Chapter 176 She Rejected Him
“I’m not humiliating you; I’m just reminding you!” Luke held her chin and continued, “Madeline Taylor, do you know who Sebastian is? He’s the only heir to the Hart Family! Do you think he would only need to inherit the Hart Corporation? No! He has two other uncles who are as rich as the entire nation. Both of them are unmarried with no children. Sebastian will be their closest kin and he will inherit their empires as well!”
Madeline was perplexed by everything he had said. “Luke Adams, why did you investigate them? What do you want?”
To that, he replied, “As what I’ve said, I’m reminding you! Consider this, Madeline. How would Sebastian, with his current status and position, marry you, a woman who has gone down on her knees to so many people before? For him, you are merely an inferior and lowly individual. It’s impossible for him to treat you wholeheartedly! He wants you by his side now because of those two b*stards. When the time comes, he’ll ditch you without your knowledge, and after you’re gone, his two sons will have an unblemished life, and he’ll be able to get both of them for nothing.”
“What rubbish are you saying?” She trembled in anger. “To you, I’m someone like what you’ve said? Inferior? Lowly? A blemish who would taint their lives?”
She couldn’t control her rage and gave him a tight slap; it was so hard that even her fingers trembled from it. “Luke Adams, since you look at me in that way, why do you still look for me now? Get away from me as much as possible! I never want to see you again!”
Madeline had great strength to begin with and because she was angry, she used so much force in that slap that it caused the internal lining of his mouth to bleed. The corners of his mouth began to swell with blood.
That did not bother him, though. He casually wiped them away and said, “Loyal advice jars on the ears. My words are not pleasant, but they are the truth! Don’t be silly, Madeline. A man like Sebastian will never like a woman with your family background. He’s not sincere with you and is merely using you for his two sons. If the opportunity arises, he will definitely ditch you but keep your sons to marry another rich and elegant woman, and that two sons of yours would have to suffer under that stepmother, then…”
Luke raised his brow and looked at her. “Stepmother, Madeline! You know what tricks stepmothers have up their sleeves; you can’t even rest in peace after you die with your sons under such a person!”
“Shut up!” Madeline’s face was flushed red. “Sebastian is not someone like what you’ve said! Even if he is, I’m not stupid enough to suffer all those! I’m not a three-year-old child anymore, and I can see for myself who the hero is, who the villain is, who is true to me and who’s not. You don’t have to be worried for me!”
“No, you can’t!” He continued in an emotionless tone, “If you can, you would not have brought that two b*stard to his house and even married him!”
The last few words were said with his teeth gnashing with rage.
She replied, “We’re both single and wanted to give Quincy and Joel a complete family. That was why we got married. We did not hurt anyone, and all that we’ve done was legal!”
“No, you hurt me!” Luke gave her a cold stare. Though his face was emotionless, his gaze seemed to be burning with anger. “You promised me that you would never marry anyone for the rest of your life! You’ve deceived me, Madeline!”
Hearing that, she was stumped for words.
Madeline had indeed said that to him before, but she did not intend to deceive him. That was her true intention at that time.
It had never occurred to her that she would locate her sons’ biological father in this world!
At that moment, she was being pestered by Luke to the extent that she had no idea what to do further. She had said everything she could but he insisted on marrying her.
She had no feelings for him at all, so it was impossible for her to marry him.
If that was someone else, she might have thought of other harsher ways to stop the pestering, but the person doing it was Luke. She had known him and Logan from the first year that Dan brought her to Worrick.
She had once accompanied Dan on a hunting trip in a remote location where she unexpectedly came across the Adams brothers, both of whom were about to die.
She pleaded for Dan to save the both of them.
Luckily, he was in a good mood that day and ordered someone to send the Adams brothers to the hospital.
However, he was also someone with no patience at all. After he instructed his men to send them to the hospital, he could not be bothered about them anymore.
Dan was the one who brought Madeline into the Taylor Family. That being the case, he was often afraid that she would disgrace him; so, whenever he was in a good mood, he would give her a sum of money.
And she would spend all the money he gave her on the Adams brothers’ medical bills.
When she first arrived at Worrick, she was an outsider there and Dan did not have the time to take care of her either. She was lonely, and the Adams brothers whom she saved were her emotional solace.
Not only had she often gone to the hospital secretly to take care of them, but after learning that they were being chased to the rural areas by their stepmother, she even rented a house for them and provided them a shelter after they were discharged from the hospital.
Subsequently, Sam returned to the country and wanted her to learn some skills.
Once Madeline was familiar with her master, she introduced the Adams brothers to him. They both moved to the firm and began learning under her master.
She was their life savior. They both treated her well and she had also regarded them both as her brothers.
They could be family for the rest of their lives if Luke hadn’t fallen in love with her, but that happened. He loved her and wanted to marry her.
And she rejected him.
However, there was once where he was drunk and slipped into her room, intending to force himself on her.
Fortunately, they made enough of a commotion that Logan heard them and immediately stopped Luke. Otherwise, Luke would have achieved what he wanted that night.
Madeline was furious about it and asked Logan to get Luke away from her.
Logan agreed. In fact, he was feeling so guilty that he thought they should leave as well.
Their uncle had coincidentally contacted both of them after they were forced into exile abroad by the evil people and requested them to return for matters regarding their family assets.
On that day, Logan wanted to leave with Luke, but Luke refused. Logan could only knock him out and stuffed him into the car just to bring him along. At that point of time, they were still paupers, with no servants with them. So, it was Logan who drove them back.
However, he might have been in a bad mood that day and did not pay attention to what he was doing or things were just destined to happen because they met with an accident. Logan sustained serious lung injuries as well as severe bone fractures.
