CHAPTER 77: CHAPTER 77: IVY SUMMERS KNEELS TO APOLOGIZE TO RACHEL SHAW

Damien Lancaster’s hand at his side clenched; Ivy Summers rarely had such a hysterical moment.

Looking at her, Damien felt a sudden ache in his heart, an uncomfortable feeling, as if a giant hand had pierced through his chest, grasping his heart, and repeatedly tormenting it.

This feeling was something he never had, even when Rachel Shaw fell from a high place.

When he saw Rachel injured, sniffling in front of him, his first instinct wasn’t heartache; it was ordinary human concern.

Rachel cried a lot, and sometimes he even found it annoying.

But at this moment, seeing Ivy’s tears fall made him truly heartache. Listening to Ivy’s words, he even felt a sliver of self-doubt about his own judgment.

However, after a second thought, between Ivy and Rachel, the hurt one was always Rachel.

To say Ivy has been wronged, what reason does Rachel have to repeatedly harm and falsely accuse her?

Moreover, not to mention what happened in the morning, just look at the evening when the Shaw Family was hung up by her and Noah Scott.

The scene of her whipping Rachel was full of malice, and he saw it with his own eyes.

No one could have framed her in these events, right?

Damien pressed his lips tight, putting away his heartache for Ivy.

"Saying so much makes you seem innocent and pitiful, doesn’t it? You attacked Rachel right in front of me, can you imagine how vicious you are behind the scenes? Ivy Summers, stop making excuses, you’re not that innocent."

Ivy knew well that he wouldn’t believe her, yet she still stubbornly said so much.

She gritted her back molars, desperately holding back the tears in her eyes.

"Apologize, there’s no room for discussion on this matter." Damien didn’t give Ivy a chance to resist, dragging her outside.

Ivy’s dislocated arm was yanked by him forcefully.

It was so painful.

...

At the hospital at this moment.

Rachel’s leg was fractured, and she was lying weakly on the hospital bed.

Damien dragged Ivy over, and hearing the commotion, Rachel slightly turned her head, her pale face facing them, and softly called out, "Damien..."

Seeing Ivy, Penelope Page, overwhelmed with emotion and anger, slapped Ivy as soon as she approached.

Ivy, held by Damien, couldn’t dodge even if she wanted to.

Ivy turned her head, a numb, stabbing pain spread across her right cheek.

"Ivy Summers, you harmed our Rachel, and you still dare to come here? What did Rachel ever do to offend you, that you would treat her so viciously?"

Saying that, Penelope raised her hand to strike again, but Damien pulled Ivy behind him, grabbing Penelope’s arm, "Who allowed you to hit her?"

Ivy swiftly returned the slap to Penelope.

Penelope’s face was knocked sideways, utterly shocked.

Damien had intended to protect Ivy but hadn’t expected her to retaliate; he turned back and coldly stared at Ivy.

Ivy’s eyes showed no emotion, "She has no right to hit me. If she hits me, I hit back."

"Damien, did you bring Ivy over just to hit my mom?" Rachel anxiously tried to sit up.

Ivy looked up at Rachel, "Selective blindness? Couldn’t see your mom strike first?"

Rachel pursed her lips hard, "She’s an elder."

"Whose elder?" Ivy raised an eyebrow, "Mine? In my eyes, she’s no different than a dog barking wildly in front of me, and so are you."

Rachel didn’t know how to argue with Ivy, and her eyes turned red.

"Call the police, call the police, call the police, Old Man Shaw, call the police for me." Penelope covered her face, shouting, "Breaking into our home tonight, humiliating us like this, we’ve let it go for the sake of the old man and Damien, and now you’ve harmed Rachel and hit me, I must send you to prison."

Ivy disregarded the pain in her arm, resolutely breaking free from Damien’s grip, "Fine, call the police, let them investigate, I have evidence, let’s see what the police say."

Mentioning evidence immediately reminded Rachel of that video.

The video of her holding a knife against Sophie, it must not let Damien see it.

Otherwise, her perfect image in Damien’s eyes would be destroyed.

"Mom, Dad." Rachel quickly stopped Phillip Shaw and Penelope, "There’s no need to call the police, if Ivy apologizes to me, I’m still willing to give her a chance to start over."

"Rachel, after she’s bullied you like this, you’re still speaking for her?"

Rachel magnanimously expressed, "Everyone makes mistakes sometimes; you have to give her a chance to start over. Ivy, as long as you apologize to me, I won’t hold this against you."

Apologize? Ivy hadn’t done it, so why should she apologize?

"Apologize." Damien’s tone carried a command.

The four of them stood united, watching Ivy, waiting for her to compromise.

But Ivy was not the kind of person who would compromise.

"Call the police, let them investigate. Apologize, impossible."

Still, the same thing, she hadn’t done it, so it was impossible to apologize.

Rachel looked at Ivy, "Ivy, I just want an apology from you, I don’t want to make a big deal out of it, do you have to make a big deal out of it?"

The more she spoke like this, the more it seemed like Ivy was unrepentant and unreasonable.

Damien’s heart naturally leaned toward Rachel, "Ivy Summers, you made a mistake, others are not holding you accountable. Is it so hard to apologize?"

"I said I did nothing wrong, I didn’t push her, I could never apologize."

Damien’s anger in his eyes flared up with her defiant attitude. In Damien’s view, Ivy would never know her mistakes unless she was given a lesson.

Damien stepped forward, seized Ivy’s arm, his grip strong, her already injured arm was squeezed painfully.

"I’ll ask you one more time, will you apologize?"

Ivy remained silent.

Her eyes told Damien, making her apologize was impossible.

If so, he would help her, he had to cure her stubborn refusal to admit her mistake today.

Damien gave Ivy’s knee a hard kick.

Ivy, unprepared, was knocked directly to her knees by the powerful force.