Chapter 51: A Disgusting Father
"Sister! Sister, are you okay?!" Emily’s voice cracked with worry, her hands shaking as she reached for Olivia.
Only after Emily shook her did Olivia snap out of her daze. She didn’t say anything to Emily, just stared at her with hollow eyes before sliding down against the door, curling up with her hands hugging her knees.
Seeing her sister like this, Emily’s eyes welled up with tears. The memories came flooding back—memories of hiding in the closet daring not to breath, how her sister would sacrifice herself just to save her from their father’s wrath. She remembered every bruise, every night Olivia had taken the worst of it so Emily could hide.
Tears started streaming down Emily’s face. She knelt beside Olivia and hugged her tightly. Olivia didn’t speak, her head lowered, nobody knowing what she was thinking. But seeing her sister crying beside her, she instinctively removed her hands from her knees and embraced Emily while stroking her head gently.
They both knew what they had gone through. They would never allow it to happen again.
On the ground sat Gao Chen, staring at the door with disbelief. First surprised at seeing his daughters after years, then shocked when that bitch had pushed him hard enough to fall down. Now he was enraged at the audacity of that whore to dare do this to her father.
"Good, very good," he muttered as he got up from the floor, patting his butt that still ached from the sudden fall. "You won’t let me—your father—enter your house. You won’t lend money to your poor father who raised you. And now you would even harm your father for disciplining you."
The two men who had watched Gao Chen fall started walking back with impatient looks on their faces. Seeing them approach, Gao Chen’s panic flared. His eyes darted to the door, and he quickly started banging on it, trying to force it open.
"Olivia! Emily! Open the door now! Open it and give me the money, and I’ll forgive your unruly behavior just now!"
The door remained closed. Sounds came from behind it—muffled sobs and whispered words he couldn’t make out. Gao Chen’s face darkened, his eyes flashing with the ferocity and ruthlessness of a man on his last steps.
"Since you won’t treat me as a father, don’t blame me for forgetting that you’re my daughters."
By this time, the two men were standing beside him. The thin man was the first to speak. "Gao Chen, it seems like you can’t get any money from your daughters. You should know what happens to the ones who can’t pay back Big Brother’s money." He took out a folding knife from his pocket while the burly man clenched his fists, making cracking sounds from his knuckles.