James wasn't sure of what to make of this. Whose was that sound? The doubt right now wasn't whether or not there was a sound. Instead, it was the question of whom the perpetrator was and who the victim was. Never had he, in his life seen his mother raise her hands on his sister. There has been occasion when he had left the house at the fit of rage because his mother would always place Isabella over him even while he was still a boy and quite younger. Since he was the youngest at that time, wasn't it right that he would be treated a lot warmer and kinder? Instead it was the opposite. His sister was always the one at the forefront who got the prefential treatment. Judging by the past experience and information, it was unlikely that his mother would slap his sister. This leaves him with the most impossible and outrageous thought a child could ever conceive against his own mother.Could it perhaps be what he feared it to be? It was impossible. How could that happen? What child on earth