bed and held her tightly in his arms wordlessly. He didn’t move a muscle, even when she
scratched and wed at him, and a sad cry erupted from her mouth.
Christopher raised his eyes from her and stared at the head of the bed. Clenching his teeth, he raised a
hand and gently stroked the back of Yuliana’s head. He murmured gently, “Wake up, Ana. It’s just a
nightmare. Just wake up, and it’s all going to be all right.”