Chapter 7 I Blake Hagen, The Jerk

Camellia’s steps up the stairs seemed to be stumbles. The look in her eyes, staring straight ahead, looked blank. Now, her head was filled with Hagen’s words, who kept looming along the way to her room.

“Slept a year with him, he said,” Camellia muttered, which instantly stopped her pace. One of her hands was holding the stairs, clenched tightly. “I won’t sleep with you! You’re a jerk!”

Camellia shouted with all her might, “Who are you who dare to look down on me?!”

She hit the handrail of the stairs under her hand until her palm was numb.

“You’re @$%&@, and I hope your junior %$#@& and ****** just die, you @#%&.” The girl also continued to curse without pause with every vulgar and colorful word she knew, which she happened to hear from garden workers and servants when the house was still in its luxurious state.

“I hate you so much! You scum man!”

After shouting the last word, Camellia’s tears suddenly burst out profusely, making her sob. She forced her broken cries to stop, her stirring voice echoing against the door.

“Daddy...” she called with a heart full of pain. She didn’t even know who to lean on because no one was willing to help her at this time. “Daddy...” she cried as she patted her chest, as the pain made her claustrophobic suddenly.

With a limping stride, Camellia carried herself to the front of her locked room.

She even seemed to have trouble standing upright, as her head was heavy after she had finished crying and screaming.

As soon as Camellia walked into the room, she threw herself onto the bed, pouring all of her pain and sadness onto the pillow.

Until the sun rose, Camellia chose to shut herself up. She was hesitant to move on, and her day began with a self-wrapping sadness. However, as soon as she saw the clock on the nightstand showing one for the day, Camellia knew she couldn’t continue lying down while her father was in the hospital.

With a limp body and a tired face, Camellia decided to visit her father.

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The metallic car Hagen was driving was still parked in the courtyard of the Duncan family home. He was just about to go inside when he suddenly heard Camellia shouting. Instantly his body turned tense, and his legs subconsciously turned around, about to return to the girl’s house. However, as soon as he heard the swearing and cursing, Hagen fell silent where he had just stood.

He listened carefully. Realizing that the girl’s choice of words was unusual, Hagen leaned on the car body.

Frank, who had been in the driver’s seat since before, just stared at the door of Camellia’s house with a lazy look. Every now and then, he glanced at his boss, who seemed to enjoy the expletives from the girl.

“Do you want me to shut her mouth?” asked Frank as Camellia’s scream of a colorful curse didn’t stop. Next to him, Hagen’s eyebrows went up to the forehead, and then Hagen shook his head faintly as he continued to watch the door in front, which was about ten meters away.

The two men were finally silent, but their bodies turned tense when Camellia’s cursing turned into a loud crying. And suddenly, Hagen also opened the door of his car.

“Let’s get out of here,” he said flatly as he went inside.

Frank and one of Hagen’s subordinates on the front seat looked at each other, but they just shut their mouths and their vehicle got out of the parking lot when the girl’s cries turned into a miserable cry.

When the car drove smoothly through the gate, Frank glanced at Hagen, sitting in the back, through the rearview mirror above his head.

Apparently, his boss was not the least affected by the girls’ cries that they heard, because he seemed to be busy with the phone in hand. Frank was sure that his boss continued his delayed work, replying to emails and studying meeting materials that hadn’t had time to be read.

“Keep looking forward, Garry,” Hagen reprimanded his subordinate.

Not once did he lift his head because his attention was still focused on the work in his hands, making Frank wonder if it could be that his boss had many eyes.

“Aye, boss,” Frank retorted, whose full name is Garry Frank.