Wolves, Maces, And Blood

"Hello?"

Gemma frowned, "Are you there? Can you hear me?"

"Yes, yes, I can..."

Cecilia was stunned for a long time before she recovered and quietly swallowed. She was very nervous. She nodded and said, "Hi, my name is Cecilia, and I am engaged to Sean." "And there's a 4-year-old daughter..."

Cecilia was nervous as hell, but her emotional intelligence was still there. She guessed that Sean would never tell Gemma about Phyllis, so she was on her guard.

She said there was a four-year-old daughter, but she didn't say whether Phyllis was hers or theirs.

The meaning between the two was quite different.

The two talked for about five minutes, causing sweat to rise from Cecilia's forehead. Her heart was in her throat, and there was a faint worry in it.

She had always thought Sean was an orphan and had no family, so she didn't think much of it. And now Sean had grandparents! Phyllis's origin might not be hidden for long. When that happened, when Gemma and Dean learned that Sean wasn't Phyllis's dad, and that she didn't even know who the father was.

Would Gemma and Dean still approve of her marriage to Sean?

Prior to the engagement, the information that Isaac Moore found about Sean made everyone, including Cecilia herself, think Sean was no good for Cecilia.

However, after these days of contact, Cecilia gradually found that the real Sean was not as bad as the research materials said, on the contrary, Sean was very good.

He was tall and handsome. He was generous, courageous, and responsible. He was very kind to her, to Phyllis, to Marcia, to Matthew Moore.

He almost fits most women's fantasy of a "husband"!

Was she worthy of such a fine man?

Cecilia had become a little dependent on Sean in her heart. And Gemma's sudden appearance made her feel strangely scared.

She was afraid of losing something....

What Cecilia didn't know was that while she was hiding in the bathroom of the hospital, Sean was explaining Phyllis to Gemma and Dean in the Cloudy Villa in the Crane Town. "Cecilia, Cecilia..."

Gemma returned the phone to Sean, recited Cecilia's name a few times, then turned to Dean and asked, "Honey, does this kid's name sound familiar to you?”

"Yes."

Dean thought for a moment, frowning, then suddenly his eyes glinted and he said, "Right! I think she's the granddaughter of Carter Moore, president of the Moore Group!" "Five years ago, when N&P Media was still there, we did some business with the Moore Group, and I met her a couple of times."

"But..."

After a moment's hesitation, Dean continued, "I heard afterwards that the girl had conceived out of wedlock, had a daughter which made all the talk of Hilshire, and had never married." "Her daughter, by the way, is about four years old."

Four years old!

At these words, Gemma's eyelids jumped and her turned pale. She looked back at Sean and asked, "Sean, you said you have a wife and a four-year-old daughter!"

"By daughter, I don't suppose you mean..."

Gemma didn't dare say the rest, but if that was the case, to be honest, it was a little hard for her to take!

After all, she was also a woman, and she was old and old-fashioned. Having a child out of wedlock was, in Gemma's opinion, a very unfeminine act.

He couldn't be with such a woman.

"That's right."

Sean, however, nodded his head without hesitation and said, "The daughter I'm talking about is Cecilia's daughter Phyllis, who is very sweet, thoughtful and lovely." "If you met her, you'd really like her..."

Before Sean could finish his words.

"No!"

Gemma shook her head emphatically and said, "No way!"

"Sean, if you have a girl you like, and you don't have a relationship with Cornelia, and you don't want to marry her, I'm not comfortable, but I'm okay with that." "But..."

"But you can't just leave Cornelia and marry a woman with a child. If she had been married before, even for the second time, I would have accepted her. I would never have accepted pregnancy out of wedlock!"

Gemma was adamant.

Five years ago, after all, the Wright family was a big family on the South side of town, and Dean and Gemma were big business players. Now, although they were old, and had no fight, and their hearts were dying, once they recognized the truth, they had a kind of calm arrogance that was quite frightening.

Beside them, Cornelia's face changed and her disappointment deepened. She was thinking, "Sean would rather marry an unmarried pregnant woman and raise someone else's child than be with me?"

The bitterness in her heart was indescribable.

Cornelia had always been self-abased due to her childhood life environment and experience, so when Sean rejected Gemma's proposal just now, she took the initiative to excuse Sean at the first time. Because she didn't think she was good enough for Sean, and it made sense that Sean would say no.

Now, Sean's choice had struck another blow to her fragile and humble ego. She quietly bowed her head, tears swirling in her eyes, and she wanted to cry. "Gemma, just relax and listen to me..."

Sean rolled his eyes and said anxiously, "You may not know that but Phyllis is not only Cecilia's daughter, but also my daughter, my own daughter!"

"What?"

His words made Gemma's serious face change again.

Her eyelids gave another sharp jump.

Sean looked at Dean and said, "When did you first hear about Cecilia's pregnancy?"

"About..."

Dean looked back carefully and said, "It was about four and a half years ago, when you were arrested and your mother returned to the Capital City and died in front of the Mason family's house in the Capital City. I sent my men there and brought back a cold body!"

Talking about Nicola Wright, even after five years, Dean was still in tears.

"Then Jayden and his wife and kid were killed by Connor Scott, Michael Taylor, and Morton Miller. N&P Media and the Wright family's house were being taken for their own!"

"Soon after, when word got out that the Moore girl was pregnant, your grandma and I were too upset to care about that."

Four and a half years ago!

So, six months after Sean went to prison!

After half a year ago, Cecilia's belly must have grown so big that she couldn't hide it anymore.

Sean took a deep breath and asked, "Doesn't it strike you that four and a half years is a little strange? I was set up five years ago by those motherfuckers for rape!"

"Four and a half years ago, Cecilia was pregnant out of wedlock."

"Her daughter is four years old..."

Sean didn't say it explicitly, but it didn't take long for Dean and Gemma to figure out what he meant between the lines. The old couple looked at each other with wide-eyed expressions of shock and disbelief. Cornelia was also shocked by Sean's words!

Cornelia didn't know much about the Wright family and the Mason family of the Capital City before, so she was much more shocked than Dean and Gemma. She exclaimed, "You're telling me you're the man who impregnated miss Moore out of wedlock?"

That was what Dean and Gemma were asking!

"Yes, it's me."

When it came to that, Sean didn't hold anything back, he said, "Those sons of bitches set me up, found a woman, knocked her out, and put her in my bed..."

"Before I was taken, I saw the woman's face. And she was Cecilia!"

"But her?"

"She's innocent. It's all my fault. Even now, she has no idea what happened that night, no idea why she suddenly became pregnant, and no idea who Phyllis's real father is!"

Sean was a little misty with tears, "Grandma, grandpa, Cornelia, do you think I owe her an apology? o I owe her an explanation? Owe her a husband? Owe Phyllis a father? Owe them a home?"

"Now that I'm out, now that I'm back, shouldn't it be my duty as a man to pay my debt?"

"Shouldn't I be the one to take the responsibility that belongs to me?"

Sean's words were all sincere!

In the eyes of Gemma and others, it was like a bolt from the blue. It surprised them, shocked them, and even saddened them!

The same words!

As a woman, Gemma should be able to empathize with Cecilia's grievance, suffering, enormous pressure, cynicism, and contempt over the past five years.

After all, in the past five years, the Wright family had been down and out, and the old couple had also suffered a lot of cold eyes, sarcasm and even bullying!

By the time Sean had finished, Gemma was in tears.

Five minutes

It took Gemma five minutes to recover. She reached over and wiped her eyes. Then she looked up, his red eyes fixed on Sean, and nodded, "Sean, you're right!"

"Cecilia is a poor child. She is innocent and has been brought into this by us. Not you alone owe her, but we, the Wright family, and the Mason family of the Capital City, all of us, owe her an apology and an explanation!"

"You did the right thing!"

"Since it is your responsibility, you have to brave up, and give them a home!"

"Dean and I, and Cornelia, are on your side!"

Gemma's voice broke, "After returning to Hilshire, take Cecilia and Phyllis with you to visit us. We Wright family owe the debt to them. We will pay the debt together and compensate them together."

The atmosphere in the room was very depressed!

The truth of what happened five years ago was so cruel!

A conspiracy destroyed the happiness of both families. There was only debt left and hatred left!

"You can rest assured. I will!"

Sean nodded, which was pun intended. I would pay it off! And I would get my revenge too!

Eight o'clock in the evening.

The main house of the Porter family villa in the Crane Town was brightly lit.

Luna Porter, Chase Porter, and the key Porter family members were all there. A Porter bodyguard stood before them respectfully, reporting what he had learned about the fight at the Rodriguez family house.