Chapter 129

What Leon had said took Phoebe by surprise. She didn’t want to kill Leon at all; she just wanted him to experience what she had suffered. She would make him the victim of cyberbullying if he brought her cyberbullying. The evil energy was her trick to teach him a good lesson. As Nathaniel had said, it would not harm Leon’s body at all. The evil energy had long disappeared, so what was tormenting the four people was their subconsciousness. As Nathaniel had explained, the pain was their delusion, and it needed dispelling with Damon’s artifacts. Besides, the pain could help the four people stay clearheaded. Leon, blinded by Sienna, needed that very much. Look, didn’t he now notice many things he had overlooked in the past? Well, nobody could turn the clock back.

Phoebe wouldn’t make peace with Leon even if he became nice to her. She wouldn’t take the initiative to cause trouble for him as long as he stayed out of her way. As for Elliot, he was a qualified business leader, but not a good father. He had paid little attention to Phoebe and his sons. The exception was Ollie, the future successor of the Jenkins Group. Apart from Ollie, Elliot let his children do whatever they wanted. His bottom line was that they couldn’t be addicted to pornography, gambling, or drug abuse. That was the tradition of the Jenkins family. Only the successor of the Jenkins Group was strictly trained. People might think that the Jenkins family were quite open-minded. Phoebe guessed that it was a strategy to sustain the family business. There would be internal fights when all the offspring of the Jenkins family were excellent. There wouldn’t be such a crisis when only the successor was outstanding. His siblings got the attention or resources they deserved. The incompetent could lead the life they wanted with the dividends. That was why Ollie worked in the Jenkins Group right after his graduation. When his siblings, including Sienna and Phoebe, explored showbiz, Elliot was supportive.

Elliot was devoted to his business, and Sienna was good at pretending. Elliot didn’t find out until now that his sons had been misled by his adopted daughter. It was too late for him to realize that he cared about Phoebe but had paid little attention to her. In the Jenkins family, Elliot was comparatively reasonable. He didn’t side with Sienna as the others did. He was on an overseas business trip when Phoebe and Sienna had been kidnapped. As a result, Phoebe didn’t know what his choice would be. However, his choice didn’t matter to her anymore. His previous inaction greatly disappointed Phoebe, so she didn’t have faith in him. It was too late when he realized the problem and wanted to make things up to Phoebe. Never would Phoebe set foot on the Jenkins’ place again. It was impossible for her to make peace with her family. She was on her own now, and so would she be in the future. She didn’t mind if people considered her heartless.

Brenda turned her head and asked, “Theebs, are you going to break the spell for Leon and Frank?” Phoebe nodded. “Yes, I just wanted to teach them a lesson.” “Let’s see what the two men and Sienna are up to.” She had confidence in the shrewd Elliot to see through their trick. Phoebe raised her hand and made the sign in the air. Then, she pointed at Leon and Frank on the monitor. “Break.” Hearing Damon, Frank handed the emerald pendant back to Damon without hesitation. “Thank you, Mr. Newton,” It wasn’t a problem for him to endure the pain for ten days. In the future, he would dodge the ruthless Phoebe if possible. Damon did not expect Frank to be so decisive and tough. He took the emerald pendant back with a smile, but he was unhappy deep down. Sienna did not want to return the bead to Damon. “The pain is too much for me. Mr. Newton, could you please leave the bead to me for a few days! I will return it to you the moment the pain leaves me.” She was clear that Damon took his artifacts back as a threat to both Leon and Frank. She had said so to help Nathaniel and Damon. She wanted Leon to give his blood to Nathaniel, too. Darson got the hint. With an apologetic smile, he shook his head. “A rule is a rule. I can’t lend or sell them. I let them to you because I would be back in a while. You didn’t take them out of this building, so I didn’t break the rule.”

Elliot could not help but frown at Sienna. He felt weird with Sienna, Nathaniel, and Damon. He had a feeling that they were pushing Leon to break the spell with all kinds of excuses. He looked at Sienna and said unhappily, “Sienna, don’t make things difficult for others.” In his opinion, Sienna was stingy and spineless. How embarrassing that she refused to return the bead to Damon! At the same time, Elliot wondered if Sienna had said that because of the pain. Sienna was unhappy with the meddlesome Elliot. Even so, she nodded obediently. “Okay.” Then, she returned the bead to Damon.

Damon took the bead. All of a sudden, Sienna squatted down and hugged herself while her body was trembling. Cain instantly said, “Dad, you are making things difficult for others now.” “You forbid them to break the spell. Without the bead and the emerald pendant, Leon and Sienna will suffer.” Elliot looked at Cain with anger in his eyes. “Keep your mouth shut, and nobody will see you as the mute.” Cain talked back. “I won’t.” Right then, both Leon and Frank found that the pain suddenly left them. Shocked, they exchanged one glance with each other. “Do you feel the pain?” Both of them shook their heads. “Not anymore.” Frank said meaningfully, “If so, we don’t need the emerald pendant anymore.” He couldn’t help but think that Phoebe had broken the spell for him and Leon. Leon nodded and then said to Elliot, “Dad, we don’t feel the pain anymore. Phoebe must have done something?” The reason was that neither Nathaniel nor Damon tried to help.

Sienna raised her head with a jerk. “Leon, how can you lie to please Dad?” She was still in great pain. Leon raised his eyebrows. “I don’t have to do that. It is true that my body doesn’t ache.” To convince Sienna, he deliberately jumped a few times. Frank said, “I don’t feel the pain either anymore.” Edith had been silent all the time. Now, she covered her face and said, “But I’m still in pain.” Leon shrugged. “I don’t know why.” Frank added, “Perhaps the blood can’t break the spell.” He thought to himself that it must be a trick of Phoebe’s. At the same time, he wondered why Phoebe seemed to know what was happening in this room. She had broken the spell for only Leon and him while Sienna and Edith were still in torment. Leon shared the same mind as Frank. At the same time, he was scared. He thought, “Does Phoebe see what is happening in this room! How creepy! I won’t mess with her anymore.”