My Great Escape Led Me to You (Emily Blair) novel Chapter 503

Perhaps, aside from the Lane family themselves, only Emily Blair knew just how wicked and unruly that five-year-old boy could be.

The scar on her daughter’s arm—a scar so deep only surgery could erase it—was Dennis Lane’s doing.

Dennis Lane had been spoiled from the moment he was born. He was Kevin Lane’s only great-grandson, the sole child of Andrew Lane and Isabella Austin. Kevin Lane doted on him without limits, and even outsiders, once they learned whose son he was, would treat him like royalty.

He was the center of everyone’s world, growing up with a status no one could challenge.

It was hardly surprising that a child raised in such an environment would develop a nasty temper and a sense of entitlement. Sometimes, Dennis acted as if the world revolved around him—he only behaved himself when Andrew Lane was present, transforming, at least on the surface, into a well-mannered, obedient child.

He prided himself on being the Lane family’s only great-grandson and couldn’t tolerate the idea of any other child encroaching on his place.

Before her daughter was born, Emily had been cast out by the Lane family. For years after Daisy’s birth, her daughter and Dennis Lane had never even met; the Lane family—and Andrew Lane himself—had never acknowledged Daisy as one of their own.

A handful of people might have known the truth, but no one ever dared let it reach Dennis.

All that changed the day Dennis Lane overheard the household staff talking. He learned, quite by accident, that his beloved, idolized father—Andrew Lane—had a daughter out in the world, a girl about his own age. Dennis erupted in a fury, smashing nearly every piece of porcelain and electronics in the Lane estate. The housekeeper who’d been overheard was struck with a floor lamp, left dazed and bleeding, before finally collapsing.

No one dared restrain him. Kevin Lane, indulgent as ever, ignored the damage and the injured staff, standing aside and letting Dennis rage until the entire estate was in chaos.

Only after Dennis had exhausted himself and the house was a shambles did Kevin Lane finally instruct the others to take the unconscious housekeeper to the hospital—and even then, he never once spared her a glance.

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