That night, Noah and Millie didn’t return.
I looked at the pictures sent from an unknown number on my phone.
In the photos, Noah’s upper body was bare.
And Millie was tightly held in his arms.
She looked at me with a smug smile, just like the message she sent.
[Ma’am, President Garcia has been feeling upset lately, so I could only comfort him this way. I hope she won’t blame me.]
I calmly saved the pictures, then blocked the number.
When I woke up again, I heard noise downstairs.
My heart suddenly tightened.
I quickly ran out, but I was still too late.
The burning flames completely destroyed the child’s last remaining things.
Not only that, the once cozy children’s room had turned into a storage room full of random stuff.
Seeing my red eyes, Millie smiled happily.
She hypocritically said, “Ma’am, after all these unlucky things were cleared away, President Garcia’s condition became much better. Looks like it really worked.”
I glared at her and shouted, “Do you really think Noah can protect you forever? Put the room back the way it was right now, or get out of this villa!”
Right after I spoke, Millie firmly shook her head.
Not only did she refuse, but she also held a familiar urn in her hands.
My eyes instantly widened.
That was the child’s ashes urn I brought home from the hospital!
Millie proudly smiled while casually tossing the urn in one hand.
My heart rose and dropped along with it.
I gritted my teeth hard, holding back my anger as I rasped, “Give me the urn.”
Millie smiled at me and calmly said, “I just remembered something. During this cleanup, the dirtiest thing still hasn’t been thrown away. If President Garcia gets affected, that would be terrible.”
“Ma’am, you should understand, right?”
As soon as she finished speaking, the urn slipped from her hand.
I suddenly rushed forward to catch it, but I heavily crashed onto the floor.
In the end, I could only helplessly watch the child’s ashes break apart in front of me.
At that moment, I loudly screamed.
I didn’t know where I got the strength, but I suddenly stood up from the ground, grabbed Millie’s hair, and forcefully smashed her head onto the floor.
“You should die!”
With just one strike, Millie’s forehead was already covered in blood.
Hatred flashed through her eyes, and just as she wanted to push back, the next second, she suddenly acted like another person. Tears instantly rolled down her face as she begged.
“Ma’am, I truly didn’t do it on purpose. I didn’t know those were the ashes of you and President Garcia’s child. Please let me go. I’m willing to kneel and say sorry.”
As soon as she finished talking, familiar hands tightly stopped me.
I shouted while using my nails to scratch mark after mark onto his body.
But Noah never loosened his grip.
He looked at the bleeding wound on Millie’s head, pain showing across his face.
Then he looked back at me, his eyes cold and blaming.
“Brielle! Exactly how much do you want to destroy this family before you’re happy?”
“Why do you keep hurting Millie? How did you become this cruel?”
I almost broke down. “She threw our child’s ashes onto the floor and even wanted to throw them away. Noah, you’re still protecting her like this? In your eyes, what do our child and I even mean?”
Noah frowned and looked at the ashes on the floor, his grip loosening a little.
I struggled with all my strength, still trying to go after Millie.
But under Millie’s begging look, Noah grabbed me again.
“Enough! Millie didn’t mean to do it either. She only dropped it by accident, just gather it back up.”
“If you touch Millie again, I’ll throw all these ashes into the drain!”
The way he looked at me was full of warning.
And his words completely froze my heart.
For Millie, Noah could even throw his own child’s ashes into the drain.
I lost all strength and dropped onto the floor.
Seeing this, Noah finally relaxed and was about to comfort me.
But Millie leaned her head out and acted worried as she said, “After she lost the child, her emotions became very unstable. These past few days, she’s been even harder to control. If she acts like this in front of other people, too, I’m afraid Garcia Corporation and Simpson Corporation’s reputations will be ruined...”
After hearing that, Noah frowned.
I didn’t even glance at her and only carefully gathered the ashes from the floor.
A dark look appeared in Millie’s eyes as she continued, “I was also wrong for accidentally dropping the ashes. How about I properly teach her etiquette again? That can count as my apology, too.”
