How to Destroy a Cheater Without Saying Goodbye novel Chapter 177

Jacob felt utterly humiliated by Eddy's disregard, his anger boiling over. "You think just because you're my son, you can do whatever you want in my house?"

He stormed forward, kicking the tulips out of Eddy's hands. "Pathetic! If your grandfather could see you groveling like this over a woman, he'd roll over in his grave!"

"Get out! Now!"

Tulip petals scattered across the ground. Eddy's head snapped up, and before Jacob could react, Eddy's fist crashed into his face, sending him sprawling into the muddy earth.

"You little—"

Jacob didn't get another word out. Eddy pinned his face into the mud, grinding his heel into Jacob's leg with calculated malice.

Jacob's scream tore through the air.

Serena, wide-eyed in terror, rushed forward. "Let him go! Eddy, stop—please, stop!"

Eddy barely glanced at her. With steely detachment, he pressed his foot down on Jacob's hand, increasing the pressure little by little.

"Are you all just going to stand there?" Serena shrieked at the family's security detail. "Get him off! Now!"

But before any of them could move, Eddy's own bodyguards took them down in a matter of seconds. Serena's men didn't stand a chance.

"Eddy, he's your father!" Serena cried, her voice cracking with panic. "Are you really going to kill your own father over these stupid flowers?"

Jacob thrashed desperately, but Eddy's hand held his head firm in the dirt. The harder Jacob struggled, the more his limbs faltered, until his frantic movements faded into stillness.

Serena met Eddy's bloodshot eyes—eyes that seemed to hold nothing but the reflection of ruined flowers. There was no emotion, only a cold, dead calm, as if she were staring at a living corpse.

When Jacob stopped moving, Serena screamed, her voice raw with fear. "I'll fix it—I'll fix the garden, just please, let him go! Let my husband go, Eddy!"

In her frantic desperation, she lunged into the flowerbed, her long nails raking through the tulip petals, tearing them even more. That one careless motion made Eddy snap.

He flung Jacob aside as if discarding trash, sending him crashing into Serena. Instantly, Eddy dropped to his knees, cradling the damaged flowers with trembling hands, as if nothing else in the world mattered.

Serena and Jacob collapsed together in the mud. She clung to her husband, trembling. "Don't fight him anymore," she whispered, pleading. "If he wants these damn flowers, let him have them."

But Jacob, battered pride burning hotter than pain, shoved Serena off and scrambled toward the bulldozer. He fired up the engine, swinging the machine's bucket around—aiming it straight at Eddy's head.

A deafening clang rang out.

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