Abby was like struck by lightning. Her whole body was shaking. There seemed to be a thorn in her throat that she couldn't swallow or spit out.
In the court, the whole auditorium was cowded with people. All the relatives who had never been able to get together came this day. Abby could feel their ridicule with a glance.
Shaun Sunny who was sitting in front with hatred in his eyes, suddenly stood up and rushed to slap Abby when seeing Abby coming in.
This slap was very forceful,making her right ear rumbling, and her sanity had flown away.
"Abby, where have you been in these four days? How dare you come here now! You killed Dad! It's not enough for you to kill my mother, but also my father!"
This slap attracted the eyes of all the people at the scene, and dozens of pairs of eyes were staring at Abby, leaving her nowhere to hide.
Abby felt that those gazes that looked at her had turned into knives to tear her skin apart.
Shaun's eyes were red and his face was ferocious: "You're a b***h. You're a loser. You're a disaster! At the beginning, mom shouldn't have given birth to you. Even if you were born, I should have asked Dad to drown you! Abby, it's you who robbed everything from me!"
More and more vicious words were aimed at Abby. Abby's brain was blank, her eyes lost focus, and finly stared at Shaun's fierce face.
Seeing another slap ready to fall again, Jason held Abby's waist and drew back: "Will you pay if she hurts?"
Smiling should have been a mild and gentle expression but became very grim on Jason's face.
Shaun was a bully always picking the weak but afraid of irritating Jason.
He stared at Abby in disgust, as if what he saw was not his sister, but his enemy.
Jason took Abby to sit in the front row. The vision here was very clear. Abby clenched her hands tightly and pinched her nails in the flesh. It hurt to the heart, but she knew this was just the beginning.
The judges took their seats one after another. Carl was escorted in. When he saw Abby, his eyes flashed with hope, and he cried out recklessly: "Abby, my daughter, you must save me. I was wronged, and I was trapped..."
The judge struck the gavel seriously: "silence!"
The court became silent immediately, and only the sound of the judge turning the paper on the table could be heard.
After that, Abby didn't know what happened and what was said, as if the soul had escaped from the body, when she stared at Carl sluggishly.
This was her father?
Maybe
But why did she feel so strange?
Carl's head was lowered, and his hair was shaved, but Abby still saw the white hair mixed in, and the wrinkles were more apparent. At this time, Abby really felt that her father she had been with for 24 years was really old.
When the verdict came out, Carl burst into tears in court. Abby pulled Jason's sleeve in a trance and asked, "What is the outcome of the trial?"
"Did you not hear it?" Jason suddenly approached Abby's ears and said against the tips of her ears, "Your dad will die, he not only loses money but also has to be shot."
No... it wouldn't be like this. She didn't believe what Jason said, but why did her father cry?
"Why?" After being married to Jason for four years, what she thought the most was why, why he doesn't not love her? Why didn't he go home and eat her dishes? Why didn't he remember her?
"How can there be so many why?" Jason leaned back on the back of his chair, he seemed to have watched a good movie, and his spirit was greatly satisfied.
"Did you frame my dad?"
She was still smart, and she guessed the point at a glance without knowing what happened.
Jason sneered: "Did I force him to sign the agreement? Did I let him invest the three million dollars? Your dad was not wronged at all. The seven people who died were wronged. Using his life to atone for his sins is the best result for her."
"If you didn't transfer the three million to him, he would really not be able to sign the contract."
"If you say this, it's you who indirectly kill your dad, your brother is right."
His voice seemed to be chilly. It went into her ears and froze her viscera. Abby's eyes became more and more red, like bleeding.
She clasped her hands tightly on her knees, but she still felt so cold, while her body couldn't stop quivering.
Jason seemed to have not seen her pain. He hooked her shoulders into his arms and touched her face and said: "Abby, you can beg me. I have some evidence here. Although it doesn't make much difference, it will allow your dad to spend the second half of his life in jail and not be sent to death in a week. Do you need to consider it?"
He was pushing her.
Abby clenched her lower lip and looked at him palely. She once had a fantasy that Jason was gentle to her, even if he was hypocritical. But she didn't expect that this day would make her so disgusting.
She didn't believe it had nothing to do with Jason. The document Carl gave her was real estate investment. Why was it now related to a coal mine?
And... Today, Jason brought her to the court just for humiliating her!
She didn't understand why Jason hated her so much.
Even if she forced him to marry her at the beginning, she had paid the same price. Now she had disillusioned and let him be free, and even decided to give Sunny Group to him. However, with her love and tolerance, he had put her into hell again and again!
Abby was still that stubborn Abby. How could her pride be crushed by one or two words.
Jason's eyes darkened. "It seems that you don't want this opportunity."
Carl was taken away desolately, and the court staff left one after another. There was a lot of noise in the huge space, but Abby couldn't hear it as if she was deaf.
Carl was done, the Sunny Group would pay for the seven lives at one time, which was enough to ruin their property. Many people who worked in the Sunny Group or took advantage of their shares could not accept such a result.
They vent their resentment on Abby alone, calling her the jinx, ruining the whole Sunny family.
The four days' absent made her be attacked. Because they thought she didn't care about her father and the company, and went to have fun with a man.
Shaun, her elder brother, was the one who hurt her most. Those ugly curses were like a rope that strangled her heart. Abby covered her chest and leaned forward.
Jason did not notice her abnormality. When he dragged Abby out, he was already surrounded by reporters. Seeing Jason and Abby coming out, they immediately held up the microphone and blocked them.
Jason stood at the door and called Mike, asking him to send someone over.
After hanging up, he glanced at the woman beside him and saw that she was just looking in a direction.
He followed her gaze and saw that Carl was escorted into the police car, his back crouched like an old dog.
"You see, your dad is more haggard in just two days, you can really look at him to die?"
Abby's eyelashes were wet. She blinked her eyes and murmured: "what do you want me to do?" She didn't believe her words could let Jason help her father go. He knew the weight of her words.
Jason looked at these reporters, lost in thought, he wanted to cut off Abby's things bit by bit.
The first was Sunny Group.
The second was her family .
The third was her pride and dignity.
If these things were destroyed, Abby, who had no roots and bones, would be like a dodder that could only depend on others and had no survival ability.
What Jason did was just to satisfy his abnormal paranoia. He wanted to better control Abby, so that she didn't dare to fight against him like before and make a quarrel to divorce him.
Jason suddenly came up with an idea. With a weird smile, he pointed to the group of reporters and said: "If you can kneel in front of them for half an hour, I will let your dad exonerate the death penalty."
"As long as I kneel here for half an hour, you can keep my dad alive?" Abby's face was expressionless.
Jason was a little surprised. He originally thought that Abby would make refuse and make trouble, after all, Miss Abby's arrogance was more important than anything else.
Jason narrowed his smile slightly: "Yes."
"Well, I will do that."
Abby was about to leave when she finished her words, Jason grabbed Abby's arm, he half-squinted his eyes, concealing the emotions in his eyes.
"Abby, your father regards you as a tool to make money, but he scolds you as a loser and a b***h. He also said that when you was born, he should have strangled you. Such a scum, even if you save him, he will not appreciate you either. Are you really willing to give up your pride and kneel down to save him?"
Abby looked at the hand holding her arm and murmured, "but what can I do? He is my dad, my relative, he even hugged me when I was young..."
Thinking of this, Abby pushed him away and walked straight to the crowd.
Abby, who used to wear expensive custom-made dresses, had now faded away, and her thin figure gradually became transparent in front of the camera flash.
What was pride? Could it exchange a life?
Her eyes were lifeless, as if hope was swallowed by darkness, her soul was drawn away, and anything meaningful was destroyed.