Chapter 985: Switching Hands
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Daddy, Daddy! I’m talking to you, but you’re s.p.a.cing out. You don’t respect me at all!”
Amelia’s voice made Lucas snap out of his thoughts.
Only then did Lucas realize that he had neglected his adorable daughter because he had slipped into a trance. She was now pouting, her large eyes filled with aggravation and complaints.
Lucas hurriedly said, “Okay, it’s my fault. I got distracted thinking about something. I didn’t mean to ignore you, Amelia!”
In order to coax his daughter, Lucas asked, “I heard that you went out for some good food with Grandpa today. What did you have?”
At the mention of food, the adorable little foodie immediately put her fingers up and counted them one by one. “We had meatb.a.l.l.s! And some pretty cakes! I also had a delicious lollipop! Grandpa even bought me a huge marshmallow! I wanted to buy one for Mommy, you, and Aunt Charlotte, but Grandpa said you guys don’t like marshmallows…”
Amelia spoke with great excitement. Lucas was still joking with her at first, but at the thought of the series of coincidences just now, he felt some inexplicable worries.
But so far, neither Cheyenne nor Charlotte had called him for help, which meant that their company matters were probably not that difficult to handle.
While Lucas was thinking, he heard Amelia suddenly say, “By the way, Daddy, I saw Grandma on the street today!”
“Grandma?” Lucas was stunned.
Amelia was obviously referring to Karen.
But Karen was supposed in jail for at least five years for attempted murder.
Lucas immediately asked, “Amelia, you said you saw Grandma on the street?”
Amelia nodded and blinked. “Yeah, I saw her on the street where Grandpa and I ate. She even pulled Grandpa and said that she wanted to go home, but he refused to let her come home. He even said that she should go stay somewhere else. Otherwise, he would call the police to take her away. Grandma ran away after hearing this…”
Amelia looked at Lucas and asked in confusion, “Dad, why won’t Grandpa let Grandma come home? It’s been a long time since I saw her, and I miss her so much! Will you let her come home?”
Lucas was now 100% sure that something had gone wrong since Karen, who was supposed to be serving her sentence in prison, had suddenly appeared on the street and ran away immediately after William mentioned the police!
Amelia was still young, so she didn’t know what Karen had done. She only knew that Karen was her grandmother, whom she had lived with for several years since she was a child. So she wanted Lucas to let Karen come home.
But Lucas would never let the vicious Karen step foot inside their home!
“Amelia, it’s not that Grandpa and I won’t let Grandma come home. But she made a huge mistake, so the police took her away and forbade her from coming home,” Lucas explained gently.
“Daddy, did you say that Grandma was taken away by the police? Is Grandma a bad person? Did she do something only bad guys do?” Amelia immediately frowned, her eyes full of worry.
In the eyes of children who still didn’t have a clear concept of the law, only bad guys would be arrested by the police.
Lucas wanted to comfort Amelia by telling her that Karen wasn’t a bad guy. But at the thought of the horrible things Karen had done to William and Cheyenne, he decided that he didn’t want Amelia to think of Karen as a kind and good grandmother.
So Lucas simply nodded and said, “That’s right. Grandma did something bad, and she’s a bad guy.”
Hearing this, Amelia immediately pursed her lips, and her big and clear eyes were full of tears. She lost control and started crying. “Daddy! I don’t want Grandma to be a bad guy. I don’t want her to be taken away by the police… No!”
Looking at his daughter crying miserably, Lucas felt heartbroken. He could only try his best to comfort her. “Okay, don’t cry. Grandma will come home when she becomes a good person.”
Although it was impossible for Karen to repent, and it was also impossible for Lucas to let her come back home, he had no choice but to say this to the crying Amelia.
“Really?” Amelia immediately raised her head, blinking her large and watery eyes.
Lucas had no choice but to nod and say, “Yes.”
After finally managing to stop Amelia from crying, Lucas was just about to call William to ask him what was going on when he suddenly heard his cell phone ring. The person who called happened to be William.
“h.e.l.lo, William!” Lucas said, but no one answered.
Lucas thought it was just poor reception and asked again, “William, can you hear me?”
At this moment, a lazy voice finally sounded on the other end. He said teasingly, “Hey, Lucas, I can’t believe you’ve become my son today. Come on, call me dad a few more times.”
When Lucas heard this voice, his pupils constricted, and his face darkened immediately.
An intense murderous intent flashed in his eyes. “Jace Hutton! I didn’t expect you to be in Orange County!”
The person who called Lucas using William’s phone was none other than Jace, Lucas’s half-brother!
“Haha, do you really think I won’t dare to come to Orange County just because it’s your turf?” Jace sneered.
“Where is my father-in-law? Why is his phone in your hands?” Lucas questioned in a deep voice.
Since Jace had William’s phone, Lucas didn’t believe that Jace had merely borrowed it to call him.
William had probably already fallen into the hands of this b.a.s.t.a.r.d Jace. Who knew what kind of danger he was in?!
After his trip to DC, where he had removed Jace from the position of the Huttons’ successor, Jace probably hated him to the core.
Under such circ.u.mstances, Lucas’s greatest fear was that Jace would take revenge on him by attacking his loved ones!
After hearing Lucas’s question, Jace laughed out loud and then said coldly, “Your father-in-law has already fallen into my hands. Do you think he still stands a chance at surviving?”
When Lucas heard this, his eyes suddenly s.h.i.+ned with a menacing murderous aura!