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RDD 56

My feet were moving so fast, following my wife. I knew that face very well, Penelope is angry!

As the person who always faced the pink haired woman's anger, I knew how dangerous Penelope was when she was angry.

Unfortunately, even though I was running fast, I was unable to catch my wife.

"Waaahhh--! Mother, please! It hurts! I promise I will never go near her again!"

Billy screamed in pain as his mother continued to kick him. His body had received dozens of blows from his mother. Even his face was swollen and bleeding.

I became furious when I saw how horribly she was treating her son.

Penelope walked up to the mother and son.

"Bitch? What are you doing here? Huh? Did you come to tell me something? Go ahead, I'm listening!"

Señorita glared at Penelope with daggers. She grinned as if she had already won the battle.

Penelope stared at her with no change in her eyes.

"I'm not even lying! You're a whore who tried to hook up with a rich guy!"

-- Pah!

A crisp sound of a slap!

Penelope slapped Señorita.

"Y- You!" She was stunned and touched her cheek.

But Penelope raised her hand again and slapped her on the other cheek!

-- Pah!

Señorita almost turned around from the force of the blow. Her mouth was open and bleeding.

"You bitch!"

"Puta," Penelope muttered coldly. She said something unbelievable. As much as she could, she didn't want to use derogatory terms.

"W-what did you say?"

Señorita was as stunned as I was.

"Puta, that's what you mean, right? I'm sorry, but you are the puta here. Everyone in our family knows what you did when you went to our uncle's house--"

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"Shut up!"

Señorita's expression turned pale. She looked at Penelope as if she were looking at a stranger.

By the way, puta in Spanish means...

Damn it! I didn't know that Penelope could silence Señorita with just a few words.

"Oh, I heard you made a lot of money. Then why don't you keep on doing it?"

"Y-You! You! You are crazy!"

"That's right. I'm crazy. You know what? I'm actually a gold digger."

Huh? I was shocked when Penelope began to speak.

"I wanted to marry Keith because his family is rich. So what? I'm thinking about the future. Of course I will choose someone who can give me a better future."

"Penelope!"

"Shut up before I say another sentence. You don't want your husband to leave you, do you?"

She smiled, but her smile was frightening. Even her eyes were as red as blood.

"..."

Señorita looked at her with teary eyes and clenched her teeth. Both of her cheeks burned with pain.

In the end, she walked away, she walked away quite quickly. She didn't bother to look at her child, not at all.

"..."

Penelope looked at me. Then she started walking towards the farm.

"What's happening here?"

I turned to see Alberto and Corazon. They were shocked to see Billy crying and bleeding.

"Who did this?"

Corazon asked Billy with concern.

As for me, I just looked at my wife who was slowly walking away.

"Mother... Wuuuuu wuuu Mother hit me! Wuuuuu wuuuu! Grandma, I don't want to live with my mother! I don't want to!"

"What? Your mother hit you again?"

Alberto and Corazon had ugly faces when they heard Billy's statement.

Again... It seemed that this was not the first time Billy had been beaten by his mother.

Unlike other countries that have strong protections for children, the Philippines was quite lenient on child abuse crimes. After all, the parents were only "disciplining" the child.

But how far was far? How do you distinguish between discipline and real child abuse?

In my opinion, it was quite simple. It hurts me to see my children cry, so when I try to discipline them, I feel like I'm hurting myself as well. I don't see that with Señorita.

But most Filipinos were compassionate, only a few people could be like Señorita.

It was obvious that she didn't have any feelings for Billy.

I didn't know the reason. My thoughts were with my wife.

Suddenly someone tapped me on the shoulder.

I looked at Alberto.

"Talk to Penelope... I don't know what happened, but when I saw her walking away, I'm worried."

"Yes... Thank you, father-in-law."

"Hm, what happened last time was my fault. Now I know that you are not a bad person. At least I can see that Penelope is happy with you. Your family is wonderful, please don't ruin it."

I clenched my fists and nodded.

I rushed forward to reach my wife.

Fortunately, since I'd been working out these days, I had no problem running a few miles.

I began to catch up to Penelope.

"Penelope!"

I saw Penelope stop, but then she ran away.

The chickens were disturbed when she started running faster.

Unfortunately for Penelope, I'm faster and have great stamina. I ran faster and reached her a few seconds later.

The chickens began to squawk as we ran past them.

"Honey!"

When I reached my wife, I grabbed her shoulder and hugged her.

"Let go of me!"

Penelope pushed me away and tried to run. But I'm much stronger than her. I held her tight.

I knew in my heart that I would regret this moment if I didn't hold her.

She was crying, snot on her face. She looked terrible, as if she had lost something important in her heart. She trembled in my embrace.

"I love you."

"Didn't you hear what I said? I'm a gold digger!"

"I know, and I love you. No matter what kind of person you are, I will always love you."

"Let me go!"

She cried. I can see in her eyes that she was broken. I want to see her smile, not like this where her eyes are filled with tears. My heart was crushed to see her in despair as tears rolled down her cheeks.

"Please... Keith, let me go."

"I won't. I never will. I'm a selfish person."