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Naomi lay sprawled on the floor, disheveled and helpless. Nathaniel, still stewing over the embarrassment he felt earlier in front of the others, decided it was time to properly teach her a lesson.
“Someone bring me the whip!”
“Yeah, whip her good! Women like her don’t listen unless you beat it into them.”
“Nathaniel, don’t hold back! Make sure she remembers this–so she won’t dare seduce men again!”
Naomi’s face went pale the moment she heard what those women were saying.
Nathaniel’s punishment whip was barbed. Just one strike would tear skin open and draw blood.
A few of the men nearby hesitated.
They knew their boss had been drinking too much. By the time he sobered up in the morning, he’d definitely regret this.
After all, Naomi had been very much in favor with Nathaniel over the past few days.
But when Nathaniel noticed they weren’t moving, his tone turned sharp. “What’s wrong? You can’t hear me when I tell you to bring the whip? Or are you all involved with this wench too? Is that why you’re too soft to touch her?”
Terrified by his words, the men immediately dropped to their knees.
“Boss, even if we were out of our minds, we’d never dare touch your woman!”
“Exactly, Boss, we wouldn’t dare.”
Seeing them beg for mercy, Nathaniel finally nodded in satisfaction. “Good. Then quit stalling and bring the damn whip!”
At his command, the men no longer dared delay. They rushed to fetch Nathaniel’s whip.
The barbs glinted menacingly as Nathaniel raised it and brought it down on Naomi without hesitation.
She let out a blood–curdling scream. Her back was instantly slashed open, blood welling up from the fresh wound.
One of the women actually cheered. “She really is a wench–listen to that scream, so pretty! Nathaniel, hit her again!”
“Yeah, Nathaniel, we want to hear more.”
Surrounded by flattery, Nathaniel’s ego inflated; with no hesitation, he lashed her again.
Naomi trembled uncontrollably, the pain so severe she lost control of her bladder.
The men nearby didn’t even dare breathe.
Naomi’s screams echoed through the Hartwell estate, sharp and miserable.
It wasn’t until Matteo returned that Nathaniel finally stopped.
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“Matteo, there you are. Come on, help me beat this
s wench to death!”
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Matteo took in the sight of Naomi lying in a pool of blood, and his expression didn’t change. “My dad had too much to drink. You three–go help him to his room.”
The women shrank back, clearly afraid of Matteo. The moment he appeared, they obediently flocked. around Nathaniel and led him away.
Matteo turned to the other men, his tone cold. “Take her to the hospital.”
“Yes…”
The men didn’t dare defy Matteo; what they feared more was waiting too long and letting Naomi die before reaching the hospital.
Back in his room, Matteo stared into the mirror. His hand reached up unconsciously, tracing the faint scar across his skin.
His eyes grew darker–colder, more vicious.
The next morning.
Eliza saw the news about Naomi being hospitalized in the school group chat,
Apparently, one of their classmates had family in the hospital and had leaked some gossip.
Word was Naomi had been beaten so badly in the middle of the night that she was barely recognizable when they finally brought her in.
Eliza suddenly remembered that Matteo had left right after taking a phone call the night before.
She headed to Halbert’s apartment next door and asked, “Halbert, do you have those files I asked for?”
“All done,” Halbert replied. “Everything here is about Matteo. Take your time going through it.”
Eliza took the folder and immediately began flipping through it.
One detail jumped out at her right away.
The file clearly stated that Matteo had been adopted from an orphanage by Nathaniel when he was
fourteen.
His original name before the adoption was Victor Patrick.
Most of it was unremarkable–except the surname. It set off alarm bells in Eliza’s mind.
The Patrick family wasn’t a common surname. Eliza remembered hearing about the Patrick family massacre on the news a few years back.
The case had caused an uproar at the time but eventually went cold.
Supposedly, the culprits had been kidnappers targeting the Patrick family smuggle the goods onto a ship, the vessel exploded.
fortune. But just as they tried to
The result? The entire Patrick family wiped out; all the kidnappers killed in the blast.
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But none of the Patrick family’s wealth was ever recovered.
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Eliza flipped further into the file. Most of it documented Matteo’s academic achievements.
Nathaniel had clearly spared no effort in grooming this son–sending him abroad, investing in all areas of
his development, from combat training to professional skills.
Since the age of fourteen. Matteo had racked up award after award.
Eliza looked up and asked, “Is that Starlight Orphanage still around?”
