Adrian turned ghostly pale when he heard Joshua's words. Beside him, Celia frowned and could not help but step in. "Joshua, Michael is your brother, how can you say that? Even though he..."
"Even though he has both parents, he’s still scum." Joshua interrupted Celia coldly and turned to look at his father, his gaze ice-cold. "My mother died when I was a child, my father is no different from dead, but still, I have the basic moral compass of a decent human being. The two of you did not educate your son properly, till the point where he tried to murder someone in public. Now that there is concrete evidence and he was arrested by the police, not only d o you fail to reflect on yourselves, instead, you try to force Luna to retract her case. Asking someone else to fix your mess, is this how Mr. and Mrs. Lynch are as human beings? No wonder you'll have a son like Michael."
Adrian's eyes bulged so far out in anger that they almost popped out of his head.
Celia, on the other hand, was much calmer than him. She took a deep breath and walked up to Luna wordlessly, falling to her knees with a plop, kowtowing to Luna endlessly. "Ms. Luna, I know you have a kind nature, I also know Adrian and I did not educate Michael properly. But he is Joshua’s younger brother after all. We know he made a mistake, but he's
still young, he can change."
Taking in a deep breath, she lifted her head and looked at Luna, expression open and sincere. "Ms. Luna, you have triplets, and you have a younger sister too, you must know how difficult it is to live without your siblings. Despite being brothers, Joshua and Michael have never spent a single day together. Even though he rejects Michael right now, but with time, in the future when Michael has learned his lesson, the both of them can get along well. Maybe with his brother Michael around, Joshua won't be so lonely anymore. No matter how small the chance, it’s still a chance. Do you really want to see Joshua live such a lonely life without anyone beside him?"
Luna’s eyebrows screwed tightly together at the other woman’s words. She knew Celia was playing the emotions game. But she did not buy it. Joshua already said that he had her and their three children. He did not need to rely on the three of them for familial love.
However, Granny Lynch could not take it.
"Joshua. Luna." She stood up, looking at Luna solemnly. "The two of you should go and retract the case today. If the two of you really can't find it in you t o forgive him, then sue him for intentionally causing harm. He'll be out in two weeks or a month. He's your brother, how can you watch him rot in jail for years?"
Joshua narrowed his eyes and looked at Granny Lynch. "Granny, what did Adrian Lynch and Celia Giles use to threaten you?"
She used to hate the three of them, did she not?
"Do I need someone to threaten me before I will protect my grandson?" She frowned and said coldly, " Joshua, I've given it some thought. You can’t rely on Luna for everything. Even though she's nice to you now, she can give birth to the children and hide them from you for six years, which proves how cold-hearted she can be. If one day, she takes the children and leaves, you'll be left all alone.
"Even though Michael isn’t doing very well now, he’s your younger brother. After all, with proper education, he'll grow and mature.
"At the end of the day, blood is thicker than water, how can an outsider compare?”
Joshua's eyebrows screwed together tightly when he heard the old lady’s words. He never expected...
Granny who had always been stubborn and hated Michael and Celia with a passion, would have such a drastic change in attitude within a day?
However, judging from her attitude...
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