Chapter 96- please
"Crazy... crazy! You’re nothing but a madman!" Janet screamed at him, her voice trembling with rage and disbelief. She never imagined someone could be so cold-hearted. Derrick was his own brother—his flesh and blood. Charles was the son he raised with care. And yet, step by step, Derrick had pushed him into a corner. Worse, he had orchestrated a tragedy just to watch his brothers tear each other apart?
"If Charles ever finds out the truth... who do you think will suffer more? Him? Or me?" Derrick’s cold smile sent a chill down Janet’s spine. Then, unexpectedly, he released Janet’s wrists. He hadn’t wiped out August yet, so he didn’t want the world to know too soon. In fact, he intended to keep Charles under his control for life. If Philip could never stand up again, Derrick needed a son to guard Black Rock Co. for him.
"This is the day I’ve been waiting for!" Derrick’s cruel laughter stabbed deep into Janet’s eyes. But she couldn’t shed a single tear. What could she do? If even an outsider like her couldn’t accept such a horrifying truth, how could Charles bear it?
Once the truth was out, despair would swallow him whole. The father he revered—the merciless demon—would become his mortal enemy. The hatred he clung to now would seem like the cruelest joke. His brother, his father... what could he use to make amends for all this?
No. For someone as proud as Charles, that would be worse than death.
Old grudges unresolved, new wounds inflicted—her Charles didn’t deserve to live in such misery, drowning in endless hatred.
It was too unfair. Too cruel.
"Have you decided what you’re going to do?" Derrick’s tone was as cold and composed as the first time Janet met him. No threats, no scolding—just a question that felt like the hardest puzzle she’d ever faced.
He knew she wouldn’t tell Charles the truth. And once again, he was right. She just couldn’t bring herself to do it.