Violet looked at Talia and uttered, "Too much thinking, plus the fear inside, so she looks like this."
"So that's how it is." Jessie nodded her head, indicating that she knew.
Violet took a few steps forward and stopped at the glass window, picking up the landline microphone in front of her.
Behind the glass window, Talia likewise took it up.
Violet spoke, "What is it that you want to see me about?"
Talia didn't say anything, holding the microphone and just looking at her coldly.
Violet's brow furrowed, "If you don't say anything, I'll leave."
With that, she made a move to hang up the phone.
Talia saw that, she gripped the microphone tightly and hurried to stop her, "Wait a minute."
"Looks like you want to talk." Violet put the microphone back to her ear.
Talia took a deep breath, "Is Eason okay now?"
Violet raised an eyebrow, "You actually asked about him, I thought you'd hate him for setting you up and getting you into this."
"That's right, I hate him, and I'm only asking him now because I want to know if he's dead or not." Talia said with a twisted face.
Violet's eyes darkened for a moment, "Then do you think he's dead or not, or, do you wish him dead?"
"Isn’t that obvious? Look at the expression on her face, she must want your scum dad to die." Jessie looked at the expression on Talia's face and interjected with a grimace.
Talia's hand holding the microphone was trembling slightly, "Yes, I can't wait for Eason to die, why should I be locked in here and about to be executed while he's still alive outside, it's not fair!"
"There's nothing unfair about it, although Eason isn't a good person, he hasn't done anything really bad, not even Nate, everything bad is done by you. If you're not locked up here, who should be locked up, and you have the nerve to talk about fairness?" Violet looked at her coldly.
Talia's face was grim, "Yes, I did all the bad things, but it was all you guys who forced me to do it, if you ......"
"You can stop that!" Jessie rolled her eyes, "What do you mean Violet forced you, did she force you to be a mistress? Did she force you to secretly have an affair with Nate? Did she force you to drug Eason and try to strangle him to death? No, everything is your own doing, so you'd better not put the fault all on others."
"Jessie is right, everything is caused by your own greed. Even if you didn't target Eason back then and didn't become Eason's mistress, you would target other men and become his mistress, seeking another man's inheritance, and then you would be caught in jail for drugging the man."
"You're talking nonsense!" Talia shouted at Violet in exasperation.
Violet's face didn't change and she said indifferently, "Whether or not I'm talking nonsense, you know very well in your heart, because this is your nature. No matter which man you change, you will end up in today's situation because of your greed, so you can't blame anyone, you can only blame yourself for your greed."
"No, no ......" Talia shook her head violently, trying to deny Violet's claim.
Yet in her heart, she had to admit that Violet was right.
Even if it wasn't Eason she targeted twenty years ago, it was another man.
She would end up in the same place as she was now.
"Forget it, what's the use of talking about this? You're all here and will be executed tomorrow. I'll tell you what you want to know, Eason is dead." Violet opened her red lips and said in a deep voice.
Talia looked up incredulously, "What did you say? Eason is dead?"
"That's right, he died two days ago." Violet said, her grip on the microphone tightening as she did so.
Jessie saw clearly that she wasn't as cold as she claimed.
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