My Billionaire Ex-Husband Chase Me Back - Chapter 429

Chapter 429: Knowing The Truth Is Painful
“If you hit me and I didn’t stop you, believe me, you would taste my husband’s anger; he might send you straight to your coffin.”

Bella wasn’t exaggerating. She knew Tristan would have done more than she had if he had known what had happened here.

Seeing the fear and confusion in Henry’s eyes, she continued speaking.

“You know what brother? Earlier, I had wanted to bring you to our mother’s house and welcome you with a warm dinner at my home, but once again, you ruined that opportunity.”

Henry gritted his teeth in silence.

“Gosh! I suggest you work on managing your anger, or you will end up like our father—or worse.”

Henry’s ability to speak was slowly fading. The unbearable pain tortured him, making him wish just to pass out so that the pain in his chest and hands wouldn’t be felt. However, Bella’s words shocked him.

Countless questions were now racing through Henry’s mind.

‘What the fuck!? Did Bella get married? To whom? Since when? And what happened to our father? Did she also know about our father’s disappearance? How? What the hell happened here?’

He pressed his anger and politely asked, “What do you mean, little sister? Please explain further—”

Bella didn’t answer Henry’s question. Instead, she turned to Bryan.

“Please help him lie on the sofa and call an ambulance to take him to the hospital,” Bella instructed before joining her grandfather in the seating area.

Despite Bella’s intense dislike for Henry, she still felt sorry for him. Well, not necessarily because of him but because of their mother.

Although their mother didn’t express it openly, Bella knew that, as a mother herself, their mother had strong feelings for Henry and would forgive him even if he made a mistake in the past or the future.

Bryan immediately did Bella’s order, helping Henry after asking two servants at the end of the room to help him. He couldn’t carry Henry’s massive body alone.

“AARGHHH…” Henry’s howl of pain echoed throughout the room as Bryan and the others carried his large body to the three-seater sofa.

Bella pretended to casually pick her ear when she heard Henry’s ear-splitting scream. She couldn’t believe a grown man as big as Henry could cry like a baby. Gosh! How shameless!

After she took a deep breath and tried to suppress her urge to stuff the sneakers into his mouth, she said, “Can you stop crying like a hungry baby, Henry Donovan?? You should be ashamed of your big body…Geez!!”

Henry’s cries of pain slowly faded as he looked sharply at Bella.

“This hurts, alright! You’ve never felt pain like this…that’s why you don’t know!” Henry answered between his tears.

Bella chuckled. She couldn’t believe she heard those words from his filthy mouth.

“Well, brother, that’s how I felt when you hit me in the past. Or your frequent victims…” Bella looked at him in disgust. “I just want you to feel it too, brother, to remind you that what you did in the past was very evil. Very cruel!”

“This is the second time you’ve done this to me, bitch! I know how much it hurts…” Henry wanted to answer her like that, but all his words rolled back into his throat when he saw her sharp eyes.

It was sharp enough to send a shiver through his veins. Henry swallowed hard, then gritted his teeth silently while venting his anger inwardly.

Silence!

No one said anything, but the tension was still there. Bella’s sharp gaze was still on Henry as if she were torturing and punishing her brother’s body and soul with her eyes.

Not long after, Isaac Donovan finally broke the silence.

“Henry,” Isaac Donovan’s soft, exhausted voice rang in the room. The way Isaac says Henry’s name shows the Oldman’s disappointment and anger after observing his only grandson, Henry Donovan.

Isaac saw no guilt or regret for all Henry’s cruel actions in the past, even though Bella had already reminded him to the point of making him feel the pain of being physically hit.

After getting Henry’s attention, Isaac continued his words:

“You have been spoiled by me and your father all this time, which has made you grow up like this. You know, Henry? Just because you are my only grandson who uses my name behind yours, you have become arrogant,” he paused for another long, deep breath. “Henry, I no longer have high hopes for you or your father.”

Henry felt like his heart was about to shatter when he heard how deeply his Grandpa’s words cut. This was the first time he had heard him say that he no longer had hope for him.

‘Grandpa gave up on me? Oh no…oh no. Nooo…!’ Henry wanted to wake up and kneel before him, but he couldn’t move his body at all. He could only stare at him with a miserable gaze, his mouth trembling as he held back his emotions.

“Remember this, Henry. What you hear about the company may be different from the truth. Do you still believe the company is dependable? You are mistaken, my child,” Isaac’s voice was no longer gentle. It was sharp, sounding like a harsh warning directed at Henry.

“Instead of expecting from Donovan Group, you should follow your sister’s footsteps and be independent! But you failed even when I allowed you to lead a small branch.”

Isaac took a deep breath. Disappointed? He had been disappointed too often with his grandson, Henry. However, in the past, he had not interfered too much with Lucas, educating Henry. This is one of his regrets now.

“While your little sister, Bella? She did not rely on the company, not even her parents’ money, to make her as successful as she is now. She built her business empire without us knowing, with only her ability, her brain…”

Henry, eyebrows wrinkled, tried to look at Bella. He saw her smile faintly without looking up from her cell phone as if she was nothing to him.

He became curious about what really happened.

Why did he not know anything about his sister?

What success was their Grandpa referring to?

She has a husband!?

Does she also have a business empire!?

However, despite so many questions dancing in his mind, he put aside all of them.

Now, he needed to do something: ask for forgiveness from his Grandpa.