My One-month Marriage With Mr. Hawkins

Chapter 619: What His Words Meant

He looked at Florence in surprise and said in a deep tone, “What are you doing here? It’s quite dangerous. Go back to Stanford.”

Florence raised her head and looked at Ernest, shaking her head determinedly.

She reached out and grabbed his big hand.

She said bluntly without hiding her love, stressing each syllable, “I want to accompany you. If it’s dangerous, I’ll go through it with you together!”

Ernest looked at her in a daze, feeling as if his heart had an electrical shot.

His heart trembled slightly.

Florence looked quite determined. She turned around and looked over at those people from the Turner family.

“If you’re going to die or get hurt, I’ll be with you!”

Those words were for the Turners.

Upon hearing it, the Turners felt as if they had swallowed flies, their expressions kept changing dramatically.

Their family meeting had decided to punish Ernest, so they could do whatever they wanted.

However, all of them know that Florence was the baby from the Fraser family, just like life for them. Who had the guts to hurt her?

They were afraid that the Frasers might kill them immediately.

Theodore looked at Florence and Ernest with a complicated look, frowning deeply.

He blamed Ernest in a cold tone, “Ernest Hawkins, what’s going on? You are a man, and you want Florence to be your backer now. Do you think under her protection you wouldn’t pay any price for what evil things you’ve done?”

If it wouldn’t come to the most critical moment, Theodore wouldn’t offend Florence or do anything to her.

He kept blaming Ernest for everything.

Other people from the Turner family also stared at Ernest in hatred as if they would skin him alive.

At this moment, the Turners had completely treated Ernest as an outsider, even their enemy.

In this family that was related to him in blood, Ernest couldn’t find any sense of belonging. Instead, they all wanted to kill him.

Ernest held Florence’s hand, curling up his lips into an ironic sneer.

He cast a disdainful glance at all people there and asked in an elegant tone, “I’m quite curious. What kind of evil things have I done? What rights do you have to abolish my right of succession?”

There was a compulsory requirement for the succession right of the Turner family.

To avoid any bloody wars happening among the family members, there was a strict rule that no matter in which circumstance, the direct line of descent of the eldest son should be the heir of the family.

Unless the son was dead. Otherwise, the successor couldn’t be changed.

However, there was another rule - if the person had done anything to harm the family interests, and all the elders of the family voted to abolish the heir’s succession right, and then introduced a new

successor, the first in line successor could be abolished.

The cost of abolition was even more cruel and huge. The successor who had been abolished must suffer great harm, including the final judgment of disability and the abolition of fertility.

Due to the iron law of inheritance and the cruelty of its consequences, there had never been a precedent to abolish the successor before. Moreover, every successor would be brought up under the careful cultivation of the family members, who had set up a huge network within the family, so he would have a lot of supporters.

No matter what, it wouldn’t be possible that all the elders of the family would vote to abolish him.

However, Ernest was an accident.

He had grown up outside the family. Suddenly, he came back and snatched the right of succession from Benjamin’s hands. However, Benjamin had been rooted in the family for a long time. He had support from almost all the elders. Ernest had no supporters or backers in the Turner family.

Besides, Ernest competed for a girlfriend with his nephew. He disguised himself as Clarence Jenkins and offended the Fraser family. All he had done was provoking the dignity and rock bottom of the Turner family.

That was why all other elders who hadn’t take a side gradually gave up on Ernest.

Their current master, Theodore, was one of them.

Hence, the situation turned out to be that all of them supported Benjamin.

The gray-haired elder took a step forward and said in a harsh tone, “Since you don’t agree, I can tell you exactly. You disguised yourself as Clarence Jenkins and sneaked into the Fraser’s. Such a

disgrace has seriously harmed our family’s dignity as well as damage the long-term relationship and interests between the Turner and the Fraser families,

“For the heir of the Turner family, the rules in the abolish ordinance are clear written - once he or she has done something that seriously damages the interests of the family, the heir could be abolished!”

Ernest raised his eyebrows and turned around to look at Florence, who was standing by him in anger.

She was obviously quite frightened when facing so many weapons and unkind people, but she was still standing by him without any hesitation.

He could feel clearly how much she cared about him.

Hence, he made up his mind...

Ernest pressed his lips to a smile. Raising his hand that was tightly holding Florence’s, he waved them in front of them.

He said ironically, “Florence and I are in love deeply. Stanford sent us back in person. How can you mistake that I’ve damaged the relationship between the Turner and the Fraser families? What kind of interest loss have I caused?”

The gray-haired man choked up.

When they abolish Ernest’s right of succession, they received positive confirmation from Stanford, which meant that the Fraser family was angry with Ernest.

However, nobody had expected such a weird situation right now.

It still couldn’t change the decision made by the elder’s meeting, though.

The gray-haired man pointed at the hands of Ernest and Florence that were clenched together.

He snapped fiercely, “Ernest Hawkins, we didn’t want to mention it, but how shameless you are! Florence is Benjamin’s wife now. In the family, she should be your nephew’s wife. Even Florence and you love each other, you should think about ethics and morality. You can’t be with Florence!”

“My nephew’s wife?”

Ernest sneered ironically. Although he was smile, his eyes changed to sharp and horrible in an instant.

He asked in a cold and harsh tone, “I know some of you said that Florence is Benjamin Turner’s wife. Do you have their marriage certificates?”

The gray-haired man frowned deeply, his expression changing again and again.

He held his head high and said stubbornly, “They have held the wedding. Of course, they have a marriage certificate. Benjamin hasn’t come back yet, so he didn’t bring them back to us.

“However, it’s the true fact already. Although Benjamin hasn’t returned, it couldn’t change that Florence is your nephew’s wife.

“As her uncle, you want to be with Florence? We Turner family would never allow this kind of thing to happen!” Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.

Each of his remarks made was more serious than the other.

Ernest smiled. He was quite curious - after the wedding was ruined, how did Benjamin made those elders believe that he had registered for marriage with Florence?

However, no matter what means he had used, it wouldn’t be as important as the fact.

Ernest gripped Florence’s hand tightly.

He said in an indifferent tone, which sounded arrogant and evil, “It seems that Benjamin hasn’t told you. On his wedding day, when he forced Florence to put on the ring, I happened to arrive there on time.”

All the Turners turned pale.

They knew what his words clearly meant without a second thought.