Filed To Story: Returning to Her Not-So-Poor Family
“You can stay, but she can’t.” Mirabella flicked a glance at Martha and finally said.Serena despairingly let go of her, stunned for a moment, until Martha cried and hugged her, “It’s okay Serena.
Just because I’m not in this house doesn’t mean I’m leaving you.”
“No, there has to be a way.” Serena shook her head, tears streaming down her face, “When mom and dad come back, I’ll beg them.”
After Mirabella went in her room and packed up, she opened the door to find Martha kneeling at the doorway.
“Mirabella, I’m not here to bother you. Just that I’ve never reflected on myself all this time, and never properly apologized to you. I was arrogant and dismissive, and I didn’t respect you. I know it’s too late to say anything now. I’m leaving, can you forgive me?”
Mirabella leaned against the door, lazily looking at her, “Did Hans tell you, you need my forgiveness to leave?”
Martha looked up, somewhat surprised; she didn’t expect this girl to know everything!
“Fine, I forgive you.” Mirabella walked past her, leaving without a second glance.
Martha watched her retreating figure. Sometimes she couldn’t understand what this girl was thinking.
Mirabella was in a hurry to go abroad, so she didn’t waste time on trivia like this.
She knocked on the study door, and after getting Hans’ permission, she entered.
“Hans, mom and dad are still with Alger; they won’t be back soon. They gave me uncle’s address. I’m going there now.”Hans signaled the meeting to stop, then closed his laptop and stood up, “Bella, you’ve suffered so much before.
Why didn’t you tell me?”
Upon hearing this, Mirabella wondered if Martha had confessed everything? Impossible, this wasn’t her style.
Who else could have told Hans??
Could it be Edith??
“These are just trivial matters, not worth mentioning. I merely didn’t want to deal with them.”
If she really wanted to confront them, could they withstand a single round??
Seeing her obedient demeanor, Hans felt guilty but also found her mature and gracious.
“Martha has been in this house for eighteen years. She truly has worked hard, and that’s why mom and dad didn’t notice her disrespect towards you. Did she apologize to you just now?”
“Yes.”
“Sincerely?”
“Guess so.”
Just now, Martha genuinely desired to stay, hence the heartfelt tears and apologies.
However, with her temperament, it was true what they said. She couldn’t change a leopard’s spots.
“Hans, I’ve got to go,’ Mirabella checked the time. She should leave.
“I’ll have someone drive you there.
“No need. Mom and dad have arranged for our family’s pilot to take me directly to Uncle’s private airstrip.”
“Good. That’ll put my mind at ease”
The Collins family not only employed drivers, but also pilots, all with years of experience and loyal service to the family.
Mirabella took out a small gift from her backpack, “Molly is away at a competition and hasn’t returned yet. If all goes well, she should be the champion. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make it back in time to celebrate with her.
This is a little gift I’ve prepared for her. If I can’t come back that day, could you give it to her for me?”
“Sure,’ Hans hadn’t expected his sister to think so far ahead, even preparing a gift.Speaking of which, he hadn’t started preparing.
“Molly would probably look forward more to a gift from you, so you should think about what to give her.”
After reminding him, Mirabella waved casually and closed the study door behind her.
Thanks to his sister’s reminder, Hans sat in front of the computer, pondering. He opened the search bar and typed: What’s a good gift for a girlfriend?
On the other side.
By the time Kenneth and Louisa returned, it was already 11 at night.
Serena, with her eyes swollen from crying, explained what had happened. Louisa was shocked.
That was a long time ago.
She was admiring her newly purchased flowers when a servant told her that Serena and Martha had a fall.
When she rushed to the living room, Serena had a bruise on her back, and Martha was covered in bruises.
At that time, Lina was still in the house. She insisted that Bella had walked over the spot and hadn’t slipped, but Serena did, suspecting Bella knew about the oil spill and avoided it. She accused Bella of trying to harm Serena!
At the time, there was a servant named Holly who also added fuel to the fire.
Later, Bella restored the surveillance footage, proving her innocence, and she expelled Lina and Holly from the house.
But she never expected that Martha was also involved!If she hadn’t deliberately unscrewed the cap and spilled the oil on the floor, she wouldn’t have implicated herself and Serena.
“So it was you.” Louisa was even more furious, “You’ve tried to make my precious daughter fall, and now you have the audacity to beg to stay in this house?”
Kenneth, after hearing the entire story, was also furious, “Martha, what were you thinking! It’s not easy for Bella to return to this family. We as her parents, should love her more, give her what she needs.
What’s there for you to be jealous of?”
This was their home!!
This was the Collins family!
Martha, on the side, continued to cry and apologize, while Serena remained kneeling in front of their parents, “Mom, Dad, Martha was not thinking straight that time. She has apologized to Bella and received her forgiveness. Please let Martha stay, she has taken care of me for eighteen years, if not for merits, at least for her hard work!”
“Serena, there’s no need to say anything” Louisa seemed to have made up her mind, no longer wavering.
“Dad; Serena pleaded while gazing at her father, her eyes filled with tears.
Since she was a little girl, her father had always been easy to negotiate with, always ready to fulfill her wishes.
Kenneth sighed, “Serena, I can’t agree to your request this time. Martha didn’t trip over the doorstep by accident.
She did it deliberately to hurt Bella. That’s a crime.”
“Dad, it’s not as serious as you make it out to be. Martha was only trying to stand up for me because she saw I was being treated unfairly. She just went about it the wrong way.” Serena knelt in front of her father, imploring desperately, “Dad, I’m begging you. I haven’t asked for you about anything since young”
Martha meant the world to Serena.
“Serena, we take you as our own. But if you can’t see the seriousness of this situation and you think Martha is better than us, then make your choice!” Louisa averted her face, still obviously angry.
Serena widened her eyes in astonishment. She couldn’t believe that her mother who had been gentle and kind to her would utter such remarks!!
“Mom, are you going to abandon me?” Serena’s tears instantly spilled over, making her look exceptionally pitiful, “You want Martha to take me?”
“Serena, Kenneth felt distressed, “What we mean is, Martha can’t stay in this house anymore.””Mr. and Mrs. Collins, I know I’ve done wrong and I have no reason to stay. Serena, don’t push them.
What they did is right. You must listen to your parents from now on. They’re always right.”
Tears streaming down, Martha gazed at Serena, reluctant to leave, “I’ve already felt satisfied for keeping you company since you were a kid, really”
Serena shook her head in tears, frustrated at how incompetent she was not to be able to keep even a servant around her!
Then what was it good to be the daughter of this family!
“Mr. and Mrs. Collins, you haven’t let me hold the responsibility for it and just ask me to leave. I’ve already felt grateful. Thank you for your care and tolerance. I’m really happy to live here for eighteen years.”
After that, Martha bowed down to them respectfully, stood up and was about to leave.
“Martha.” Tears welling up, Serena tried to stop her. However, she didn’t do anything and only gazed at Martha as recalling her mother’s warning.
“Serena, your smile is so beautiful. You need to do that a lot.” Martha said farewell, then slowly walked out of Serena’s sight.
Serena sobbed uncontrollably. She still remembered Hans dropped the plan of letting her manage the jewelry company, and now this came as a terrible blow to her.
Louisa suddenly remembered that incident. That time she questioned why the cap wasn’t firmly closed, and why no one was cleaning the ground since the oil had been spilled. Before watching the surveillance footage, Martha never stood up for Bella when she was being wrongly accused by Holly and Lina. Nor did she confess that it was she who spilled it.It was only when they checked the surveillance footage that Martha confessed, saying that the fall caused too much pain and blaming her forgetfulness on old age.
There were full of flaws and yet she couldn’t detect them, leaving her daughter suffer from grievance.
At that time, Martha feigned to accuse Lina, shifting all the blame to her.
Turned out this servant who had diligently worked for them for eighteen years was this vile.
She just audaciously used dirty pools in this family, but Louisa couldn’t notice that.
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