The Heiress Revived from the Ashes (Lauren Bennett) novel Chapter 234

Chapter 234 Lashing Out in Despair

Brendan and Brielle were overwhelmed with guilt and sorrow upon learning how miserable Lauren’s life had been. Not only was she wrongfully imprisoned, but she also suffered from their unwitting acts of retaliation.

Their gaze towards Alice now carried nothing but contempt. Kenneth, limp on the floor, was so overwhelmed with remorse that he couldn’t even face Lauren anymore.

And David, seated in his wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down, actually shed tears of regret. Willow was not his daughter. He had been deceived for over twenty years, and for a child not of his own blood, he had mercilessly abused his biological daughter. He had raised Willow, a child born out of wedlock, like a princess, while his real daughter was abandoned to an orphanage and even sent to prison in place of Willow. He had harvested his own daughter’s kidney for the sake of the non–relative. Was Willow, that deceitful woman, secretly laughing at him?

Are Sharon and George, that disgraceful couple, also mocking me for my foolishness? The grief weighed on David like an immense boulder, nearly suffocating him.

“Ah…” David attempted to express his remorse, to voice the regret swelling inside him, but as he opened his mouth, drool Juncontrollably dribbled down his chin, and all that emerged were garbled, incomprehensible sounds.

Alice was jolted back to the past by Marilyn’s harsh words. The scenes of her harsh treatment towards Lauren flashed through her mind like scenes from a movie.

Her gaze became vacant, those memories piercing her heart like sharp needles, bringing intense pain.

She could see a young Lauren, wearing a tattered uniform, watching from a corner as Willow was surrounded by adoration, her face filled with envy and loss. Yet, she had ignored all this, lavishing all her care and protection on Willow instead.

“No, no…” Alice murmured, hugging her head, her body shaking violently.

She wished it was all just a nightmare, that she could wake up and return to the past to make up for her neglect towards Lauren. She remembered the pleading look Lauren gave her when David was beating her, and how she coldly turned away. Now, that look haunted her relentlessly, giving her no place to hide.

She beat her chest, wishing she could turn back time. She would have hugged Lauren tightly, bought her beautiful clothes, thrown grand birthday parties, and made her the happiest daughter in the world.

But time is merciless and never turns back. She couldn’t change her past actions, which were branded into Lauren’s life and seared into her own soul, becoming a pain she could never erase.

Tears flowed uncontrollably as she cried out, releasing years of accumulated regret. Now stripped of her usual arrogance, she was just a mother consumed by agony. Suddenly, she spun around and, losing all reason, rushed at David, pummeling him

with her fists.

“It’s all your fault, all because of you! If you hadn’t thrown my daughter into that orphanage, Laurie was supposed to grow up happy and loved by me. You stole Laurie’s rightful happy life!”

David, defenseless, took the beating, his face swelling and contorting under the blows.

Exhausted, Alice looked down and inadvertently saw the DNA report David was clutching tightly.

Her focus slowly shifted to the report, and as she read the results, she first paused, then burst into uncontrollable laughter.

“Hahaha!” Her laughter was sharp and manic.

“David, look at how pathetic you are! Willow isn’t even your daughter; she’s your driver’s child. You, you’re even less than a driver, hahaha!”

Alice laughed hysterically, but as she laughed, tears suddenly streamed down her cheeks.

David had heartlessly harmed Laurie for Willow, a child not even his own – she too had been deeply sinful.

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Chapter 234 Lashing Out in Despair