The next second, a slap cracked across Raymond's face. The sharp sound echoed through the room, and red marks bloomed at once on his clean-cut cheek.Raymond frowned faintly. He licked the blood at the corner of his mouth and raised his eyes to the middle-aged man before him. He looked at him not as a father, but as a stranger.Diana froze for a moment, then seized Raymond's arm. When she saw the injury on his face, something shifted in her usually cold eyes.She turned sharply toward Theodore and said firmly, "Grandfather never laid a single finger on Ray."Growing up, none of them had escaped Albus's punishments. Yet no matter how often the old man complained that Raymond was unruly, Raymond remained, aside from Vivian, the one he favored most."When did you learn to use the old man to pressure me?" Theodore snapped. "Did you not hear the vile things coming out of his mouth? Is that how he should speak to his own sister?"He had assumed the siblings were merely making trouble o
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