"Don't cross the line, Carla!" bellowed Zayn as he frowned. "Respect your elders!"
"Respect should be mutual." Carla shot him a cold glare before standing up and leaving.
"Stand right there!" yelled Jombo furiously. "Since Venus's ill, I'll allow you to stay for a few more days. However, please leave immediately after she recovers!"
"Allow me to stay? I can't care less!" scoffed Carla mockingly. "However, I'll definitely bring my kids along with me."
"They won't leave with you!" Jombo warned intimidatingly, "If you dare to touch them, I won't let you off easily!"
"Really?" Carla raised her eyebrows and smirked. "I'll have to try it out, then."
"You…"
"That's enough!" interrupted Zayn exasperatedly. "I thought we agreed to talk this out? What can we achieve by exchanging harsh words here?"
"I can be reasonable if you want." Jombo changed his attitude. "Since the children are already legally registered under the Giblo family, you'll be breaking the law if you bring them away forcefully!"
"We can bring this to court!" replied Carla calmly. "I'm already all prepared. Don't worry, I'll definitely win."
"Must you do this?"
This time, it was Zayn who asked.
"Either you let the children leave with me, or I'll file a lawsuit. Alternatively, we can resort to brute force! It depends on what you choose to do."
With that, Carla left directly.
Zayn felt extremely exasperated. At this point, he was helpless as there was nothing he could do to her.
Violence, scoldings, threats and coaxes were all futile.
"How dare she?" Jombo was so furious that his face turned pale and his hands trembled.
"Your health is still poor. Why did you leave the hospital and come back all of a sudden?" asked Zayn in confusion.
"If I haven't returned, this family might be part of the Liergers already."
After being provoked by Carla, Jombo was venting all of his anger onto Zayn.
"No wonder you kept stopping me from going to Northridge and interfering in the case concerning Lierger Corporation! So it's all because of her!"
"I'll resolve this on my own. You don't need to intervene." Zayn reminded sternly, "Don't commit the same mistake as you did two years ago."
"You're the one who committed a mistake!" Jombo's fury surged again. "If you had listened to me from the start, if you hadn't been in a relationship with her, all of this wouldn't have happened!"
Zayn was speechless. He initially thought that Jombo regretted what happened two years ago, but he still had not come to his senses.
"That's enough. Let's stop arguing, " Thompson quickly diffused the tension between them. "I'll wheel you back to your room to rest."
"How can I rest? Do you think that I can sleep now?" scolded Jombo in frustration. "There's no peace to be found in this family. Not only does that woman dare to kill in my house, but she also opposed me so rudely! How can someone like her stay here?"
"You're already so old and in poor health. Yet, you can scold someone with such fervor!" mumbled Zayn unhappily.
"What did you say?" Jombo grabbed a cushion from the sofa and tossed it at him. "You rascal! You don't even know what's important now! Do you want the Giblo family to be ruined?"
"That's it. I'll deal with it properly." Zayn did not want to provoke Jombo further. "Go back to your room and rest."
"Yeah, go and rest first!"
Thompson quickly pushed Jombo back to his room.
Meanwhile, Zayn walked out briskly and caught up with Carla at the stairs. "Let's talk."
"There's nothing for us to talk about."
Carla refused to discuss anything with him. Instead, she returned to her room and sent a message to Daemon. She informed him about Venus being poisoned and requested him to invite Derelo over to cure her.
If she was influential enough to invite Derelo, she would not have to stay in such a horrible place like the Giblo residence.
However, Daemon did not reply to her.
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