The Princess and the Pauper (Arabella) novel Chapter 2143

It was good that all troubles were over. Her younger brother finally saw the true colors of that manipulative witch.

At that moment, Martin came to visit them as usual. Upon entering the door and seeing their tears, he looked at the news report and somehow understood what happened. He walked over and hugged them.

“Mom, sis, I was at fault before. I made you suffer.”

Florence and Diana sobbed even harder at Martin’s words.

Meanwhile, across town.

In a dingy, dilapidated shack, Serena weakly lifted her eyelids. The fading light outside told her dusk was approaching.

She kind of recognized this place – it was on the outskirts of a sprawling thirty-acre fish farm owned by the Collins family.

The shack used to store fishing gear, fold-out chairs, and other odds and ends. Later, when it became too old, Kenneth had a place fixed up next to it, providing a spot for fishing, resting, and entertainment.

And so, this little shack was left abandoned and desolate.

It had a tiled roof, a rough concrete floor, and those common red bricks you find in rural areas. Serena knew being locked here by the Collins family meant she was in a place where her screams would fall on deaf ears.

She had been starving for a full day, her left cheek sliced by shrapnel from an explosion, compounded by the slap Jack had given her. The wound was still agonizingly painful.

The door creaked open, and in walked Kenneth and Louisa, followed by a posse of burly bodyguards.

Not to mention the numerous other guards and Arabella’s own crew.

“I won’t let you off easy, I want you to understand what happens when you hurt Bella, when you cross the Collins family!” With that, Louisa and her husband stormed out.

Before long, Hans arrived with his crew. They stuffed Serena into a sack and repeatedly dumped her into the fish pond, pulling her out just before she’d suffocate, over and over to make her feel the terror of drowning.

Then Chasel showed up. Knowing Serena prized her looks, he had her head and eyebrows shaved clean, and set his dog on her. The beast nearly tore a chunk out of her calf and left her arms a bloody mess. Pain blacked out her vision, and she fainted.

Clark, aware of her lingering feelings for Romeo, hired a bunch of hobos to “take good care of her”.

Sean arrived with a switchblade, letting his men carve words into her face.