Chapter 1048 A Piece Of My Mind
He was stunned by my sudden outburst of laughter, furrowing his eyebrows at me. "What are you laughing about?
Do you find this funny? Did I say something wrong?”
It took me a long while to calm down, wiping away tears from my eyes. “There's no way you believe the words that
are coming out of your mouth, right?" I said sarcastically. "How could you say such a thing so confidently? You say
that she'll lose everything if she goes to jail, but I honestly want to ask you: are you absolutely sure that you have
no way of getting her out of there? Is the Kane family so powerless that they can't rescue a single person from
prison? Besides, did you think that she was really going to become famous, even if she hasn't been sent to jail? Of
course not. Everyone in our circle is aware that she's your and Ashton's precious little doll. Did you think that she
would find a partner among us when you let her fly out of the nest? You know more than anyone else that she's
just going to end up relying on some old man's money to survive and become nothing more than a toy.
"Admit it. You've fallen out of love with her a long time ago and started to resent her. Why else would you tell her
such horrible things at the hospital? You wanted to force her to leave you, yet didn't want to be stuck with the
reputation of an asshole, so you just let go of her reins and watched as she made mistake after mistake, until she'd
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtfinally reached the point of no return. You are half the reason why she's turned out this way. You were satisfied with
the outcome, but you despised the thought of having to take responsibility for your actions! So, in an act of fake
self-righteousness, you came to interrogate me and pushed all the blame onto me, making me out to be the villain
in the situation. Although, to be honest with you, you really shouldn't have wasted your efforts. Even if you force
me to take the blame for your actions, you'd still be regarded as a scummy human being in other people's eyes. So
please quit the whole good guy act, or I might just throw up.”
I hadn't meant to verbally abuse him, but I couldn't stop myself.
Joe was flushed all the way up to his neck in anger, and I let out an internal scoff at the sight. Nothing
about this man was genuine. He'd already committed so many evil acts, yet still insisted that his hands
were clean. How ridiculous!
There was no point in continuing the conversation any longer. “You better watch out!” I warned, turning
on my heel and walking away. “You have some nerve—forcing other people to take the fall for you!” he
roared out from behind me. "No wonder Ashton is head over heels for you! You're a conniving, sneaky
witch!”
I glanced back over my shoulder at him, flashing a polite smile. "You flatter me, Mr. Quinn. Look, if you
really can't let go of this, I have a suggestion for you: wait until she gets out of prison, then you can
bring her back home to be your precious little doll once more. But by that time, she'd be old and wrinkly,
and you'd probably refuse to take her in. There's no way you could appreciate a woman like that,
right?"
After saying so, I left him and headed for the restaurant. Ashton was already waiting outside for me.
approaching me as soon as he spotted me. “What took you so long?"
Looping my arm through his, I said cheerily, “Just met a familiar toilet and had a chat with him, so I
figured I might as well take out the trash! My mood's greatly improved, and I feel so refreshed.” “What
are you talking about?" His eyebrows knitted together.
“I meant to say that I had a nice trip to the loo!” I grinned.
Sighing in exasperation, he flicked my forehead lightly. “Watch your mouth.”
Joe, who was trailing behind me, brushed roughly past us as he stormed off towards the lobby, spitting
out, "Shameless woman!” as he did so.
“What did he say?” Ashton looked at me, perplexed.
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I shrugged. "It's about Rebecca. He didn't want to abandon her in a distasteful manner and wanted to keep his
image squeaky clean. When that plan failed, he got frustrated and took out all his humiliation on me.”
Ashton's lips pursed as he stared at the back of Joe's silhouette. “He's getting married to that woman from the
Harrett family soon, so it's about time he moves on from Rebecca. The Kanes and the Harretts' future business
cooperations will benefit each other greatly.” I wasn't interested in any of Joe's business. “Rebecca's life has all
gone down the drain. She didn't have any good people around her, and she didn't have a career of her own,” I
lamented.
The worst thing a woman could do was to entrust all of herself to a man and spend all of her time and energy on
him only to get dust in return. Then, there was nothing she could do except to wait until she had become useless
to him and get thrown away like an old rag. Perhaps Rebecca's misfortune had started from the moment Parker
entrusted her to the group of friends.
The poor woman had never gotten a chance to plan her life out properly. She had not only lost her pride and
independence because of love but had now also lost the motivation to continue living. There was nothing more she
could do now except be another rich man's eye candy, but her beauty could only last for so long. She had already
ruined her own life with her own two hands.
“I have to go to A City tomorrow to handle some things," Ashton suddenly spoke up. "It's time we start living for
ourselves too, Scarlett.”