Chapter 1374
Ren circled his arm around her waist and bent down. “I’m the one who’s most eager to be well again.”
Ruka shoved him off with a look of embarrassment. “Hurry up and go! Remember to be careful.”
At Husson Residence.
When Charlotte heard that Ren would be coming back for lunch, she called him up right away and
reminded him to not bring up Ruka.
“Your dad is in a foul mood today. I have no idea who made him mad,” Charlotte said.
“Yes, I got it. I’ll make sure to avoid any mentions of it,” Ren promised.
“He was fine this morning. Seriously, despite being an old man now, his temper hasn’t changed at all.
He locked himself in his study and refused to even let the servants bring him some tea.”
“Something must’ve happened. I’ll be right there,” Ren said consolingly.
Ten minutes later, Ren’s car came to stop in the driveway. When Ren entered the hall, one of the
servants immediately came over and said, “Mr. Ren. Mr. Husson is waiting for you in his
study.”
“Alright.” Ren headed up the stairs for the study on the second floor.
He knocked on the door and heard Harold’s deep voice calling out, “Come in.”
When he went in, Harold barked, “Close the door.”
Ren had a bad feeling. He saw the furious look on Harold’s face. It had been a while since he last saw
Harold being this angry.
“Dad…”
”
“Kneel!” Harold commanded sharply.
Ren froze and stared at his father. Harold did use corporal punishment on him before he turned
eighteen, but he was thirty-three now. Why did Harold want to punish him now? What did he do?
Out of consideration for Harold’s age, Ren could only do as he was told. He kneeled on the ground with
his back straight and looked up at his father’s seething expression. He only hoped. that Harold would
not give himself a heart attack. At his age, it was dangerous for him to be this
angry.
“What on earth happened, Dad? Tell me,” Ren pleaded.
Harold retrieved a belt from somewhere before standing behind Ren and whipping him on the back.
“Ever since you were a child, I taught you that the most important thing is a person’s character. Did you
forget everything I taught you? Is that why you’ve become so shameless?”
Harold’s belt landed a second time. Thanks to Ren’s clothing, Harold had no idea that his belt landed
exactly on Ren’s wound.
Ren’s face was tightly clenched in pain. His wound was only a week old, and after being whipped.
twice, the pain was beginning to spread all over his back.
“Your mother introduced you to so many fine young ladies, but you did not take a liking to any of them.
Instead, you went after Ruka! How could you do such a deplorable thing?!”
Ren took a deep breath. He finally understood what was going on. Harold was angry because of his
relationship with Ruka. The family had kept it a complete secret from him, so someone must have
leaked the news to him on purpose.
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