The Princess and the Pauper (Arabella) novel Chapter 2134

“You had the gall to trip up your own brother and sister-in-law, to hire killers and set fires. You even dared to take the lives of my wife and daughter—why couldn’t you just come to us and say you wanted this company.”

Kenneth’s face was streaked with tears, his voice choked with sorrow, “As long as you speak up, tell me what you want, and I would be willing to step down. I’d rather give you the company than to see what you have become, than to be separated from Bella for all these years. I didn’t want her to suffer outside, don’t you understand?? Do you understand how important family means to me.”

His tears were pouring down like rain, he asked angrily, “Do you understand?”

To him, family was everything.

Lucas’s eyes brimmed with tears too. This was the first time he had seen his elder brother break down like this, pouring his heart out to him.

But it was all too late.

They had boarded the wrong ship, and there was no turning back.

“Oh Beverly,” Louisa cried, her heart felt like it was being sliced open, “What else is there, that we don’t know? I don’t believe that you’d hate us so deeply over something so trivial.”

Now that everything was out in the open, they might as well clear everything up at once.

There were tears in Beverly’s eyes too, “There are something I’ve held in my heart for so long.”

For years, she had been trying hard to be a good daughter-in-law, a perfect sister-in-law. There were words that she couldn’t say, feelings she had to suppress; and now, after so many years, they were finally seeing the light of day.

They had been keeping this secret for so many years; they originally planned to take this secret to the grave.

“Let me say it.” With teary red eyes, Cornelia looking as if she had aged several years, “The night you had your cesarean, did your brother call you several times?”

Beverly was stunned. How did she know about that?

“And not just that night, in the days before you gave birth to Frederica, did your brother frequently call you, asking to borrow money?”

Beverly never thought that her mother-in-law would know about this.