Out of Control: Into Your Everything-Chapter 163: You’re Hurting Me on Purpose Again!
Mr. Spencer was racking his brain, while Mrs. Spencer was increasingly restless, "Honey, come up with something. The longer Leo stays in there, the longer I, as a mother, won’t be able to sleep. It’s a detention center, Leo’s never faced such hardship!"
Mr. Spencer was already troubled, glaring at her fiercely, "Isn’t this all because you spoiled him? He even dared to touch contraband! Our Spencer Family has been relying on my father’s past position and connections to operate, Leo touches something like this, isn’t it like dragging our Spencer Family’s reputation through the mud?"
Mrs. Spencer’s eyes brimmed with tears, "But we have only one son. Leo must have encountered something overwhelmingly stressful; he made a momentary mistake under pressure. He’ll surely realize his error!"
"If it’s really for this reason alone, then I’d be thanking my lucky stars."
Mr. Spencer said with a profound expression.
"The worry is, that fool might have dabbled with other filthy things."
Mr. Spencer thought and kept feeling uneasy, thus changed course to visit the detention center.
Liam Spencer’s eccentric state from drug use had normalized overnight, but his bruised and battered features were indeed too tragic, even Mr. and Mrs. Spencer paused for a few seconds upon seeing him, until Liam’s swollen lips spoke:
"Dad, Mom." 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖
Hearing him call out ’Mom,’ Mrs. Spencer’s tears started falling, "No one even told us, Leo’s been beaten into a pulp! Julian Ford is so outrageous, playing the victim first and wanting Leo to rot in jail; it’s just too much!"
"And you’re still spoiling him at a time like this!"
Mr. Spencer glanced at his son’s pig-headed look, distressed as he was, he maintained reason, sternly chastising Mrs. Spencer.
Mrs. Spencer couldn’t care about anything else; they’d never hit their child like this growing up, and now being beaten like this by an outsider, she couldn’t swallow her anger!
"If Julian Ford won’t let Leo go, I’ll fight him, he’ll not get to touch any resources in Capitoline’s political scene from now on!"
"Can you please mind the occasion when you speak!"
Mr. Spencer glanced at the corner camera, causing Mrs. Spencer to unwillingly shut up, puffing with anger as she sat aside.
Mr. Spencer looked at Liam, angrily rebuking, "You brat, speak the truth to your old man, have you touched anything else aside from drugs?"
Liam’s face was swollen beyond recognition, completely unreadable.
His body trembled, quickly shaking his head, "Dad, I know I was wrong, I won’t touch this stuff again. I’ve been under a lot of stress lately; it clouded my mind and took me astray. You and Mom get me out of here, this place is not for humans!"
Mr. Spencer: "Now you know regret?! What were you doing before this! You dared provoke Julian Ford’s girlfriend, go cure that brain of yours!"
Liam paused, "Julian Ford’s girlfriend? Who?"
Mr. Spencer: "You fool, still don’t know who you hurt! It’s the one you jabbed with the beer bottle that made a hole in her arm!"
"Wasn’t that girl Ryan’s ex-girlfriend?"
As Liam said this, Mr. Spencer instantly frowned, "What nonsense are you speaking."
Liam barely remembered the details from yesterday, but the faces of Yana Yarrow and Scarlett Shaw were still clear.
"It’s the woman with Yana Yarrow! Ryan even said at the time, he found her too dirty to touch! How did she suddenly become Julian Ford’s girlfriend?"
Liam’s eyes, swollen like walnuts, stared wide with curiosity and surprise.
When he saw Scarlett Shaw yesterday, he felt a sense of familiarity.
With nothing to do overnight, as clarity returned, he pondered where he might have seen her. This morning, it came back to him; it was summer a year ago, after Ryan made that dirty remark in the KTV room and rushed in to smack him, it was this Scarlett Shaw!
Before Mr. and Mrs. Spencer arrived, he thought Julian Ford was adamant about taking him down because Ryan and Scarlett had unresolved feelings, standing up for his brother, unexpectedly Julian turned out to be the one to take Scarlett!
"Dad, these Ford brothers stoop to competing for the same woman, and that woman isn’t clean either. Don’t you think I did you a favor by confronting the Ford family?"
"A favor, my foot!"
Mr. Spencer glared at Liam, yelling:
"Behave and stay put, use these days to reflect, when you’re out, just wait for me to deal with you!"
Upon leaving the detention center, Mr. Spencer didn’t immediately seek out Ezra Ford, instead pondering Leo’s words’ credibility.
Mrs. Spencer saw her husband dawdling and grew anxious, "Don’t we have dirt on the Ford family? Yet you stand like a lamp post, not moving a bit!"
"Why are you in such a hurry!"
Mr. Spencer snapped his sleeve low voice saying.
"Even if it’s true what our foolish son said, it’s still the Ford family’s private matter; if it comes from us, wouldn’t it be like setting ourselves ablaze?"
"What’s more, no matter what happens, they’re still family, you can’t air the dirty laundry outside. If you run directly to threaten them, wouldn’t’ Ezra Ford, that old fox, have us wrapped around his finger?"
Mrs. Spencer nodded in agreement but still was so anxious that she was about to cry, "Then what do you plan to do now? We can’t do nothing!"
Mr. Spencer thought for a moment, dialed a number.
"Conduct a background check on a woman named Scarlett Shaw, Julian Ford’s current girlfriend."
...
Julian Ford received Ezra Ford’s call while he was at Cloud Mansion changing Scarlett Shaw’s wrist wound dressing.
The phone was right on the table, as soon as it rang, both of them glanced over.
Julian Ford only took a glance before pulling his gaze back, lowering his eyes to focus on applying medicine to Scarlett Shaw.
Scarlett Shaw saw the ’Father’ displayed on the screen, and murmured a reminder softly, "Chairman Ford is calling; maybe you should answer, I can do it myself."
Julian Ford paused for a moment, tossed the cotton swab into the trash bin, picked up the phone, and pressed ’Hang Up.’
Scarlett Shaw: "..."
Julian Ford picked up a new swab, glanced at her, calmly stated, "His call is nothing more than two things—one, he’s heard about us dating and wants me to break up with you. Two, the Spencer family has offered him some incredible benefits to have me go easy on Liam Spencer. But neither of these will happen, answering would be a waste of time."
Julian Ford’s method of dressing wounds was very skilled, almost matching Josiah Sutton, the doctor from the previous day, without causing her any discomfort.
Scarlett Shaw discreetly scanned his wrist’s faint scars.
After a moment of silence, she burst out with a small voice saying, "How about you tell your parents we broke up, accept the Spencer Family benefits, then we privately date in secret, wouldn’t that be the best of three worlds?"
Julian Ford deeply looked at her.
Gripping her wrist tighter, Scarlett Shaw cried out in pain, annoyed, "You’re hurting me on purpose again!"
Julian Ford’s gaze swept over her wound, emotionlessly saying, "You say things to upset me, isn’t that intentional too? If I really did what you suggest, and then get set up for blind dates, would you still get angry?"
Scarlett Shaw thought for a while, uncertainly said, "Emotionally, yes, but rationally, I’ll keep it in check."
"The credibility of you not being angry is zero, and I don’t have the interest of seeing other women. Instead of imagining all this, you might as well focus on recovering. Also—"
