Free Web NovelChapter 1207: Chapter 1027: So-Called Difficulties
"You just said that I’ve surely suffered many grievances and hardships over the years. That’s right, I’ve indeed been through tough times, but compared to your grand plans, you probably think it’s nothing, don’t you?"
"That’s why you think all those hardships and grievances can be compensated, as long as you give me a noble status, that would be enough to make up for everything."
"So, my dear father, do you think I should now be moved to tears of joy, grateful that after so many years, you’re still concerned about your daughter who isn’t important at all?"
Her lips curled into a more sarcastic smile, her gaze growing colder, making Noah Yates feel somewhat guilty.
"Scarlett, it’s not that I didn’t care about you, but at that time my situation was really dangerous. If I brought you to live with me, it would put you in danger. I couldn’t do that." Noah Yates defended his past actions, "The less I seemed to care about you, the safer you were."
"If those people found out I was still thinking about you, my daughter, they’d try every means to seize you, to threaten me with your life."
"Scarlett, Dad had his difficulties too. Dad knows he owes you an apology, but in the future, something like this will never happen again." A trace of pain and guilt appeared in Noah Yates’s eyes, with tears glistening, "Your mom was the woman I loved most, and you’re our daughter. How could I not care about you? But back then, circumstances forced my hand; things weren’t as simple as you think."
"It’s not that I didn’t think about bringing you to me, but it was too dangerous. I couldn’t be by your side all the time, and if those people got a chance, you might not even survive."
"Scarlett, it’s because I valued you so much that I didn’t want you to face danger with me."
"Oh, is that so?" His words were sincere, each one seemingly coming from the depths of his heart, and the tears in his hawk-like eyes seemed to be a genuine expression of emotion.
But witnessing all this, Scarlett Yates wasn’t moved in the slightest. Her expression remained cold, her lips with a sarcastic smile, her gaze distant and indifferent as she looked at Noah Yates, "So, should I thank you? Everything you did was for my sake. If it wasn’t for your sincere intention for my well-being, I’d have been dead long ago."
"It’s thanks to you that I can stand here alive before you, Dad. Do you need me to say thank you to you now?"
"Or..." She paused for a few seconds, her pale face showing a more mocking expression, her dark eyes flickering as she held back the tears, smiling with red eyes, "Do you need me to bow to you three times, to thank you for all you’ve done for me?"
The family she longed for over ten years reappeared, a moment that was supposed to be joyful, but the so-called joy lasted only for a moment.
Upon learning the truth, the immense anger was joined by deep sorrow and pain in her heart.
She always thought that all her most important relatives had left her, leaving her alone in this world.
After experiencing the dual blow of losing parents to a car accident and her grandmother who had been her companion passing away, during that time, she almost couldn’t escape the immense suffering and grief.
