Chapter 4

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When she said the last few words, Lily deliberately lowered her voice.

But it shattered my last line of defense.

Without the slightest hesitation, I slapped her.

"If you touch my brother, I’ll send you to keep him company in the grave."

"Your bargain-bin son means nothing to me. Whoever wants to raise him can do it."

Lily’s cheek swelled up instantly, and even spit was knocked out of her mouth.

She didn’t get angry. Instead, she took my hand on her own.

One slap, two slaps, three slaps... she kept slapping her own face.

"You’re right to scold me. I’m shameless, I betrayed trust, and I deserve to be hit."

"But my child is innocent. Sis, I beg you, please give him a way to live."

When I realized something was wrong, Luke was already standing in front of me with a dark face.

"Rosie!" He caught my wrist and shoved hard in the opposite direction. "Don’t go too far."

"Lily only realized her mistake and came over on her own to make up with you."

"How can you keep hitting her and even use the kid to threaten her?"

I lost my balance and fell to the ground. Pain shot through my lower back instantly.

"Ah..." I cried out in pain. "Luke, she was the one who grabbed my hand and made me hit her. Are you blind?"

But Luke didn’t hear a word of it.

He only gently touched Lily’s cheek with his hand, comforting her, "Don’t be scared. I’m here. The kid will be fine too."

Lily obediently swallowed her tears and told Luke to take her away.

At that moment, my brother heard the commotion and came out of the room.

"Sis!" He saw me sitting on the ground and panicked. "Are you okay?"

But when his eyes landed on the way Luke and Lily were tightly clinging to each other, he instantly understood everything.

His brother-in-law had cheated!

"You bitch, how dare you bully my sister."

My brother got furious and went to shove Lily, trying to stand up for me.

But before his hand could even touch her, Luke kicked him hard in the stomach.

Then, right in front of me, he crashed heavily to the floor.

His urine bag and IV line all scattered in a mess on the ground.

"No..." My heart broke as I crawled to my brother, tears pouring down nonstop.

But Luke only hesitated for a second before coldly throwing out one word: "Serves you right."

Then he wrapped his arm around Lily and turned to leave.

My heart was completely dead.

Because of Luke’s kick, my brother had to go through another long emergency surgery before he woke up.

But his condition still worsened.

"Sis, don’t cry."

Right now, he didn’t even have the strength to wipe away my tears.

"Don’t go looking for him for me. Don’t beg the person who hurt you."

My brother could tell what I was thinking and stubbornly forced me to agree before he would go to sleep.

I nodded through tears, but after I went out, I still took a taxi to Luke’s place.

He was lazily soaking in an indoor hot spring with Lily, and the atmosphere was suggestive.

When he saw me barge in, he wasn’t surprised at all.

"What? You finally know to beg me now?"

"I heard about your brother’s condition. What do you want to do?"

Luke took a sip of red wine and looked at me with amusement.

I spoke with difficulty. "As long as you can get the donor here early to switch the marrow, I’ll agree to any condition."

"Then kneel down and apologize to Lily with a loud kowtow."

When I saw Lily pull out her phone and get ready to record, my breathing tightened.

Was pride important?

Yes.

But my brother’s life was more important.

I gritted my teeth, knelt down, and kowtowed to Lily. "I’m sorry. I was wrong."

Not long after that, my phone suddenly rang wildly.

A familiar nurse’s voice came through in tears. "Miss Miller, your brother pulled out his own IV. He’s gone."

"He received a video on his phone of you kneeling, and he asked me to tell you that from now on, don’t ever kneel for him again..."