Bride of the Mysterious CEO

Chapter 258

Chapter 258 Hatred And Abuse

Ryan looked at the woman, whom he called “mom” for twenty-five years, now kept cursing him for death with a calm expression. If it was before, he would definitely feel some heartache. But his heart had long been numb with these criticism and hatred. Now he didn’t feel anything.

Since his childhood, Amanda was always indifferent towards him. She either scolded him or blamed him for all her bad things. Sometimes, she used to even beat him up and lock him in a room, prohibiting him from eating or drinking anything.

When Ryan was seven years old, once in an evening time, he and Roman were playing in the yard. In Amanda’s instructions, a maid brought them soup. But that maid tripped over something and the plate of soup was about to fall on Roman.

When Amanda saw this, she immediately reacted and pushed Ryan, who was beside her, towards the maid. As the result, the bowls of hot soup which were supposed to fall on Roman fell all over Ryan.

It was an autumn evening and the weather was not very cold. Ryan was wearing short jeans and half t- shirt at that time. As a result, when the hot soup fell, it scalded his legs and hands badly which was exposed.

Little Ryan fell onto the ground and started to cry in pain. When he saw Amanda, he kept calling for her to help him.

However, Amanda just looked at him indifferently and pulled Roman into the villa, completely ignoring the seven year old boy who was screaming in pain and calling her “mom” again and again.

Charles was on a business trip at that time and because Ryan was unfavored by Amanda, all the servants and maids also basically ignored him most of the time. So when he was crying in pain, nobody came to help him, afraid of angering the mistress.

At that time, the only person who pitied and helped Ryan was Mrs. Baker.

Mrs. Baker was the garden keeper of the Monor Family Villa. When she was watering the plants, she heard a child’s cry in the yard. She rushed there and saw Ryan on the ground, screaming and crying in pain. Furthermore, this little boy’s hands and legs were totally scalded and there were even blisters on his milk white skin.

Because Mrs. Baker was an old servant of the Monor Family, she knew very well who Ryan was and why he was suffering like this. Amanda vented all her hatred and resentment on a boy, who didn’t even know what his fault was. That was why Mrs. Baker always felt bad for little Ryan.

Mrs. Baker went forward and hugged the crying Ryan in her arms. She then took him away from the yard and treated his injured legs.

As soon as Mrs. Baker held him, little Ryan hugged her back tightly and started to cry loudly. No matter how much Mrs. Baker tried to coax him, he didn’t stop crying until he felt asleep due to exhaustion.

That was the last time, Mrs. Baker saw Ryan crying. After that incident, no matter how much Amanda beat him or locked him on a dark room, Ryan didn’t even shed a single tear as if he refused to show his tears to anyone.

Charles, who somehow got to know about these things, turned a blind eye to Amanda’s actions. Other than warning Amanda some times, he basically didn’t do anything to protect Ryan.

Because of the trauma of his cheating, Amanda who was pregnant at that time got a miscarriage. Losing a child is always very difficult to bear, especially for a mother. And adding to the fact that, he cheated on her, Charles always felt guilty towards Amanda.

So even though he knew she was wrong, he usually didn’t say anything about it.

Sometimes, Amanda used to beat Ryan until the point he started bleeding and starved him for days. At that time, it was Mrs. Baker who used to treat his wounds and give him food silently.

This was also a reason why Ryan was more close to Mrs. Baker than his own biological parents.

When Ryan was a child, he couldn’t understand why Amanda treated him so badly and Roman so carefully. But he used to think that, because Roman was the eldest son of the family, Amanda treated him nicely.

One day when he was passing through, Charles and Amanda’s bedroom, he heard them quarreling because of him. At that time he didn’t know anything about his birth but he heard Amanda calling him being illegitimate child.

Being unfavored since his childhood, Ryan was somewhat sensitive to these matters. Adding to Amanda’s constant abuse and hatred, when he heard Amanda calling him illegitimate, it planted a seed of doubt in his heart.

After he accepted the company's authority, he investigated about his birth. Then he found out that he was indeed not born by Amanda, instead he was the love child of Charles and another woman called Layla.

He still remembered how heartbroken he was when he found out that he was actually an illegitimate child and not born by Amanda. And this also explained Amanda’s hatred and abuse towards him.

Although, Amanda used to hate him too much, he never expected that Amanda would actually try to kill

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Even if you pet some dog or cat, you would develop some feelings towards it over the years. Even though, you don’t like it, you won’t at least try to harm it. He couldn’t understand how Amanda had the heart to kill him even after living with him under the same roof for more than twenty years.

Ryan sighed helplessly and there were waves of complicated emotions in his eyes. "When you saw me manage the company well, you were afraid that I would snatch Roman's position, so you deliberately wanted to harm me and pave the way for Roman, isn’t it?"