Chapter 408 rice''s Lies


    Howard''s words startled the Madden couple. Even Mrs. Madden''s hand, which was holding rice,


    loosened a little.


    If rice was not his daughter, how could rice look so much like him?


    Sensing their thoughts, rice felt panic in her heart and hastily took Mrs. Madden''s hand. Then,


    she looked at Brandon and said, "Dad, Mom, don''t believe him. I''m really not his daughter. I''m really


    not!"


    "If you''re not, then you should exin why you look so much like Howard." Hunter put on a nasty


    smile and looked at rice.


    rice''s eyes turned red, and then she gave Hunter a sad and resentful look.


    He had gone too far. Was he that eager to expose her?


    "You are insane." Seeing the look in rice''s eyes, Hunter felt speechless and twitched the corner


    of his mouth.


    Sydney asked, "What''s wrong?"


    "Nothing. She hates me." Hunter said as he shrugged his shoulders.


    Sydneyughed a little and said, "No wonder she hates you since you brought Howard over."


    Watching Sydney and Hunter joke with each other, Julien pursed his lips.


    Julien thought, "What''s going on here? Didn''t Sydney have a grudge against Hunter because


    Hunter lied to her? And why is Sydney and Hunter''s rtionship getting better again? Is it possible


    that


    Sydney has forgiven Hunter?"


    Thinking of this, Julien suddenly clenched his fist.


    Facing Brandon and his wife''s stare, rice also knew that if she didn’t exin to them clearly, they


    would have a grudge against her. And they wouldn''t believe her anymore. After taking a deep


    breath, she cried as she said, "I don''t know why I look so much like him, but I''m really not his


    daughter. Dad, mom, please believe me."


    "Bah! You are obviously the daughter I gave birth to. I have raised you for more than twenty years.


    However, you recognize these rich people as your parents. Denna, how ungrateful you are!"


    Howard''s wife spat and then extended her finger to poke rice''s head.


    Then, rice hid behind Brandon and his wife again. She dodged Howard''s wife''s ck, rough and


    dirty finger.


    Howard’s wife was furious. "Denna, do you want me to beat you up? How dare you dodge! Come


    out! I''m going to teach you a lesson."


    Howard said, "Did you hear what your mother said? Come out!"


    rice poked her head out from behind Brandon and shouted angrily at Howard and his wife, "No!


    Why should Ie out? Do you want me toe out and beat me to death? You have been


    beating me for more than twenty years. Do you think I’m going to let you beat me as you did


    before?"


    "How dare you!" said Howard''s wife, pointing a trembling finger at rice, "You slut! How dare you


    talk to us like that! Are you crazy?"


    Sydney frowned when she heard Howard''s wife utter such filthy words.


    Although Sydney did not like Venns, she could not help but feel sad for Denna when she heard


    Denna''s mother curse Denna like that.


    As Denna''s mother, she actually cursed her own daughter like that. As a result, Sydney was


    shocked.


    "Stop it!" Brandon suddenly shouted to interrupt the fight between rice and the Hoffe couple.


    Although Howard and his wife were bold and rude, they felt self-contemptuous, especially when


    they faced rich and powerful people.


    When they heard Brandon yell at them, Howard and his wife quieted down and stopped quarreling


    with rice.


    "It looks like Brandon is going to start dealing with them." Hunter rubbed his chin as he whispered.


    Although Sydney couldn''t see the scene, she knew what was going on when she heard Brandon''s


    angry roar.


    Julien remained silent as he sat there and watched the scene.


    Brandon''s eyes lingered on Howard''s face for a moment. Then he stared at rice with a sinister


    look in his eyes. He said," You just said you''ve been beaten by them for twenty years, right?"


    rice nodded and said, "Yes."


    "They are the Mr. and Mrs. Loffe that you have imed who always asked for money before?"


    Brandon asked again.


    Hearing his cold voice, rice began to feel uneasy but nodded her head and replied, "Yes...Yes."


    "In that case, then tell me why you said you didn''t know him when I showed you his picture in the


    police station earlier." Brandon pointed at Howard and roared with anger.


    rice''s face instantly went pale.


    She had spilled the beans!


    She had said before that she didn''t know Howard and didn''t know why she looked so much like him.


    However, she was saying that she had been beaten by Howard and his wife for over twenty years


    and had admitted that they were her parents. Thus, she revealed that she was lying when she said


    she didn''t know Howard.


    "Gee!" Hunter gloated and whistled." Sydney, she seems to have dug a trap for herself and fallen


    into it."


    Sydneyughed and remained silent.


    Julien narrowed his eyes for a moment to keep an eye on rice.


    He thought, "What is she going to do about it?"


    rice''s body was trembling slightly, and she was in a panic.


    She had lied that she didn''t know Howard only because she wanted to deceive Brandon to make


    him believe that she was really his daughter.


    However, she didn''t expect Hunter to bring Howard and his wife here.


    She had finally made it this far, so how could she lose it all just because Howard and his wife had


    arrived?


    With that in mind, rice closed her eyes slightly and took a deep breath.


    The next second, she opened her eyes and hadpletely calmed down. Then, she looked at


    Brandon and his wife with her red eyes and said, "Dad, Mom, I''m sorry. I lied. I said I didn''t know


    him on purpose. I didn’t mean anything else. I did it just because I wanted topletely cut ties with


    them. And I hate them."


    She said as she quickly rolled up her sleeves to reveal the old scars on her arms. The scars were


    shocking to look at.


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    Mrs. Madden covered her mouth in shock.


    And Brandon also went silent.


    Even Hunter''s eyes widened a bit in surprise.


    He was aware of how Derma lived with Howard and his wife because it was all written down in the


    profile.


    But he had never really seen the scars on Denna’s body. After seeing those scars, he realized that


    the scars described in the materials were nowhere near as shocking as what he saw with his own


    eyes!


    Sydney couldn''t see the scene, so she didn''t know what was going on.


    And Julien''s expression didn''t change much either.


    At present, he couldn''t care less as to how others had suffered or been treated unfairly as long as it


    didn''t involve his family or Sydney.


    So, even when he saw Denna''s scars, he remained calm.


    "Dad, Mom, I never showed you these scars. They did it to me. And I was almost killed by them


    several times. If it wasn''t for the good people who helped me, I wouldn''t be


    alive now, so I hate them all the time."


    "I didn’t know why they were doing this to me until one day I overheard them mention that I wasn''t


    their daughter. Then I took the ne that they secretly hid and left the home that terrified me and


    came to Port City. And then I saw you guys looking for the owner of the ne, so I came back to


    you."