Chapter 15

Somebody must have specifically instructed the butler to use excessive force on Sally. Anyone could have seen that.

The butler's hand froze in the air when Elijah said that.

A while later, he put his whip down. "I obey the Sire."

Lucille rolled his eyes. "We are enforcing discipline on this degenerate, lustful woman. It's not your place to say anything, you blind, uneducated orphan!"

Elijah had always kept his mouth shut in similar situations. Lucille was not happy at his sudden interjection.

"All of you are bullying my wife. Of course I have to say something," Elijah said softly.

Sally could hear from his tone of voice that, just like what he told her, he did not have any position or authority in the Moses family. They treated him as though he was a nobody.

"You've married a wh*re, yet you act as though she's someone precious."

Lucille grunted and turned to look at Grandpa Moses. "Father, we'll have to teach this Sally girl a lesson. Otherwise, she won't learn.

"However, since she's already married into the family, I don't think we should be too harsh on her. We'll stop as soon as she admits that she is wrong. Don't you agree?"

Lucille sounded like she was forgiving, though she knew that Sally's stubborn attitude would keep her from admitting fault.

Grandpa Moses lowered his frightful gaze and looked at Sally. "Do you admit that you are wrong?"

"I don't admit it."

Sally straightened her back. "I didn't do anything wrong. I'm not going to admit any fault."

Grandpa Moses waved his arm impatiently.

Thwack!

The butler landed another lash on Sally's back.

"Do you admit fault?"

"No!"

Thwack!

"Are you still going to be stubborn?"

"I didn't do anything wrong!"

Thwack!

The butler brought the whip down once again on Sally's back with all his might.

Sally could not straighten her back because of the pain. She gritted her teeth and braced for another lash. Surprisingly, she heard the crack of the whip but did not feel it on her body.

"Elijah!"

Grandpa Moses sounded utterly shocked.

Sally turned around and realized that Elijah had somehow gotten off his wheelchair. The lash landed on his back.

"Why did you beat him?" Sally yelled at the butler. Her fists were tightly clenched.

"Are you blind? Why did you hit him and not me? Don't you know that he has a weak body?"

The butler did not expect that Elijah would take the lash for Sally, much less that Sally would yell at him because of Elijah.

She did not make a sound when she was whipped earlier.

However, she reacted so violently after Elijah was whipped just once.

"I'm fine." Elijah lifted his head and looked weakly at Sally. "I'm just… a little dizzy."

"Send him to the hospital!"

Grandpa Moses was distraught that his grandson was hit.

Then, he glared at the butler. "Stand aside and prepare for your punishment!"

The butler could only curse his luck and retreat to one side.

A while later, other servants came to bring Elijah to the hospital.

"Don't touch him!"

Sally yelled at the servants. She propped Elijah and sat him in the wheelchair. "He is my husband. I'll take care of him!"

After that, she pushed Elijah's wheelchair and left the chapel.

Grandpa Moses remained standing in the middle of the chapel. He felt oddly at ease as he looked at the long, bloody gashes on Sally's back as she pushed Elijah's wheelchair away as he stood in the middle of the chapel.

"Just look at this mess."

Elijah might be the most unloved in the Moses family, but he was nonetheless Grandpa Moses's grandson. Lucille knew that better than anyone else.