Barbara was stunned.Britney removed her mask in front of Barbara, revealing her horrific face.She simply said indifferently, “Dad has always been a selfish man.”Barbara’s eyes became wet. She knew of it, of course.“If Esme could benefit him somehow, he would probably refuse to acknowledge me as a daughter with this disfigured face of mine, right?” Britney said as she looked at her. “That’s why after I managed to escape, I didn’t dare to come back at first. I only showed myself to you after following you for a few days.”She didn’t even trust her sister. She would never trust her parents that had cared little about her since she was little.Barbara couldn’t bear to see her upset and said, “Don’t think like that. We are related to our parents by blood. No matter how bad they are, they’ll always love us.”“Do you even believe what you just said?” Britney let out a cold smile. “I don’t.”Barbara felt that after experiencing so much, her sister had changed.She had never had a
Even if he only had his right hand, essentially she wasn’t his opponent.Peter drove to the suburbs and after an hour, he stopped in front of a three-storey building.“Where… are we?”“Didn’t you miss your parents?” The locks were released.Esme looked through the window and saw some planted vegetables in the yard. After Conrad invited her parents to be his "guests", Peter moved her parents to a different place, someplace more hidden than the last.“Thank you.” At this moment, she was really grateful to Peter.“Ha.” Peter sneered and didn’t say anything else.Seeing her parents moving the chairs to sit in the yard, Esme got out of the car and went to the front of the yard. She knocked on the door.Seeing Esme, Hank’s expression changed.He looked at Beth, whose gaze was a little dull, and said, “There are guests. I’ll get the door.”Beth nodded, and plucked at the petals on the table.The door outside the yard opened. “What happened to her?” Esme asked.Hank sized up Esme i
“Then it’s all the more reason for you to not come over! Back then it was I who did not manage to protect you well and now your mother is frequently muddled. I don’t want to drag you down.” After Hank finished speaking, he hugged Beth and turned around to return to the house.Esme watched them enter the house, so upset that she felt like crying.Peter quietly came to her side and looked at her with a mocking gaze. “I never knew that you were such a filial daughter.”“It’s all your fault!” Esme glared at him. “You promised me that you would protect my father and mother well. Why did my mom become like this?!”“Perhaps the Lawsons have the genes of mental illness,” Peter said sarcastically. “Isn’t your cousin crazy as well?”Esme was so angry that she pounced on Peter, hammering his chest, her eyes bloodshot.“You promised me. You said you would protect them well. You went against your word!”“Enough!” Peter pushed her down with his right hand, and raised his leg to step on one of
In the blink of an eye, Fia was about to be discharged. Tonight, Fia was in quite a good mood, and she mentioned some interesting matters during her university days to Sophia.Sophia listened seriously and could not help asking, “Madam, did you not have any suitors during university?”Fia blushed slightly. “I did.”“Did you have many?”Fia said helplessly, “How do you expect me to answer such a question?”“You’re so pretty and kind. I’m sure you had many suitors!” Sophia said sincerely.Fia’s lips curled up. “These were all boys who had never entered society and were just playing around. You can’t consider them to have liked me.”“How could it be! Since you were young, weren’t you interested…” Seeing Fia’s expression freeze, Sophia immediately shut up.The atmosphere was awkward for a few moments. Fia said, “What time can we deal with the discharge procedure tomorrow?”Sophia replied, “About eleven or so? You have to eat and have a checkup.”“Alright. Then sleep a little earl
After Conrad left, Fia called Kent.“Mr. Gilbert, what have you found?”Kent was yawning as he climbed out of bed.“Let me get a cup of water first.”Fia held her breath as she heard him drink water on the other end.A few days ago, she contacted Kent to ask him to follow Esme.Last night, he sent a message saying that there was something. If not for Conrad watching and guarding her in the ward, she would have long contacted him.“It’s like this.” Kent drank enough water and his voice was not as rough when speaking.“Didn’t you ask me to follow Esme? Lately I noticed a video of her going to a place in the suburbs to visit the two old people of the Manning family…”After Fia listened attentively, she asked, “Did you get the recording?”“Yup, I got it. And I recorded the sound as well. She called Esme’s father ‘Dad’. With the video and voice recording, you can prove that she is Esme,” Kent said.“I won’t be able to,” Fia said.Kent asked, “Why?”“Back then, someone changed t
Fia led Beth into the car, and when she switched on her phone, she saw Sophia’s calls.“Hello, Madam! Where did you go? Do you know you almost scared me to death! I was almost about to call Sir!”“Have you called him?”“Not yet. I have informed Tiger. Tiger’s with some people, on his way to see you now,” Sophia said.Fia let out a sigh of relief. “I didn’t go anywhere. It just felt a little stuffy and I went for a walk around.”Sophia frowned. She was not a fool, and knew that she was lying, but she did not expose her.“I have already dealt with the discharge paperwork. Where are you? I’ll pick you up.”“I have already taken a car for hire. I’ll go for a couple of rounds and return home,” Fia said faintly.Sophia was extremely panicked. “Madam, please don’t be like this. If you want to go anywhere to relax, you have to bring me along!”“Forget it for today. Another day.” Fia hung up and looked at Beth who was sitting by her side.Although her aunt was someone who looked down
“No, no.” Esme wailed, hugging Beth tightly.Beth wanted to say something else, but the long-term physical and mental pressure on her body was draining her physical strength.This hit had taken out all of her energy.Fia got back up from the ground, her expression dull.She never thought that… she would do something like this.“Call the ambulance. That's right. Call the ambulance. It’ll be fine.” Esme held Beth with one hand while the other hand dug into her bag to search for her phone. However, her hand was shaking so bad that she was unable to dig it out no matter what.The maid of the Thomases heard the commotion and came running out. She saw Beth’s face covered in blood, scaring her into shrieking out loud, luring Mrs. Thomas and Barbara out.“Britney, what are you doing!” Mrs. Thomas was afraid of getting into trouble, and tugged at Esme. “How could this lady just die in front of our gate? Why are you hugging her! If the police come, you’d be done for!”“It wasn’t me!” Esm
Tiger laid Beth flat on the ground, checked her breathing, and listened to her heartbeat.Both were weak and the situation was not looking too good.If emergency treatment couldn’t keep up, just the bleeding alone would be enough to kill her!“Sophia, go to my car and get medicine from the armrest box!”“Alright!” Sophia got in the car and took the medicine, skilfully took out a dose of medicine from the inside and injected it into the syringe, got out of the car, and passed it to Tiger.Tiger got Sophia to deal with the injury on Beth’s head, found the right position and then injected the medicine into her body.Esme roared. “What are you all doing! If you kill her, you will become Fia’s scapegoat!”She thought that by saying this, she would be able to scare Tiger and Sophia.However, the two of them sneered, not the least bit hesitant.If Beth really died and the crime had to fall on someone, they were willing to take the blame for Fia!Barbara looked at Fia, a little envio