This Time, I Will Get My Divorce, Mr

Charles quirked his lips and muttered begrudgingly, “I’m sorry.”

Tyler glowered at him mutinously. “I don’t give a damn about your apology!”

“Then what the hell do you want?” Charles barked, his brows knitting together.

“I want to punch your lights out, that’s what!” Tyler spat, clenching his fists angrily.

“Come on, big guy!” Charles rolled up his sleeves. “I admit I was caught off guard when you wanted to

throw down some punches earlier, which was why I dodged, but that won’t happen again! Let’s take this

outside, kid, and we’ll see if you’re just all talk!”

“Fine! We’ll take it outside then!” A cold smirk played on Tyler’s lips as he added mockingly, “I’ll show you

who’s all talk at the end-” He broke off deliberately and eyed Charles’ legs with contempt, then scoffed.

“Though I think between the both of us, you’d run off crying first!”

“You punk”

“That’s enough!” When Sonia saw that the boys were building up to another fight, she interrupted again,

this time with the same frustration as a tired parent. She stood between them like a wall and snapped,

“Charles, you’re nearly thirty years old. What are you doing picking fights with a minor? Don’t you feel

ashamed of yourself? And you!” She shot a dark look at Tyler. “Keep your temper in check, young man.”

She was using all her might to keep a fight from breaking out between these two. Aside from the plain

fact that fighting in a hospital was downright unacceptable, she was also aware that Charles would lose

out painfully in a fight with Tyler.

While Charles was oblivious to this, Sonia knew that Tyler was well-versed in kickboxing. Moreover, he

was taller than Charles. In the aggregate, Charles was no match for the kid.

That being said, Charles was clueless about how much of a disadvantage he would be at if a brawl broke

out, but he was a little embarrassed to have been called a petty adult by Sonia for picking fights with a

minor. A red flush crept over his cheekbones as he clenched his fists and let out a dry, awkward cough.

“Fine, then. If you’re going to put it that way, baby, then I guess I’ll be the bigger person and let this punk

off the hook this time.”

“Let me off the hook?” Tyler scoffed in derision. “Move, Sonia! I’m going to teach this guy a lesson and

knock some sense into him!”

“Stop it!” Sonia could feel the onset of a migraine attack. She rubbed the divot between her brows and

asked, “Tyler, how’s

Grandma doing right now?”

Upon hearing this, Tyler finally calmed down, and his rage was replaced with the despair that one might

associate with an abandoned puppy. “Grandma’s fine; she came to an hour ago. Toby, on the other hand,

isn’t doing too well. He’s still in the ICU.”

“The ICU?!” Sonia’s jaw fell open.

Charles, too, was equally shocked. “Hold up-does he actually have a terminal illness or something?”

After all, things had to be dire in order for a person to end up in the intensive care unit.

Having regained composure, Sonia eyed Tyler steadily as she pressed, “How badly did Grandma punish

him?”

She had thought that Toby, being Rose’s grandson, would be subjected to mercy even if the old woman

were to break out the cane. However, it was now that she realized how wrong she had been to assume

this. As it turned out, Rose had given Toby such a harsh beating that he ended up in the ICU. In fact, one

might even think that somebody had had a score to settle with him if they didn’t know any better.

“What? Toby ended up in the ICU because Old Mrs. Fuller doled out corporal punishment on him?”

Charles demanded incredulously, his voice rising by an octave.

Tyler ignored him and kept his attention on Sonia, nodding as he replied with red-rimmed eyes, “He was

in really bad shape after Grandma was done caning him. I counted ten strokes, and the back of his shirt

was barely holding together after each one. Things got pretty graphic when his skin tore and blood

seeped through; when he was loaded into the back of the ambulance last night, his back was a whole

bloody mess. He was practically mutilated.”

At the mention of this, the gory image of Toby’s maimed back from last night flashed in Tyler’s mind. He

shuddered, and all the color drained from his face.

While he was explaining, Sonia could visualize the scene, and she pursed her lips reticently.

Unexpectedly, Charles inhaled sharply and exclaimed, “I can’t believe the old lady could be so ruthless.

Why did she cane Toby anyway?”

Tyler’s lips parted like he was about to answer, but he caught himself. Charles was his enemy, after all,

and he scoffed as he snapped, “That’s none of your business! You have no right to know!”

“You-” Charles choked on whatever insult he had been ready to fire, then quieted down and murmured,

“Fine, don’t tell me. I don’t give a damn either way. Come on, baby, it’s getting late. We shouldn’t waste

time talking to this kid when we have to

get going.”

“Sorry, Charles, but do you think you could go without me? I’m going to pay Grandma a visit,” Sonia said,

rubbing her temple

tiredly.

Charles frowned. “Visit her? Why would you do that after the Fuller Family,”

“You know she’s been kind to me, Charles; I can’t just sit by and do nothing now that I know she’s

hospitalized” Sonia argued seriously, meeting his gaze.

More to the point, she might have caused Rose to collapse last night when she broke the news of her

terminated pregnancy, which gave her all the more reason to visit the matriarch of the Fuller Family

Charles opened and closed his mouth, too stumped to protest. After a few seconds, he sighed in

resignation and acceded. “Very well. Go and see the old lady. I’ll be waiting for you at the hospital

gardens.”

Sonia flashed him a smile. “Thanks, Charles.”

“It’s nothing. Go on, then,” he prompted, tousling her hair affectionately

She froze at this gesture, and when he withdrew his hand, she brought hers up to the spot where his

fingers had tousled her hair.

Before this, she might have overlooked his gesture and deemed it as a platonic one, seeing as he rarely

ever tousled her hair, even while they were kids. But now that she knew of his feelings for her, the

intimacy of this gesture suddenly weighed differently than it otherwise would have.