“Have you no conscience?!” Patrick harshly reprimanded Belinda.Belinda suddenly exploded in anger and confessed, “That’s right, I don’t have one! I caused my sisters’ deaths—what can you do about it? What should I feel guilty about? My sister loved me so much that she would have agreed if I wanted her position as the matriarch. She wouldn't have blamed me, and if she hadn’t had her daughters, she would have given the position to me. Why did she have to get married and have kids, taking away my chance for power?“Why should she receive your love and affection? Just because she was the matriarch? Since being the matriarch was the only way to have you, then I wanted to be the matriarch! Patrick, I wanted power, but I also wanted you, and I wanted you to be loyal to me like you were to my sister,” Belinda roared even as her eyes reddened.Did they think she truly felt no pain at causing Tiara and Alivia’s deaths? Not long after Alivia was born, she was orphaned and only had her sisters
“Shut the door, Elaine! Shut the main doors!” Belinda suddenly shouted. Then, she dug her phone out to call Mr. Gordon. Once he picked up, she instructed, “Go ahead with what I instructed you to do.”She did not want to live anymore. She wanted to take everyone down with her. Apart from the party from Wiltspoon, her other guests were all the Fisher family members who had some capability. Everyone would be taken out in a single blow.“Mom!” Caroline shouted. “Stop deluding yourself!”Belinda turned and gave Caroline a vicious slap. “Get out, you unfilial daughter! Get out! I don’t want to see you, you unfilial daughter!”She did not just stop at a slap, but also pushed Caroline, trying to drive her out.Caroline hugged Belinda as she begged with tears in her eyes, “Mom, you have to wake up! You have to face the consequences of your actions.”Belinda shoved Caroline away, angrily questioning, “What have I done wrong? I’m not at fault! If I didn’t look out for myself, I would have b
Thus, they all stayed to continue watching the spectacle. They had heard rumors that Belinda had caused her sisters' deaths to ascend to her position, so her rise to power was unjust. However, since it was all hearsay without concrete evidence, they could only discuss it privately. Later, Belinda reunited with Audrey. Although they were aunt and niece, they treated each other like enemies. Audrey even arranged for her niece Liberty to come to Jensburg to establish a company and compete with Fisher Enterprise.The Fisher family members began to understand that there was no smoke without fire. It was possible that Tiara was truly harmed by Belinda, which was why Audrey hated Belinda and arranged for Liberty to compete with Caroline for the matriarch position.Tonight, they were finally getting the real answer—Tiara had indeed died at Belinda’s hands. She was truly heartless. Despite having been raised by Tiara, she was driven by a lust for power and jealousy over Patrick’s love and loy
“And the gasoline we prepared was somehow all swapped out for water. There’s no way we can get a large amount of gasoline on such short notice.”Belinda’s expression instantly darkened. She slowly lowered her phone from her ear, realizing that she had been the only one ensnared in a trap that night. She glared fiercely at Audrey and the others, unable to understand how they had managed to pull this off. They had not shown their faces at all before tonight. Even after they did appear, they had just wandered around in the courtyard and had a caustic exchange with her that was not even that intense.Belinda realized that the one who had truly been trapped was herself. Audrey had brought so many people with her just to make her believe she could take them all down at once. Little did she know that they had dug her a pit to jump into of her own accord.What was she supposed to do now? The police had arrived. There was no way for her and Mr. Gordon to resolve this amicably. Just like that
Decades had passed, so Belinda might not necessarily be sentenced to death, considering it had been forty or fifty years since.Audrey said calmly, “Belinda, neither you nor your assistant can escape tonight. How did we manage this? Didn’t I tell you that the people who saved Uncle True were legends from decades ago? Don’t you know how capable they are? “You didn’t think you were the only one capable of scheming, and that we’d just do nothing despite knowing you wanted to get rid of all of us, did you? You were watching our every move, but we were watching you too. Besides, did you really think you could keep a close watch on us all? There are so many of us. Who could you guarantee to have watched round the clock?”Any one of them could easily set up a counterattack or sabotage Belinda's plans. Belinda wanted to set fire to Fisher Manor because she could no longer live in it and even wanted everyone who entered the manor tonight to die in the fire too. Hence, they swapped all the g
Belinda dragged her hostage upstairs up to the top floor. It was a good distance from the crowd downstairs and they had backed up quite far. The gun she had could not shoot that far, so she would not hit anyone even if she fired. All she could do was threaten the crowd that if anyone approached the door, she would fire. If she fired at the door from the top floor, she could still hit someone.The hostage was knocked out, so she could free a hand to call Mr. Gordon and get him to save her. If she could not take everyone down with her, then she did not want to die anymore. She wanted to escape. She had a small helicopter. If Gordon flew it over, he could save her from her dire straits. The policemen below had already called their superiors, asking for backup and snipers.“Mom, let her go and put down the gun! I’m begging you, please don’t go any further down this path.” Caroline ran forward fearlessly, shouting up at her mother from several meters away, pleading for her to stop. She ur
Audrey also reached out to pull Caroline to her side and she said, “Liberty’s right. Don’t go inside. Look at her. When she shot your father, she pulled the trigger without any hesitation. She’s gone mad.”Hunter had fainted from the pain of the gunshot. Adrian and his brothers were frozen from shock, not having expected their mother to actually shoot their father. When they saw that she even fired at Caroline, the three brothers were even less inclined to step forward, fearing dearly that their mother would shoot to kill them without a care that they were her sons. They stayed by Hunter’s side, waiting for the paramedics to arrive to send their father to the emergency room.Caroline’s eyes reddened as she looked up at Belinda, standing by the rooftop balcony railing. She broke free of Audrey’s grip and ran to the front of the crowd once more, kneeling with a loud sound. She banged her head against the ground, kowtowing as she cried out, “Mom, please, I’m begging you—don’t continue
True—no matter how capable Mr. Gordon was, he was still human, after all. He was an elderly man himself, being older than her by a few years, and was almost eighty years old. He continued working tirelessly for her. No matter how outstanding he was, he could not compete with the younger ones in Zachary’s generation. He was not a god.Take Patrick for example; had he not been impressive? Even then, he was pushed to the limit by the assassins she sent back then and almost died. Even though he survived, he sustained severe injuries that gave him recurring pain and illness over the years. If Doc had not been the one who saved him, there was no way he would have lived to see this day.Belinda still could not believe she was at the end of her rope. She called Mr. Gordon again. The call seemed to connect, but he did not pick up. It rang for a long time and still, he did not answer. After it stopped, Belinda called again but still got the same result.Belinda's heart felt like it had plumme