Chapter 335

Ronald tightened her scarf a bit and kept his arm around her shoulder, nonchalantly saying, "Who's afraid of him? At worst, I'll just get beaten up by him again!" Brendan had been beating Ronald up since the latter had been a toddler who'd yet to learn how to walk. As Ronald had gotten older and started remembering things, Brendan had started to hit him more often. That was mostly because of Naomi, as Ronald had always gotten her into trouble. For example, there was a time when Ronald had taken Naomi to catch snakes. Naomi had ended up getting bitten. Another time, he had taken her to climb over a wall so that they could skip class; that had resulted in her dislocating her arm. These kinds of incidents had happened so many times over the past 20 years. Every time Naomi had suffered, Brendan would hit Ronald. Brendan had also given Ronald a good beating after the time the latter had pushed Naomi into the water. Ronal's skin had become tough from all the beatings. "Your arm is h