"Gentlemen, allow us" Dad waved his hand at the people around him
All the men walked out and left the room, Uncle Joshua was the last to go, and before he left I saw him look back at me and my father deeply.
The room became very quiet. My father took his cigar out of his suit pocket and put it in his mouth. However, he did not light it. Because my mother did not like anyone smoking in the house, and she hated the smell of smoke. He just put it in his mouth out of habit, deceiving himself, just as he had been deceiving himself that my mother would one day fall in love with him.
I didn't know what he was going to say to me, so I just stared at him in exasperation.
After a long period of silence, my father let out a deep breath.
"Anna, honey! Sign the contract, and take the money! run away! That's the last thing I can do for you!"
"Anna, I'm sorry you were born into such a family. Families like ours are cursed. All the family members living in it will become monsters! I think you will understand someday." He didn't look at me, his eyes looking through the window into the unknown.
"Father, you know it, it's impossible. I won't give up."
Suddenly Dad started to talk.
"I loved your mother, from the time we were children. She grew up as a little angel, beautiful and kind to everyone. Of course, for me as a friend, she was also very considerate and friendly. I had a lot of painful things to tell her. She would patiently comfort me. But she didn't love me, but I do not care, whether she loves me at that time. I could care less about anything as long as I could be with her. To find a way to get what I want is one of the few things my father taught me, apart from violence and verbal abuse, of course." My father said while wearing a self-deprecating smile.
"To be honest, I'm somehow glad my father died before your mother married someone else. Because if he had lived, I would have had a lot of trouble back then. So I divided Group B, which I inherited from my father, into two parts. One part is our current Group B, and the other part was merged into Group D, which became one of the most profitable businesses of their Dupont family now - D-Chem. I negotiated a deal with your grandfather, your mother's 'father' at the time, that as long as your mother could marry me, I would sell the chemical business to the Dupont family at a very low price. I do not know how your grandfather convinced your mother. The result was that your mother married me, and I later became the father of you and Matthew."
He paused, and the smile on his face was as soft as it had ever been. "Your brother Matthew is a very distinguished boy. Smart and polite, healthy and kind but not weak. He brought your mother and me a lot of happy times, you know, your mother often smiled at Matthew, was very gentle to tell him stories, took him to ride and hunt, and often played the piano with him. Elizabeth and I talked about Matthew all the time making me think her tenderness was for me."
It was the happiest time of my life until I found out about Elizabeth's secret.
It is ok if your mother doesn't love me, and she does not love any other person. But I couldn't stand the thought of her loving anyone else.
Dad gave me a look, and the hatred in that look sent chills down my spine. I knew it wasn't hatred for me it was hatred for my mom.
"Your mother was in love with your uncle, your mother's brother, who is now the chairman of Group D - George Dupont. Her indifference to me is all because she gave all her love to that man. She had no way to marry him but had to obey your grandfather and marry me, and with my wealth to help George Dupont become the official heir of the D Group. "
Hearing this, I didn't know what words I can use to describe how I felt at this moment. I unconsciously showed a trace of sympathy for my father.
But my sympathetic look seemed to irritate him, and his emotions became more and more agitated. He laughed out loud, "What a perverted family, a sister in love with her brother. The father sold her to me to get rid of his daughter. I'm a pervert too, I admit it."
"Dad, you are just ..." I struggled to think of something to say to calm him down. It scared me a little that he was in such a state.
"Save your sympathy, girl, I don't need this."
"Your mother used my love for her to get me to help the Dupont family step out of the woods. Her brother's career is getting better, too. Anna, do you know how much effort it took me to talk myself out of destroying George Dupont? I knew my love for Elizabeth and there was no way I could divorce her. So I pretended I didn't know, and as long as she didn't betray me and continued to be my lady, I would always love her."
"Later, Matthew looked more and more like George Dupont. Jealousy and suspicion kept gnawing at this heart of mine. Of course, that's the reason why Elizabeth always loved Matthew so much. I could no longer trust Elizabeth, so I hired a private detective to keep a special eye on her and follow her. She has been behaving very well, rarely going out, only staying at home with Matthew every day. Until that day, I went to R country on business, just off the plane, I received a message from the detective that your mother went back to the Dupont house without Matthew, she went by herself and did not return until the next day. Jealousy was already driving me crazy, and I had the pilot take off immediately and fly home. By the time I got home, I saw Elizabeth walking slowly to the pool alone, she couldn't swim at all, she slowly sank and never surfaced. I ran over like crazy and fished her out of the pool. But she was out of breath. I shouted at the doctor and gave her artificial respiration over and over again.
Those were the slowest minutes of my life, because of fear my hands were shaking. I called out her name constantly. Finally, she coughed and slowly opened her eyes. "
My father's slowly closed his eyes as if he did not want to see that image again, and then slowly opened them again and took a deep breath.
"There was no luster in her eyes, only despair, clearly she was still alive, but her eyes were the eyes of the dead. The fear of losing her and the anger at her made me lose my mind. I raped her."