“I warned her not to mess with Selena, but she wouldn’t listen! So, who else could she blame?!”
“How could you say that?! I should have abandoned you back then!” Jezebelle thumped her chest agitatedly and added, “Meredith blew her cover, and Selena was hunting her down. Your dad was so angry when he found out about that and decided to confront Selena about it, but I didn’t know he was actually going to kill her. He only told me he’d settle this once and for all, but I didn’t know that was what he meant.” Jezebelle whined remorsefully. After all, the Roland she knew was a coward who wouldn’t even dare to kill a fish, let alone a person.
“In the end, not only did he fail to kill her, he ended up losing his life when he bumped his head into the edge of the table. Your dad would have at least done us a favor if he had managed to kill Selena, but look at what happened.” Jezebelle sighed in dismay; she had lost her only hope to turn things around with Roland’s death.
Megan responded with silence for a while and asked, “Where is Meredith?”
“I don’t know. She dropped by not long ago but only said a few words and left. I don’t know—”
“Enough, Mom! We’ll talk about that after we take care of Dad’s funeral.”
“Megan, you’re the only one I have left in this family, so please do something to save your sister! Isn’t Jimmy a rich guy?”
Megan bitterly smiled and said, “Jimmy is indeed not short of money, but he still can’t compare with Pierre and Selena. Thus, he won’t be able to do them any harm even if he spends all his fortune. Mom, let me worry about that!”
Not long after that, Roland was given a decent funeral before his body was placed among the Yard Family’s ancestral graves. Nonetheless, Selena made sure he wasn’t buried anywhere near her mother’s grave, believing she would hate to see him in the afterlife.
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