Chapter 374

John Howlett heard the movement below, and his face sank. He suppressed his anger and turned to wicket behind him.

"Your father's drunk again, victor. You should take him home."

It turned out that the man who smashed the door below was Victor's father and former gardener of the manor, Thomas Logan.

But when Victor heard that it was his father who was shouting the manor mistress's name, his face became very angry. After hearing John hollett's words, he didn't do what he said, but said with some gnashing teeth.

"I'm not the one he called, sir!"

When he said this, Victor's eyes even revealed a kind of hatred and disgust. Obviously, his father was not good to him, or to be exact, it was very bad!

Thomas Logan is drunk and often gets drunk. When he gets drunk, he will beat victor. His mother was beaten to death by his father when he was very young. Therefore, Victor has no love but hate for his father.

From Thomas, Victor can't feel the love of any relatives, only endless beating and scolding. Compared with his family, he is more willing to accompany James hollett, the boy who grew up with him, like a younger brother, and his feelings are much better than that of Thomas, the so-called father.

Only in James can Victor feel the taste of affection and concern.

This is also the reason why he saw the complex and envious images of the warm relationship between hollett and his son before, but there was no jealousy.

Although it's just a playmate of James hollett, Victor Logan really regards him as his younger brother, and places the love he didn't feel in his father and family on the simple and innocent little James. He cares and protects him like a real brother. Only when he is with him can Victor feel the warmth of the world.

At this time, Thomas was drunk and came to harass Elizabeth. If he went to take Thomas home as John hollett said, it would be another beating to meet him. He didn't want to see Thomas, and he didn't want to go home with him, so Victor refused without hesitation.

When John hollett heard Victor's words and thought of Thomas's harassment of his wife, he got angry, got up from the bed, opened the door and strode towards the door.

"Dad!"

James hollett leaned out of bed and shouted in alarm.

"Stay there, James!"

John hollett turned around and stopped James, then turned around and walked out of the door.

"Dad!"

James shouted again, but John hollett had left the room.

There was a constant quarrel downstairs between the two of them. Victor felt that something was not so good. Worried about what was really wrong, he quickly walked out after John hollett.

When he was about to close the door, Victor looked at James, whose face was full of panic. His face was also a little flustered. He didn't expect that John hollett would go down alone in anger without even shouting at his servant.

My father and James's father fight each other. If they really fight, the result will not be very good. If Mr. hollett is hurt, James will be very sad. I knew it was so. I should have promised to come down just now and take Thomas home. He would not be beaten. Anyway, he was used to it, and he would recover in a few days.

But it's too late to think about it. I take a deep look at James. Victor closes the door and chases John hollett behind him. He quickly steps through the corridor and rushes downstairs.

James hollett sat on the bed and watched the door close. He was the only one left in the room. The quarrels were still coming downstairs. He was familiar with both voices. It was his mother Elizabeth and Victor's father Thomas.

"Stay away from me!"

"Come with me now! You never loved him! "

……

Listening to the angry quarrel downstairs, James leaned back to the bed in panic, his hands tightly holding the quilt on his body, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the door.

Soon he heard his father's voice scream.

"I told you not to come back here!"

However, just as John hollett had finished speaking, a dull shot rang out.

"Bang!"

James was shocked by the sound of the gun, and then he reacted. He didn't care about anything. He quickly lifted the quilt and ran down from the bed. He opened the door and ran barefoot downstairs.

The door of the room slowly closed behind him. On both sides of the door, there was a picture of an animal on the left and right walls. One was a tiger, the other was a wolf!

James hollett was running in the corridor, and his mother's shrill wail was coming from the end of the corridor, which made James more anxious and flustered.When he ran to the handrail of the stairs at the end of the corridor and looked down into the hall, he saw Elizabeth, his mother in white pajamas, whose belt seemed to be torn apart in the pull, and Elizabeth, his mother with open chest, was being pulled to the door by Thomas, Victor's father. In Thomas's hand, he was holding a shotgun!

John hollett, who had just come downstairs, was lying on the floor not far in front of them, with a bright red blood oozing from his chest.

Regardless of his mother Elizabeth, who was pulled by Thomas, James ran barefoot down the stairs, rushed to John hollett, who had fallen to the ground, knelt beside him, and bent over anxiously.

John hollett was not dead. When James appeared in front of him, he raised his head and looked up at him. At the same time, he held out his right hand and tightly grasped his clothes.

"James..."

John hollett's eyes revealed infinite love and worry, but soon, the look in his eyes quickly dissipated, and the hand holding James's clothes was powerless to loosen, and his head was powerless to fall back to the ground, lying on the cold floor, and gradually lost its vitality.

"No!"

Elizabeth shook her head in agony. She never expected that things would develop like this. If she had known, she would never have opened the door to let Thomas in.

Maybe she shouldn't have made that mistake!

"James!"

Thomas, holding Elizabeth, did not seem to blame himself for killing John hollett, but said to James, who was still kneeling beside him.

"There are some things you don't understand!"