The Lawson Mansion.

The magnificent banquet hall was eerily silent, with shredded pages of a contract scattered all over the ground as well as a pool of blood that had not been cleaned up.

The birthday cake on the table had not been cut as the carefully organized birthday banquet ended with a tragic conclusion.

Bruce was filled with despair. How he wished he could just die.

In recent years, Lawson Corporation had been in a slump. Bruce had forcibly splurged on the banquet. However, the money was spent in vain, leaving him with nothing to show for it.

Not only did he lose the contract, but he was also humiliated. Most importantly, he lost his child.

At this moment, Bruce wished he could strangle Sophie and Lola. Unable to control his anger, he charged upstairs and grabbed Sophie by the neck and slapped her across the face.

"You bitch, everything that has happened to me is all because of you!"

The slap caused Sophie to fall from the bed to the ground as she cried out in pain.

"Bruce, you can't do this to me…"

Sophie never expected Bruce to be so ruthless as to repeatedly lay hands on her.

Her hatred for him grew. Why was she blind enough to marry him in the first place? If Wilson was not willing to get a divorce, she would not have to continue to suffer in this household.

She had known she was pregnant before, but she did not abort the child in hopes that she could use it to threaten Wilson into getting a divorce. Then, she could get rid of Bruce and marry him.

Now, all of her plans had been ruined by that useless Bruce!

She looked at him with eyes filled with fire.

"Dad, Mom is sorry. Please forgive her!"

Lola was also scared by Bruce's fury. She had seen that look once before. It was when Sophie found out about Charlotte and that man.

At that moment, Bruce was like a raging beast. His eyes were red as he looked at Lola. Without hesitation, he slapped her.

He did not stop at the slap either. Instead, he grabbed her by the hair and viciously and repeatedly slapped her. Soon, blood began to trickle from a corner of her mouth as her face turned swollen and bruised.

"Bruce, you beast! Lola is pregnant. Do you want her to end up like me?" Sophie weakly shouted. She wanted to crawl over to protect Lola, but her body was too weak. Any simple movement resulted in her body breaking out into a fit of cold sweat as she would be on the verge of passing out.

"What's the use of keeping a bastard child?" Bruce angrily glared as he pushed Lola to the ground. "I don't have a shameless daughter like you. Pack your things and get out of this house right now."

"Dad, I was framed! It must have been Freya. She wants to hurt us." Lola was terrified. She was now a joke in the city. If she was driven out of the house, what would happen to her?

Bruce's face was dark, and his eyes were ablaze with anger. He gritted his teeth as he spat out, "How dare you mention that simpleton! If it wasn't for you two sabotaging her reputation, my humiliation would not be this bad."

After speaking, Bruce kicked the wall with a loud roar. It was as if he had gone crazy.

"Bruce, I did it for you. If my plan had succeeded, that simpleton would have cheated on Bradley. We would have pleased Arthur, and our family would have no worries about getting a contract signed with them. Only I didn't expect..."

Sophie dared not say any more. Every one of her schemes had failed, resulting in a big scandal. If she irritated Bruce any further, he might really kill them both tonight.

"For me? Look at the state of this family now. Sophie, I'm telling you right now to take your daughter and get out. Run as far as you can go!"

"Bruce, I have suffered a lot for you over the years. You can't treat me like this!" Sophie was trembling all over as she cried miserably while clutching Bruce's thigh.

She had not forced Wilson into a divorce yet, so she could not leave the Lawson family. Even if she had to leave, it would be when she dumped Bruce.

Bruce's anger had not subsided, and he kicked her away. The kick landed directly on Sophie's eye, causing a bruise to form around it.

"You bitch! You better pray that I can get the contract back. Otherwise, I will make you and your daughter die miserably." With that said, he picked up a lamp from the bedside and angrily smashed it against the wall, sending shattered glass flying through the air and cutting Sophie and Lola's faces.

Bruce then angrily stormed out, slamming the door behind him.

"Mom, how did this happen?" Lola cried until her eyes were swollen. Her cheeks were burning in pain. Even her lower abdomen felt painful.

The way Bruce looked just now had scared her. She had never imagined that her father would be so brutal when punishing her.

Sophie could not figure out where the problem lay. Everything was going according to her plan, but it kept going wrong. In the end, they both became laughingstocks.

"Freya is scheming behind our backs. She colluded with that masked man to target us." Lola was seething with hatred as she ground her teeth. Freya had been pretending to be innocent all along, repeatedly bullying her family and digging a huge trap for them to fall into.

"You're right. That little bitch is not simple. I underestimated her!"

Sophie clenched her fists as her gaze were filled with venom. "She pretended to be simple-minded for seven years just to avenge her dead mother. Lola, we need to strike first!"

"Mom, what do you want to do next?"

"A few days ago, didn't you catch her fooling around with a man at the mall? When the time comes, we'll use those photos against her. That way, she will end up in the same situation as her shameless mother."

"I don't want to wait. I want to destroy her now! She has embarrassed me and caused me to get dumped by Ethan. I hate her so much!" Lola's hatred towards Freya was like a raging river. She wanted to kill Freya now.

She…

"Fool. If you go after her now, you'll cause a backlash against us." Sophie was truly driven to tears by her daughter's foolishness.

"How long do we have to wait then?"

"Don't be impatient. Once tonight's storm passes, I will find another opportunity to make sure this little brat will die a horrible death."

"What about the child in my womb?" Freya was so anxious that she felt like bursting into tears. Her dream of being a rich married woman was shattered. Ethan despised her now.

"What can we do? Get rid of it!"

Sophie was so angry that her whole body was trembling. Coupled with the weakness from the miscarriage and the beating from Bruce, her entire body ached.

No, she had had enough of this kind of life. She had to force Wilson to get a divorce as soon as possible, so that she could dump Bruce as early as possible.