A Moment in Destiny
Chapter 735 At a Loss for Words

Sylvie McCarthy looked at her and spoke nothing for a long time. Then, after a long time, she seriously said word for word, "You...smoke...drugs?" Sadie was stuck for a moment, wiped her face, smoothed her hair behind her head, and sniffled. "I, I smoked!"

"What are you going to do?" Sylvie spoke directly.

"I" Sadie glanced at her, then at Marley, and then at the officer, didn't know what to say, and paused for a long time. "I want to go out!"

"No way!" Sylvie refused outrightly.

"Sylvie, I'm your mother!" Sadie said.

"You knew you are my mother too?" Sylvie asked rhetorically.

"How have I wronged you?" Sadie looked at her with wide eyes. "I, I saved money and raised you, was it easy for me? But you sneaked away five years ago, got married into a rich family, and disowned me! Sylvie McCarthy, I gave birth to you after carrying you for ten months, you dare disown me! God will condemn you!"

"That's God's business. You don't need to worry about God. You want to get out, but I'm afraid that's not possible. Will you continue to prostitute, or continue to take drugs if you get out?" Her tone was cold. Marley loosened his grip on her hand and took her shoulders instead.

"Sylvie, I want to get out. I don't care how you find a way to get me out!" Sadie didn't care about that. She just wanted to get out; she was very emotional. "I know you have the ability to do this, and I know you can, bail me out of this place! I can't stay here for a moment."

Sylvie lowered her head, her teeth sunk into her lips, and after a long time, she raised her head and looked at Sadie and said, "So you did not learn the lesson after all?"

Sadie probably knew that she couldn't talk Sylvie out of it, so she immediately turned towards Marley and smiled very flatteringly, "Young Master, Hughes, find a way to get me out! Although we have never met, I am her mother, your mother-in-law! So you should find a way!"

Saying that, Sadie smoothed her hair with her hand again, she smiled flatteringly, and then she said, "I can see you are a talented man. I'm relieved that Sylvie is with you! I've seen your picture in the magazine. You are much better looking in person than in the picture, and you are so young and handsome. Sylvie is good at picking men. I think you're a caring person; how about you get me out?" Marley seeing Sadie like this, all of a sudden felt very sad. He felt so sad for Sylvie, since such a woman was her mother! No wonder she didn't want to see her, she was caught selling drugs, and didn't feel embarrassed, she even smiled like this, there were really the likes of her in the world! He could now understand Sylvie.

"I'm afraid I can't get you out!" Marley said in a deep voice, "If you didn't take drugs, you might be able to get out, but right now, you can only go to a rehab center!"

"Go to a rehab center! You don't have to beg him. We can't even make decisions about your situation. The police have the final say. If you want to get out sooner, get rid of your drug addiction. If you can't, then you have to stay here all the time!" Sylvie calmly said, "I'll find a way to pay for the treatment, just this once, and if you do this again I wouldn't care no matter what! You should think clearly."

As soon as Sadie heard this, she immediately went around the table and was about to run this way.

"Sit down!" The police officer at the side shouted.

Sadie glanced at the officer, pointing at Sylvie's nose; her fingers kept trembling, "What did you say? Won't you allow me to get out? You want me to go to rehab? Do you have any conscience at all? I'm not going. I'll go back and quit by myself!"

"What else do you want? Go back to sell drugs? Go back to smoke drugs? And then call me again when something happens?" Sylvie was also a bit emotional. She changed her number, but she still couldn't hide from the police. How did she forget that the police could always find her? She could not hide because Sadie was her mother; this was a fact that couldn't be changed.

"You are my daughter. Was I wrong to call you? If I had known you would be so heartless, I shouldn't have given birth to you in the first place. I should have strangled you to death! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been so miserable in this life!" Sadie said and became a little hysterical, her nose began to flow uncontrollably again, and she was trembling.

"What a pity that you have already given birth to me. You want to strangle me. This wish can't come true. Don't even think I want to be born, and I don't want a mother like you at all! Because you don't deserve it!" Sylvie was cold-faced and didn't give an inch.

Smack!

A heavy slap separated by a table distance flew over.

Sylvie's face turned in a different direction, and she almost fell.

All of a sudden, in the small room, the officer and Marley became frozen instantly.

Sadie stood there shaking, not angry. It was probably the drug addiction again.

In the twinkling of an eye, a red fingerprint appeared on Sylvie's face.

Marley was shocked by this scene.

"You " Marley's face instantly turned cold and sullen, glared at Sadie. "Up till this point, you still hit Sylvie?"

"Sadie, sit down!" The officer was a bit surprised, too.

Sylvie covered her face, and her long hair also covered her face so that he couldn't see the expression on her face.

After a short while, she slowly raised her face; her face was emotionless, she straightened her hair and clothes. Then, looking at Sadie's cold and icy eyes, she said in a low clear voice, "They all say that mothers are the most extraordinary people in this world. They give all their best in taking care of their children as much as they can. How nice of you! Let's say I owe you from my last life, so stay here by yourself! If you can't quit your drug addiction, you'd better commit suicide!"

"Miss McCarthy, let's come out and talk!" The police officer saw the situation and couldn't say anything else.

"I want to get out!" Sadie screamed.

Marley gave Sadie a stern look. "You want to get out. First of all, think about what you did. There is no savior in the world, and you are the only one that can save yourself! You can do it yourself! Don't let me see you hit her again, or "

He didn't like to threaten people, but he said it, for Sylvie's sake, he said half of it; he didn't want to say too much. But what he did today, standing here, looking at Sadie, he said, "Since you are Sylvie's mother, I'll tell you the same thing, if you can quit your drug addiction and change your ways, you can get out, and I will guarantee you a good life when you do. If you don't listen and continue to be like this, I'm afraid no one can help you! Think about your age, and you only have Sylvie, your only daughter. If you can't think of your child, are you worthy of being a mother?"

"Hughes, Hughes." Sadie suddenly jumped up and tried to repeat something.

Marley had already walked to the door, "Think very well about it!"

He suddenly regretted letting Sylvie come. He changed to another room and entered the police office.

Marley looked down at Sylvie's face, where a red and swollen handprint was so clear, he immediately asked nervously, "Sylvie, is it very painful? Let me take a look!"

Sylvie raised her eyes to look at him and immediately shook her head. "I'm fine!"

"Miss McCarthy, about your mother-"

As soon as Sylvie heard the police mention her mother, she immediately interrupted, "Officer, I don't want to care about Sadie, please send her to rehab, call me to inform me of the cost, I will find a way! Just don't let her get out, let her keep quitting, and don't allow her to get out if she can't!"

"This" the police officer was a bit embarrassed.

"Sorry, I still have things to do. So I'm taking my leave!" After saying that, Sylvie said to Marley, "Let's go!"

"Officer, how about this? I'll let my lawyer take care of Sadie's case; sorry for bothering you!" Marley said politely. He realized that he was unable to call that woman as mother-in-law.

"It's okay." The officer said and then saw Marley and Sylvie off to the front door.

Just then, two people came in, led by a handsome man who could make women go crazy. He had starry eyebrows, a dashing nose, and deep black eyes that made his face look even more resolute - even Sylvie, who was used to seeing Marley as a handsome man, couldn't help but take a look.

A beautiful woman followed the man.

When the officer saw the man, he immediately straightened his body and greeted him politely, "Captain Hopkins."

The man nodded slightly; his eyes lingered on Marley and Sylvie for a second before retracting. Those who were familiar with him knew that he had already captured all the details of the two in such a short time.

This was one of Marcel Hopkins's abilities.

The officer turned to the woman behind him again, and a sunny smile suddenly appeared on his face, "Rae, you and Captain Hopkins came over together today."

The man who was called Captain Hopkins gave a sidelong glance and walked towards the front without saying a word.

"We'll talk later." After Rae Baxter said these words, she quickly followed the footsteps of the man in front of her.

Marley could see that the officer liked this girl named Rae, but unfortunately, her eyes were always on that Captain Hopkins. Marley and Sylvie walked out of the detention center and got into the car.

"Sylvie!" Marley looked at her face with a pang of guilt. "Does your face still hurt?"

Sylvie turned her head to look at him and smiled at him, although the smile was far-fetched, she smiled, "it's fine, thank you!"

His heart sank even more. He reached out and touched her face.

"Let's go back. I'm waiting to get back to work!" Sylvie said.

Sylvie grew up like this - if anything didn't go well, a slap from Sadie would fling over; she had no idea how many slaps she had already received.

The car drove out of the detention center. Marley did not take her back to the company but instead came to the beach.

"We're not going back to the office?" Sylvie was a bit stunned.

"We'll go back later!" Marley said, "Get out of the car!"

Sylvie looked at the endless sea and followed him out of the car. The endless sea made people feel small at first glance. His thoughtfulness touched her, and yes, there was no way she could go back to work in this condition; she turned her head and looked at Marley.

He was looking at the endless sea.

"You like the sea?" Sylvie spoke softly.

Marley also turned his head to look at her; his voice came from the side; it was casual and faint, "I do like the sea. It can cause all the bad moods to float away with the wind! So when you are in a bad mood, you can come and spend some time alone at the beach!"

Sylvie looked at him; Marley's tall and straight figure suddenly touched her. That loneliness came from the bottom of the heart. He chose to live in a villa by the sea because he liked the sea, so he also had times when he was in a bad mood!

She slowly lowered her head, a pair of black leather shoes came into view, and she suddenly looked up and saw that he had walked up to her.

He held her face, his eyes focused on the red handprints on her face, his eyes were full of guilt and self-recrimination, "I wasn't paying attention and let you get hit!"

"It's okay!" She shook her head, her nose was sore, and there was a moist rising under her eyes.

Immediately, his fingers were wet; she actually shed tears.

"Sylvie, don't cry!" He suddenly and clumsily wiped her tears. He didn't expect her tears to flow at once, she was like that, and she would shed tears even when she was too moved.

He wiped her tears with his fingers. Then, when his fingers got wet, he replaced with the back of his hand; when the back of his hand got wet, he replaced it with his palm. She had never seen him so clumsy. He seemed to be at a loss all of a sudden, like an adult who had done something wrong, coaxing a child with an immature skill, and only repeated the words "don't cry." When was the time before had Marley been able to coax people like this?