Chapter 1061
When Ryan’s hand met Carrie’s slender back, he realized sweat had
seeped through the fabric of her clothes.
His heart dropped, and his breath hitched.
Ryan had pushed her too far. He should not have let her dwell in the painful past or be stuck at getting even.
He did not want the love of his life to be burdened with anything because he would handle it all for her.
“D-Did your sister pick on you?”
Gregory’s sudden question made Carrie shiver to the core.
With her head hung low, Carrie gripped her skirt without saying a word.
“Is that true? Has Bethany been abusing you? Tell me. I’ll take care
it.”
“Mr. Salvador, you know Carrie. She doesn’t have your other
daughter’s knack for saying the right things. Sometimes, Carrie can be too kind to have a fallout with her family. She would rather live cautiously and tolerate the insult than destroy the peace at home.”
Unable to hold his tongue, Ryan opened his mouth, his eyes chilly.”
Let bygones be bygones. It’s not worth getting upset about things that happened so long ago. They are both your children anyway.”
Ryan made no mention of Bethany, but he was talking about her for
sure.
Gregory grimaced, his hands on his lap clenching.
Ryan helped Carrie up and slipped his arm around her waist, pulling her closer to him in an assertive manner.
“Since the past is in the past, there’s no point dwelling on it. But I
can’t say the same thing for the future. Now that Carrie and I are together, I will sort everything out for her. If anyone so much as hurts her, I will make that person pay, and it won’t matter to me who that person’s father is.”
Once Ryan left with Carrie, the air in the room remained suffocating. Gregory could cut the tension with a knife.
“So Ryan is aware that Bethany has been bullying Carrie?”
Gregory looked at Paul in a daze, finding it difficult to fathom what had happened. “I just overheard a maid talking about it. Even the domestic help knows, but I don’t? I am the father, and yet I know
nothing.”
Paul sighed and replied, “Don’t beat yourself up, Chairm You have your family and corporation to run. Understanda
or two might slip your attention.”
In other words, Paul acknowledged Gregory’s shortfall as a fathe
With his elbows on the table, Gergory hugged his head. “I am
ashamed to be a father to Carrie. I didn’t know she was unhappy a
home.”
“But it’s all in the past now, Chairman Salvador. Ms. Carrie has Mr.
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