I’m an Idiot
Seeing James fainting, Sasha quickly caught him. “Dad? Dad, are you alright? Don’t scare me!” she kept
calling out to him and massaged his temples.
Demi was petrified and shaking, but she didn’t dare to come over to check on James.
James woke up a while later. He looked at Sasha first, and when he turned to Demi, his gaze was filled
with disappointment. Sighing, he said, “I’ve been too harsh on you, Sasha. I should not have treated
Matthew the way I did. You two are the ones who really care about us, but I was too blind to see it.”
James even started to cry in the end.
Sasha was delighted but also sad for her father. “I’m glad you can see that, Dad. It doesn’t matter what
happened in the past. All that matters is that we treat Matthew well from now on.”
James wiped his tears away. “Honestly, now that I think of it, I had been nothing but an abuser to
Matthew. I always thought he married you for our money, but now I see that he doesn’t care about that.
I’ve been too harsh on the both of you.”
Demi couldn’t take it anymore and blurted, “What do you mean, Dad? We care about you too!”
James shot her a glare. “Really? Let me ask you then. What did you two do while Helen was captured?
Did you even help out?”
Demi defended herself. “I-I wanted to help, but I had no idea how. Besides, Matthew’s the one who
started—”
“Shut up!” James shot back. “You know better than anyone how this whole mess started. Matthew didn’t
cause it. Technically speaking, we started this whole thing.”
Demi couldn’t believe what she was hearing. “What? But why? Matthew’s the one who killed those guys.”
James growled angrily, “And you know why he did that. He did it for Heidi. She’s the reason he got
himself into this mess. Strictly speaking, Heidi’s our family, not his. But still, Matthew fought the Lewises
just to help her out and got himself into this sticky situation. It’s obvious that he cares about us more than
you do.”
Demi couldn’t argue against that, but a while later, she mumbled, “Then that’s Aunt Heidi’s fault. Why did
you vent on me?”
James was trembling with rage, and he gnashed his teeth. “What the heck did you just say? That’s Heidi.
She’s probably the only good person in your mother’s family. Of course we need to help her out. If either
you or Sasha got in trouble in the future, you would help each other out, wouldn’t you? Honestly, I don’t
regret helping her out one bit.”
Demi still wasn’t convinced. “Yeah, we helped, but so what? It wasn’t a big deal in the first place, but
Matthew blew the whole thing out of proportion.”
James shouted, “You think he wanted to do that? The Lewises did that. Honestly, this whole mess is on
your mother and her family. Matthew had nothing to do with it. He could have stayed out of it and nobody
would say anything, but he didn’t. He antagonized the Lewises to help your mother and her family out,
but what about you? What makes you think you have the right to point fingers at him?”
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