Filed To Story: Returning to Her Not-So-Poor Family
The scene was gruesome, blood was everywhere…
Beyond the stomach wound, his body was covered in slashes…
“You pull another stunt like that, and your little army will suffer the consequences,” Serena spat out before abruptly ending the call.
Mirabella knew her parents were never without their security detaii—a team of four bodyguards led by a former Special Forces chief whose combat skills were second to none.
Now that with the chief captured; it was clear the rest of the team was in Serena’s grasp.
However, Serena was wheelchair-bound; there was no way she could kidnap so many people by herself, let alone injure the chief.
It was well known that the chief was highly skilled, and no ordinary person could harm him in the slightest.
Unless she had someone else—apart from Stinger, possibly even more dangerous, doing her bidding.
With these thoughts swirling in her mind, Mirabella dialed Stinger’s number to ask if this was the situation.
“Erik indeed has more than one godson. But how many of us there are and who they are, I don’t know. We’ve never met each other. Normally, we each carry out our own tasks and lead our own teams,” Stinger revealed.
“I see.” Mirabella finally understood.
Meanwhile.
Serena glimpsed the mother-daughter photo Mirabella had set as her WhatsApp chat background. With anger flared up, she switched it to a plain white.
She exited the app, then caught sight of Louisa’s phone wallpaper—a beaming family portrait, everyone in matching family outfits. Envy turned her eyes red as she swiftly replaced it with a generic starry night image from the preset options. Opening the photo album, the images of the happy family’s daily life pierced her like a thousand needles.
Ever since she left, they could still smile so happily.
There was so much happiness she wasn’t part of, so much she hadn’t seen on Facebook, so much private joy.
Driven mad by jealousy, Serena deleted all of the photos in the album with one click, then permanently removed them. Only then did she feel a tinge of satisfaction, and she flaunted the phone in front of Louisa.
“I’ve deleted the photos,” she said with a tone of bragging and pride.
Louisa Louisa was still a bit dizzy, suspecting that she had been drugged with some kind of intoxicating perfume. She was on her knees, her hands and feet bound behind her, and her mind groggy.
Hearing that her album had been emptied and recalling the countless photos with her Nes aughtert I
thats n’t backed up, anger ta ER ortache as Clarity slowly returned to her. Clenching her teeth, she said, “Serena, is that how people are supposed to act?”
Using such a petty way to exact revenge?
“You’re upset now? When I was your daughter, you never took as many photos of me. You once accidentally deleted everything from your camera, and you weren’t nearly as upset as you are now!”
Louisa closed her eyes, holding back her emotions before finally saying, “I truly regret.”
“Regret what? Having me as the Collins’ daughter for eighteen years?
Or do you regret spending time and money on me? Or eyotrey kegpingmnein is house even after Mirabella came back? Is that what you regret? You’ve hit me, scolded at me, locked me in the basement without a glance, giving me neither food nor drink, and am I supposed to regret calling you ‘Mom’ for eighteen years?”
Their quarrel woke Kenneth from his stupor. Enduring a throbbing headache, it tonichie@lBorteht fo Gpaspanie Situation. He pieced it together—they were held captive by their former “daughter”!
He recalled the memory of the day. They were on their way to celebrate Amelia’s birthday when suddenly they were ambushed.
The car crashed, and Kenneth’s head slammed against the window. Dazed and confused, he was dragged out before he could grasp what was happening. Someone had clamped a cloth over his nose and mouth.
Now, looking back, the mastermind was undoubtedly Serena!
“Serena, how could you?” Kenneth’s voice was heavy with betrayal. “We’ve taken care of you for eighteen years. You’ve lived in luxury, never wanting for anything. Everyone in our family has cherished you, coddled you from your childhood. Even after Bella came back, we still treated you like our own daughter.”
“Your own daughter? How can you even say those words? Can’t you see the difference in how you treated me and Mirabella? Am I blind or just stupid? If it wasn’t for your blatant favoritism, would things have ever come to this?!”
Kenneth asked with great sorrow, “Have you never once thought that you could be at fault? All those tears, that remorse you showed, were they all just for show?”
“You should be glad I even bothered to put on an act,” Serena screamed with heart-wrenching voice. “That meant I cared about you! But now, I don’t care anymore.”
She now had nothing left.
Her only support, Martin, was also gone.
Rather than living such a miserable life, she thought, it would be better to avenge her biological parents and drag these people down with her.
Living a life as murky as a swamp, she was not at all unhappy, but in agony.
If she was to suffer, Mirabella wasn’t going to have her happy ending either!
Serena had lost her family; now, she was determined to make Mirabella feel the pain of that loss too!
“I was wrong.” Serena laughed in self-mockery. “I was wrong to believe your lies, thinking you would ever treat me fairly! I was wrong to be so arrogant, not seeing my true place! I was wrong to keep holding on to this pitiful family affection, you never cared about me.”
Her biological mother had been right. Once Mirabella returned, she had only two choices: let go of her familial ties and use the Collins’ name as a stepping stone to another wealthy family, milking the Collins family for all they were worth or eliminate Mirabella and return to the life she once had!
However, her indecisiveness and vacillation led her to miss numerous opportunities. And in the end, her biological mother was dead, her father too, and she was left in this plight.
It was all her fault for not heeding her mother’s words.
“These eighteen years of companionship, these countless days and nights of emotional foundation, yet easily wavered by this mere blood connection. Is this blood tie really that important to you?” Serena’s question was full of anguish.
Louisa closed her eyes, and after a while, she said, “You’re beyond redemption.”
Even now, she stubbornly believe that all the proplemig wate caused y plondaies!
She never realized her own faults.
Or rather, she thought her faults were minor, and that others were to blame.
Kenneth, heartbroken and aggrieved, still tried to awaken her conscience.
“If we cared only for blood ties, we would have driven aout bi a camebabkh was the affection of those eighteen years, our reluctance to part with you, that we wanted to keep you. The reason we turned you away is that you kept hurting Bella, over and over, without any sign of repentance.”
“So, it’s all my fault, and you’re completely blameless? If it weren’
for your oyoxs oni why would ibe jeat us of her, despise her, to the point of wishing her dead.”
“So, the problem lies entirely with others, and you’ve done nothing wrong at all, is that it?” Kenneth closed his eyes too, filled with deep loathing and extremely disappointment. He felt that it was impossible to reason with her.
She now refused to listen to reason, living in her own little world, harboring hatred for everyone around her.
Seeing their expressions made Serena even more displeased.
Never before had they shown such expressions towards her. Before Mirabella returned, they had never even raised their voices to her, let alone scold he “You care so much about your precious Mirabella, right? Well, today, I’ll let you watch as she dies miserably right before your eyes.” Serena burst into an exhilarated laugh.
The mere thought of Mirabella in pain brought her a vengeful pleasure!
But the happier Serena laughed, the more indifferent and expressionless Kenneth and Louisa became.
She couldn’t help but pause and ask, “Aren’t you afraid?”
“With just these few people, you can’t harm her,” Louisa was very confident in her precious daughter.
In this dilapidated place, Serena only had three subordinates, and she herself was confined to a wheelchair.
How could they bring down Bella miserably?
It would be good enough if Bella didn’t turn the tables on them.
“Hahahahaha.” Serena laughed even louder once she knew what they were thinking. “You don’t really think I only brought these three men, do you? I know Mirabella’s got some fight in her. I don’t underestimate her, but even if a hundred Mirabella came, they wouldn’t be a match for me.”
Louisa just gave her a look that said she clearly wasn’t buying it.
“If you dare hurt Bella, I’ll never forgive you!” Kenneth’s protective paternal instinct flared up.
But to Serena, that was just more proof of his favoritism.
“For the sake of your blood-related daughter, you’re willing to turn against a daughter you raised for eighteen years?” Serena sneered, her face turning sinister, “Well then, don’t blame me for not showing mercy when the time comes.”
At that moment, one of her subordinates entered the room and reported, “We’ve got them.”
Serena’s grin widened, “Bring them in.”
Kenneth and Louisa had no clue who she’d captured until the subo dinates brought th copie Haha to their chabert ey discovered the captives were Bernard and Cornelia Collins!
Their hands were bound behind their backs, and with a feom@éerdna’s gythieycboth ell to the ground, forced to kneel.
“Dad, Mom.” Kenneth wanted to rush over to help them up, but he found himself tied to a pillar, unable to break free.
Louisa, also tied to a pillar, looked at the two elderly people aceon her with ony and sitger” serena, peeled them? They were your grandparents for eighteen years.”
“Hahahaha. Now you talk to me about family?” Serena laughed mockingly. “wanted to rush over to help them up.”
Now it was their turn.
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