Chapter 1555

Chapter 1555Even if Stanley was beaten to death, Jonathan felt that he deserved it.
Joyce shook her head. “Dad, we shouldn't do this. We live in a lawful society, and if anything happens
to him, we'll have to bear the legal consequences of it.”
Her explanation made Jonathan fall silent.
He was not a man of no reason, and he knew that he would have to pay the price if anything really
happened to Stanley.
Yet, the thought of what Stanley had done to the Rivers family and to Joyce made him desperately wish
to kill Stanley to end it all.
This chapter upload first at NovelEbook.OrgNevertheless, he was well aware that the Rivers family would be brought to ruins if Stanley really died.
He would have to go to jail for his crime. His wife would be devastated, and no one would be able to
take care of Joyce and the baby in her stomach.
For the sake of the Rivers family, he could not just let Stanley die.
Sighing, Jonathan rubbed his temples and said, “I know. Call the ambulance.”
“Okay.” Joyce nodded and went to get her phone.
When Caitlin saw her enter, she quickly asked, “Joyce, how is it?” Caitlin had stayed in the house because she did not want to see Stanley.
As Joyce made the call, she told her mother what had happened outside.
Caitlin was infuriated to hear that Stanley had been beaten within an inch of his life by Jonathan. “That
old man always doesn't know when to stop! What would happen to the two of us if he really killed
Stanley? Has he ever thought of that?”
Of course, despite her grumbles, Caitlin understood where Jonathan's impulse was from.
After all, what Stanley had done was enraging.
Joyce told the hospital their address, and soon, the hospital sent an ambulance over to whisk Stanley
away. Jonathan climbed aboard the ambulance as well, for Stanley could not go to the hospital without
someone by his side.
Despite his reluctance, he had no choice but to tag along.
In no time, Joyce and Caitlin were the only ones left in the house.
Caitlin turned to the few suitcases outside the house and let out a sigh. “It looks like we're not going
anywhere today.”
Joyce smiled. “It's okay. I didn't want to move anyway.”
“Who would like to keep moving?” Caitlin muttered. “We're just forced to do this.” Joyce gave her mother a hug. “Then let's not move anymore.”
“We can't do that. Stanley's adamant about aborting the baby in you to go up against us. He—”
“Mom, it's fine,” Joyce interrupted with a shake of his head. “You and Dad have been enduring the
difficulties in silence all this while because of me. I didn't know about this in the past. I thought it was
because we were no match for him. But now, I've found out that's not the case. It was because you
were afraid that I would feel bad for him, so you avoided the problem, Stanley, with me. But I don't love
him anymore, so you don't need to consider my feelings again. You don't need to submit to him
anymore. I don't care about him now. Really.”
Caitlin tensed up for a while after hearing her daughter's declaration. Finally, she said, “Joyce, you've
grown mature.”
Joyce hooked her arm around her mother's and said, “I'm sorry, Mom, to have made you both worried
about your insensible daughter for over twenty years. I won't do this again. We're a family, and we
should cast aside all our worries to go up against Stanley together. That way, we don't need to be
scared of him anymore, right?”
“That's right.” Caitlin nodded solemnly. “As long as you have no feelings for him, we, as your parents,
don't need to be careful around him anymore. We'll have a much easier time dealing with him now.”
Joyce beamed. “Okay. We'll go against him as one family. I refuse to believe that the three of us won't
be able to defeat one man.”
Honestly, Stanley's nothing scary. Regardless of everything, he's just one man. There's a limit to howpowerful one person can be. As long as we fight him as a family, he's no match for us.
With that thought in mind, Joyce found herself far less afraid of Stanley.