"What’s wrong? Why are you looking at like that?" Quinton asked her hesitantly.
He could tell that sothing was weighing on Joanna’s mind, and he could pretty much guess what it was.
He didn’t want to open Pandora’s box, so he didn’t ask her about it, but now it seed like he could not ignore it any longer.
He had to face the consequences of his actions.
"Ask whatever you want to ask.
I’ll tell you everything honestly." Quinton stopped smiling and beca serious too.
Joanna clenched her fists and said, "I want you to tell about what happened in the past with Ace.
Are you really as innocent as you claim?" "I never said that I was innocent.
Every battle will have a winner and a loser.
Ace was capable but shaless when he defeated back then.
I have nothing to say about that.
The only thing I can do is try to defeat him this ti..." His eyes glittered, and he said shrewdly, "Like now.It’s a great chance for us to defeat him since everyone is now on our side.We need to grab this opportunity!" "Both you and him might not be innocent... but Taylor is," Joanna said softly after gathering her courage.
"Shut up!" Quinton’s expression instantly beca sinister and twisted.
He was no longer his gentle self, and he looked like a stranger now.
Taylor had always been a taboo topic, so nobody had dared to bring her up in front of him.
"Quinton, we have to talk about this if you trust and want to leave that pain behind." Joanna carefully put her hand on Quinton’s shoulder and asked softly, "Taylor didn’t betray you.She just wanted to take revenge on you, right?" "What do you know?" Quinton pushed Joanna aside, his eyes filled with rage.
He snarled at her, "Did Ace trick you? It’s only been a few days, but you’re already on his side? Why do you trust everything he says instead of ? You think that your man is more important than your brother, don’t you?" "No!" Joanna couldn’t believe how Quinton was acting.
He was always so tolerant and loving, but it was clear that he beca unhinged when it ca to Taylor.
He couldn’t tell right from wrong, and would lash out at anybody.
"You know that if it ca down to that, I would always choose you.If I didn’t, I would not still see you as my brother even after you blinded him and nearly got him killed.
I’m just worried about you, and I’m trying to help you get over your grudges..." "If you’re on my side and want to help , you should ruin the Moran family and Ace... Only then can my past humiliation and ruined face recover." Quinton’s difficult past had turned him into a stubborn and radical person.
He did not want forgiveness or reconciliation, or so sort of cheesy happy ending.
He wanted to take revenge and win.
He wanted to feel the joy and triumph of ruining Ace Moran.
Joanna’s eyes grew wide as she retorted, "So, you want to take your side? Does it an that I can’t stop you even if you want to kill people? That I have to allow you to take innocent lives?" "Isn’t that what you should do?" Quinton grabbed Joanna’s shoulders, his eyes wild.
"We’re siblings with the sa blood running in us. You’re , and I’m you; we’re in the sa boat.
All I want to do is revive the Pierce family and take revenge for our deceased parents.
Shouldn’t you support ?" "I don’t mind you wanting to revive the Pierce family, but there needs to be a limit.
If we don’t have principles, we’ll be just like those villains who destroyed our parents.
Such a bloodstained path of revenge would never make our parents happy if they knew." "Well, what do you want to do then?" Quinton punched the balcony hard, and his knuckles started to bleed.
"Are you aware of my past? If I was bound by limits, I would be long dead by now.
I was able to crawl out of that demonic abyss because I was cruder than others... That was how I gained my current position." "Yes, I know you did all that to survive, but to use the sa kind of thods with Taylor? She helped you, and was your shining ray of hope, but you turned around and stabbed her in the back.
Do you think it’s okay?" Joanna demanded.
"Stabbed her?" Quinton laughed coldly.
"She was the one who stabbed , sister dearest.
I’m sure it was Ace who told you that... You say that you’re on my side but you doubt everything I say and believe everything he says.
Have you ever considered my feelings?" "Was it really a lie? Didn’t you kill Taylor’s family and force her to do things against her will? Didn’t you abort her child?" Joanna cared about her relationship with Quinton very much, but she felt compassion for Taylor after hearing what she had been through.
"Taylor is so kind.If you didn’t force her, she would never have done sothing so extre." "Yes, I killed her family because my foster parents and her brother were cruel beasts.If I didn’t get rid of them, they would have gotten rid of .
As for the fact that I aborted her child..." Quinton closed his eyes and gnashed his teeth.
His lip curled as he sneered, "I would never allow such an abomination to co into this world and ruin my life." "You..." Joanna’s eyes widened in shock.
She didn’t expect Quinto to admit to it so easily without the slightest hint of remorse.
She shook her head sadly, unable to comprehend his thinking.
"How could you say such a thing? Your life might be good now, but what about Taylor’s? You ruined her life but you’re not at all sorry?" She recalled how Taylor couldn’t forget about Quinton even when she was on the verge of death.
For the first ti, Joanna saw her brother as a monster.
Even though they were siblings, he was the worst kind of scum.
"Do you know that she was still thinking about you even on the verge of death? The person she wanted to see one last ti was still you... You hurt her so badly, but she still couldn’t forget about you.
You’re so cruel and heartless... you don’t deserve her love at all!" Joanna sobbed as she spoke.
She never imagined that she would say such hurtful words to her own beloved brother.
Quinton staggered slightly, and his eyes shone with pain." Cruel and heartless? Is... that what you think of ?" Joanna wiped her tears away.
"I’m sorry, I didn’t an that. I just feel that you and Taylor shouldn’t have fallen out with each other.
If you were different back then and let her keep her child, maybe now—" "There is no maybe!" Quinton gripped the railing on the balcony, his gaze cold.
"Taylor is dead, so your words are aningless.
It’s too late even if I regret it." Joanna’s eyes lit up when she heard this.
Believing Quinton and Taylor could reconcile, she asked tentatively, "Quinton, are you serious? Do you regret it too?" Quinton remained silent, neither admitting or denying it.
He did not know if he regretted it or not, but he had to admit that he never forgot about Taylor during all those years even though he prohibited others from ntioning her in front of him.
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