Penny was beaten almost fell to the ground. She suddenly felt despair, but she still had no intention to
give up. She tried to explain, but was interrupted by Brian.
"Shut up, you are just telling lies, I don't want to hear a word from you. You should know what you did
to Luke. You beat him while I was away, cursed Luke and locked him in the warehouse. How can such
a young child bear that?"
"How dare you maltreat my child? I will send you to prison and you will be there for the rest of your life."
At the thought of mistreatment on Luke, Brian was furious, fortunately, he still go his reason, or he
would have killed Penny by now.
“No, Brian, listen to me. What I did was a momentary foolishness. It was my fault. I mistreated Luke
because of Winnie. Winnie upset my life, so I vent my anger on Luke. Winnie is a cheater, she wants
to..."
Penny cried, trying to put all the responsibility on Winnie, but before she could finish, once again she
got Brian's slap.
Her face was in pain that she covered it with her hand, but the pain did not reduce, while the sense of
humiliation increased. And the hatred to Winnie climbed to the extreme.
"Penny, this slap is for Winnie. She never said a lie. Leo was her boyfriend but was taken away by you.
She is not a cheater, you are the cheater."
"Your heart had already twisted. You are blinded by money and power. If you want to promote by
stepping on Winwin, you will destroy yourself."
"You've done all the bad things. You've tried to kill Winwin more than once. The first time, if I hadn't
been there, Winwin would have died on that road. If I hadn't noticed about Daniel in time, Winwin would
have died too."
"You have done more than two bad things, Penny. You own Winwin in your life. You must go to prison."
Penny did too many bad things, and Brian could not name it one by one.
He just wanted to clarify for Winnie to Penny, to let Penny know, in his heart, only Winnie was the
cleanest and purest woman.
"No, it's not like that. You are deluded by her. She is a fox. She covets my position and deliberately
destroys my life. Brian, you are smart, but you are bewitched by a fox. You..."
Penny refused to admit. She loudly vented her anger. And before she could finish her words, Brian
raised his hand again. She was scared and shut up.
But to her surprise, he did not slap on her. Then Winnie's voice was heard.
"Don't beat her, Mr. Bennet. She's still pregnant."
This slap was stopped by Winnie and Penny avoided it.
"You still stood up for her. After all the things she's done to you, you still stood up for her? Don't be silly,
Winwin. She deserved to die."
Brian was surprised by Winnie's appearance. She should be at work at this time. And it was
unexpected that Winnie stopped him from beating Penny.
"The law will punish her for the mistakes she made, and I will never let her go for the things she did to
Luke. She will not have a good end, but the child in her belly does nothing wrong and you cannot hurt
the child. You don't have to get your hands dirty for her."
Winnie said in a cold voice, looking at Brian with gratitude in eyes, for the slap, for the fact that he still
thought about her.
Winnie got off work early but because of the company's circuit temporary maintenance. And she did not
expect to see such a scene.
She could not watch Brian beat Penny, for fear that Penny would tangle with him and Brian would get
into unnecessary trouble.
Not wanting to hurt the child was just one reason and she was most worried about Brian.
"Winwin, stop being so kind..."
Brian was distressed about Winnie. After so many grievances, she was still kind.
"Brian, calm down. Winwin is right, the law will punish Penny."
Rufus said. She saw that Winnie was kind and honest, which made him admired, and he more liked
Winnie.
"Get out, get out now. Paul, drag her out, she is not welcome here."
Brian could not get angry with Winnie and had promised Winnie that he would not get angry with his
father, so he could only vent his anger to Penny.
Paul came to Penny and dragged her out.
Penny was not reconciled. She pulled Paul, while loudly scolding Winnie.
"Winnie, you are shameless. You are the most insidious person. You take Brian away and one day he
will be taken away too."
Albert ran in and helped Paul to drag Penny out, but Penny scolded loudly.
"Winnie, wait and see. I will take you with me even if I die. I won't let you be with Brian."
Hearing Penny’s curse, Winnie only felt she was struggling like a clown. She blindly pursued her so-
called ideal life without seeing through the truth.
Winnie was silent, but it did not mean that Brian could endure that.
"Albert, acquire the Burns Group now. Make Penny got nothing and become a beggar."
Brian issued instructions angrily.
He did not allow Penny to abuse Luke and could not hear that Penny abused Winnie. They were the
most important people in his life, who could not be slandered by Penny.
"Do it now."
Albert replied.
"No, Brian, you can't do that to me. You can't destroy the Burns family...Winnie, I hate you..."
Penny's voice disappeared in the sitting room and it became quiet, even the voice of air flow could be
heard.
Brian did not leave and found an excuse to stay.
He wanted an opportunity to talk with his father about Winwin, Megan and Luke.
From noon to evening, however, there were many opportunities but he deliberately missed that.
After Penny left, Winnie went back to her room and put all her energy into her work.
She kept herself busy so she wouldn't be distracted by thinking of Brian.
She knew he had not left, because his car was parked in the yard.
Although she had an uncontrollable desire to go downstairs and meet him, she resisted it. She didn't
know what to say. She didn't know whether to thank him for slapping Penny for her.
They missed each other and wanted to find a chance to be together, even if they did not talk. But they
still wasted their limited time.
When it was time to pick up the children in the afternoon, Winnie wanted to pick them up.
She changed into a suit of leisure clothes, went downstairs and saw Brian.
She wanted to say hello, but thought that Brian might ignore her, so she took a look at him and walked
out directly.
"Where are you going?”
Brian asked coldly from behind.
"Pick up the children, let Paul rest a day today."
Winnie did not turn around but continued to walk forward.
"Paul has set off."
Brian's voice was still cold. He wanted to control his voice as far as possible, but inexplicably it was still
cold.
"All right."
Winnie answered, turned around and was to go back to her bedroom. At this time, Brian's sharp eyes
were staring at her.
She noticed that even though Brian looked at her with anger and contempt, her heart was still
pounding.
She tried to look more natural, tried to be Vanessaful, and though she did not know how she was doing,
her pounding heart was still cheering.
Didn’t she get hurt enough? Didn’t she get torment enough? Why couldn’t she stop loving him?
Winnie finally returned to her room. It took seconds from downstairs to upstairs, but she felt that she
had walked for a century.
When she returned to her room, she felt relieved and told herself that she had behaved badly today,
but at that moment, Brian suddenly opened the door and walked in.
Winnie looked back at Brian, with her heart still beating violently, but seeing his cold face and disgust in
his eyes, Winnie felt pain in heart.
"What's up?”
Winnie controlled her emotions and spoke like a stranger.
"......"
What was up? Brian didn't know the answer.
Her jeans and T-shirt reminded him of the first time they had met on a plane. He followed her up
unconsciously.
"I promised you that I would make Penny pay, and now I have begun to act. Soon she will have
nothing. I have done what I promised you..."
Brian stared at Winnie for a long time before finding a topic to speak, but before he mentioned the
important things, Winnie interrupted him.
"So you don't owe me anything."
Winnie smiled at herself and continued.
"You don't owe me anything. You don't have to worry about it. Thank you for slapping Penny for me."
With that, Winnie felt sad and bitter.
All that he had done for her had been to make himself feel at ease.
Watching Brian's slap hit Penny's face, she felt warm in heart.
She finally felt to be protected, as if there was a towering tree grew behind her giving her strength.
However, that moment of happiness was shattered by Brian’s word.
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