Chapter 380 Penelope, She Was Totally Rotten!

Zackary's expression faltered. He hadn't personally witnessed how Ethan came into this world, but with a little thought, he knew how he was born.

At that time, Penelope betrayed him for Ralph. They lived together, carefree and happy. She had a child, and naturally, she couldn't possibly suffer the slightest grievance.

She hid so well that he couldn't find her even after searching for so long. She must have been in a private hospital, giving birth to Ethan.

With medical science being so advanced now, and Ralph being willing to spend money on her, she must have been overjoyed when she had a baby!

Immersed in his own thoughts, Kemp's voice, filled with evident pain, echoed in the air again, "She was born in the dungeon, Ethan. I delivered her myself. She had a difficult birth, it was a matter of life and death!"

Zackary's fingertips trembled uncontrollably. Kemp delivered Penelope's baby? And she had complications during childbirth?

His chest ached as if he were ill. He gently shook his head, dismissing the thought in an instant.

He reacted as if he had heard the most ridiculous joke, "Kemp, this joke you told is not funny at all!"

"You delivered her baby? I only knew that you, Mr. Kemp, were good at business, but I never heard that you also knew medical skills?! Ha! And a dungeon? This shameless woman, is she playing the victim again?!"

"It's laughable, you, Mr. Kemp, the wise one, were still fooled by a woman's pitiful act! Kemp, I don't believe a single word you say!"

"Zackary, you were simply unreasonable!"

Kemp was so angry that he really wanted to take a hammer and smash Zackary's head open to see what kind of mush was inside.

Thinking back to when he was like Zackary, indifferent and distrusting towards his Penny, his heart ached as if it was being cut by a knife.

Ethan had been seriously ill, and she had also fallen sick. She needed money for Ethan's surgery. At that time, Zackary didn't believe her and hurt her in every way. He even forgot about her. How helpless and sad she must have been!

She had gone to borrow money from him.

But at that time, what did he do?

He didn't lend her money, but for Pennie, he cruelly chopped off one of her little fingers!

He knew, his Penny, seemingly fragile, was actually full of unyielding spirit. Unless she was truly desperate, how could she, so proud, possibly stoop so low as to borrow money from others!

The more he thought about it, the more upset he became. Kemp gritted his teeth and spoke, "Zackary, whether you believe it or not, today, I have to say, she has never wronged you. It's you, Zackary, who has wronged her!"

"She endured all kinds of humiliation in the dungeon, covered in wounds, all to protect your child. But what about you? You, Mr. Zackary, only believed the one-sided words of that venomous woman, Lola. You hurt her, hated her, and drove her into a corner!"

"Suffered injustice? Covered in wounds?" Zackary laughed, "She seemed quite carefree to me!"

Kemp had thought that he had regained his memory, that he had told Zackary about the past, that he could see Lola's true face. Unexpectedly, he was so stubborn and self-righteous!

Wasn't he just like this before!

"Kemp, I didn't believe a single word you said!"

Zackary lazily lifted his eyelids, a playful mockery on his handsome face, which was hailed as a once-in-a-millennium divine beauty.

"Kemp, in consideration of our acquaintance, I have a few words for you today," I said.

"This woman, she was best at playing the victim, acting innocent, yet she was also the most ruthless. Don't wait until you've been deceived by her, in unbearable pain, to realize how poisonous she is!"

"Best at playing the victim, playing innocent, yet the most heartless?"

Kemp laughed, his ink-colored eyes gradually swallowed by boundless pain, as if a cold jade ice lake had, in an instant, turned into a crimson sea of blood.

He really found Zackary's words extremely funny. If Penelope liked to play the victim, to act innocent, she could have done so in front of him in the dungeon every day. Why would she need to, after being forced to stuff live fish into her mouth, after being forced to eat those rotten meals, still smile at him and say, "Kemp, you don't need to worry about me, I'm fine, really fine."

Why did she have to, after taking that knife for him, curve her eyebrows and eyes into crescents, saying, "Kemp, I'm not in pain, not in the slightest. Really, I have thick skin, I'm not afraid of pain at all."

If she was heartless, why would she, when Ralph and Lola were about to beat his nearly crippled legs, stand in front of him with her swollen belly, letting the thick stick mercilessly smash onto her delicate back?

Why should she, after he had been starved for three days, prefer to be tied to the toilet by Lola, humiliated like livestock, just to beg for a full meal for him?!

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"Zackary, she's not heartless!" Kemp's thoughts slowly returned, he met Zackary's gaze, and spoke word by word.

"She's not heartless! The truly heartless one is you! You said she betrayed you, hurt you, but what about you, Zackary? Ask yourself, what have you done to her?!"

"Did you ever trust her, did you ever give her a shred of reliance?! Zackary, you didn't, you only trusted Lola who pushed her into irretrievable doom! You were Lola's reliance, you were never hers!"

"She was foolish, only then could she have loved you so foolishly for so many years. When she endured humiliation and torment, she considered you her only motivation to keep living!"

"Zackary, you're not worthy! You don't deserve her!"

Zackary, you were not worthy of her...

Zackary's eyes narrowed dangerously, he absolutely detested that phrase, especially when he thought about how this heartless woman didn't want him, didn't love him, it made him tremble with anger.

He, Zackary, how could he not be worthy of a woman who was so dirty that she was rotten through?!

"Kemp, you got it wrong," Zackary said. "It's not that I'm not good enough for Penelope, it's that I don't think she's good enough! She's a lowly, dirty woman who isn't even fit to carry Lola's shoes, let alone be with me, Zackary!"

"Zackary!"

Kemp was so angry that he wanted to fight with Zackary again, but Penelope didn't want to hear their continued arguments. She spoke with some fatigue, "Kemp, stop talking. Mr. Spencer, you're not welcome here, please leave."

Look, in this woman's eyes, he was even less than Kemp!

She wanted Kemp to stay with her, but told Zackary to get lost! What did Zackary mean to her, after all?!

Was everyone shouting and attacking the rat that crossed the street?!

Why on earth did she look down on him!

The more he thought about it, the angrier Zackary became. He gritted his teeth and roared, "Penelope, break off your engagement with Everett! Break up with Kemp! Otherwise, I'll see you in court tomorrow, and you can forget about ever seeing that stupid cripple you gave birth to again!"

"Zackary, you've gone mad! She's so sick now, and you're still fighting her for Ethan's custody, have you lost all your humanity?"

"Kemp, you're the crazy one! She was just pretending to be sick, and yet you got so worked up. She's been playing you for a fool, are you stupid or what?"

"Heh!" Kemp chuckled softly, his laughter filled with desolation and helplessness, "If terminal stomach cancer can be considered as faking illness... I would rather she was deceiving me by pretending to be sick!"