lissa Greenwood quickly hung up the phone.
She hadn’t expected to encounter Brooks Parker as soon as she returned to the States.
She thought... that incident, with Eliana Reed dead, Cooper Coldson would never find out, but now, she had run into Brooks Parker again.
What should she do?
She could tell Brooks Parker hated her to the core, and she was really scared.
"lissa?" Cooper’s voice ca from behind her, "What’s wrong? You look so pale."
"It’s nothing, probably just jet lag. I should rest more," lissa Greenwood muted her phone and put it away.
"You don’t really need to stay with in the office; go et up with old friends and get so rest at the hotel if you’re tired," Cooper didn’t really want lissa by his side.
"I care about you." lissa Greenwood cooed, hooking her arm through Cooper’s, "Don’t worry, I’ll rest if I get tired."
They entered the office together; Cooper worked while lissa sat beside him reading magazines.
After a while, a secretary knocked and entered.
"What is it?" Cooper looked up.
"Mr. President, there’s soone on the first floor looking for Miss Greenwood," the secretary looked towards lissa.
lissa imdiately guessed who it was and jumped to her feet.
"A friend of yours?" Cooper asked, puzzled.
"Oh dear, look at my mory, I had arranged a eting and forgot," lissa mumbled awkwardly, tugging at the corners of her mouth, "Cooper, I need to step out."
"Go on, be careful," Cooper quickly imrsed himself back in his work.
Once out of the office, lissa imdiately asked the secretary, "The person looking for ... is it a gentleman?"
The secretary shook her head, "It seems to be a young lady."
"Oh, then it might be my friend’s sister," lissa laughed dryly and hurried downstairs.
Soon, she t the young lady, who looked like a college student.
The two awkwardly walked out of the office building, and the young lady imdiately pointed towards a nearby small park, "A gentleman said he wants to et you, he’s waiting for you over there in the park."
"Thank you," lissa handed a ten-dollar tip to the young woman.
She breathed a sigh of relief, eting in the park was safer—less likely to be spotted by prying eyes.
She hurried to the park.
However, after arriving at the small park, lissa searched everywhere but couldn’t find Brooks Parker.
She was about to call him when she heard a chilling chuckle behind her.
Startled, she dropped her phone and scurried away, "Who are you? What do you want?"
The figure before her looked like a holess man, his face dirty under the moonlight, unrecognizable.
Brooks Parker stepped closer.
lissa imdiately backed away, "Don’t co any closer, or I’ll scream."
"Go on, scream louder, better yet call that new man of yours too," Brooks Parker hissed through clenched teeth, "I’d love for him to see just how ruthless of a bitch you really are."
lissa’s eyes widened in shock; the voice was familiar yet unbelievable.
She leaned in to get a better look at the holess man, then gasped, "You... you’re Brooks Parker?"
How could this be?
lissa could hardly believe it. How had the scholarly, dignified Brooks Parker turned into a holess man before her?
Brooks Parker stepped forward and suddenly grabbed lissa’s throat, "That’s right, surprised? You took all my docunts; couldn’t you guess what would beco of ?"
His grip tightened, lissa struggled to breathe, "Or did you rather wish that I had already died in the streets?"
"No, that’s not what I..." lissa struggled desperately but was no match for Brooks Parker, and she was being slowly strangled.
"lissa Greenwood, I’ve been wise for over two decades, how did I ever get fooled by such a skank like you?" Brooks Parker glared, inches from lissa’s face, "lissa Greenwood, worse than a beast, even wishing death upon ! What about your daughter, then?"
His eyes, bloodshot with hatred, looked terrifying, "Even animals don’t eat their young; you can’t even spare your own daughter!"
He threw lissa onto the ground.
"Cough, cough..." lissa coughed violently as she gasped for air.
She knew, without docunts, Brooks couldn’t get far here, especially not with a daughter in tow.
She had thought they were already dead.
Daughter?
That wasn’t her daughter, but a stain in her life, one monuntal mistake she should never have made.
But clearly, Brooks didn’t feel that way, and lissa needed to calm this man down, not provoke him.
Realizing all this, lissa started to sob softly, "My daughter, my flesh and blood, do you think I really don’t care? Woowoo..."
"Enough with your pretense," Brooks scoffed dismissively, "You vanished days after giving birth, she didn’t even taste your milk, how could you care about her?"
"How could I not care, why else would I co back?" lissa wept, looking desperately at Brooks, "I ca back to find you and together."
"Ha, ha, ha..." Brooks laughed bitterly, "lissa Greenwood, now you lie without even a draft, who kept hanging up on , saying never again? You think I’d believe you?"
"Brother Brooks, hear out," lissa stood, gripping Brooks’s sleeve passionately, "You saw, on the day I ca back at the airport, I wasn’t alone."
"My husband, Cooper Coldson, ca too."
Brooks furrowed his brows, having been of the sa school, he was well aware of who Cooper was.
lissa continued, "You should have heard of him back in school; if he knew I had a child with you, neither you nor the child would survive."
"I said I wouldn’t see you because I didn’t want to endanger you both," lissa’s eyes welled with tears, "I thought I’d secure so money for you first, set everything up, and then go see you and our daughter, really, believe ."
Brooks squinted, silent.
His life had been ruined by lissa; of course, he couldn’t bear to trust her again.
Yet, what lissa was saying seed plausible.
He spoke coldly, "What are you planning to do about May? You’re not going to acknowledge her?"
"May?"
Brooks shifted his gaze awkwardly. In those initial days, holding on to mories of lissa, he had nad their daughter Eloise Parker, with May as a nickna, but as he discovered that lissa took all his savings, all his docunts, he utterly lost hope and grew to hate her.
Every ti he involuntarily called out May’s na during his less lucid monts, he was driven to frantically hurt Little May.
lissa quickly realized that May was the child’s na.
She felt supre disdain. This man was pitifully foolish and miserable, thoroughly played by her, and deserved it!
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