The Princess and the Pauper (Arabella) novel Chapter 2140

The moment they turned around, the light that seemed to suffuse their very beings dimmed.

Not until the family of four had left Reflections Villa did Kenneth and Louisa burst into tears.

The trust they had built bit by bit with their younger brother’s family over the years, the affection interwoven in their lives, the time they spent together—like a huge mountain collapsing suddenly, leaving them reeling, wounded and bleeding from the unexpected blow.

Their sons approached to console them. Only Sean approached Arabella, gently patting her head in a comforting gesture, as if to tell her that it was over and that everything was over and they would start a new life.

Arabella carried a heaviness in her heart.

Even with the truth laid bare, there was not a trace of joy to be found within her. Perhaps it was because too much had happened recently.

Kenneth and Louisa, restless and sleepless throughout the night, didn’t come down for breakfast the next morning.

By noon, however, Bernard and Cornelia mustered their spirits and called everyone down for lunch.

Arabella saw the swollen eyes and the weary faces of her grandparents and her parents at the dining table.

Kenneth’s mood calmed down a bit. With a husky voice, he asked, “Before Bella’s homecoming banquet, there was a raffle. Someone won a car and then there was a crash. That car—was it tampered with by those two?”

“Yes,” Arabella answered truthfully. “At first, everyone thought it was Martin’s doing, to avenge Serena against the Collins family.”

At that time, one of Martin’s subordinates called the deputy manager of the film company, who then called a person named Esther. Shortly thereafter, Esther ordered someone to tamper with the car.

Kenneth’s feelings were a complex tangle, and it took him a while to speak again. “I wonder if there are any of their informants still inside the group.”

His daughter had once mentioned that not only had his brother and sister-in-law planted Erik Martha in their lives to spy on them, but they had also secretly planted confidants in the group.

With countless subsidiaries, rooting these individuals out seemed like finding needles in a haystack.

As he pondered this, Hans received a message from the head of human resources: several managers and vice presidents from various subsidiaries, and even a few board members, had abruptly tendered their resignations that very morning.

It was so baffling that the HR chief had urgently relayed the matter to Hans.