Chapter 312

Chapter 312 Love Required Working Together Hailey squeezed the two knee pads. The corners of her mouth twitched and she smiled embarrassedly.

“Please thank her for me, but will Karl allow me to use them?”

Hearing her question, all her brothers raised their heads, looking nervous.

Brook said first, “I wouldn’t dare to use them anyway. If I dare to wear knee pads when I’m punished, Karl might make me stay on my knees for a year.”

“Hmph, you’re being too optimistic.”

Kyle said, “Do you think a year is enough? He can make you do it for the rest of your life until your legs are broken.”

Brook suddenly had a jolt.

Suddenly, he felt that this time, Karl had been kind to him by simply taking away his sports car and giving him a scolding.

Hailey was so scared that she shoved the knee pads into Randal’s hand. “Then I’d better not wear them.”

If she pissed Karl off again, she wouldn’t be able to get away with it. She didn’t want to get a good lesson when she arrived in Engese.

Jared was in a bad mood and he was all agitated.

“Why not? You have to be on your knees for four hours. You don’t want to lose your knees, do you?

Just put them on and stop chattering!”

With that, he grabbed the knee pads in Randal’s hand, dragged Hailey over, bent down, and put them on for her without saying another word.

Then, he waved his hand. “All right, go ahead.”

Hailey was speechless.

“Thank you so much,” she thought.

Hailey moved to the portraits of her parents with the knee pads on. She was about to kneel down when Randal said, “Wait.”

He pulled one, two, three, four cushions out from under the table and stacked them on top of each other.

“That’s pretty much it.”

Randal gestured that Hailey could kneel now.

“Isn’t it a bit too much to cheat like this?”

Hailey was worried.

Randal smiled gently. “It’s okay. You will always be the one who can enjoy the privilege in our family.

Even if Karl blames you, we’ll take care of it. Don’t worry.”

Jared, Kyle, and Brook nodded at her in unison as they sat on the couch.

Hailey found it heartwarming. She knelt on the cushions and bent down to give two kowtows to her parents before straightening up and kneeling upright.

As soon as she did, her brothers picked up their phones and started taking pictures of Hailey.

Hailey glared at them. “What are you doing?”

Randal said, “My sister looks so good on her knees.”

Jared said, “I’m recording it.”

Kyle said, “I’m taking a memorial.”

Brook said, “Ditto.”

Hailey didn’t know what to say.

They weren’t like her brothers at all!

Kneeling was one of the most boring things you could do.

As a child, Hailey hated such punishment as “standing” or “kneeling”. She thought it would be better to get a beating.

However, like her mother, Karl knew very well how to deal with her impetuous nature.

Hailey knelt here with a sad face. As she looked at her brothers who were playing with their phones, watching videos, or playing games on the couch, she felt that they were really too much.

They said they came to keep her company, and they simply came to “keep her company”.

She closed her eyes and tried to ignore them.

After all, according to Karl’s rules, she would have to write something after the punishment. It was called self-criticism, which required at least 3000 words. Therefore, she would need to work out a draft in her mind before she could write.

In fact, it was not all her fault. She might have taken a bit of a risk, but it was worth it. As they said, “Nothing ventured, nothing gained…”

No!

Hailey shook her head. Karl wouldn’t be happy if she wrote something like that, so she should stop making excuses and admit her mistakes honestly.

Hailey imagined all kinds of things and worked out a draft in her mind. She opened her eyes to check the time.

To her surprise, it had been just one hour!

Why was time going by so slowly?

She couldn’t help but mutter, “Didn’t they say ‘time flies’? Why is it so long with me?”

“Oh, it’s been an hour!”

It was completely different with Brook. “How time flies! I’ve only played two games.”

Hailey rolled his eyes, feeling it was unfair.

“Stop playing with your phones.”

Hailey couldn’t stand it anymore. “Let’s have a chat.”

They were all immersed in their own worlds, and no one paid any attention to her.

Since they were all so heartless and uncaring, she would do something about it.

Hailey raised an eyebrow. “Jar, has Sofia replied?”

It was a shot to the heart.

Jared held his phone, just waiting for Sofia’s reply. His phone was almost out of power, but the messages he sent over seemed to sink into the sea, with no reply at all.

“No,” he said sullenly.

Hailey said, “Don’t worry. I’m sure Sofia isn’t ignoring you on purpose. Maybe her phone has been taken away by her family.”

Jared’s face was cold. “I know. That’s what I’m afraid of. It’s okay if she ignores me, but what if she was locked up by her family because of me?”

Brook put down his phone and asked Jared, “Jar, did Sofia really confess her love for you?”

Jared’s thin lips were pursed into a line and he hmmed in a low voice.

Yes, she did, but before he could say yes, she left.

However, it did not stop him from unilaterally thinking of Sofia as his “girlfriend”.

Kyle couldn’t help but feel worried. “Those who came to pick Sofia up today don’t look like ordinary people. I think Sofia has a great background. Will her family accept you?”

Randal was not here in the afternoon, so he did not know what happened, but hearing what they said, he got some idea of it.

“The Gomez family does have a background that causes apprehension. They have been almost cleansed now and doing legitimate business. It’s okay if she is from an ordinary family, but if she’s from a high-powered family…”

Jared looked extremely worried.

“Jar, you’re my brother, so I’ll be straight with you.”

Hailey said directly, “You must have long known about Sofia’s family. Do you think you’ll have a future with her?”

Jared lifted his head, with a determined look in his deep eyes.

“I’ll create a future if we don’t have one.”

What was it?

Before he met her, he had never wanted to get married.

After meeting her, he never wanted to marry anyone else.

Jared’s voice was deep and firm. “Nothing is impossible. I won’t leave her anyway!”

Hearing his words, Hailey and others were relieved and put a smile on their faces.

Nothing was impossible as long as Jar wanted it.

After talking about Jared, Hailey moved on to Kyle. “Kyle, how are you doing with your wedding to Nick?”

Kyle turned the silver ring on his finger and a smile spread across his handsome face. “We are preparing for it. I think you’ll be just in time to join us for the wedding when you come back from Engese.”

Seeing how happy he looked, Hailey thought of the time when he and Nicholas first got together and caused problems for the whole family. It was really great to know that they were getting married.

Love required working together to get a good result.

If only one of them put effort into it, it would end up in vain.

Time went by fast as Hailey chatted with her brothers.

Finally, after four hours, Randal helped Hailey up and gave her knees a rub.

Thanks to the pads, her knees were just a bit red. They weren’t so swollen and bruised that she couldn’t walk.

Her brothers were all sleepy by now, so they said “good night” to each other. Hailey had just returned to her room when she received a call from Karl.

The timing was perfect. Brook must have tipped off Karl.

When she answered, Hailey hurriedly complained. “Karl, I just got up. I really knelt for four hours, not even a minute less! My knees are swollen.”

Karl’s low voice came from the other end. “You used knee pads, didn’t you?”

He even knew about this?

Hailey was confused and then she suddenly shouted, “You have a group behind my back!”

It was too much.