From Ruin She Rose novel Chapter 108

Chapter 108

No one could have imagined that a grown man would dare to so proudly boast about being a kept man right there

on the street.

“You… You…” Lucas glared at him, completely dumbfounded and unable to string together a coherent sentence for a long moment.

When he came to his senses, Lucas demanded in shock, “What did you just call her?”

Lucas thought, ‘That name… Since we were kids, I was the only one who could call her that!’

Austin said with shameless conviction, “Of course, I called her dear Emily. What, are you going deaf already at your age?”

“You-” Lucas’s face flushed red with anger. He turned to Emily, his voice tight with anger, and demanded, “Who the hell is he? What gives him the right to call you that?”

“My business has nothing to do with you, Lucas.” Her demeanor still frosty, Emily turned to Austin, motioned for him to follow, and made him leave.

“Don’t you dare leave.” Lucas lunged forward and seized Emily’s hand, his bloodshot eyes glistening with unshed

tears.

Lucas asked, “Tell me, who the hell is he? What gives him the right to call you ‘dear Emily”?”

Lucas’s voice softened, a wounded note creeping into it. “But you said I was the only one who could call you that.” His pitiful state sent a pang of bittersweetness through Emily’s heart.

Ever since they were kids, whenever Lucas turned on that pleading look and called her “dear Emily” in that soft, coaxing voice, Emily could never refuse him, no matter what he asked.

And every time, she simply couldn’t say no to anything Lucas wanted. Yet at that moment, Emily withdrew her hand with icy indifference.

“Lucas, you’ve got the wrong person. Your dear sister is standing right over there.” With that, Emily shot a meaningful glance at Lydia, who had been standing silently since getting out of the car.

She let out a cold laugh. “Lucas, if you’ve forgotten, I’d be happy to refresh your memory.

“You were the one who told me to my face that you didn’t want a wicked sister like me, that Lydia was the only sister you recognized.

“You ordered me out of the Bennett family and told me never to call myself Bennett again, because I was nothing but bad luck and a disgrace to you.”

With each icy, deliberate word Emily spoke, Lucas’s face grew paler and paler. Clearly, the memory of his own cruel words came rushing back to him. Lydia’s heart tightened as she watched guilt creep onto Lucas’s face.

Lydia quickly stepped forward, her eyes glistening with tears as she looked at Emily. “Emily, please don’t be angry. It’s all my fault.

1/2

Chapter 108

“Lucas couldn’t bear to see me being bullied, so he blurted out those words in a fit of anger. If you have to blame someone, blame me.”

Tears streamed down Lydia’s face as she sobbed. “If only I hadn’t come back, then you wouldn’t have argued with the family or done all those terrible things. I never should have returned.”

Verify captcha to read the contentVerify