LOGIN"Do you think it would be convenient for you to come over?" the welfare home asked.I stayed silent for a long while. Ultimately, I agreed to go.I saw Nancy in the waiting room at the welfare home.She was a lot skinnier than before, and she was wearing clothes that didn't fit her. Her hair was also coarse and scraggly, and there was fear in her eyes.She was no longer the spoiled princess she once used to be.When she caught sight of me, she burst into tears and ran toward me, wanting to hug my legs. I instinctively took a step back, and she ended up grabbing air instead, freezing on the spot.Tears began streaming down her face even more."Daddy, I'm sorry… Please don't abandon me… Daddy, won't you please bring me home?"I'll be very good. I won't scold you or yell at you anymore. I'll listen to everything you say…"She wouldn't stop sobbing the entire time.I looked at her, a mix of emotions rising in my heart.She used to be someone I held so preciously in the palm of m
"Or do you mean flaunting Dmitri's mansions bought with my hard-earned money on your social media accounts, Denise?" I asked."Stop it with that cheap acting of yours, Denise Sheridan."The police arrived just then and rushed into the house, taking control of the situation at once.This time, the cold handcuffs were snapped onto each of the Sheridans' wrists instead.Dmitri was still trying to fight back."Let me go! How dare you arrest me? I didn't break any laws!"Larry, who had kept quiet throughout the entire ordeal, finally spoke, cursing out loud."You ingrate! We were the ones who fed you and took care of you, and you dare to bite the hands that fed you?"You will suffer a horrible death!"I watched expressionlessly as the four of them were led into the police cars.Finally, this ten-year-long nightmare was coming to an end.I turned around and saw Nancy hiding behind the door, shivering in fright.She no longer looked harsh or haughty like she used to in the past. I
I grabbed Dmitri by his collar and threw him to the ground."Trying to make a run for it? Can you even run?"Denise completely lost her mind when she saw this. She pounced on me like a madwoman and began clawing at my face and biting my arms."Aiken Collins! Let go of my brother! I'm going to kill you!"I slapped her hard on her cheek.The entire household suddenly turned deathly silent.Denise held a hand to her cheek, staring at me in disbelief. After all, I had never once laid a finger on her in the past 12 years of our relationship."This slap is for my dad."I then grabbed her by her hair and pressed her face into the pile of cash on the table."Take a deep breath. What do you smell?"It smells of the blood that was shed when my dad was tricked into selling his kidney!"It smells of the rotting flesh when I fell, broke my leg, and got impaled in the bones of my thigh!"It also smells of the disinfectant used when you used your daughter as your money-making machine over
Did Denise and Dmitri really think that they were safe once they'd run away with the money?I wasn't just going to make them pack back every cent they owed me.I was also going to make them face the consequences—a tooth for a tooth, and an eye for an eye.My phone vibrated with a new text message from Paul. He had sent me a photo of a drug test report.The report said that the "specialized drug" meant to cure Nancy's leukemia was actually just made up of glucose and vitamin C, costing less than ten bucks for a bottle of it.Denise had lied to me that the drug cost 10,000 dollars per dose.I gripped my phone tightly until my knuckles went white as resentment surged in my mind, nearly overthrowing my rationale.Ten years.The lie lasted ten whole years.I had worked myself to the bone, and Dad had sold his kidney and exchanged his life for nothing but a massive lie in the end.Nancy was not even sick to begin with!…I rushed out of the company and drove all the way back to D
Denise exclaimed, "That's not it! I just… My hand just slipped!"She wouldn't stop defending herself, but Samson didn't even bother looking at her. Instead, he approached me right away and said, "Mr. Collins, everything's settled now."He handed me a phone."This is the full surveillance video retrieved from the corridor of your apartment, and I've already handed it to the police."I tapped on the video, and it clearly showed how Dmitri had kicked down my door, swung the baseball bat at my head, and how I fought back and defended myself.The truth was out in the open, and the door to the interrogation room was opened once again. The young police officer from before stepped in and uncuffed me."Mr. Collins, you may leave now. According to the new evidence, Dmitri Sheridan is found guilty of illegal trespassing and breaking in, and attempted assault and battery."We have already summoned him to the station."…I walked out of the police station with the sun in my eyes.Paul's c
The officers snapped the cold cuffs around my wrists.The interrogation room was bright and almost blinding."Name.""Aiken Collins.""Do you know why you're here?""Yes. Family disputes."I answered the officer's questions very calmly. Meanwhile, the young officer seated opposite me frowned instead.He couldn't understand why I was so calm about the matter."Someone accused you of wielding a knife and threatening others, and of domestic abuse against your wife and daughter."We have video proof."The officer then began playing a video on the iPad he slid toward me. The screen showed me holding the penknife against Dmitri's neck on the ground.Denise's screams in the background were also very perfectly edited into the video.The video made me look like a fierce, terrible, and frightening beast."The video's been doctored," I said calmly. "Dmitri first attacked me with a baseball bat. I was only defending myself.""Do you have any proof of that?""You can find the surveil







