I laughed. “You've threatened me with divorce so many times, Damien. Do you really think you can control me right now?”
Before I could finish speaking, there was a rustling sound of footsteps downstairs. A group of workers who had just escaped from the factory were passing by our building.
Everyone suddenly perked up and started shouting down through the windows. Jessica didn't pretend to be pitiful anymore. She then shouted louder than anyone else.
“Uncle, please help us! We’re trapped upstairs!”
Damien pointed to Jessica beside him and said, “My wife’s dad used to be a colleague of yours. Please help us turn on the power downstairs.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Damien lowered his head and glared at me threateningly. He was afraid that I would expose him.
Before the workers could speak, Jessica pleaded with a trembling voice, “My dad is Theodore Joubert. He was caught in a machine over a decade ago and I…”
“You’re all my uncles. Please help us.”
She screamed at the top of her lungs. Her pitiful and wronged appearance touched the heart. Those unaware of the situation might have mistakenly believed Theodore Joubert was her dad.
My friends looked at me one after another. Though I despised her for publicly claiming him as her dad, I didn’t expose her at that moment.
“Eugenia Joubert! Are you Eugenia?”
Uncle Walter, who had watched me grow up from childhood, immediately grew tense. Jessica pretended to wipe away tears while choking back sobs and nodded.
Damien was standing beside her. He replied calmly, “Of course! Do you think we’d lie? She’s my wife!”
“Uncle, after my dad died, my mom couldn’t bear it and committed suicide. I’ve been alone and helpless all these years. I’m still young. I really don’t want to die!”
The workers downstairs all wiped away tears secretly. Unfortunately, they didn’t realize Theodore's daughter had grown so much.
When my dad was alive, he almost took care of them more or less. He was their elder brother.
Though the towering building before them was at risk of collapsing at any moment, they simply couldn't stand by and do nothing.
Uncle Walter had already walked up to the circuit breaker. It happened that I had just climbed down from the upstairs.
I looked up at the two people who were in cahoots with each other and said, “You are Theodore's daughter, so who am I?”