The Princess and the Pauper (Arabella) novel Chapter 2109

He recalled the memory of the day. They were on their way to celebrate Amelia's birthday when suddenly they were ambushed. The car crashed, and Kenneth's head slammed against the window. Dazed and confused, he was dragged out before he could grasp what was happening. Someone had clamped a cloth over his nose and mouth.

Now, looking back, the mastermind was undoubtedly Serena!

"Serena, how could you?" Kenneth's voice was heavy with betrayal. "We've taken care of you for eighteen years. You've lived in luxury, never wanting for anything. Everyone in our family has cherished you, coddled you from your childhood. Even after Bella came back, we still treated you like our own daughter."

"Your own daughter? How can you even say those words? Can't you see the difference in how you treated me and Arabella? Am I blind or just stupid? If it wasn't for your blatant favoritism, would things have ever come to this?!"

Kenneth asked with great sorrow, "Have you never once thought that you could be at fault? All those tears, that remorse you showed, were they all just for show?"

"You should be glad I even bothered to put on an act," Serena screamed with heart-wrenching voice. "That meant I cared about you! But now, I don’t care anymore."

She now had nothing left.

Her only support, Martin, was also gone.

Rather than living such a miserable life, she thought, it would be better to avenge her biological parents and drag these people down with her.

Living a life as murky as a swamp, she was not at all unhappy, but in agony.

If she was to suffer, Arabella wasn't going to have her happy ending either!

Even now, she stubbornly believed that all the problems were caused by blood ties.

She never realized her own faults.

Or rather, she thought her faults were minor, and that others were to blame.

Kenneth, heartbroken and aggrieved, still tried to awaken her conscience. "If we cared only for blood ties, we would have driven you out before Bella came back. It was the affection of those eighteen years, our reluctance to part with you, that we wanted to keep you. The reason we turned you away is that you kept hurting Bella, over and over, without any sign of repentance."

"So, it's all my fault, and you're completely blameless? If it weren't for your obvious partiality, why would I be jealous of her, despise her, to the point of wishing her dead."