<h4>Chapter 145: Striking Her Hard</h4>


    Robert’s face was clouded with anger, a storm brewing in his eyes.


    Brianna took a deep breath, staring at him with a mix of bitterness and hatred. This was the man she had loved for over a decade, and now he was treating her like this.


    "Dad... Mom has given you a son and a daughter. Please, don’t act impulsively!" Seeing Robert step closer, Hannah quickly rushed forward to try and stop him.


    But Robert roughly shoved her aside. "Stay out of this! This is between me and your mother!"


    Hannah was thrown to the ground by the force, and Brianna red at Robert in fury. "Robert! Do you even know what you’re doing? She’s your daughter, not some criminal!"


    "You wretch! You are the real curse on the Davis family!"


    Seeing that Brianna dared to talk back, Robert stormed forward and pped her hard across the face, not once, but several times.


    Brianna was knocked onto the couch, her mouth bleeding, her cheeks swollen and red. She screamed in rage, "Robert! How dare you hit me? You’re the one who cheated! You’re the one who got your mistress pregnant! You’re the one at fault!"


    But Robert, seeing her defiance, pped her again and again.


    His eyes were filled with murderous intent, his rage so intense that it left Hannah frozen in shock.


    When had Robert ever lost control like this? When had her father ever been this cruel, resorting to such brutal violence against her mother?


    Brianna’s face, once delicate and beautiful, was now swollen beyond recognition, resembling a grotesque caricature of a pig. She wailed in anger and pain, "You bastard! You’re the one who cheated, and now you’re taking it out on me..."


    "Brianna, you’re the most venomous woman on earth! Emily’s pregnancy was fine until you caused her to lose the baby!" Robert roared, his chest heaving with fury. He grabbed a teacup from the table and hurled it at Brianna.


    With a sickening thud, the cup struck Brianna’s forehead, and blood immediately began to pour from the wound.


    Hannah finally snapped out of her daze and threw herself at Robert’s feet, clinging to his legs. "Dad... please calm down, please! Don’t hit her anymore, you’re going to kill her!"


    "Get off me!"


    Robert kicked Hannah away, sending her rolling across the floor in pain.


    The Davis household was in utter chaos. Brianna had been beaten so badly that she was barely recognizable, and Hannah had taken several kicks as well, each movement causing her intense pain.


    Before leaving, Robert coldly dered that he would send awyer to speak with Brianna, as he would never return to this house.


    Robert wasn’t typically an impulsive man, but this time, Brianna had truly broken his heart. She had caused Emily to lose her baby, and that was something he could never forgive.


    He couldn’t help but think that if one day Brianna stopped loving him, she might even poison him to death.


    Robert’s thoughts drifted back to sixteen years ago, when Brianna had poisoned Isabe.


    Even back then, Brianna had shown her true, vicious nature, but Robert had been so madly in love with her that he hadn’t cared.


    Caught up in his passion, he hadn’t thought much about the consequences, only that Brianna had freed him from a marriage that had lost its charm.


    He had married Isabe out of a genuine affection, but her cold nature had gradually worn down his interest.


    Then Brianna hade into his life, seductive and charming, knowing exactly how to keep him captivated. She had made him fall for her hard, and he had stayed with her for over a decade. But now, that love had turned into disgust.


    Moreover, their children had only added to his disappointment, making him realize that Brianna, with her poisonous heart, could never be the lifelongpanion he had once imagined.


    After Robert left, Brianna cried so hard that she eventually passed out. This time, the beating had been severe—her eyes were so swollen she could barely open them.


    "Mom, please stop crying. At this point... maybe it’s time to let it go. Dad has hit you several times now. If you provoke him again, what if he beats you even worse next time?" Hannah, feeling disheartened and shaken by the severity of Brianna’s injuries, spoke with a mixture of fear and resignation.


    Brianna sobbed, her heart aching as she finally tasted the bitterness of being abandoned.


    Back when she became Robert’s lover and moved into the Davis household under the guise of a servant, she constantly provoked Isabe. Isabe had always remained calm, and Brianna had assumed she was unaffected. Now, Brianna realized that Isabe had simply refused to show weakness, not wanting to give Brianna the satisfaction of seeing her pain.


    "I gave him a son and a daughter... how could he treat me like this? Why... why...?" Brianna wept bitterly, unable to reconcile the cruelty she was now experiencing.


    After a long night of turmoil, Brianna finally fell asleep around midnight. Hannah, exhausted, left her mother’s room and suddenly noticed that E hadn’te home.


    "Mrs. Wilson, has my sister not returned home?" she asked a nearby maid, her voiceced with confusion.


    Mrs. Wilson shook her head. "I don’t think so. I haven’t seen Miss Ee home."


    Hannah blinked, pondering for a moment before silently opening her bedroom door. She had noticed E’s increasingly strange behaviortely. Every few nights, E wouldn’te home at all.


    Was she really staying over at Chloe’s? Hannah didn’t believe it for a second. E had never spent the night at Chloe’s before!


    If she wasn’ting home, it must mean she was out fooling around with some man!


    The thought of capturing photos of E with another man excited Hannah. She quickly dialed a private investigator.


    "This is Hannah, Brianna’s daughter. I need your help to follow someone..."


    "Of course. You want photos, correct?"


    "Yes, I suspect she’s involved with a man, and I want photos of her with him. If you deliver, I’ll pay you fifty thousand in cash!"


    "Understood. Miss Davis, please send a ten-thousand-dor deposit, and I’ll start working on it right away."


    Hannah ended the call and swiftly transferred the money.


    Once the investigator received the payment, he immediately called to confirm that they were beginning the operation.


    Hannah’s previously gloomy mood lightened slightly.


    If she could get incriminating photos of E, she could finally get her revenge.


    E was currently dating Eric, and although Eric hadn’t made it public yet, their rtionship would inevitablye to light if they stayed together long enough.


    Suddenly, Hannah remembered the contact information of a journalist. With a sly smile, she decided to tip him off.


    The journalist, Anthony, was skeptical and couldn’t believe that Eric would be interested in an eighteen-year-old high school girl.


    "You might not believe it, but your skepticism could cause you to miss out on a big story. I suspect E is already living with Mr. Nelson and that their rtionship has gone beyond the tonic."


    Hannah said this with smug confidence.


    "But... there are plenty of people in rtionships who live together nowadays. That’s not really newsworthy, is it?" Anthony hesitated, speaking softly.


    "If you manage to capture them in apromising situation—like in a car or something explicit—don’t you think that would be a big scoop?"


    Her words sparked the journalist’s excitement, and he became determined to get those scandalous photos of E and Eric.


    Over the next two days, however, Eric went on a business trip, and Anthony didn’t get any juicy material. Even the private investigator came up empty-handed.