Together Apart: Her White Moonlight Has Returned Too-Chapter 11: Cecilia Needs Rest and Recuperation
"Merciless, isn’t it?" Winston Valentine’s face darkened. "Compared to what Cecilia Vaughn has gone through, this is nothing."
Indeed, he cared so much for Cecilia Vaughn that seeing her in such a state, not demanding Mark Yves’s life already counted as being lenient.
"Winston Valentine, whether you believe it or not, I wasn’t aware of this matter," Vera Yves said helplessly. "I called Mark Yves only because I know him, and I feared he’d do something irrational to vent my anger..."
"Vent your anger? Do you mean Cecilia is at fault?" Winston Valentine said with a stern face.
Vera Yves shook her head, "That’s not what I meant! This is Mark Yves’s fault, The Yves Family can offer compensation to Cecilia Vaughn!"
"Compensation?" Winston Valentine sneered, "Mrs. Valentine truly has deep pockets! Instead of coming to The Valentine Family, you’d better find him a good lawyer, maybe he can get a few years knocked off his sentence!"
"Is The Valentine Family going to report it to the police?"
"What do you think?"
Vera Yves anxiously grabbed his arm, "Winston Valentine, for the sake of our marriage, could you at least ask them not to report it yet?"
Winston Valentine looked at her hands which still bore red marks, his gaze deepened as he pushed her away, not refusing but also not agreeing. He said coldly, "Don’t go to the old house the next few days, Cecilia won’t want to see you!"
Watching the man’s indifferent back, Vera Yves abandoned the idea of finding Cecilia Vaughn and rushed back to the hospital overnight.
With the painkillers wearing off, Mark Yves lay on the hospital bed groaning in pain, Hannah Hayes’s eyes were already swollen from crying.
Vera Yves sat on the long bench outside the ward, tilting her head back, tears of heartache helplessly sliding down. Would Winston Valentine consider their marital bond and spare Mark Yves? She had no confidence at all.
Early the next morning, Harry Yves, with a stern face, arrived at the hospital. Hannah Hayes quickly stood up, tidying her hair, "Why did you come? You just recovered, being in the cold isn’t good."
"Such a big incident happened and you all dared to hide it from me?" Harry Yves cast a glance at Mark Yves, his figure swaying.
Vera Yves quickly supported him, "Dad, don’t be angry first."
Harry Yves pointed at Mark Yves, shaking with a trembling voice, "You brat! It was fine when you messed around before, but how could you be so bold to do something so heinous!"
Mark Yves guiltily avoided his gaze, Hannah Hayes said with concern, "The child is already like this, don’t scold him anymore."
"You’re still defending him! If you hadn’t pampered him all along, would he have become so out of control?" Harry Yves said with a stern face, "You will come with me now to apologize to The Valentine Family!"
Vera Yves thought of Linda Young, worried about them going alone, she called and asked Linda Young to come to the hospital to take care of Mark Yves, then followed them.
The three of them entered The Valentine Family’s living room carrying a bunch of supplements.
Samantha Warren happened to be coming downstairs with soup for Cecilia Vaughn, seeing The Yves, she was instantly infuriated, shouting sharply, "You still have the nerve to come?"
"Sister-in-law, it is my failure to teach my child that he has committed such a grave mistake, today I am here specifically to apologize to Cecilia on behalf of my disgraceful son."
"Apologize?" Thinking of Cecilia Vaughn’s pale face, Samantha Warren gritted her teeth, "I think you’ve come to see if my daughter has been hurt badly enough by you!"
Hannah Hayes wanted to say something, but Harry Yves pulled her arm, "I can understand your feelings, sister-in-law..."
"What can you understand?" Samantha Warren’s voice trembled, seeing the glaring wounds on Cecilia and the bruises all over her body made her feel murderous!
"No need for your hypocritical apologies! I don’t accept them!"
Samantha Warren stepped forward and swiftly grabbed the gifts in their hands, throwing them out the door, "Take your garbage and get out!"
Harry Yves, already weak, almost fell from her tugging, Hannah Hayes hurriedly supported him, dissatisfied, "How can you be like this..."
Samantha Warren suddenly grabbed Vera Yves’s collar, looking at her with hatred, "You couldn’t keep a man yourself, so you have to ruin my Cecilia! How wicked of you!"
"Bang!"
A loud slap landed on Vera Yves’s face.
Vera Yves’s ears rang with a buzzing sound.
Hannah Hayes was startled, "You’re crazy!"
Samantha Warren truly seemed crazy, not satisfied after one slap her two hands grabbed Vera Yves’s neck fiercely, "You ruined my daughter so horribly, why don’t you just go die? Go die!"
Vera Yves’s face flushed instantly, and she struggled to pry open Samantha Warren’s wrists.
Hannah Hayes also rushed over and after a long struggle finally pulled Samantha Warren’s hands away, frightened, she shielded Vera Yves behind her, seeing Vera Yves’s swollen face made her furious, "Mark is already beaten half to death by Winston Valentine, what more do you want?"
Samantha Warren gritted her teeth, "He should be beaten to death!"
Hannah Hayes crossed her arms in anger, "If you hadn’t taught your daughter badly, letting her seduce married men, why would my son have kidnapped her?"
Samantha Warren looked at her incredulously.
"Mom!" Vera Yves pulled her.
Hannah Hayes shook off her hand as Harry Yves said with a stern face, "Don’t say anymore!"
"If we don’t speak, The Valentine Family might think The Yves are afraid!" Hannah Hayes straightened her back, "My son made a mistake kidnapping your daughter, sure, but they share blame. Beating, Mark has endured, apologies, we have made! What more do you want?"
Samantha Warren laughed angrily, "You’re truly shameless! I will surely report to the police and have your son arrested! I’ll see him rot in jail!"
Calmly, Hannah Hayes replied, "The Valentine and Yves Families are in-laws, you’re reporting to arrest Winston’s brother-in-law, does Winston agree?"
"Mom, don’t say anymore." Vera Yves felt a deep sense of helplessness.
Harry Yves sighed.
Samantha Warren gritted her teeth, if Winston Valentine hadn’t been silent, she wouldn’t have waited till now to report!
But The Yves have really gone too far!
"Did I say anything wrong?" Hannah Hayes thought of Winston Valentine beating Mark Yves to near death, her heart angry, "If he dares send Mark to prison, then he should stop being The Yves’s son-in-law!"
"Whether he goes to jail or not has nothing to do with me," Winston Valentine’s cold voice sounded.
Vera Yves looked up and saw Winston Valentine coming down from the second floor, wearing the same clothes as last night, he must’ve stayed by Cecilia Vaughn’s side all night.
"Winston, what do you mean by that?"
Winston Valentine’s gaze swept over Vera Yves’s swollen face, as if saying she shouldn’t have come against his orders, so foolishly.
"It’s something he did himself, he’s an adult, he should pay the price for his own actions."
"You...really want Mark to go to jail?" Hannah Hayes looked at him in disbelief, "Why? If it wasn’t for your lingering feelings with Cecilia Vaughn, why would Mark have done such a thing, you..."
"If you’ve come to The Valentine Family to turn black into white, The Valentine Family does not welcome you," Winston Valentine said coldly, "Come, show them out!"
Bodyguards outside walked in.
Hannah Hayes looked at him in shock, "You’re really going to throw us out?" 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
Winston Valentine remained calm, "Cecilia needs peace and quiet now."
"Winston Valentine, do you even know who your wife is?"
Seeing the bodyguards gather around, Vera Yves didn’t want to be more humiliated, "Mom, let’s go!"
Harry Yves also pulled her, stern-faced, "You still want to cause more embarrassment!"
"Embarrassment? If I get escorted out by Winston Valentine’s bodyguards, that’s real embarrassment!"
"Bang!" Suddenly a loud noise came from upstairs.
