Eliza Sutton’s patience wore thin. "Mr. Sutton, if you ca here today just to claim as your daughter, you’ve co to the wrong place. Please leave. Or I can have security drag you out."
The mont she finished speaking, the bodyguards at the door glanced in their direction, looking ready to charge over at a mont’s notice.
Harrison Sutton’s expression was grim, but he knew an appeal to family ties wouldn’t move Eliza.
He cut to the chase. "I do have business with you today. Replace Innis’s spokesperson. I have a more suitable candidate: Vivian Forrest. She’s the Forrest family’s daughter and the hottest genius Go prodigy right now. If she’s willing to endorse Innis, it’s our gain. Eliza, bring the endorsent contract tomorrow. No problem, right?"
"No problem."
A smile imdiately spread across Harrison Sutton’s face. "Then I’ll be waiting for the contract."
"Mr. Sutton, you must have misunderstood . I ant that since you value Viola Forrest so much, you should sign a contract with her yourself. My involvent won’t be necessary."
"You’re refusing?" Harrison Sutton was incredulous. "Eliza Sutton, do you have any idea what a golden opportunity this is to connect with the Forrest Group? How can you refuse? Are you insane?"
Eliza had no patience for this argunt. "Mr. Sutton, is there anything else? If not, please leave." She glanced at her watch. "You’ve already wasted more than ten minutes of my ti."
With that, Eliza turned to leave, unwilling to stay a second longer.
Harrison Sutton was both panicked and furious—furious that Eliza would disrespect him so brazenly.
But he really didn’t dare to beat around the bush.
He knew that if he kept stalling, Eliza would actually walk out.
He had learned the hard way just how difficult it was to get a eting with Eliza Sutton, now that she had transford into Master Innis.
"Stop!"
Harrison Sutton rushed in front of Eliza, blocking her path. "I do have sothing else. Let your sister go."
"You want to let Alia Sutton go?" Eliza scoffed, as if she’d just heard the most ridiculous joke.
"Yes!" Harrison Sutton sighed, his tone softening slightly. "I know Alia was wrong to hurt you this ti, but no matter what, we’re family. What good will it do you to have Alia go to jail and end up with a criminal record?"
Harrison Sutton spoke with self-righteous conviction, his tone pleading, as if he had only his daughter’s best interests at heart.
But in reality?
’It was all complete bullshit!’
’For my own good?’
’If Harrison Sutton cared about her in the slightest, he never would have said sothing so ridiculous.’
In the end, Eliza couldn’t help but laugh.
"You’re not wrong, Mr. Sutton. Who says having Alia Sutton in jail doesn’t benefit ? At the very least, it makes happy. See? I’m very happy right now."
Harrison Sutton’s face instantly darkened, his expression a mask of indescribable fury. "Eliza Sutton, you and Alia Sutton are sisters! You’re family! How can you be so cold-blooded and heartless!"
Eliza laughed again.
She honestly couldn’t help it.
Still smiling, she said, "? Cold-blooded and heartless? Mr. Sutton, you seem to have forgotten that it was your ’good daughter’ who hired a man and a child to show up in public and slander my na. She tried to ruin first. I’m rely giving her a taste of her own dicine. Oh, and you, Mr. Sutton... you showed up with Alia, backing her up with your own vague and misleading words. Did you really think I didn’t know what you were up to?"
Eliza’s gaze was so sharp it seed to pierce right into Harrison Sutton’s soul, dragging all his sordid intentions out into the light.
Harrison Sutton’s face burned with humiliation.
The feeling of being so thoroughly exposed was awful.
But Harrison Sutton’s sha quickly turned to even greater fury. "Eliza Sutton, what is the aning of this? Are you questioning your own father? How dare you act this way? If word gets out that you, the great Master Innis, are unfilial, how long do you think your fa will last? Besides, while Alia’s and my actions might have been inappropriate, the fact remains that you slept with so random man and gave birth to a pair of bastards!"
’I should be grateful,’ Eliza thought.
’Grateful that ever since the mont I went to prison five years ago, I’ve held zero expectations for Harrison Sutton as a father.’
Eliza smiled, but it was an expression colder than ice. The way she looked at him, it was as if she were staring at a dead man.
"Yes, I slept with so random man. I gave birth to a pair of bastards. But has Mr. Sutton forgotten how I ended up in that man’s bed? It was your ’good daughter’ who got drunk at my own eighteenth birthday party and drugged . Oh, that’s right. She was even thoughtful enough to arrange for a man to be there for !
And why did I give birth to two children? Don’t you know that, either?"
Back then, when Eliza first found out she was pregnant, she had been terrified.
After all, the children’s father was unknown, she was far too young, and her situation was already precarious.
Choosing to go through with the pregnancy would have been the most irresponsible thing to do.
She had considered getting an abortion.
She had even scheduled the procedure and was waiting to be called into the operating room.
The decision may have been cruel, but it was the best for both her and the children.
But in the end, she never made it to the operating room.
She was kidnapped by Alia Sutton.
She would never forget the vicious smile on Alia’s face.
Alia had said, "Eliza Sutton, you want to get an abortion? Dream on. You have to give birth to these children. It’s the only way to give you a permanent stain, sothing that will let keep you crushed under my heel forever."
Even now, Eliza couldn’t understand how an eighteen-year-old girl could be so vicious.
Later, as her pregnancy progressed, it beca too late for an abortion.
During the months that followed, she ca to fully accept the children growing inside her and was prepared to drop out of school to raise them.
But that wasn’t the beginning of her hell.
Just when she was seven months pregnant, Cedric Sutton ca under police investigation for a series of cris, including illegal fundraising and tax evasion.
To save his son, Harrison Sutton made her take the fall.
Unable to fight back, she offered to sever her ties with Harrison Sutton as his daughter in exchange for agreeing to plead guilty.
Afraid she would go back on her word, Harrison Sutton used his connections to ensure she was denied bail, even during her pregnancy.
Then, she gave birth to her children in prison.
Harrison Sutton arrived imdiately and took both children away.
Harrison Sutton put on a show of fatherly concern, telling her, "I’m taking the children so they can have a better life."
But Eliza had always known that was a lie.
Harrison Sutton took the children simply to have sothing to hold over her, to control her by her weakest point, ensuring she would keep her mouth shut and forever take the fall for his son’s cris.
’Was Harrison Sutton clever?’
’Very.’
’Look at how he’d used his own daughter, squeezing every last drop of value from her very bones.’
’But Harrison Sutton was also a fool.’
’He assud sending his daughter to prison would destroy her completely. He’d forgotten that if he really wanted her to be as obedient as a dog, he should have kept her children close and raised them well.’
’Then again, maybe Harrison Sutton wasn’t a fool.’
’He was simply convinced that Eliza Sutton’s life was already ruined for good.’
’Too bad for him. She had disappointed him yet again.’
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