Emily never expected Khalid to suddenly make such a crazy move, and she was so shocked that her body instantly stiffened like a stone.
After reacting, she hugged Elis tightly and hurriedly ran ahead, but their speed was no match for the speed of the Rolls Royce Phantom.
Just when Emily thought she and Elis were sure to die, Khalid's mobile phone suddenly rang sharply.
He slammed on the brakes so that she and Elis got saved.
The person calling Khalid was his brother Keegan.
Keegan's voice was playful, "Brother, guess who | ran into on this case?" "Who?" Khalid's voice was gloomy, clearly not in the mood to talk nonsense to Keegan.
Keegan couldn't stand his brother's sullen personality, he silently rolled his eyes and continued, "I ran into Adeline, who was being chased and killed!" "What?!" Keegan's fingers shook so violently that the phone in his hand almost fell to the ground.
"Brother, Adeline isn't dead, she only faked her death back then." Keegan's voice continued, "It's a coincidence that | was able to trace an old case of a serial murderer." "Brother, do you know who's after Adeline? It's Adeline's rich businessman husband abroad! From her husband's mouth, | learned a remarkable secret!" "Brother, you've been fooled by Adeline!" "Go ahead!" Keegan couldn't stand Khalid's coldness, and likewise, Khalid couldn't stand his brother, who was full of nonsense.
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Seeing that his brother was getting impatient with waiting, Keegan hurriedly made a long story short, "Brother, back then Rohan didn't rape Adeline, it was Adeline who saw that he was rich and drugged him to get money from him." "She always thought you were a poor boy with nothing at the time, and she adored your body, but equally adored the glory and wealth. | just heard from a buddy of mine that Adeline had gotten a lot of money from him back then too!" "Back then Adeline drugged Rohan and climbed into his bed. She thought she would just blackmail a large sum of money from him, but she never thought that you would catch her!" "She didn't want to ruin her image in your heart, and it so happened that a rich businessman from F Country was courting her, so she wisely staged a play of jumping into the sea and faking her death, so that she could maintain her pure and noble image in your heart for you to remember for the rest of your life, and at the same time, she could get close to a rich man!" "You think she was forced to die by Rohan, but in fact, she is in love with that rich businessman from F Country! It's a pity that she is greedy, she married that rich businessman and continued to hook up with other rich people, eventually she was caught by him and he wanted to send her to hell in a fit of rage." "Poor Rohan, his factory went bankrupt and got sick and even died afterwards because of you." After hanging up the phone, Khalid didn't come back from the shock for a long time.
Perhaps time is really the best medicine to heal all wounds. Once he thought that losing Adeline would turn him into a walking corpse, but now he realized that he didn't seem to care about Adeline as much as he thought.
Listening to Keegan's account of Adeline's hypocrisy and betrayal of him, his heart was horribly calm.
It turned out that Emily really hadn't lied to him, her father really hadn't raped Adeline, forcing her to commit suicide by jumping into the sea, from the beginning to the end, he had been innocent.
But what about him? In the name of paying off her father's debt, he used a marriage with no real name to imprison Emily for nearly six years, and every day, he tortured her in different ways to make her atone for Adeline's sins instead of Rohan.
He forced Emily to kneel in front of Adeline's grave to repent when she was on the verge of giving birth and couldn't even stand up with a big belly.
The night Emily went into labour, she still knelt most of the night because she had endured too much torture during her pregnancy, coupled with severe malnutrition and being taken to the hospital too late she was on edge of her death.
He said that Emily deserved all the torture and suffering she endured, but like she said, what did she do wrong! In fact, she was the most innocent person in this world! "Get in the car and accompany me to the police station!" Khalid suddenly opened the car door and coldly ordered Emily.
In fact, after realising the mistake he had made, he actually wanted to be nicer to Emily, but he was so used to being mean to her that it was really hard for him to be gentle with her.
Hearing his words, Emily's thin body couldn't help but cower.
Her fear of him made Khalid's brow furrow.
Was she that afraid of him? How could she not be afraid of him! Probably, in her mind, he was even scarier than the devil! Also, how come she's become so skinny now! Khalid's thought was slightly in a trance, he remembered that when he first met her, she wasn't this thin.
"Okay." Emily took another step back, still whispering.
She knew that whenever Khalid looked for her, there was definitely nothing good, but she still didn't dare to refuse.
She had too many soft spots, Elis, Cassius, all of them were her life, and that devil Khalid was capable of doing anything.
If she was taken away by him, only she herself would be tortured, but if she resisted, Cassius and Elis would have to be buried with her.
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Although her heart was scared to death, Emily still tentatively asked, "Mr. Smith, can | take Elis home first?" If it was in the past, if Emily dared to make conditions with him, Khalid would definitely have had someone give her a beating, but this time, he didn't torture her and only nodded.
His nod was subtle, but in Emily’ eyes, it was a pardon for her.
He agreed to send Elis back to her home in the slums, which meant that he would no longer insist on running Elis to death. Even if she had to get beaten and knelt in front of Adeline’s grave, she had nothing to complain.
What was even more surprising to Emily was that he took the initiative to drive her and Elis to her slum home.
After settling Elis into her home, she didn't dare to delay at all and went out to find Khalid.
Elis ran out after her, "Mum, don't go! He's a bad man! | want to protect you! | am a man! | don't want the bad guy to bully you!" Bad man? Khalid's brow furrowed when he saw the dilapidated house where Emily lived, and when he heard Elis' words, his brow was even more wrinkled.
Emily thought Khalid would be waiting in the car, she hadn't expected him to get out of the car.
Thinking of what Elis had just said, she scrambled to cover his mouth, not letting him continue to tell the truth for fear of angering this demon.
Afraid that he would hurt Elis, she quickly shielded herself in front of him and spoke carefully, "Mr. Smith, Elis means no harm, he is still young, can you forgive him?