However, it seemed Mr. Dawson did not want to let this matter go so easily. "Is it because of him that you decided to divorce Aidan?" The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes dangerously at Giana. "You have an affair with him?"
"An affair? With whom?" Giana asked in a slightly raised voice, seeing how her own father gave her an accusing look. "What affair do you mean?"
Giana didn't understand what her father was saying. It couldn't be that he knew about her affair with Ramon, right?
And it didn't even cross Giana's mind that her father was actually talking about Dillon. Therefore, Giana's frown deepened when Mr. Dawson slapped her very hard.
"Tell me!" Her father roared. His voice thundered around the room. Luckily the room was soundproof, so noises inside could not be heard by the people outside. "What is the real reason you filed for a divorce from Aidan?!"
A heavy slap on Giana's cheek made the woman nearly fall and crash into the table while sending all the documents on it flying to the floor. But, luckily Giana quickly regained her balance so she didn't end up as sorry figured as she could have imagined.
Although now her face felt hot and stinging from Mr. Dawson's slap, she still tried her best not to cry in front of her father.
"Drop the lawsuit immediately!" Exclaimed Mr. Dawson so angrily that almost left his whole face turn even more darker. "Stop your crazy actions!" He shouted.
On the other hand, Giana bit her lower lip and took a deep breath to muster up some courage to look at her father.
For some reason, at a time like this, Dillon's face flashed through her mind. The expression on his worried face for a moment before he left this room gave a little warmth to Giana's heart.
At least, that way Giana knew that there were still people who were really worried about her.
Because both Giana and Dillon knew that nothing would be alright as Mr. Dawson came here with such a facial expression.
Things like this could not be avoided.
Actually, Mr. Dawson was not someone who could be called as easy-going and often used violence to make his point cross. And, it could be said that this was the third time Giana had been slapped by her father in her life.
But, it was different for this one case. For once, Giana didn't want to back down and obey her father's orders blindly. She did not want to return to her false married life with Aidan again.
The thought of it alone was much scarier than facing her father now.
Therefore, with her head held high and in a firmer voice, Giana refused his order. "Never." This answer left Mr. Dawson utterly flabbergasted. "I will never drop the lawsuit."
"YOU!" Mr. Dawson's anger was unstoppable when he landed another slap across the cheek of his daughter. "You really dare to fight me now!"
Giana closed her eyes tightly when the second slap she received made her head dizzy, leaving her gaze all blurred.
And when she tried to bite her lip to endure the pain, Giana could feel fresh blood running down her tongue, which turned out to be from a cut on her lip.
Her father really didn't hold back when he hit her. He didn't even hesitate to use all his strength to hurt his only daughter.
"Drop the divorce suit!" Mr. Dawson shouted the same line as what he said earlier. Because that solely had been his original purpose for coming to this company. "Drop the lawsuit, or I'll do it myself!" The threat would really be carried out if Giana still chose to remain stubborn with her stance.
However, it seemed that this time, there was no threat that could shake Giana's determination to follow up this decision of hers.
"Even if father withdraws the lawsuit that I have filed, Aidan will surely file for one." Giana took a few steps back, anticipating that her father would hit her again. "Which one do you think is better? Aidan divorcing me or me divorcing him?"
Mr. Dawson squinted and looked at Giana with dangerously narrowed eyes, as if he was going to kill his own flesh and blood in the next second.
But, luckily, this was just Giana's imagination, because Mr. Dawson just stood there for a while before he finally decided to break this emotional silence.
"Tell me what is the reason you suddenly asked for a divorce from Aidan?" His voice no longer rose up to a few octaves high, but that didn't mean he wasn't any less scary. Precisely, Mr. Dawson seemed even more of a concern for his daughter when he was speaking quietly like this, making him look even scarier than usual.
Meanwhile, Giana did not immediately answer her father's question. She studied Mr. Dawson's face and her expression changed as she finally relented; "Because Aidan is having an affair." Gian growled softly. "He has been having an affair for a long time!"
Mr. Dawson frowned, as if trying to digest that answer, but a moment later, his response literally made Giana feel like she was losing her mind. "Maybe because you didn't give him an offspring."
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