Bianca clenched her hands, overcome with emotion.
Martha raised her head a little and smiled with confidence.
"Since there is no objection, let's work together from now on."
The crowd nodded and laughed as they left the room.
When the others had gone, Martha crouched down and looked at her father.
"Dad, Bianca will take you home to take a rest."
At this, Maxwell moved his fingers and stared at his daughter, his mouth half open as if to say something.
When Martha saw his look, she knew that he was still thinking about it.
She held her father's hand and said solemnly, "Dad, I will solve the problem. I promise."
Then Maxwell's anxiety slowly subsided, and he nodded slightly.
There was sorrow in his eyes, mingled with infinite emotion.
Bianca, who was standing by, did not know what they were talking about, but she did not ask.
For the rest of her life, she was content to stay with them.
...
At 3 PM, the visiting room in the prison.
Sitting in a chair at ease and being separated by a glass window from the cubicle, Martha was waiting for someone.
Hollie's trial date was set for a week later.
Why she came here today was not to humiliate Hollie, but to tell her something.
It was not long before Hollie was ushered into the visiting room by a female guard.
Hollie was dressed in prison garb, with a dark yellow face and heavy eye bags, as if she had not rested for a long time.
Though Martha seemed calm, she did not expect that Hollie would be in such a state in only two days.
Gaunt and distressed, Hollie was a far cry from her former glamorous self.
They were separated only by a glass partition, but they felt that they were far from each other.
Martha looked at Hollie sitting on the other side of the glass window and reached for the phone.
Hollie, with her dull eyes, listlessly picked up the phone and put it to her ear without speaking.
She knew she was going to spend the rest of her life in jail, and now there was nothing she could say.
Besides, what could she say to Martha?
Hollie was showing her hard face. For Martha, she was not repentant.
And Martha was aware of it.
She slightly frowned in a subtle mood.
Had it not been for her father, she would never have come here at all, much less have thought of seeing her again.
If it had not been for Hollie, how could she have lived through all the hardships?
She would never forget that Hollie had killed her mother.
Martha restrained those negative emotions, sighed and looked at Hollie, and said. "I came here today to tell you something."
As she spoke, Hollie interrupted her.
"If you're here to brag about what you have done, I don't want to hear it... I never think that I lost."
Sweat pearled her palms as she tightened her grip on the phone.
She knew how embarrassed she was, but she still would not surrender to Martha.
But for this bitch who was lucky to survive, how could she be in jail now?
Yet even if she was stuck here for the rest of her life, Hollie still did not feel that she had lost out to Martha.
After all, she had once made Martha's life a living hell.
Her chin went up a little at the thought, and there was a touch of haughty irony in her eyes. But Martha just felt Hollie look absurd.
Did Hollie still not accept the reality?
The eyes of the woman in the prison garb narrowed slightly. Even in her own worst state, she could stand on a high ground of her own imagination and ridicule others -
"About the operation, Stefan personally signed the consent form. Now even if I have to spend my lifetime in prison, you do not win against me. After all…"
Hollie paused for a moment, and then sneered, "He never believed you. You lost to me in this way."
At these words, Martha smiled and shook her head. She knew that people like Hollie would never admit their mistake.
She said, "Does it matter if you win or lose? I never think I've won anything right now."
For she had lost so much in the past.
If possible, she was willing to be a loser and sacrifice everything for the rest of her life, as long as she could bring her mother back to life, have her father cured, and make Jimmy be born healthy.
But there were no ifs.
Hollie's mocking smile froze on her face, and she scowled at Martha.
Martha said with a subtle smile, "Since childhood, I have never thought of fighting with you for anything. It was you who tried to kill me again and again."
"So what?"
Hollie, staring at Martha, said in a cold voice, "In my life, the most regretful thing is that I could not see your death four years ago."
Hearing this, Martha slightly frowned, looking at the woman in the cubicle with cold eyes.
She thought that in all her life she had never done anything mean to offend Hollie.
Nor did she understand why Hollie hated her that much.
Suddenly, Hollie laughed and feared nothing at all.
"Martha, you say you never fight with me for anything, but do you know that from the moment you were born, you have taken away everything from me?"
If it had not been for Martha, how could she have borne the abuse of others from her childhood?
If it weren't for Martha, she would have had a happy family instead of being a secret illegitimate daughter.
Hollie's face grew darker as she thought of her childhood, and her scarlet eyes were full of resentment.
"I tell you that, from the first day I was brought back to the Doyle Villa, I hated you. I want you to get out of this world all the time."
"Why?"
Martha really could not understand why there should be so much resentment against her.
Hollie laughed sarcastically, with undisguised jealousy and unwillingness in her eyes.
"You were born with a silver spoon, but I am just the daughter of an ignoble whore. You have a gentle and virtuous mother, but I have a terrible one."
"When I was called a bastard, you were the envy of all, the apple of others' eyes. We are both daughters of the Doyle family. Why is this so unfair? Why have I suffered so much since childhood?"
"Martha, everything you have got should have been mine. Therefore, I will destroy you and take back what is mine!"
At last Hollie rose excitedly and stared at Martha, who was so close and yet could not be touched.
Martha listened to Hollie's resentful words, and she never knew that Hollie was thinking in that way.
It turned out that, from the beginning, Hollie was living in the Doyle Manor with resentment.
When Martha was young, her mother told her that Hollie was her sister and that she should treat her well.
Therefore, she treated Hollie sincerely, sharing everything she had with her and not hiding any secret.
But it turned out... Hollie hated her from the beginning.
Martha looked at Hollie, who was gradually out of control, and slowly closed her eyes. After a long time, she said quietly, "No, you did not have the right to hate me... You've been wrong from the start."
'I did not have the right to hate her and I had been wrong from the start?"
Hollie gritted her teeth and asked angrily, "What do you mean?"
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