Chapter 1004 - 1007: Toying with His Feelings

"So you’re saying, if I don’t need them, they might as well not exist, right?" Melody Thorne simplified the situation.

"Yes, that’s what I mean."

"I see, then maybe I should consider letting Adjutant Chaucer make it public, to stop Donovan Hawthorne from courting disaster."

"By the way, isn’t Yulia O’Connell about to hold a birthday party?" Melody Thorne took out her phone, remembering Yulia had mentioned it to her a few times and asked her to attend.

"I don’t know," Jared Quinn answered swiftly, "but I know yours."

Melody Thorne "..."

She sent several messages to Yulia O’Connell, but no one replied.

At the old Owens Family estate, several servants surrounded Yulia O’Connell, holding uniform injections and some other Owens Family punishments. These punishments were unique to the O’Connell Family. In simple terms, they were used against their own members. These things would not leave marks on a person’s body but would cause pain unbearable from within.

"Miss O’Connell, you know very well that you were raised by the O’Connell Family. If it weren’t for them taking you in, who knows where your gambler father would have sold you back then? You might be working at some bar as a hostess by now. You should be grateful to the O’Connell Family instead of seducing the young master,"

"Just admit your mistake, and these punishments won’t befall you."

The older servant, who had been with the elder lady for decades, naturally carried the elder lady’s aura and toughness.

Yulia O’Connell was tied up on the chair but showed no sign of fear. She looked towards the elder lady at the head, "Grandma, I know the O’Connell Family has only one grandson, Cole O’Connell, so you wouldn’t really want to harm him over me. But if you let these people punish me today, Cole might not even care about his own life for my sake. Your relationship with him might never mend again. Are you sure you want to do this to me?"

"Yulia O’Connell, who gave you the nerve to speak to me like that? Don’t think that just because I pampered you before, you have any backing. Let me tell you, from the day you seduced Cole O’Connell, you were against me. Wanting to marry into the O’Connell Family is opposing me—unless I’m dead and can’t see it!"

"I’ve never even considered marrying into the O’Connell Family," Yulia O’Connell spoke honestly.

"You, are you toying with Cole O’Connell’s feelings?" the elder lady angrily pointed at her.

"No," Yulia O’Connell laughed, "I’m just scared, scared that there are too many rules in the O’Connell Family. This isn’t allowed, that isn’t allowed. I don’t want to be bound by these rules for a lifetime like you!"

"Yulia O’Connell, you’ve gone too far!" The elder lady’s cane slammed heavily on the ground, "Daring to insult the O’Connell Family’s rules, today I have to teach you a good lesson!"

"Grandma, I should let you know, these days I’ve been feeling unwell. If you punish me, I’m afraid I might fall unconscious, and the old estate has Cole O’Connell’s informants. As soon as you punish me, he might arrive shortly after."

Yulia O’Connell calmly stated the facts.

The elder lady’s expression darkened several times.

"Elder lady, for the sake of your relationship with the young master, I think it would be better not to punish her," one of the servants quietly suggested, "Perhaps we should reason with her? Have you forgotten that after adopting Yulia O’Connell, a woman came looking for you?"