Sweet Mischief’s Rollercoaster Romance novel Chapter 458

Chad glanced at the angering sprite beside him, used to her antics by now.

The phone was connected, and Jack’s pleading voice came through. He was crying, begging Molly for mercy. “Molly, I’m sorry. I just really liked you. I shouldn’t have harassed you. Please let me go. I don’t have a home anymore. My father... my father has another family now. He doesn’t want me... Molly, I’m sorry.”

Jack kept talking about his misfortunes, trying to gain Molly’s sympathy, but he had underestimated Molly’s character.

Before Chad could even open his mouth, Molly couldn’t hold back anymore. “I’m not Mother Teresa. I don’t have the heart to pity your tragic fatherless situation. If you’re really lacking a mother’s love, call me mom and see how it sounds. I’ll treat you like my own.”

After she finished, she gave Chad a proud, show-off look.

There was silence on Jack’s end of the call for a moment. “Molly, I really have nowhere else to go. Please help me. The company can’t go bankrupt. If it does, I’ll have nothing left. Without anything, I might as well be dead.”

Unconsciously, Molly was hanging onto Chad’s arm, leaning on him. Chad was holding the phone, and she was in charge of the exchange. “If you want to die, do it somewhere else. Don’t bother the police. They’re busy.”

Molly wasn’t soft-hearted. She had no sympathy. In fact, she was a little devil.

Jack was hitting wall after wall. He had kneeled and begged his father, groveled in front of politicians, and lowered his pride to seek the help of spoiled brats. Now, a word from Molly could save him, and he had apologized nicely, but she wouldn’t accept it, even trying to push him to the edge.

“Molly, why can’t you see my feelings for you? If you push me to my death, can your conscience handle it?”

Molly rolled her eyes. Feelings? Sweet talk was just false sentiment.

“Jack, I never expected you to be this shameless. It’s not like I’m the one driving you to death, and now you’re trying to blame it on me. You’re planning to blame me. Well, go ahead. After all, my brother is the best. He can protect me.”

After speaking, she looked up at Chad for approval. “Chad, I’m right, aren’t I?”

Chad didn’t even get a word in before Molly fired back a string of words. There was no need for him to even take the call anymore. He directly handed the phone to her. “Here you go, your turn. I’m going to bed.”

Molly quickly hugged Chad, preventing him from leaving. “No, no, no, you are in this too.”

“I see you’re pretty happy talking.”

Molly shrugged. “Just a bit, not ‘pretty’ happy.”

Jack heard Chad’s voice on the other end. So he had been there all along. And at this late hour, Molly was actually still with him.

Chad immediately took off speakerphone and held the phone to his ear.

Molly tiptoed to listen in, but Chad pushed her away. He went back to his bedroom, turned around to lock the door, leaving Molly standing outside. He returned to his room, alone with the phone. His voice was low, reminding Jack, “Did you forget the warning I gave you last time?”

Jack stared at his still healing wrist. Now he even had difficulty eating.

Chad spoke lightly. His gaze looked far out the window. “It seems I need to help you remember what you swore that time.”

“I really have nowhere else to go.” Jack’s words were cut off by Chad’s cold reply, “That’s exactly what I want!” If he had a way out, where would the satisfaction come from?

Molly was curious. “Is it over? What were you guys talking about?”

As she tried to follow Chad, he slammed his bedroom door shut and locked it again, not to keep others out, but to keep Molly out.

Molly almost ran into it. “You scared me.” She patted her chest, looked at the phone, and saw that even the recent call log had been deleted.

Molly pouted. Her hand was still in the motion of patting her chest. She turned and went back to her room.

Soon, Chad changed into his day clothes and quietly left his room.

Molly was about to go to sleep when suddenly, the headlights of a car lit up downstairs and the sound of the engine starting made her jump out of bed. She ran to the window, opened it, and saw a white car driving out of the yard.

Molly leaned out the window, watching as Chad’s car disappeared from sight. She looked up at the moon hanging high in the sky, with only two stars visible. So late at night, where was her brother going?

A summer breeze blew, stirring Molly’s hair. She turned her head to look at the phone on the bed, thinking about the call Jack had made earlier. She seemed to understand why Chad had deleted the call log from her phone.

Molly stood by the bed. The window was still open. She could feel the cool summer breeze. It brought a refreshing sense of late summer. Eventually, she closed the window, climbed into bed, and picked up her cell phone, heading for the living room.

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At 2 A.M., the sound of Chad’s car echoed in the driveway. The determined Molly on the couch, who vowed to stay awake until her brother returned, couldn’t resist the allure of the sleep. She lay there for over an hour, and at some point, her eyelids closed without her realizing it.