"What are you trying to boast about, Ruth? Are you boasting about your integrity or your disdainfulness? Do you know if you boast like that, you're just gambling with your sons' lives? Bullshit, Ryan Poole!
Since when have I gambled with my sons' lives? I admit that my sons are not living as comfortably as they did when they lived with the Poole family when they were with me. However, I've given them everything that I could give! No matter how willful and how unreasonable I am, I will never let my sons suffer no matter what! Ryan Poole, you’ve gone overboard!" Ruth actually cried because of what Ryan had said about her.
When she heard what Ryan had said, she was actually reflecting on herself.
Ryan was right. She was indeed a little selfcentered. She never took the big picture into consideration, and she had always felt like she was making compromises for the greater good.
However, Ryan said that she had mistreated her sons and had been gambling with their lives. That was an absolute vicious slander.
"Ryan Poole!" Ruth cried. "I know that even if I had just left you for a day, you will be surrounded by a large group of girls. You don't care about me at all! You can rest assured that no matter how lowly I am, I will never pester you at all. You don't have to use my sons to slander me at all! No matter how inhumane I am, I will never gamble with my sons! Ryan Poole, don't judge me in a bad light against your sinister standards!" "I see you've become quite an eloquent speaker in these few months that you were separated.”
At that moment, Ryan suddenly was not angry anymore. He never wanted to lose his temper, to begin with. He has just been pushed too far by Ruth.
Ruth still has plenty of merits. To put it bluntly, she had only run away from home because she was feeling inferior. She had been used to being unreasonable and was just not used to being restrained.
When Ryan thought of that, he sighed." Ruth, you scolded me just now for being heartless and without conscience. You said that I had never come to visit you once in the past few months that you had been gone. However, what you didn't know was that I had been secretly coming to see you very often. In your imagination, I had never come to see you because I was heartless and ruthless. Have you ever thought that the reason I didn't come to see you was to let you calm down? Because once you see me, you will be angry. I was afraid that I would anger you. You've never ever tried to put yourself in my shoes, haven't you?"
"You .you've come to see me?" Ruth asked.
"You are indeed quite unyielding and very capable. Aunt Sabrina provided a house for you and Aunt Jane let you stay in Uncle Alex's house halfway up the mountains, but you refused. You insisted on renting a house yourself. However, because you wanted something cheap, not only was your rental house in a run-down neighborhood, but the security in that neighborhood was very lax and there were all sorts of people there. Did you know that someone almost broke into your house when you were sleeping one night? If it weren’t for me, I don't even know if all three of you would still be alive. Your door was not locked that morning. You even burst out laughing at yourself when you got up that morning and you said you were truly a careless person to actually leave the door unlocked when you went to bed at night. You even hugged the children and said smugly, 'Children, fortune truly favors fools. The door was left unlocked for the whole night, but nothing happened to the three of us.' Did you know that when you were hugging the two sons and were feeling fortunate, I was hiding half a floor above your corridor? I had been watching over the three of you the entire night without sleeping at all. The two robbers who were going to break into your house were also sent to the police station by my subordinates! Ruth, how ridiculous is your clearheadedness?"
Ruth was stunned.
It had not been that long since she had left the door unlocked that one time, so, of course, she remembered it. At that time, she had the impression that had already locked the door. However, when she woke up in the morning, she saw the door unlocked and it was even ajar. She immediately broke out in cold sweat from fear. However, when she saw that her phone, the cash, and the things in the house were untouched, and not any of the properties were lost, she thought that she had just forgotten to lock the door.
She had indeed hugged her two sons happily and laughed at that time. That was because she felt very fortunate. She felt extremely lucky.
However, she truly had never expected that Ryan had actually...
"Ryan, you..." Ruth stepped forward to hold
Ryan.
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