Chapter 6
All night long, Aydan stared at the workers rushing to complete the job and didn’t say a single word to me.
I knew he was very uncomfortable in his heart.
I also no longer insisted on coaxing him, but I always felt uneasy in my heart.
So I called two workers and spent a lot of money to have a super strong bulletproof door installed overnight at the entrance of the basement.
I personally supervised the insulation measures in the basement, and they were done very well.
In the dim light of dawn, all the workers finished their work and left.
I tidied up the basement and put my daughter to sleep, while Aydan slept alone in the master bedroom upstairs with the heater on.
In a daze, I heard someone banging on the front door, accompanied by various unpleasant curses.
Taking out the surveillance, it was seen that Aydan had already opened the gate and welcomed Ahmed’s family inside.
Layla followed behind with a bruised and swollen nose, her face filled with hatred.
She questioned Aydan as soon as she walked in, “Why? Why are all the gift boxes Caitlin gave me empty?!”
It was too late for me to go up and save Aydan.
Aydan was completely confused at this moment, still not fully recovered from the joy of Layla’s safe return. He asked in a daze, “What do you mean empty? Layla, how did you get hurt?”
“You were still pretending!”
Layla angrily threw the gift box at Aydan.
The next second, Ahmed rushed forward and grabbed Aydan by the collar, then slapped him hard and kicked him to the ground.
Pointing at Aydan, who was panting heavily on the ground, he said, “Pah! Let me tell you, I borrowed a van and drove all night just to come and settle the score with you. What kind of nonsense is this? A bunch of cardboard boxes trying to fool me, worth over ten thousand? Watch me beat you to death!”
With such heavy snow, I brought my wife and son to find you to settle the score. We almost got buried in the snow on the way. Layla said you have a lot of valuable things at home, so quickly bring them out to compensate me!
Ahmed got tired and sat on Aydan, who was lying on the ground, with his two eyes constantly scanning everything in the house.
That greedy appearance seemed to want to possess everything.
Aydan was beaten half to death, reaching out to grab the phone on the ground, saying, “I’m going to call the police to arrest you.”
Layla kicked his phone far away: “Are you crazy, Aydan? That’s my dad you’re reporting to the police? You stole from me for so many years, causing us to be separated as father and daughter. And you only cared about Aleah Bonilla, not cherishing me. Now I want you to compensate me a little, consider it a bargain for you!”
Aydan’s face was filled with pain, and the pain in his heart was even worse, in addition to the physical pain.
Just like in my previous life, he could never have imagined that Layla, whom we had carefully nurtured and raised, not only had no affection for us, but also deeply hated us from the bottom of her heart.
Layla regarded us solely as the villains who had taken her away from her biological parents.
But we had worried that she would feel jealous or insecure, and even gave up on having a child for her until the unexpected pregnancy at the age of forty, when we finally decided to keep Aleah.
Ever since Aleah was born, Layla seemed like a different person.
No matter how much we favored her and took care of her emotions, she always felt that we were pretending, so it was only when her biological parents came to her door that she was so eager to acknowledge them.
She would never know that all the kind expressions from her biological parents were bought with money by us.
We took money to prevent her biological parents from telling her the truth, so that she could be better off.
Looking back now, I really wish I could slap myself twice.
