My Second Marriage with the Mafia Kingpin novel Chapter 88

Chapter 88: You Have A Charity Ball To Attend

"Sally... it’s over. I already told the madam everything—about how we framed Betty and tried to make her take the fall."

Everything stilled at that moment.

Bang’s voice was quiet, but somehow, the words carried through the entire greenhouse. Everyone could only stare at Bang, and then at Sally and the other maid.

"Frame Betty into taking the fall?" one of them repeated under his breath. "What’s going on here?"

"Are they really behind this?"

"Unbelievable!"

"What—Bang, what in the world are you saying?" the other maid stammered, fear slowly etching itself across her face. "There’s—this—how could you frame us like this?"

Sally, on the other hand, only paled as she stared at Bang with quiet dread. She had noticed Bang acting strangely since this morning. However, she hadn’t thought much of it.

She shook her head as panic began to set in. "No—no!"

Having the survival instinct humans naturally possess, Sally quickly turned to Ashley and dropped to her knees.

"Madam, I’m being framed!" she shouted. "Whatever Bang said isn’t true! I didn’t—it’s not me! I’m innocent!"

"Innocent?" Ashley tilted her head to the side. "Are you saying Bang is lying?"

THUD!

As those words left Ashley’s mouth, Bang dropped to her knees. Her hands clutched the ground, her head lowered.

"Madam, I would never lie about such a thing! What I told you last night was all true! Sally wanted to frame Betty because she wanted to kick Betty out of Dominion! So, she told me to plant the bleach we used to kill the seedlings in Betty’s room once she lured her out!" Bang explained in dread, barely taking a breath as she blurted it all out in one go.

"We initially poisoned the seedlings because we thought that could get Betty in trouble, but when you said there would be an investigation, Sally said it was an opportunity! That we should help you catch the culprit!" she continued, not daring to look at the shock on everyone’s faces as she confessed.

"What are you saying!?" Sally roared as she turned to Bang. Without thinking, she marched over and grabbed Bang by the shoulders. "Bang! How could you say all this about me?"

Then she turned to Ashley. "Madam, it’s not true! It was Bang’s idea—I would never do this to you or to Betty! You can ask her! It was Bang’s idea, and we were just forced to do it!"

The other maid in their group darted her eyes between Bang and Sally, who had now turned on each other. But the second Sally shot her a look, she nodded and immediately dropped to her knees.

"Madam, Sally and I are innocent!" the third maid cried out. "We’re being framed by Bang! It was all her plan, and she forced us into it! She’s always been a bully and forced us to do things for her! Betty knew that even when she was still a maid!"

But Betty’s expression only grew colder as she watched the three fight over their innocence even now. For once, Betty had thought that these three—no matter how cruel they were—had seen each other as friends, considering how they usually covered for one another.

Now, look at them.

Pushing the blame onto each other.

"What?" Bang scoffed as she turned to both Sally and the other maid. "You’re seriously just going to dump all the blame on me?"

"Bang, please, stop now!" the maid exclaimed, teary-eyed. Then she turned to Ashley, hoping the tears would earn her some sympathy. "Madam, please. We’re being wronged."

Sally then crawled forward on her knees, rubbing her hands together. "Madam, we’re being framed by Bang. It’s not us! I know what we did was wrong, but we only listened to Bang because we were afraid! She knew things about us that could get us kicked out of Dominion!"

"We simply didn’t want to get kicked out!" she added desperately.

"No!" Bang shouted as she turned to Ashley. "It’s not just me—it’s also them! It was Sally’s idea because she hates Betty! She also disliked Madam and said you don’t deserve to be here! And that—"

"Enough!" Ashley cut in as the trio began shouting over one another as if she were standing far away.

Meanwhile, everyone’s frowns deepened. Even with the three now pushing the blame onto one another, it was clear they all shared responsibility. And that made everything even clearer—that all of this had been planned.

"Enough," Ashley repeated, taking a step forward as she gazed down at the three of them. "I didn’t want to do this. If anything, I was planning for us to resolve this issue privately. However, since it came to this, I have no choice."

She raised her chin and looked at everyone. "When Bang came to me last night, I asked some people to confirm all of this."

Ashley clapped and turned to the entrance of the greenhouse. "Boys, come in!"

So, she asked them for a favor instead. It was a simple one: to keep watch over the greenhouse until midnight.

That wasn’t exactly what she had asked, they thought, but didn’t say. They were here to serve as a display, just as she wanted.

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