Chapter 499: Apology And Repentance

The next morning, Lila arrived at the hospital with various concoctions with her. She knocked on the

door and entered the ward. Both Janet and her parents were genuinely taken aback at her appearance.

They hadn’t expected her, of all people, to pay a visit.

After hearing everything from Ethan just the day before, Beal and Johanna just couldn’t bring

themselves to be amicable with Lila now.

“What are you doing here?” Beal asked.

Contrary to his characteristic disposition as a loving father, he now pulled a long face to show his

disgruntlement. Johanna didn’t even afford Lila a cursory glance and kept her gaze averted from the

offending woman.

Lila really didn’t expect the two of them to be so openly cold towards her. According to what Charis had

told her, she started to cry bitterly in front of her parents and Janet.

“Dad, Mom! I am so sorry!”

After saying that, she got down on her knees before them to beg.

Finally, Beal and Johanna were softened. In any event, Lila was raised by them. Over the many years

of her life with them, they had always treated her as their own flesh and blood. Regardless of the fact

that Lila didn’t achieve good grades at school and also didn’t have any ambitious inclination, they never

cared about it in the least bit. For them, as long as she was happy, everything was just swell.

“What are you doing?” Johanna looked at Lila with a frown creased across her forehead. She felt

crestfallen. Lila cried with absolute hysteria.

“I clearly saw that there was something wrong with Janet’s parachute, but I deliberately concealed it

from being discovered. I’m sorry. I’m so very sorry.”

Fearing that Beal and Johanna would abandon her, Lila sobbed her heart out. This time, she wasn’t

acting. Her eyes were bloodshot red and swollen from all her bawling. She even cowered in a

subservient, apologetic manner before Janet. Janet was also frightened by this uncharacteristic

behavior. She hadn’t imagined in her wildest dreams that Lila would actually put aside her dignity.

“Don’t do that.” Janet turned her head away with deliberation. Her heart had also softened when she

saw Lila’s genuine display of regretful emotion. Lila wiped her tears away and said, “Before Janet came

into my life, Dad and Mom only loved me. I felt sad and couldn’t accept the sudden change, so I did

such a stupid thing.”

Lila looked truly remorseful about her actions and genuinely seemed overcome by guilt. But in

actuality, her apology was coming from a place purely of fear and not sincere regret. Why hadn’t Janet

died in the accident? Why did she have to be married to such a powerful, influential man?

If Brandon hadn’t put great pressure on Lila, she wouldn’t have spilled the beans out of sheer

nervousness. Lila bowed before Janet so many times that her head actually suffered an injury. The

wound was open and bleeding. The droplets of blood dripped down her forehead into her eyes. Both

Beal and Johanna couldn’t help but feel compassion and forgiveness for her. In their eyes, Lila had

realized her mistake and regretted it deeply. Lila used to be an arrogant girl. In the past, even if she did

something wrong, she would never bow her head and admit her mistake. Johanna closed her eyes for

a while.

Now that she had witnessed Lila’s sincerity before her own eyes, her tone became more gentle and

she said, “You are not utterly unreasonable.” Beal sighed heavily.

Truth be told, just last night, he had considered breaking off all relations with Lila permanently. He

looked at her teary eyes and said in his deep voice, “Lila, you have really done the wrong thing this

time. We are very disappointed in you.”

Hearing this, Lila felt as if she had been struck by lightning straight in the heart. She knelt down in front

of Beal and begged, “Dad, I am really sorry. I swear that nothing like this will ever happen again. Don’t

abandon me, please!”

Beal looked at her and said, “I have decided to give you one final chance only for the sake of your

twenty-year family relationship with the White family. Lila, neither your mother nor I ever asked much

for you, but you at least need to know what you should do and what you shouldn’t. Behave yourself and

think it over. Don’t let such a thing happen again.”

Lila nodded as tears profusely streamed down her cheeks. Although Beal didn’t say it in a blatant,

straightforward manner, his meaning was as clear as day. If something like this ever happened again,

he might just kick her out of the White family for good.

“Yes, absolutely! It won’t happen again.” Lila nodded submissively.