Chapter 60 Not Remorseful!
Chapter Sixty-One
As soon as Aria and Lucian got to the sitting room, Mrs Sanders rose to her feet in fury.
“Mr Graves, what nonsense is this?! How dare you insult my daughter?” She yelled, pointing at Lucian furiously, “Do you think you’re all that because you’re rich? Don’t you have any conscience at all?!”
Mr Sanders also stood up, and glared at Lucian, his face grim, “We’ve seen everything that happened through the video which Selena provided for us!” He pointed round at the entire Graves family, “You will not get away with this! You cannot oppress other people with your status and then go scot free! Never!”
“Really?” Lucian asked calmly, adjusting his cuffs, “Did you really see everything?”
“You!…” Mr Sanders started, his face turning red rapidly at Lucian’s question, “You dare to try to deny it?! Are the Graves family really this shameless?!”
“The whole world is going to hear of this!” Mrs Sanders yelled in rage, “And nothing can protect you, not even your money!”
“Enough!” Madam Graves asked tightly, her eyes closed in frustration, “What on earth is going on here?”
Clara scoffed, her nose held in the air haughtily, “Madam Graves, are you pretending to be oblivious or you can’t really see what is going on here?!”
Madam Graves eyes flashed with barely controlled anger, “What did you just say to me?” She asked through gritted teeth.
The chairman slammed his hand down on the arm of the chair he was seated on, “Clara Beaumont, this is not what you’d said when you’d called us earlier!” He thundered, “You said our children were in danger and that was why we rushed down here. Why is the meaning of this ridiculous scene playing out before us?!”
Clara held up her head defiantly, “Well, I was right. Your children are in danger of being thrown into prison,” she said spitefully, “Your son here, Lucian Graves, assaulted my niece, Tori Sanders!”
“What?!”
The piece of information left the Chairman and Madam Graves speechless. They turned to look at Lucian and in an instant, their expression relaxed.
One look at their son’s face gave them all the truth they needed to know about this case.
Lucian looked at them once, arching an eyebrow at them, his calm and relaxed look screaming one word.
He was innocent.
Madam Graves glared at Clara, “You’re lying!” She uttered, “Lucian would never do that. How dare you insinuate such of him? And besides, he’s already married to our Graves family miracle doctor. Why would he go for this…”Madam Graves eyed Tori with disgust, “…woman who means nothing to him?!”
“You!…” Clara was furious, bounding to her feet and speaking over Madam Graves, “You ridiculous woman! Your son is so precious that you think other people’s children does not matter, right?”
“I’m not saying other people’s children are not as precious as mine,” Madam Graves uttered, poised as always, “But I will not tolerate any slander of my dear son.”
Clara Beaumont scoffed, “Madam Graves, we are still talking about the same thing,” she uttered maliciously, “You’re so biased towards your child that you don’t care if he hurts other people children!”
“You!…” Madam Graves was exasperated with Clara’s twisted reasoning. She looked at Aria and Lucian once more, her brows etched with confusion and exasperation.
Aria shook her head slowly, “Mother, Father, don’t listen to them. Lucian is innocent.”
“Aria Beaumont, what do you know?” Selena uttered rudely, “Just stay out of this. I knew you were going to blabber like the idiot that you are. Whereas this is all your fault. Not being able to keep your man in check!”
Mrs Sanders glared Aria, “So you’re the country bumpkin woman!” She spat out hatefully, then her gaze went all over Aria’s classy dressing and her elegant pose, “You don’t look too bad yourself, but just dressing alone can’t cover up the fact that you can’t manage a man. And now, look what trouble he’s caused my daughter!”
“Oh my God, I’ve had enough of this shit!” Aria uttered suddenly, rubbing the space between her eyes, “Why do you all keep saying I can’t manage a man? Is my husband some kind of object that should be managed? I already told you, he’s innocent of everything you’ve said against him!”
“You!…” Mrs Sanders wanted to say something, but a tug at her skirt by her daughter made her stop.
“Mother, please don’t say anything anymore,” her voice was low and was breaking from pent up emotions, “I guess Aria Beaumont is right. No matter what we say, Mr Graves is innocent. I am someone whose rights does not matter!”
She broke down sobbing at that moment and Mrs Sanders followed suit, copiously weeping into her daughter’s shoulder.
Mr Sanders reached out to comfort both of them, his expression aggrieved.
“What gives you the right to make my family this miserable, Mr Graves?!” He asked, his voice breaking with emotion as well, “We know we are nothing much compared to you but still we are supposed to be treated as human beings, don’t you think?”
Lucian shrugged nonchalantly, “Your daughter is something that should not even be called human,” he smirked, looking at Mr Sanders dead in the eye, “I think a snake is a more befitting title.”
Aria snorted, covering her mouth to keep from bursting out with laughter.
The others were outrightly shocked by Lucian’s description of Tori.
Tori scoffed in disbelief, her tears drying rapidly from her cheeks. She clenched her fingers around the hem of her dress and glared at Lucian who still seemed disinterested in her.
Even with the way things were going, he still seemed unfazed and even looked more disgusted by her.
“It doesn’t matter,” she thought to herself, pushing back those thoughts, “By the end of today, he will not be able to extricate himself from the real which I’ve set for him. Lucian Graves, you’re mine whether you like it or not!”
Clara was the first to recover from the shock of Lucian’s words.
“Well, what are we waiting for? We just heard Lucian being all unremorseful, even after the horrible act he committed,” she looked round at them with a disdainful look, “Chairman Graves and Madam Graves. What are you going to do now, huh?!”