Chapter 180- give him a chance
The ride was quiet. Charles sat silently, his face calm but his mind anything but. When August mentioned him, neither Charles nor August spoke another word until they parted ways.
"Charles..." Janice glanced at his stern profile, hesitating to speak but unsure what to say.
"It’s alright. I don’t hate him anymore," Charles finally said, noticing the worry in her eyes. He reached out, clasping her cold hand gently, offering a comforting smile. The name Derrick no longer stirred the bitterness it once did. Perhaps when he lost everything, the resentment dissolved as well.
To Charles, Derrick was still someone who had once done him a favor. Compared to August, he had no grounds for hatred. After all, they’d been father and son for twenty-eight years. But what Derrick had brought to August was only pain—pain and betrayal.
"Do you want to see him again?" Janice asked cautiously, a flicker of fear shadowing her voice. She remembered how Derrick had threatened her, scared her, and tried to keep her away from Charles. But when she had seen tears of remorse fall from his eyes, her kind heart had softened.
He had carefully plotted revenge for over two decades, only to trap himself in his own design.
Now, he must be trying everything to make amends to Charles and August—what he owed them. In the end, he had become the most tragic figure of all.
"We’ll see," Charles replied lightly, his gaze fixed forward, unwilling to dwell on the subject.
That night, Charles received a call. When he came out of the study, Janice had just finished bathing Trista.
"Are you going out?" she asked, reading the hesitation on his face.