"Don't bother arguing!" Kate immediately screeched.
"You were penniless and had nothing to your name back then. We were kind enough to let you marry into our family and provided you with food and a roof over your head. Yet you stole our money when we let our guards down and absconded!"
Damien frowned and frantically explained when he thought of something, "No! there was no such thing! Back then, I did borrow fifty thousand from Uncle. But I returned it on the same night..."
"Nonsense! You clearly stole it!" Kate interjected harshly before turning to look at Lena's father, Maxwell.
"Tell us. Did you lend him the money, or did he steal it?"
"Hmph, he married into our family, so why would I lend him fifty thousand? He obviously stole it and then fled!" Maxwell said, supporting his wife.
"There's such a thing? You're being too nice to him! If I were in your place, I would have long sued him and put him behind bars!"
"Exactly. I only found out about this today. This person is trash!"
"He stole fifty thousand, yet he still has the cheek to come back. Gosh, he's too shameless!"
"Quickly, get a divorce. If he dares not to divorce, we'll sue him!"
The Parker's relatives were flabbergasted.
Damien sneered in his head. This couple actually fabricated a lie to frame me and accuse me of absconding with their money. Seems like they're out to ruin my reputation before chasing me out.
"Hmph, if I really stole so much money from you, why didn't you say anything or file a police report after I left?"
Damien asked looking at Lena's parents straight in the eye.
Having stayed in the military camp for years, he had developed a menacing aura that was so domineering that the two of them dared not to make eye contact with him and instead shifted their gazes away.
"Well, we just don't want to air our dirty laundry in public. We helped save your reputation, but you're blaming us instead, you good-for-nothing?" Maxwell roared, but it was very clear that he wasn't that confident of what he said.
"I believe you all know the truth in your hearts." Damien didn't say anything else.
Hmph trying to threaten me with something fabricated? Impossible.
Lena looked at their reactions. Having been brainwashed and fed lies about Damien absconding with her father's money by her parents for years, she had already begun to suspect something.
Is it possible that... he really didn't flee after stealing the money back then?
"Infact...just hurry up and get lost!" Kate rushed forward to push Damien forcefully.
Damien just nonchalantly swayed from the impact, while the little girl in his arms was frightened to tears by her ferocious and menacing gaze.
She hugged Damien's neck and began to bawl loudly.
"No! I want Daddy! Don't chase Daddy away!"
Kate chided furiously, "How is this good-for-nothing your father? What are you crying for?! Keep crying, and I'll lock you in the attic!"
The frightened little girl shivered violently in fear and burped as she sobbed, not daring to cry again, her eyes full of terror.
Judging from her reaction... she must have been locked in the attic before!
As anger surged in his heart, Damien glared daggers at everyone with an icy cold gaze that seemed to make the entire living room freeze!
Just as he was about to lose his temper uncontrollably, a pair of hands carried the little girl away from his arms.
Lena kissed her daughter's frightened little face. She was so heartbroken that she was on the verge of tears.
"Mum, the last time you locked Bella in the attic, she was so frightened that she had a high fever for days! Why are you scaring her again now? She's still young, and you're her biological grandmother. Don't you care about her at all?"
"I-I was just frustrated and said that to scare her! I'm not really going to lock her up. Seriously, it's her fault for being biased toward her father at such a young age..." Kate muttered.
Her voice got extremely soft at the end, but Damien had sensitive hearing and immediately grasped the keyword.
His heart was thumping fast, and he felt a lump in his throat.
Trying to verify something, he asked Lena, pointing at their child.
"Is she.....is she our daughter?"
Lena bit her lips tightly.
She wanted to shake her head and deny it. She wanted to keep him out of their child's life, after all she had passed throughout all these years.
But when she saw the expectant gaze in the eyes of her daughter in her arms, she couldn't bring herself to say no.
Bella had been clamoring for her father, and Damien was indeed her biological father.
"Yes she is" she replies nodding her head with a complicated expression.
Now that his vague suspicion had been confirmed, Damien was inexplicably agitated!
He didn't expect the child who had pounced on him and called him 'Daddy' during their first meeting at the airport to be his flesh and blood!
The power of genetics is so amazing!
Damien looked at Lena and Bella with a tender gaze that contained a tinge of remorse.
He really owed them too much!
He curbed his urge to go up and pull them into his arms. He nodded solemnly and promised,
"Don't worry. Since I've come back, I won't let you two down ever again."
At the side, Kate rolled her eyes and exclaimed,
"Hmph, talk is cheap! You're a penniless man who has nothing. You shamelessly came back, and you still want us to feed you? Dream on!"
She then poked Lena's arm forcefully, looking like she was expecting better from her.
"I'm telling you, you better go and divorce this good-for-nothing later! Mr Thompson has already said that he'll get engaged to you on an auspicious date in the within the next few days. Do you hear me?"
Damien upon hearing this immediately turned to face her, with his eyes that were full of fury.
The temperature around him seemed to have plunged down several degrees!