Chapter 379 No Forgiveness, No Redemption.
After Lauren finished speaking, she turned around without a moment’s hesitation.
“No-!” Alice screamed, grabbing hold of her. “You’re my daughter! I carried you for ten months–you can’t treat me like
this!
Lauren looked back, her eyes brimming with scorn.
Alice met that mocking gaze and instantly lowered her head in shame.
She had no right to say Lauren couldn’t treat her this way. After all, in their previous life, she had shown Lauren no mercy as her mother.
She had poured all her love into that wretched Willow, while Lauren hadn’t even been treated as well as the servants in the Bennett family.
“Let go” Lauren’s voice was cold.
Still, Alice clung to her, clinging to her last bit of desperation. “I won’t.”
That’s when Victor charged over and bit down hard on Alice’s hand–the one gripping Lauren.
Alice yelped in pain and instinctively let go.
Victor grabbed Lauren’s hand and pulled her back toward Mr. Timely and Madam Shirley.
Mr. Timely scooped Lauren up in one arm and wrapped his other around the tearful Madam Shirley. His voice was icy as he ordered, “Get those two lunatics out of here.”
At once, the bodyguards stepped forward and dragged David and Alice out.
Alice kept screaming the whole way, but no one paid her any attention.
The banquet hall fell into a dead silence.
Mr. Timely’s sharp gaze swept across the room, lingering especially long on those who had whispered support for Alice earlier those who had swayed with the wind and sided with whoever seemed the weakest at the time. His look was so cold it seemed to freeze them in place.
Feeling the pressure of Mr. Timely’s unyielding aura, the guilty ones lowered their heads, filled with dread, silently praying that he’d be magnanimous enough to let it go.
They hadn’t meant any harm. They’d just been moved by sympathy for a mother.
But even if they hadn’t meant harm, they had spoken rashly without understanding the full situation. As adults, they should’ve had better judgment. That kind of gullibility–falling for Alice’s words so easily–made them unfit to work with the Mavis family.
Collaborating with such people would only drag the Mavis family down
Mr. Timely’s expression didn’t change, but his next words hit like a hammer,
to leave.”
“Anyone who felt sympathy for that woman–feel free to
The stunned guests lifted their heads, eyes wide in disbelief.
Just because of a few comments, he’s kicking an out?
This was a public slap in th
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Was he really cutting ties with them?
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Chapter 379 No Forgiveness. No Redemption
But with those fools people gone, the atmosphere finally quieted, and the celebration resument.
Though the chaos mused by Alice and David had interrupted things, everything proceeded smoothly afterward.
As for Alice and Dunnd-
After being thrown out they kept banging on the Mavis family’s villa gates.
But no one came out. No one even acknowledged them.
Alice turned toward David eyes filled with hatred so intense it was practically tangible.
David, catching her murders clare, stumbled back in fear.
“Baby, listen, I can explain-
“Explain? You abandoned my daughter at an orphanage! What explanation could possibly justify that?”
-5 Pearls
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