Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband - Chapter 173

Chapter 173: It all falls.

His words were truly the opposite of what she expecting to hear. She stared at him in total shock cause he too was abandoning her and knowing his ambitions, it was probably for Phoebe, that bitch.

“You said you loved me!” She said, in an angry voice.

“I do but now that you have been kicked to the curb i can’t do anything about it, my mother will not let me marry you. I will become a laughing stock if i take you home as my wife. Besides, love alone cannot sustain a marriage, I want the Mayfair connection dear.

I am willing to take care of you if you will be my mistress. I love you, so i will make sure you never lack for anything. I can buy a big house, cars and everything you want.”

Ruth recoiled away from his touch, disgusted by the suggestion. She was Ruth Mayfair! how dare he suggest that she become his mistress?

Dickson scoffed. He did not want to mock her but it was obvious she still needed time to understand her new reality.

“I have paid your hospital bills and I will help you get rid of the paparazzi so you can leave.” He grabbed his trench coat and hat, then stood up to leave. “Think about becoming my mistress, I will treat you well.”

His words caused her to panic and she made a momentous decision to go home and plead with her parents one more time. Not even Phoebe’s ghosts were going to stop her from remaining in the Mayfair house. Her status and everything else depended on them taking her back even if as an adopted child.

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At the Mayfair home meanwhile, everyone had gathered in the living room to face the Gabriels who looked uncomfortable despite being dressed immaculately. They had worn nice expensive clothes, dressed to the nines like they were going for an important business meeting.

Phoebe’s eyes roamed allover them from head to toe as she wondered how they could afford such costly clothing. She recalled the ten million she had paid them, so it was not impossible for them to look like this. Or perhaps Ruth had been taking good care of them while in hiding after all, they were her parents. With plain eyes, she could not tell that the two people had spent some days in a torture chamber.

The expensive clothes they had on made Edward livid and exasperated, so much so that he was lost for words. He had so much knowledge about what they had done to Phoebe when she lived in their home that all he wanted was to punch Aaron in the face. How could they dare to come to his house looking like this after committing a crime of child abuse?

“Good morning Mr and Mrs Mayfair, old Madam Mayfair.” Aaron bowed little to show his respect to three. Elizabeth did the same, her husband had given her instructions to let him take the lead, all she had to do was seal her mouth and follow.

In response grandma Mayfair snubbed their greetings and so did Edward and Jennie who wore hostile faces.

“Nobody here cares for your greetings you conniving bunch of snakes. We have been looking for you for a long time without a a single trace but you came to us willingly. Begin by getting on your knees.” Grandma Mayfair was already in combat mode, ready for the war to start.

Elizabeth began to fidget with her fingers on noticing how spiteful their gazes were. She looked at Phoebe who was surrounded by her tall strong brothers, it was almost as if they were protecting a delicate snow white from the evil queen.

“Phoebe darling are you alright, we have been thinking of you since the news broke out…..” Elizabeth stopped talking when Aaron threw her a sharp glare.

Phoebe guffawed and rolled her eyes. What was with the soft voice and sudden niceness?

“That’s odd, i am where I belong the person that you should be thinking about is Ruth your daughter. Stop with the fake caring pretense Elizabeth i already told my family everything.”

Aaron sneered. “Girl, is that how you are going to address your mother?” His voice was stern as he was running out of patience just by looking at her. He felt she deserved some lashes for everything he had been through because of her.

“Don’t you dare talk to my daughter that way, not in my house!” Edward clenched his fists. “You are going to pay dearly for mistreating her it doesn’t matter if I have to spend all my fortune while doing it.”

His words made the Gabriels nervous, was Edward Mayfair going to kidnap them and torture them as well or was he going to throw them in jail. Aaron knew that Phoebe must have exaggerated the punishments he gave her. It was not a crime, he was disciplining her.

Aaron had a temper, and a great sense of self righteousness. He forgot the instructions which had been given to him by Roman and decided to clear his name first.

“Mr, Mayfair, its not our fault that the girls were switched. Whatever lies that girl had told against us are not true, i was a good father and all i did was give her a little disciplining when she went astray.”

“A little!!! You abused her you bastard.” Andre bellowed.

Filled with anger he threw his phone at Aaron’s head. It hit him on the nose before falling to the ground.

Elizabeth whimpered and knelt down but nobody paid her attention. All eyes were focused on Aaron alone since he was talking back shamelessly.

“You despicable man! You are going to learn that justice can be bought. I am going to make sure that you suffer and then rot in prison.” Grandma Mayfair yelled. “Beat them up for me.”

Mark and his team were just waiting for an order and this was it. They began to walk towards the unwanted guests with wooden sticks.

“No, no…..” Elizabeth mumbled.

“I will call the police.” Aaron threatened.

Mark and his team did not care and they brought the sticks down on the couple. Andre joined them, and he punched Aaron in the stomach.

“You locked my sister in a closet, you ripped up her admission to an elite university, you refused to buy her a birthday cake, you didn’t take a single picture of her at her graduation…”

Every grievance that he mentioned was followed with a blow to any exposed body part on Aaron’s body.

The beating slowed down only when Ruth was unwillingly pushed in by Maria all of a sudden.

She had arrived from the hospital thirty seconds ago and peeked in when she heard Aaron’s cries.

On seeing her birth parents, she turned around to leave but Maria caught her and pushed her into the living room.

“Madam, look who is back.”