Chapter 882
If Joseph had not caught on to what Arianna said earlier, he now heard her last words clearly and became utterly shocked.
Eloise moved her lips and tried to say something but could not. She knew it was useless to explain.
"Just now, Ari said, "your son"? Which son was she talking about?" Joseph fixed his stare on her.
"If I tell you I had given birth to him before I met you, would you still be so angry?" Now that Arianna had exposed her secret, Eloise knew
she had nothing to hide and sat down calmly.
"Before we met? Well, Eloise Neville, you’re something else, aren't you? After so many years, you've kept your secret so well. What else are
you hiding from me? How many other sons and lovers do you have? No wonder people say not to marry women from your circle. Oh, Eloise,
you truly have amazed me. You truly did!"
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtAs he spoke, he took two unsteady steps back, looking like he had aged more than ten years in a few
seconds.
Having been his wife for years, Eloise could not bear to see him like this.
However, she kept sitting there. "You don't have to act like this. As I told you, it was before we met.
Since we got married, I’ve never cheated and have been completely loyal to you. But you? You have
Elizabeth as your mistress for years and even have a son with her. Who are you to judge me?"
'You gave birth to a son with another guy behind my back, and you blame me? How much money have
you stolen for me to raise him, you sl*t?” Joseph lost his temper and used the meanest words he could
think of to insult Eloise.
Already numbed, Eloise laughed. "Oh, yeah, I'm a sl*t? Then what are you? You’re nothing but a
coward. Every time you face a problem, you simply wait for me to solve it. It’s karma that the Tanner
family ended up in this situation."
Joseph lunged forward and gave her a loud and heavy slap.
It was so hard that Eloise fell onto the sofa, her cheek becoming swollen in seconds. She did not fight
back and simply lay there and laughed. "Go on, hit me! You can do whatever you like anyway, while I
can’t even acknowledge my own son and could only meet him secretly. Yes, you're always right.
Anything you do is right!"
"How dare you talk back to me?" Joseph grew even madder because he had often felt sorry for
mistreating her over the years and even scolded Elizabeth for her sake. He bent over, grasped her hair,
and slapped her repeatedly. "Sl*t! You're a goddamned sl*t!"
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmSeeing stars and bleeding from her mouth, Eloise heard nothing but a hum caused by the blows. At this
juncture, a group of men came in through the front door, spearheaded by Nathaniel.
Nathaniel noticed what was happening as he looked around, took three steps forward, seized Joseph's hand, and threw him aside.
Joseph was surprised that he had less strength than the younger man, lurched, and fell to the floor. "Why you..." He widened his eyes and
looked at Nathaniel, finding him familiar yet strange. "I remember now. I saw you with Ari, and then she brought you into the company.
You're..."
He saw Nathaniel help Eloise sit on the sofa and check the wounds on her face before getting someone to apply a cold towel to her cheek.
'You're her bast*rd son!" Suddenly, everything seemed clear to Joseph.
Nathaniel shot him a frigid glance and let go of Eloise. Then he got to his feet and gave Joseph a hard kick. As if that was not enough, he
kept kicking the man repeatedly until he rolled over.
"Who are you to call anyone a bast*rd? Your own son is one! You're one too, the biggest and worst one of all!” Nathaniel kicked and shouted
as if venting the resentment and frustration he had suppressed over the years.