This time, Avery was hit five or six times in a row with the baseball bat. One of the hits even grazed the back of her head, causing her to immediately black out.
Before losing consciousness, she was still muttering to herself: "Anything can be given up, except for my husband."
After these few hits, the baseball bat was already stained with some blood.
Lucas stopped his hand and looked at his parents anxiously: "Dad, Mom, she has passed out."
Victoria walked over and saw that Avery had indeed lost consciousness. Unable to resist her anger, she kicked her: "She can't take a beating at all. She's only been hit a few times and she's like this. Lucas, go get a bucket of cold water and wake her up. Today, we must make her spit out everything that originally belonged to our family."
Lucas had no feelings for his sister . He only knew that as long as Avery returned the company property and gave up her identity as Mrs. Blackwood, and gave it to his younger sister Alexis, he could do whatever he wanted in the future. He had endless amounts of money to gamble with, so why would he care about Avery's life or death?
A bucket of water was poured over Avery's head, and she woke up. Faced with Victoria and Harrison's new round of questioning, she naturally refused to answer and was beaten again.
The wound on her forehead where the stitches had been was quickly torn open, and a pool of blood formed on the ground. Victoria was about to ask Lucas to get water to wake up Avery again.
At this moment, Harrison spoke up and stopped her: "That's enough. If you keep hitting her, someone will die."
"Husband, what should we do now? This damn girl won't agree no matter what. We can't just let her go like this, can we?" Victoria was filled with anger at the thought that Wells industries was now under Avery's name.
What's even more infuriating is that this girl doesn't even deserve to be in Madam Gu's position, yet she's still. occupying it. It's really frustrating.
If it were the eldest daughter, Alexis, sitting in that position, would there have been a lawsuit a few days ago? The Wells family would have been injected with a large amount of funds, and the family would not have fallen to such a state.
"We can't let her go," Harrison squinted his eyes and thought carefully. "This girl is injured now. If we let her go, won't she go back to find Master Blackwood and hold us accountable?"
"What should we do now?"
"First, lock her up in the basement and find a doctor to help take care of her. If she agrees to our demands, we'll let her out when she's healed."
"What if she refuses to agree?" Victoria was worried that during the period when the injury was not healed, Ethan might come looking for them, and then what would they do?
Knowing how much Ethan values this girl now, if he finds out that they have injured her and locked her up, they will definitely not have a good outcome.
"If she refuses to agree," Harrison sneered, "we'll just keep her until she agrees."
"Dad, what about Master Blackwood..." At this point, Lucas also spoke up, sounding a bit worried.
"If he really comes looking for us, we'll say that she went back to the countryside to take care of her foster parents whom she missed," Harrison said.
Upon hearing this, Victoria's face lit up. "You're so smart, husband. Why didn't I think of that? With Master Blackwood's status, he doesn't lack women, and he won't really go to the countryside to find this girl. He'll forget about it after a while."
"I think so too," said the father.
"Well, if that's the case, Alexis will have a chance. If she marries Mr. Blackwood, our family will be rich!" exclaimed Lucas, his excitement palpable at the thought of unlimited wealth.
Harrison glanced at his son and said, "Don't speak too soon. Mr. Blackwood is unpredictable. If he really likes Avery, we don't need to go through so much trouble."
"But if he likes Alexis, it's only a matter of time. She's so outstanding, young, beautiful, and a future famous pianist. What does an ugly man like him have to be picky about..."
"Exactly..."
Avery heard the conversation of the Wells family in a daze, trying hard to open her eyes, but her tired body prevented her from waking up.
Soon, she felt herself being roughly lifted up and carried towards the basement, gradually losing consciousness.
..........
When she woke up again, it was already evening, and everything around her was pitch black. There was no light in the basement. At six o'clock, Ethan finished work and went to the hospital.
There was no sign of Avery in the hospital. Lena , who came to deliver food to Julian, also said they hadn't seen her.
Ethan thought she might have gone home first, so he waited in the hospital for a while before driving back home.
But she was still nowhere to be found.
At this point, Ethan's eyelids began to twitch violently.
He searched the upstairs bedroom and looked around the house, but couldn't find her. Finally, he went down to the living room on the first floor and called Qin over, asking sternly,
"Where is my wife?"
"Madam?" Qin thought for a moment and shook his head. "I don't know, sir. She hasn't come back since she left this morning."
"What...!"
Upon hearing this, Ethan's frown deepened. "Are you saying she hasn't come back this afternoon?"
"Yes, sir," Qin replied respectfully, bowing his head.
"Call the school and see if she's there!" Ethan couldn't sit still anymore. He took out his phone and prepared to call the school himself to find out.
He thought of yesterday when Avery asked for his permission to go to school. Maybe she was there working on her manuscript.Just then, Rose called.
"Third Master, I forgot to tell you that Madam didn't come to the hospital this morning either." After Ethan left the hospital, she remembered this and felt it necessary to inform him. So she called when Julian was resting.
Upon hearing this, Ethan's face became even more grim.
He didn't say anything, just hung up the phone and dialed the president's office at the university.
He had already prepared in his mind how to punish Avery. She didn't listen to him and insisted on participating in the competition instead of going to the hospital. He would have to process her withdrawal from school again and see if she dared not to listen.
The president usually doesn't care about students' attendance. When he received a call from Ethan, he immediately had someone check and found out that Avery didn't go to school today. He immediately informed Ethan of the result.
Upon learning that Avery didn't even go to school, his calm heart suddenly became tense. His eyelids twitched more and more intensely.
"Where is the driver? The driver who took her out today, where is he?" He had a cold face, and his eyes were shining with cold light. "Call the driver over here immediately!"
The woman didn't go to the hospital or school, which was abnormal. Perhaps only the driver knew where she went.
Seeing Ethan's cold face, Qin didn't dare to be negligent. He immediately went to call Gray, who was working outside.
Ethan repeated his words and stared at Gray with cold eyes, "You took Avery out today? Where did you take her?"