The Princess and the Pauper (Arabella) novel Chapter 2012

"We were just hoping she'd be a bit nicer to Bella, you know? But she was so full of herself, it was too much. She even threatened to leak the security footage from the stairwell. But, honestly, in that stairwell, me and my girls didn't lay a finger on her. We were just talking to her, real polite-like, asking her to consider the eighteen years of love and care the Collins family had shown her and to go easy on Bella with her sharp tongue. But she..."

Alma sounded so pitifully innocent, "She played dirty, making herself out to look like the victim and even calling the paramedics. We watched the surveillance video online, and we were speechless. She's so wicked, playing all her followers for fools, swaying public opinion her way."

Alma sounded somewhat helpless, "As for why I didn't come forward earlier to clear things up for me and my girls, it's because we didn't want to give her any more attention."

On the other hand.

Serena saw the trending hashtags #ArabellaMiracleDocConfirmed, #AlmaDidntHitAnyone, and #SerenaGetOffThePlanet and was fuming.

She never expected Arabella and Alma to turn the tables like this!

And she certainly didn't foresee that damned Eunice coming at her again and again, releasing three damning videos.

Meanwhile, Eunice was being her usual stunning, ice-queen self during a media interview.

"To spare my fellow onlookers any more ugliness, I only released a snippet of the video. The things Serena has done, what you've seen is just the tip of the iceberg."

Her words were like a nail in Serena's coffin, followed by a few vicious stomps for good measure.

Serena was shaking with rage. She thought, "That wretched woman! This was domestic turf, not her foreign playing field! How dare she."

"Also, I know Serena is watching this live stream, and I'd like to tell her: put away those delusions of grandeur, live your life, and stop messing around behind the scenes. I have evidence of every little thing you've done to Bella. I just don't want to continue wasting public resources, so I hope you take this opportunity to turn over a new leaf."

That left Serena grinding her teeth in anger.