“Isabella, my child, how can you be so blinded by this man?” Charles’s injured hand was trembling badly. “No matter how much we fight, we are still family at the end of the day. I wouldn’t harm you, but this man might. He’s scheming to drive a wedge between us so you will be isolated and at his mercy!”
“Family? The family that abused me for fifteen years? The family that left me rotten in that basement? The family that stole my fiancée and left me no hope of getting married? The family that always starved me and beat me in the dark? The family that not only took advantage of me but also took advantage of a five-year-old when she didn’t know how to fight back?” Isabella sneered as if she had just heard a great joke.
Nathan was taken aback and looked at Isabella, “Did he hit you and starv
