Chapter 7
After the bodyguards were done smashing Ruby’s head into the ground ten times, they then threw her out the door like she was some dirty rag.
Ruby lay on the ground for a long time. By the time she finally gathered enough energy to move, the blood had already caked on her face.
She got to her feet with great difficulty and stumbled downstairs to get her injuries tended to.
For the next few days, Ruby stayed at the hospital so that she could recover. However, Cecelia never stopped provoking her by sending her photos and text messages every other day.
The photos would be of Henry shelling shrimp and tenderly feeding them to her, his eyes brimming with love and adoration. At times, Ian would also accompany Cecelia out shopping without caring about his injuries because he worried she would be bored.
Christopher and Anna had also written their will citing that half of everything they owned would go to Cecelia.
Ruby stared at the provoking photos. She didn’t feel anything as she looked at them, though, and it was most probably because she had been used to being hurt so often.
She also knew that these people would be the ones to cry the loudest once the DNA test results were out.
However, by the time they finally figured out the truth, Ruby would have long disappeared from their lives, never to return again.
After getting discharged from the hospital, Ruby went to visit Patty at the sanatorium where she stayed.
Patty’s eyes immediately lit up, and she couldn’t stop smiling when she saw Ruby. “Why are you here alone, Ruby? Isn’t Henry here with you?”
A flicker of emotion flashed in Ruby’s eyes. However, because she didn’t want Patty to worry, Ruby quickly changed the topic instead.
“I missed you, Grandma Patty. That’s why I’m here to visit you.”
JPatty held Ruby’s hand and started asking her about her life lately. Ruby felt a warmth spreading from her heart as Patty continued showing genuine concern about her. However,
the pang in her heart never went away.
After chatting with Patty for a while more, Patty eventually got exhausted and went to sleep. Ruby tucked Patty in properly. Then, she took out a pair of emerald bangles from a box and gently placed them on Patty’s bedside table.
These bangles had been gifted to her by Patty when they were first betrothed to each other. The bangles represented Patty’s blessings to her future granddaughter–in–law and also signified that there would be no one else but Ruby.
But now, Ruby didn’t need the bangles anymore.
She finally cast another longing look at Patty’s peacefully sleeping face before forcing herself to leave.
As soon as she opened the door, however, she bumped right into Henry.
His eyes turned dark when he saw that it was her. “What are you doing here? Complaining to Grandma again?”
“I didn’t do anything I’m just here to see her for the last time.”
For the last time? What last time?
Heary didn’t understand what Ruby meant. He just frowned. Then, he quickly caught sight of the two bangles on the bedside table, and he began to stare.
“Why are you leaving the bangles here?”
Ruby pressed her lips together slightly and said in a distant voice, “I’m just returning them to her, like what you’ve always wanted me to do.”
Henry was shocked when he saw the cold look in Ruby’s eyes and the bangles on the table. He was about to ask her what she meant by this when his natural instinct took over and he began ridiculing her instead.
“Pretending to play hard–to–get again? Aren’t you tired of it? But anyway, these bangles are a family heirloom and never belonged with you anyway. You don’t deserve it.” Ruby knew that he wouldn’t believe her even if she were to deny anything that he said. So, she chose not to reply to him and lett.
On the way back, Ruby purchased an airline ticket out of the country that would be flying in two days‘ time.
As soon as she got home, she saw Cecelia sitting on the couch waiting for her with a sinister smile on her face.
“Ruby Lynch, didn’t you promise Aunt Hose that you’d be gone soon? Why are you still here? Just how shameless can you get?”
Ruby quickly realized that Cecelia’s words had a hidden meaning. She narrowed her eyes and asked, “How did you find out?”
Cecelia scoffed and took out the agreement Huby had signed with Rose Her voice was laced with contempt as she said, “That night, Aunt Rose herself told me that you’d promise to leave as soon as you took her money.
“But you’ve already taken the money, yet you’re still here like a leech, trying to seduce Henry. Don’t you find yourself disgusting? Because I do!
“Aunt Rose personally told me that she didn’t mind spending ten million dollars to get rid of a leech like you. Because, to her, I’m the only one who deserves to be her daughter in Law. She would never let a shameless bumpkin like you marry into the Spencer family and ruin Henry’s life forever!”
Chapter B
