"Yeah." Henry closed his eyes.
Joe asked, "Did you forget to take something?"
Henry didn’t respond. 1
Joe turned his head and glanced at him. He then sighed, "Well then, Mr. Lancaster, sit tight."
Joe then started the car.
After an hour and a half, they arrived at the villa.
Henry opened his eyes and got out of the car. He took his bag from Joe and walked into the villa.
As soon as he entered the living room, he heard the laughter of a child coming from the living room, and his face sank.
"What's the matter?" Henry said as he stared coldly at the little girl jumping around on the couch, "Anna, why didn't you go to school?"
Anna was shocked when she heard his voice. She quickly stopped jumping and looked at him with a pale face. "Dad..."
"Tell me, why didn't you go to school? And what were you doing just now? Did you use the couch as a trampoline?" Henry said sharply.
Anna burst out crying.
His head hurt as he heard her loud cries, and the veins on his temples were bulging from all the noise.
"Enough, stop crying!" Henry snapped.
However, Anna cried even louder.
Her cries grabbed the attention of Jacqueline who was upstairs and Sue who was in the kitchen.
Jacqueline went downstairs and hurried to Anna's side. She wrapped Anna in her arms and comforted her.
But the more she comforted Anna, the more Anna felt like a victim, so she cried even more.
When Jacqueline saw that she could not comfort Anna, she immediately took out her anger on Henry. " Henry, what did you do? Why did you yell at her?"
Henry didn’t even look at her. He looked at Sue instead. "Why is Anna still at home and not at the kindergarten?"
Sue glanced at Jacqueline and answered truthfully," It's all because of her. Anna said she didn't want to go t o school, and she agreed."
"Really?" Henry narrowed his eyes.
Jacqueline looked away as she felt guilty. "Well...
What’s wrong with that? Anna said that there’s a freak in school, so she doesn't want to go. Just don’t go then.
I don't want my daughter to go to school with a freak." "Freak?" Henry's face became colder. "Anna, how can
you say that about your classmate?"
"I'm not wrong." Anna replied as she sobbed, "He's dumb and can't speak. He’s different from us. Mom said that people who are different from us are freaks. I don't want to go to school with a freak. I'll turn into a freak too..."
When Henry heard this, he was furious and he clenched his hands. "Jacqueline, is this how you teach your child?"
"I'm not wrong either..." Jacqueline replied in a low voice without any remorse on her face.
Henry was completely infuriated by her attitude. After putting down the bag in his hand, he stepped forward and pulled Anna out of her arms and pushed her toward Sue. "Take Anna out and ask Joe to send her to the kindergarten. Ask the teacher to find out the child who Anna called a 'freak' and ask Anna to apologize to the child in person!"
"Yes!" Sue nodded in surprise.
She had always been uncomfortable with Jacqueline's way of teaching her child. Now that sir had intervened in this matter, she was certainly happy.
So Sue held Anna who was screaming and crying and walked quickly towards the villa gate as Jacqueline stared angrily.
Henry and Jacqueline were left alone in the living room.
Henry looked at Jacqueline condescendingly and his eyes were completely cold. "Anna is your daughter. I thought that if you brought her up, you'd be able to give her a good education, but now I know I was wrong. You can't teach a child properly. You will only teach your child to be rotten and spoiled. Starting from today, you don’t have a say in Anna's upbringing anymore. I'll ask Sue to take over."
"You can't do this!" Jacqueline widened her eyes and looked at the man in front of her in disbelief.
She couldn't believe that he would actually deprive her of her right to educate her own child.
"I have to do this for Anna. There's no room for discussion. If you think I'm her stepfather and I’m not qualified to educate her, then you can take her with you and go find her biological father." Henry's voice was ice cold.
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