Now They Want My Forgiveness - Chapter 201: Chapter 201

Fiona choked out, "I just can't help feeling sorry for Silas. If Max was the one doing this, would you really just stand by and do nothing?"
Anna shot back, "If it were Max, I'd help him quit gambling. Mom, you're not helping Silas—you're hurting him, and you're hurting us too. If we hadn't caught this while Max was in the hospital, were you planning to mortgage our house next?"
Anna's words made something click for Andrew. He asked, "Wait, did you mortgage our house?"
Fiona's expression faltered.
Andrew didn't miss a thing. He dashed upstairs to look for the property deed, but no matter how hard he searched, it was gone. And then it hit him—Fiona had mortgaged their house.
Just as Fiona was about to get up, Andrew lashed her again, the whip landing hard on her body. He snapped, "Fiona, I really spoiled you.
"Back then, to prove how much I loved you, I put most of the family's property under your name. Eleanor was against it at first, but I told her I wanted you to feel safe.
"I knew you never felt welcome here, so I wanted to give you everything I could. And what do you do? You went and did this behind my back. Tell me—where's the money?"
Even if their house wasn't worth over a hundred million, it was still worth tens of millions. He was dying to know where Fiona had spent the money.
Fiona was on the verge of passing out from the beating, so Anna quickly stepped in. She said, "Stop, Dad. If you keep hitting Mom like this, she will die—there'll be nothing left for any of us."
Andrew pulled back the blood-soaked whip and demanded, "Spill it. If you're not telling the truth, I'll take the whole Clark family to court."
Fiona said, "I'll tell you. All the money went to pay off my brother's debts."
Andrew demanded, "Paid off debts? You took tens of millions from our family and even put the house up as collateral. Just be straight with me—how much did Silas really lose gambling?"
Fiona said, "One year, he went with some friends to Sulvar City—he said the casinos there were wild, so he checked it out. And just like that, he blew 30 million." She couldn't even meet Andrew's eyes as she said it.
Andrew clutched his chest.
Anna quickly moved to support him and said, "Dad, you have to stay strong."
Andrew shouted, "Stay strong? How am I supposed to take this? 30 million. And that's just from Sulvar City. Did he blow money anywhere else, too?"
Not in his wildest dreams did Andrew ever imagine that after everything he'd done for Fiona's family, after giving her a real place in this home, she'd still betray him like this.
He demanded, "Let me ask you again—how the Hayes family ended up like this, is it all because of you?"
Fiona choked out, "I never meant for this to happen. Max was making so much money, and so were you.
"At first, I only took a little, but then I just kept taking more and more—I don't even know how it got to this point. I never thought things would end up like this."
Andrew wanted to keep beating her, but in the end, his body just gave out—he collapsed right there on the floor.
The servants scrambled to catch him.
Anna shouted, "Call an ambulance, now. Hurry up."
By the time the ambulance showed up, Fiona was still lying there on the floor, bleeding a lot—and nobody paid her any attention.
Fiona kept calling for the servants, but none of them dared to go near her.
After everything that went down today, the servants realized that the house could be seized any day now. If they stuck around, there probably wouldn't be any paychecks coming their way.
So after a bit of whispering among themselves, a few of them started sneaking around the house, hunting for anything valuable they could get their hands on.