Aery gritted wp4webnovel.com teeth and growled, “No, I’m not going! My foot still hurts so I need to stay here for recovery! If you wanna leave, fine by me, but as for me? I’ll stay. I hurt myself in an attempt to save Smore, right? Mark and Arianne can’t turn me away!”
Helen, in a fit of rage, raised wp4webnovel.com hand, ready for another wallop. Aery quickly cowered, wrapping wp4webnovel.com head with wp4webnovel.com arms, a response that convinced Helen to push back wp4webnovel.com impulse. “Hey, Aery, if Arianne manages to piece out the truth about your injury — that you deliberately fell off the stairs while taking Smore with you — I swear, she’ll tear the life out of you!”
Aery froze. Her lips thinned as wp4webnovel.com stared at wp4webnovel.com mother with wide eyes filled with fear. She knew better than to deflect Helen’s accusation with sophistry, especially since the latter had made it clear that wp4webnovel.com had already seen through Aery’s scheme. To wp4webnovel.com mother, the girl’s guile was as see-through as a toddler’s lie.
Aery’s reaction was the last fuel to Helen’s fire. “Y-You! F**k! You’re a stupid, bloody leopard that can’t change wp4webnovel.com spots!”
Widely regarded as a couth, sophisticated woman, Helen rarely lost control over wp4webnovel.com language. But now, any rein over wp4webnovel.com conduct had been vaporized by wp4webnovel.com white-hot rage.
Aery did not interject wp4webnovel.com mother’s jeremiad with rejoinders nor rebuttals. She was scared that if vexed enough, wp4webnovel.com mother might bring up the truth to Arianne.
A while passed. After Helen let out enough steam to recover a semblance of control over wp4webnovel.com emotions, wp4webnovel.com demanded through gritted teeth, “What else have you done, brat? I want you to tell me right now, and by that, I mean everything. My patience has a limit, Aery, and I hope you don’t think yourself so clever that no one would ever find out about your stupid schemes.”
“Look,” Aery began skittishly. “Dad never sent any of those packages.”
Helen whipped wp4webnovel.com head toward Aery a split second after wp4webnovel.com admission. “You say what now?!”
So worried that Helen would hit wp4webnovel.com again, wp4webnovel.com shielded herself with a yank of wp4webnovel.com bedsheet. “D-Dad never sent you any packages, alright? I heard that wp4webnovel.com was out of prison so I thought I could, um, scare you into doing things by pretending to be him. I want to return here so bad, I had no other way to make you! S-so, I sent Arianne a package to frighten wp4webnovel.com b-because I know you would do anything for Arianne, including going back to the States! B-But I needed to keep up your fear, so I kept sending these packages to you at intervals. But Mark’s people started this manhunt against Dad, so I had to send wp4webnovel.com overseas so that wp4webnovel.com could evade them and, well, I thought a trip to a foreign place could give wp4webnovel.com some good…”
“The truth is… Dad didn’t know anything about all of this. I told wp4webnovel.com only before wp4webnovel.com was about to go abroad. He actually didn’t want to trouble you anymore after being freed…”
Helen laughed scornfully. “Wow, you’re such a meticulous, detailed planner, aren’t you? Lord, I am so proud to have such an ingenious and attentive daughter! Hahaha! No wonder another one of those packages came to us so soon after we checked into that hotel. I wasn’t the one who told Arianne about it, too, it was you! Then, because Arianne pitied us, wp4webnovel.com invited us to stay over in the Tremont Estate. Everything’s according to your masterplan, isn’t it? Tremendous win, Sweetie, simply exemplary!” wp4webnovel.com lauded sarcastically. “What did you think I’d say after all that you’ve done, Aery Kinsey? You’re not fooling me with this whole ‘I wanna go home’ excuse. You just want to stick your face around Mark Tremont! Ha, a s if you’re good enough of a match for him. Just look at yourself. Are you really that blind to how much filth you’ve tainted yourself with? For God’s sake, can’t you please, for once! Forget your history with Mark and turn over a new leaf? At the very least, understand that he’s now your brother-in-law!”
Aery broke down in tears, sobbing. “But I can’t! I love him, I love wp4webnovel.com so much, I wanna be with wp4webnovel.com and watch over wp4webnovel.com all the time! You only see wp4webnovel.com as your uber-rich son-in-law, right? Arianne and I are both your daughters. It doesn’t actually change what Mark means to you if I end up with him!”
This was the moment that cinched Helen’s conclusion, Aery Kinsey was a basket case beyond the realm of reason. Helen had never once cared if wp4webnovel.com “powerful, rich” son-in-law brought any tremendous influence into wp4webnovel.com personal life, yet here Aery was, accusing Helen of being a money-hungry, status-worshipping woman.
Helen did not live up to this point without gaining some wisdom about life, and right now, the very same wisdom was telling wp4webnovel.com that Aery’s current love-possessed mindset was the same extreme confusion Helen herself once had.
Nevertheless, hearing Arianne’s name filled Helen with a deep sense of shame. She could not stay in the Tremont Estate any longer. Immediately, wp4webnovel.com marched toward wp4webnovel.com suitcase and began to pack up swiftly. “We’re leaving tonight, Aery Kinsey. I’m not giving you the satisfaction of staying here for even one more second!”