Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Chapter 235 – Living A Life of Suffering

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Brian stood there and grinned coldly when he saw Samantha and Renee walk right into the trap.

After knowing that he had been set up, his first guess was that the two women would go there to find his son. After all, he knew that Renee…had feelings for his son.

Samantha quickly grabbed Renee and turned around to run, but there were already five mammoth-sized bodyguards behind them.

They could not escape anymore!

After a while, Samantha and Renee were escorted in by the bodyguards and forced to sit on the couch.

Samantha looked at the empty wine bottles left on the table as well as the cigarette butts scattered in the ashtray. She also caught a whiff of smoke in the air. That would mean that Selby was still at home and had never left.

She looked at Brian and asked him, “Where is Professor Cornell?”

Brian sat on the single-seater sofa opposite her. He could not help but glance at her face when he heard her question. He then asked, “Ms. Larsson, are you still in the mood to ask about him right now? Were you counting on my son to come and rescue you two?”

At that point, Sarah came down the stairs and remarked while walking over, “Don’t get your hopes up. Selby’s resting in the room right now. He won’t come down to save you.”

‘Rest…’

Samantha had a derisive look in her eyes.

Selby had probably been forced to ‘rest’ after being given some medicine or sleeping pills!

Renee realized that and started to lose control of her emotions. “What did you do to him?”

The bodyguards pressed her down forcefully and she felt increasingly hurt with each struggle.

Samantha reminded her right away. “Please calm down, Ms. Levy. Professor Cornell is their son and they won’t do anything to him. Please don’t hurt yourself.”

Renee took a deep breath after hearing that and tried her best to control herself.

Brian stared at Samantha and sneered. “You’re very calm in moments of crisis, Ms. Larsson.”

In all honesty, he had no enmity with Samantha and he had no plans to make an enemy out of her because she was the Barkers’ cherished daughter-in-law.

After all, the Barkers were a powerful family and the same could be said of Timothy.

Unfortunately, he could not be blamed for being ruthless because she had clearly insisted on disrupting the situation!

Samantha shifted her attention from Renee over to Brian and curled her lips slightly. “You wouldn’t let us go even if we begged you for mercy, am I right?”

Brian nodded openly. “Indeed, you are.”

He then glared coldly at Renee. “Dead people are the only ones who can truly keep their mouths shut. I made that mistake once, and that’s the reason I now have to deal with this mess!”

Sarah looked at Renee in a similarly resentful manner. “We let you off back then and gave you a chance to continue living. All you had to do was stay at the medical facility and you’d be allowed to live. You were even provided with good food for the rest of your life. But you were not satisfied with that and insisted on escaping to expose us. You have no idea what’s good for you, don’t you?”

Samantha laughed when she heard that and could not help herself from laughing out loud.

It was an extremely ironic laugh.

Sarah’s face sank. “What are you laughing at?”

“You really don’t know what I’m laughing at? Are you just pretending that you don’t know?” Samantha did not spare them the courtesy and mocked bluntly, “When you say you gave her a life with all that good food on the condition that she stayed at the medical facility, what you’re actually doing is imprisoning her inside that ward. Perhaps it’d be better to say that she was being imprisoned on a hospital bed.”

“She can’t come into contact with anyone and is under such strict surveillance when she eats, drinks, or uses the toilet. She has no one else to talk to and she doesn’t know what year it is. She spends all her days—all her days—looking at the ceiling. Is living like this any different from being dead?”

“And yet you still say that she isn’t satisfied? Would you like to go through what she’s experiencing? If you’re fine with that, I have no problems forking out the money to give you that same experience for the rest of your life!”

Sarah could not contain the expression on her face when Samantha said that.

Samantha, however, did not stop at all and merely continued, “You not only stopped her from being in love, but you also deprived her of basic human rights. You even destroyed her physical and mental health. She used to be a healthy person but after going through all that torture, her body became ill and she has almost turned into a lunatic because of you!”

“If she hadn’t kept Professor Cornell in her heart, she would’ve turned crazy, just as you wanted her to!”

“The so-called chance at life that you gave her was nothing more than to turn her into a mentally sick individual because that would prevent all that dirt you did to ever come to light. Don’t you motherf*cking treat me like an idiot and try to paint a nice picture of yourself in front of me!”

Samantha never wanted to utter such expletives, but she was too incensed when she heard Renee’s experiences while on the subway.

A life like that was no different than death!

Her words had hit the nail on the head and both their expressions soured in an instant.

They were both respected individuals in the upper-class circle and came from educated families too. It was difficult for them to tolerate being seen through with such ease.

Brian patted the back of his wife’s hand in a comforting gesture. He then warned, “Your end is imminent, Ms. Larsson. Better save your breath!”

“It’s because my end is imminent that I’m eager to keep on talking,” Samantha retorted. “You’re no different than your wife when you take that so-called ‘moral high ground’. You separated your son from Ms. Levy because you were worried that people would badmouth him for developing a relationship with his student. You went so far as to try and kill or imprison Ms. Levy, yet you pretend to act like a saint in front of your son!”

“You told your son that Ms. Levy went abroad to study and was living a happy life after meeting a new boyfriend and getting married. The reason? It was to make him give up on her.”

“You also forced her to write to him and gave him photoshopped photos of her family of three, all so that your son would believe that lie you were concocting.”

“That was why Professor Cornell took all the responsibility for what had happened recently. He didn’t want the media to dig into Ms. Levy and disturb her so-called peaceful life.”

“Do you think you’re a gentleman just because you maintained that ‘decent’ personality by hook or by crook? Truth is, you’re just a hypocrite!”

Brian’s face suddenly turned ashen. He was so angry that his chest was rising and falling violently.

Samantha deserved to be an anchor alright! What a sharp tongue she had!

“You talk too much!” Brian scolded. “Save your breath and tell it to the grim reaper!”

He then gave his wife a look. She understood it immediately and removed a syringe from her pocket, which she handed over to him.

Brian got up and walked toward Renee first. He stood in front of her and uncovered the lid of the syringe to reveal the sharp needle.

Samantha was shocked beyond words. That was ostensibly a euthanasia medication that would kill them as soon as it was injected.

The man stretched his hand out to grab Renee, but Samantha broke free of the bodyguard and stood in front of her.

Brian laughed and felt that Samantha was overestimating herself. “Do you think I’m afraid to do anything to you? So be it.. I’ll deal with you first!”