Chapter 1598 Continuous Fighting
“I’d say that the baby in her is the one who’s important to the Seet family,” Skyler grumpily commented.
Juan then shot him a glare. He had wanted to ignore him after his mother’s intervention, but he never thought that Skyler would keep going with the foul words.
Hence, Juan crossed his arms again and retorted, “You’re right! However, this baby is more precious to you. They’re going to be your savior and your benefactor. If not for the baby, why would a hostage like you have so much freedom? Why would someone like you be able to spurt nonsense to us right now? Without the baby, I’m afraid that you’d be locked up in a dark room, waiting to be served a punishment by my sweet hammer.”
“You, you’d better stop talking about the hammer. I still haven’t settled the score with you for what you’ve done to me.”
“Score? What score? I’m talking about the truth. After this baby is born, you should be greeting the baby instead of the baby greeting you! The baby’s your savior, and as long as he appears at your family, your family should be prostrating themselves before the baby.”
Prostrating ourselves in front of the baby? Juan’s mouth needs a bar of soap to wash it out!
Letting out an angry chuckle, Skyler scoffed out, “Are you Seets hoping that we Maupays will prostrate before an unborn baby? Keep dreaming!”
“You’re blessed to even prostrate before a Seet!”
“Juan, you’d better mind your words!”
“Mind my words? But I’m just being honest.”
“Y-You’re just spouting lies!”
At the two’s incessant arguing, Kyle stood up and interrupted, “Why don’t the two of you look into Riley’s background instead of wasting your time arguing?”
Nicole then turned to Juan. “He’s right. Juan, aren’t you supposed to be busy? Do you want Kyle to assign you to a few more tasks? That way, you won’t be so bored to the point you pick a fight with someone.”
“Mommy, I just don’t like the sight of him, so I dissed him a little. What’s wrong with that? If you don’t like it, I won’t stoop to his level when you’re around next time.”
“Hey, do you think I want to stoop to your level?”
Skyler shot a glare at Juan.
Right then, Sally walked toward Skyler and tugged his arm before giving him a look. “All right, Skyler. Dad’s trying to find out more about Riley. Why don’t you call him and see if you can help him out?”
After hearing that, Skyler looked at Sally before shooting a resentful stare at Juan.
“Do you think that I don’t want to help him out? I can’t make any calls with my phone. It must be because they’re afraid that I’ll secretly make a plan with Daddy to go up against the Seet family. That’s why they’ve limited my communication with the outside world.”
At that, Sally froze. The entire incident was because her father had misunderstood Evan; the Maupay family was the one in the wrong. Furthermore, her father still had the chip with him, and that chip was a threat to the Seet family. It was understandable that the Seets would be wary of them.
“If you really want to investigate Riley, you can come with me. In a way, you’ll be helping out your unreasonable father.”
“Juan, could you not have picked better words? What do you mean by unreasonable? Nothing has come up yet, so we can’t jump to conclusions. Moreover, my daddy must have his reason to do this. He must have been someone else’s pawn.”
So are you telling me that it’s fine?
Juan was about to retort when Nicole’s warning look made the words die in his throat. He then reluctantly muttered, “Fine, fine. I’ll be nicer to you from now on. Let’s look into this together.”
Skyler glanced at him but did not respond.
All of a sudden, the sounds of footsteps traveled into their ears. Evan came down the stairs and looked at them solemnly. “So you’re all here. Good timing. I have something to say.”
“What is it, Daddy?”
“There has been no news about Nina all this while, so your mommy and I will be going to K Nation to look for her. There’s still the matter of looking into Riley’s background, so I’m leaving that to you.”
Juan and Kyle turned to their father and replied, “Don’t worry, Daddy. We’ll do our best.”
