Out of the door, Ashley kept knocking on the door so loudly that the neighbors shouted at her to ask her to stop.
"I want to see my daughter. You should shut up."
"It is night. We are all sleeping. If you dare to make that noise, I would call the police."
"Oh. Okay. But I can tell you. My daughter is a famous editor. She could handle everything. Unlike you, you can only call the police. You might need to stay in such an awful place for a whole life."
"Estates. Where are our estates?"
"..."
As their quarrel got heater outside, even Jason was staying with her, and Scarlet still felt so fearful.
"Let me handle this," Jason was worried about her. He didnāt want her to be upset.
Scarlet immediately wiped her tears and shook her head, "No. You donāt know her. Let me handle this."
"Could you?" Jason asked her in a worried voice.
She nodded, "Donāt worry. I am strong. Donāt you remember? No one could beat me down."
She raised a smile at the corner of her mouth and wiped the tears away. Then she opened the door.
At the moment Ashley saw Scarlet opened the door, she smiled with joy. She immediately said in a loud voice, "My daughter already opened the door. I have something to do now. I wouldnāt waste my precious time with your scam."
Then, she wanted to step into the house. But Scarlet stopped her immediately.
She got confused, "Scarlet, what happened? Do you really want me to stay outside? I couldnāt even walk into your room now?"
"This house is my fatherās. If he knew you were in his house, he might rush here and break your legs now. Do you believe it?"
Scarlet said these words in a cold voice. Her voice sounded really flat, without any emotion at the moment.
Hearing these words, Ashleyās face turned pale immediately. Apparently, she was frightened. She was scared of Jeff.
When she cheated on Jeff, all their neighbors laughed at him. He was so angry. Even now, he could not forgive such a bitch.
If she entered his house now, he would definitely hit her if he knew.
Ashley held her feet back and made an embarrassing smile, "Okay, then. We can talk here. I donāt mind talking here, actually."
"What do you want?"
"Your brother has been bailed out. But he didnāt have a job now. I want to get a job in a big company. Iāve found the company. Now I need some money to persuade the leader of the company. This is a great chance. I really donāt want to give up this chance."
Merely speaking, Ashley needed money.
Hearing her words, Scarlet sneered, "Iāve given you one million, havenāt I? it is more than enough, donāt you think? I can tell you, and it is enough for you to bribe the policemen in the town."
"Indeed. It is enough. But your brother is old enough to get married. I donāt want to spend that money on this. See, it is not a large amount of money. Your father told me youād given him 1500 thousand dollars. More than me. Donāt you remember who supported you at school? If I didnāt help you, you would never achieve this."
Ashley said in a quite emotional voice as if she really tried her best to teach Scarlet.
"Indeed. You are right," Scarlet smiled and nodded. But Ashley didnāt see any warmth at the bottom of her eyes. At the moment, Scarletās eyes were so cold.
Ashley didnāt stop, "Scarlet, I know you are a good girl. You know to appreciate it. You would never forget what Iāve done for you. You are born through my wet core. You are my baby daughter."
"Then, please find a way to stuff me back to your wet core. Find a way to kill me in your wet core."
Scarlet said in a cold voice. At the moment, she finally expressed her brutality.
If she was born to be tortured by her parents, she wished she was never born into this world.
Why did she still struggle to make a living? She had already done so many stupid things to persuade them to get married again.
When she reminded those things, she even wanted to laugh at her silliness.
Hearing her words, Ashley froze for a while. She didnāt believe what Scarletās said.
She stared at her daughter.
Actually, her daughter looked like her. Scarlet was even more beautiful and charming than her. But when Scarlet sneered at her at the moment, she looked so cold.
Ashley frowned. Though she knew sheās wrong, she didnāt want to give up. Itās been more than twenty years since she left Scarlet. Even though she was Scarletās mother, and she had become anotherās wife and mother. Scarlet seldom had anything to do with her now. It was her own responsibility to handle her own stuff by herself.
However, she didnāt want to give up. She knew Scarlet could earn more money. If she didnāt ask more from her, she would give all money to her father, that gambler.
Therefore, she was determined.
"Scarlet, listen to me. I donāt mean that. I have no other choice. See, you look so fabulous now. You have such a good life. Look at your mother. Compared with you, I am really...."
"Is it because you could live such a good life?"
"I..."
Ashley couldnāt find a word to answer this question immediately.
Scarlet continued in a cold voice, "You betrayed my dad. I totally understood you. My father is totally a loser. He was addicted to alcohol and gambling. It was totally reasonable for you to leave him. But you dared to cheat on her. When my dad abandoned me, you didnāt want to take me with you. It is my grandmother that raised me up."
"Indeed, you give me a fee to go to school until I graduate from college. I appreciate it. That is why I give you a maintenance fee every year. Besides, Iāve given you one million dollars. And my father took the rest of my money."
"The house I lived in was his house. I bought it. Now I should give him a certain amount of money to him every year until I give him enough money to buy this house. Ridiculous?"
"Do you want money?" Scarlet took her purse out and threw it to her, "Here you are. Every penny I have now."
"Scarlet....you can lessen the money given by your father. You can take 250 thousand dollars from it to me. Your father doesnāt need that large amount of money. It would be better to give that money to me to cultivate your brother. Donāt you think so?"
"Listen. I donāt want to cultivate anyone. No one. Besides, your son is not my brother. I never see him. I donāt know anything about him. Therefore, donāt use him as an excuse. I donāt like him at all."
Scarlet said all those words and shut down the door immediately.
The sound was so large that it almost deafened ears.
At the moment the door was closed, she immediately fell down. Her back slipped down along the door.
Jason didnāt say a word to her. He just held her in his arms tightly.
"Why....why do they do this to me? Why?"
"Scarlet, I want to tell you, I would never hurt you, no matter what they do to you. I would try my best to look after you. I would heal you one day."
Jason said word by word, in a determined voice.
He held her in her arms tightly, until the next morning.
They still needed to move on.
Scarlet was much stronger than Jason has expected. After crying for a whole night, Scarlet recovered to normal totally. She didnāt mention what happened last night anymore.
After they ate breakfast, they drove to the building of Hawk media. Then they said goodbye to each other.
As usual.
If her eyes didnāt get swallowed, no one would know sheās been crying for a whole night.
This time Scarlet didnāt see Jason leaving. Maybe she didnāt want him to see the tears in her eyes.
When Jason started the engine, he suddenly saw a woman getting in his way,
Jason immediately stepped on the brake pedal.
He was so shocked.
The woman was about fifty years old. He still remembered her. She was Scarletās mother, Ashley.
Though it was dark outside last night, he still saw the outline of this woman.
"Mrs. Yvette?" seeing this woman, Jason frowned slightly.