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Shaun was annoyed by her gaze. “I’ve had enough of you since a long time ago. If it weren’t for the children, we would’ve divorced long ago.”
Cate held her breath.
At that moment, she could feel her heart growing colder and colder.
Was that it? Had he just been tolerating her all this time?
Could he not stand her any longer?
However, Shaun did not care. He continued saying cruelly, “After you give birth to the children, we’ll get a divorce. Don’t worry, I’ll give you a sum of money. It’ll be enough for you to spend for the rest of your life. From today onward, stop finding trouble with Sarah. If not, you’ll bear the consequences.”
As he said those words, his eyes were filled with an icy, penetrating chill.
The blood in Cate’s body went cold.
“Shaun, you bstard! You’re really a bstard!”
She could not take it anymore. She cried as she grabbed a cup on the table and threw it at him.
Shaun avoided it by cocking his head. Seeing that she was crazy to the point of almost losing her mind, intense fury flashed across his eyes. He pressed on the intercom. “Call the guards in and chase this person out.”
“Eldest Young Master Lyons…” Aunty Yasmine said while panicking, “Eldest Young Master Lyons, you can’t do this.”
“Aunty Yasmine, you need to remember who was the one who hired you,” Shaun warned coldly.
“Don’t say anymore, Shaun. If you want to get a divorce, you can get it anytime you want. But I’ll never give my children to anybody. Not only that, I’ll never ever let Sarah be their stepmother.” After Cate shouted at him as if she had lost her mind, she turned and left while feeling frazzled.
Shaun got a headache from all the noise.
Not long after he sat down, Hadley knocked on the door and entered. “Eldest Young Master Lyons, I got the results after investigating the ashes…”
“What ashes?” Shaun raised his head and asked.
Hadley was stunned. Was Sarah not treating Shaun’s illness? Why was his memory not getting better but deteriorating instead? However, when he thought about the investigation results, he felt a chill in his heart. He said hurriedly, “Some time ago, you asked me to check Jennifer’s ashes. I found someone to identify it. The ashes in the urn were indeed not human ashes.”
“What are you trying to say?” Shaun became more confused as he listened, so he cut him off annoyedly.
“Ms. Neeson said she would bury Boris next to Jennifer’s ashes, but the ashes in Jennifer’s urn don’t belong to a human’s…”
“Are you suspecting that Sarah did not even spare Jennifer’s ashes to get revenge on her?”
“… That’s what I meant,” Hadley stammered to reply. After all, Shaun suddenly treasured Sarah a lot lately.
Shaun looked up. The coldness in his eyes was overflowing. “Enough. Sarah’s not like that.”
“But…”
“Hadley, I see that you’ve been keeping in touch with Cate too much lately. You’re intent on helping her. Let me tell you, no one understands Sarah more than me. She’s the woman I love. I won’t allow anyone to question her,” Shaun said icily, “This matter ends here.”
Hadley was astonished. “Eldest Young Master Lyons, I never—”
“Get out.” Shaun opened his laptop and gave the order to leave.
Hadley felt wronged and found it strange.
The evidence was right in front of him, but Eldest Young Master Lyons looked like he could not differentiate between right and wrong at all.
Eldest Young Master Lyons was being too weird.
It was as if he had turned into someone else.
Yes, Hadley admitted that Eldest Young Master Lyons had loved Sarah in the past, but he could see that Eldest Young Master Lyons clearly had Cate in his heart too.
Hadley felt that something was not right the more he thought about it.
He went to the manor after he got off work that day.
Ever since Cate came back from Lyons Corporation in the morning, she kept sitting at the balcony and looking outside without saying a word.
When Hadley came over, she glanced at him sadly. “What did Shaun want you to say to me? Or is he no longer able to stand it so he got you to bring the divorce papers over?”
“Young Madam, you’ve misunderstood. Eldest Young Master Lyons doesn’t know that I came to find you.”
Hadley said reluctantly, “I know that Eldest Young Master Lyons has been taking things too far these days. I think that this isn’t his intent. He’s become a bit weird…”
“You’re suspecting that Sarah did something to him during the treatment?” Cate asked in a low voice.
Hadley opened his mouth. A while later, he said with a confused expression, “I can’t really describe it, but it feels like Eldest Young Master Lyons has been brainwashed. Actually, Eldest Young Master Lyons had previously asked me to investigate Jennifer’s ashes. Logically speaking, he should have been slightly suspicious of Ms. Neeson. But when the results came out, he did not care about it at all. This isn’t Eldest Young Master Lyons’s way of doing things. Even when he loved Ms. Neeson in the past, he had never blurred the line between right and wrong.
Besides… Before this, Eldest Young Master Lyons would avoid Ms. Neeson as much as possible except during treatment sessions. Lately, he had not even been going to the parties held by Young Master Rodney and the others. Now, however, he suddenly became close with Ms. Neeson. This is very weird.”
Cate’s face was pale with a gloomy expression. “I sensed it as well. Aunty Yasmine told me that it’s as if Shaun has turned into a different person after his treatment session with Sarah. That’s why I mustered my courage and went to look for him at the company.”
Hadley’s heart skipped a beat. It looked like he had guessed correctly. “Young Madam, Eldest Young Master Lyons must’ve been hypnotized. You can’t take his hurtful words seriously. He really has you in his heart. I’m his personal assistant, I can feel it.”
“Tell me, what can I possibly do? He despises me now.” Cate smiled sadly. “I charged to his office but got humiliated in return. He hates me now.”
Hadley said worriedly, “Young Madam, although I’m not clear as to why Eldest Young Master Lyons would suddenly become like this, you’re his wife and he’s the children’s father. Surely you don’t wish for him to continue being like this?”
Cate shook her head. She was at a loss. “Of course I don’t want that, but you should understand that Shaun is the one who’s in control of the Lyons family now. Even if the Lyons family members believe me, there’s nothing we can change if Shaun himself doesn’t believe me. He has all the power and influence. Old Master Lyons and Old Madam Lyons are old, while Rodney and Chester trust Sarah a lot. They won’t help me at all.”
Hadley’s heart sank. He had to admit that what Cate said was the truth. “Young Madam, honestly speaking, I never thought that Ms. Neeson would become so scary as well. If we let such a person stay by Eldest Young Master Lyons’s side, think about how she will treat the two children you’re pregnant with now in the future.”
Cate gritted her teeth.
That was what she was worried about too.
She lowered her head and touched her stomach. Her gaze held a deep trace of bitterness.
‘Babies, what can I do to protect you?’
“Hadley, can you find a good psychologist? Don’t let Chester find out. I want to learn about Shaun’s overall condition.”
“Okay.”
Hadley let out a breath of relief. Luckily, Young Madam had not given up.
As the assistant of Australia’s wealthiest man, Hadley had some good connections too. He quickly found a doctor called Dr. Cooper in Australia. Although Dr. Cooper had retired for many years, he had extensive experience in psychological research.
That evening, Hadley accompanied Cate to meet Dr. Cooper.
After Dr. Cooper heard about Shaun’s changes, he adjusted his reading glasses. He said, “When I had an exchange with the top psychologists from Country Y, I heard them mentioning an ancient hypnotic skill in Country Y that could tamper with a person’s feelings and memories. Your friend’s symptoms are quite similar to that.”
Cate was shocked. She asked frantically, “Can it be cured?”
Dr. Cooper laughed bitterly. “I’ve already said that this hypnotic skill is very ancient. My psychologist friends in Country Y just said that based on hearsay. No one even knows how to do it. This evil skill has been banned in the psychological profession. Apparently, no one will even dare to attempt it under normal circumstances because controlling the human brain and emotions is an unpredictable matter. In the past, those who have attempted this hypnosis would change a perfectly normal person into a retard eight out of ten times. Therefore, this skill was slowly forgotten.”
Cate and Hadley were horrified.
They did not expect Sarah to be so cruel that she would use a hypnotic skill that has been banned on Shaun. He was the person she loved, for goodness sake.
It was lucky that Shaun was part of the percentile that did not become a retard.
“Is there no chance at all?” Cate asked, refusing to give up.
“That’s right, Mr. Cooper. Please think about it,” Hadley said hastily, “Although you’re retired, I know that you have the most knowledge about this out of all the psychologists in Australia.”
Dr. Cooper sighed. “I definitely can’t cure him, and there are only very few doctors who can cure this. Even if you find a doctor who can do it, I’ll advise you not to because the treatment process is even more dangerous. The chances of recovery are only one percent, so I’ve never heard of successful cases. I reckon that those who received the treatment are still retards.”
“…”
Cate’s mind was blank, and it was as if her heart had stopped beating too.
The living room was in silence for a full minute.
Then, she heard her own hoarse voice. “So the best way is to let him continue being like this?”