Together for a While, Apart for a Lifetime

“Florine, cut off the Bryant Family's investment for me!”

In less than ten minutes, my mother called.

The voice was pleasing.

“Rocky, what happened? Why is the funding cut off? Did Deanne make you angry again?”

Rocky snorted coldly, without a trace of emotion in his eyes, “I would like to ask how your Bryant Family educates your daughter. You are so audacious and arrogant. If you want to recover your funds, bring Deanne to me.”

The phone call was hung up.

My mother was shocked and called me frantically.

I sneered in my heart, how could I possibly get through?

My mother covered her chest and gasped.

“Deanne, this unfilial daughter. Is she going to destroy our Bryant Family?”

My father was furious when he found out, so he ordered people to dig three feet deep into the ground to find me.

He found the whip that had been hidden for a long time. It had tiny spikes on it.

When I was a child, he liked to use this whip to punish me when I was disobedient. He said it was the Bryant Family’s family rules.

But after I got engaged to Rocky, he never took it out again.

“Deanne is far too audacious! If we don’t put her in her place, she’ll never learn the difference between a pawn and a king.”

For a week, the Bryant Family searched all over City A but could not find any trace of me.

My parents started using a map to analyze where I would escape bit by bit.

My father asked, “You are a mother, you should be able to guess where she went and which place she likes, right? Let's focus on looking for her.”

My mother hesitated for a long time and could not say a place.

My father crumpled up the map and threw it in front of her angrily. “How can you call yourself a mother if you can’t even tell me what your own daughter likes?”

My mother got angry too, and she stood up and started punching my father. “What? Deanne is not only my daughter, but yours too. How dare you call yourself a father and still can’t tell me what she likes?”

The two of them started arguing.

I felt like laughing. Was not that funny?

They had been training me to be a tool for making money since I was young and had never treated me as their daughter.

Rocky also secretly sent people to look for him, but still there was no news.

He stood at the window, tugging at his tie irritably. “Deanne, if you have the guts, hide away for the rest of your life.

“If I find you, you're done.”

At this time, his mobile phone rang. It was his personal assistant.

Rocky's fingers trembled and he quickly picked up the phone.

“Mr. Wiggins, Ms. Bryant has not returned to the country at all!”

At this moment, the news was being broadcast on TV.

[A headless female corpse was found in a river in Country X. It is temporarily confirmed that she is a foreigner, but her specific identity is still being verified.]

Clang!

Rocky's mobile phone fell to the ground.