In the abandoned warehouse, Martina let loose her true colours, fierce and terrifying.
She roared, "Shut your damn mouth! You don't get to say that!"
Susan endured the burning pain in her cheek, staring at Martina with her teeth clenched.
That was a stinging slap.
Although resenting Manuel, Martina didn't allow anyone to say anything bad about him. She must love him so much.
"Susan Phillips, you're such an idiot to choose Henry Parker instead of Manuel. Did you get a clue what kind of person Henry is?" Martina burst out laughing, seeming to have thought of something that would bring her great satisfaction.
Susan looked at the woman who had got mad.
"Sadly, I won't tell you!" said Martina fiercely, "You'll never know how stupid your life was!"
"Martina, What the hell do you want!" Susan had no idea and cared little about what she was talking about. She was just well aware that she would be driven crazy if Martina kept doing that.
"What do I want? Kill you, of course, and torment you before I kill you!" said she viciously.
"You're crazy!" Susan couldn't hold back her fear any longer. She didn't want to die, at least not at such a young age. "You know it's against the law, right?"
"Against the law?" Martina sneered dismissively, "I've broken it many times, okay? Let me put it this way. My brother and I planned a lot in secret. We even tried to kill Sarah Collins. Do you think I'm afraid to kill you?"
Her words chilled Susan, who had known she was a wrongdoer but did not expect that she was insane to the extent that when talking about killing someone she acted like it was not a big deal.
"Impressive, huh?"
"You lunatic!" cursed Susan.
"Do you know what I hate the most in my life?" Martina said through gritted teeth.
"Manuel doesn't love you!" Susan shouted back.
But who was to blame? It was her fault!
"That's just one of them." Martina watched Susan falling apart, with apathy. "I still can't figure out how my brother fell at Hannah's hands! Have you heard of what he's done to her? How did she get away from him!"
"Good prevails over evil!" Susan gave her a hard stare, "You think you've got it all covered, but God won't let you get away with it! It's only a matter of time before you lost to Hannah!"
"Enough!" It was beyond her endurance.
She might let go of the fact that Manuel wasn't into her and put it down to his fidelity to her love for Susan. But she couldn't take it anyway when it came to losing to Hannah. Once did, it'd mean that their family was indeed intellectually inferior to Hannah, which however, went against the Sawyers' abiding sense of superiority and the belief that they were the smartest, the most calculating, and that everyone was no match for them. Yet unexpectedly, they were defeated, completely.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, while Susan was feeling much better.
Fortunately, Hannah saw through their ruse, otherwise who knew what kind of hell Hannah would've been through?
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