"Don't makeup excuses to cover your mistakes. You are my father, but you purposely hurt me. What are your problems? Don't expect me to forgive you no matter what you say!"
Kate felt as if she was going to explode at any moment. She could not comprehend that everything that happened was just a conspiracy to take her down.
When Anna came back from the dead, Kate thought it was a little strange. However, Anna had caused so much trouble from the moment she came back into their lives, that Kate hadn't had time to really investigate the whole situation.
"Do you know that no matter how vicious that mother and daughter are, I can accept that? They have always regarded me as their enemy but you are my father. Why would you hurt me like that? I had a beautiful childhood before Dora came into my life. After that, though I could never get your attention or love. I suffered so much because of them!" Kate sobbed, she tried her best to hold back her tears but they fell uncontrollably when she thought of her childhood.
Kate could not understand how her father cheated, forced his wife into a divorce and caused a car accident to frame his own daughter.
Seeing her so upset, Joseph handed Kate a tissue. She hesitated but then quickly took it to wipe away the tears. She didn't want her father to see the pain he caused and she quickly calmed down.
Leo continued to say, in a hoarse voice, "I know you won't forgive me for doing these things. I just hope that you won't be affected any longer. White Group belongs to you now, and the house. In reality, you haven't really lost anything."
He thought he might comfort Kate, but he had no idea how much she had been through.
Kate's heart hurt so much that she couldn't breathe. Besides Joseph, Leo was the closest man to her, she smiled coldly, "You have never known me, let alone know what I really want."
To Leo, his interests were the top priority. Since Kate had everything that belonged to the White family, he didn't need to feel guilty, he thought. He believed that he could conceal his sins, continue to be harsh to Kate and plead for her to forgive Dora and Anna, "I know you are devoted and empathetic. It is Dora and Anna who you should feel angry at…"
"Dora and Anna?" Kate sneered, "They forced you to bully me, and it is their fault. Yet, you still want me to be a little tortoise and hide in my shell so that I don't see your mistakes? I think the bravest thing you ever did was force my mother to divorce you. You were so determined to marry Dora, you weren't a weak man at all!"
Leo was upset, Dora called him a kept man, he didn't want to accept that his daughter thought the same, "Kate, I know I did something wrong, but I am still your father."
"Father? I also want to respect and love you, but how you chose to live your life makes me sick. There is no way that I will endure your repeated deception and harm! I won't forgive you!" Kate said bluntly.
Leo opened his mouth but didn't know what to say.
Seeing that Leo wasn't going to say anything more, Joseph spoke up, "Apart from what happened two years ago, Leo you also need to tell Kate about what happened to her grandma."
"Grandma?" Kate murmured and looked at Joseph, "What do you mean, is grandma's death related to him?"
Leo sneered, "Joseph, do you think that you are actually helping Kate? You are adding insult to injury, let the past be buried with the old woman, please."
"You could hide what you did to conceal the truth, but I won't. Besides, I am not giving you any chance to escape from what you have done," Joseph smirked.
With no other option, Leo smiled helplessly and looked at Kate, "Yes, your grandma's death was caused by me."
"You……" Kate's face turned pale and she fell to the floor.
"Kate!" Joseph rushed to her side.
Kate sat on the floor for a few moments, taking deep breaths and then got up to walk slowly toward Leo.
"Why did you hurt an old woman? She was your mother-in-law. Don't you remember how much she helped you? Why are you so cruel?" Kate cried. She felt as if her world had collapsed around her. She could no longer look at the man in front of her as her father, it was as if she had never known him; he schemed against his own daughter and killed his mother-in-law.
As many people as she had suspected in her grandma's death, Leo was never one of them. Her eyes were filled with rage and she kicked his wheelchair. Leo was unprepared and stumbled to the ground, his wheelchair overturned and landed on its side.
Joseph was taken aback but also very proud of Kate; he had never seen her so angry before but she was standing up for herself. What Leo had done was revolting so he would support her no matter what she did.
Leo, who fell to the ground and embarrassedly stood up.
Kate furiously looked at him, it was so ironic that she had been wishing his legs worked. She told her father, "I really admire you for being able to pretend for two years. You deceived us and it is not because we were stupid, it was because we trusted you so much that we didn't see your scam!"
"This... this was Dora's idea! She forced me and I had no choice, so…"
"You want to argue about this!" Kate interrupted, "Why did you kill my grandma? Why?"