At lody Sumrs’s words, a desperate look flickered in Clara Hayes’s eyes.
She looked at lody Sumrs anxiously, frantically trying to defend herself. "Everything I did before was because I was tricked by that bitch Sylvia Lancaster!"
"lody Sumrs, think about it! If it weren’t for Sylvia Lancaster, I never would have targeted you. We had no reason to hate each other! This is all Sylvia Lancaster’s fault!"
lody Sumrs heard this, her expression unchanging, but inwardly, she couldn’t help but sneer.
’Even if the main culprit is Sylvia Lancaster, the one fanning the flas from behind the scenes, does that make Clara Hayes innocent?’
’Didn’t Clara Hayes herself enjoy the thrill of bullying others? Why is she trying to wash her hands of it all now?’
Seeing that lody Sumrs had no intention of helping untie her, Clara Hayes began to panic.
She spoke to lody Sumrs again, her voice laced with anxiety. "lody Sumrs, you must hate that imposter Sylvia Lancaster for stealing your family, right?"
"It’s the sa for now! Sylvia Lancaster stole my family too. We’ve both been victimized by her! Sylvia Lancaster is our common enemy!"
Every word from Clara Hayes was laced with sincerity as she tried to pull lody Sumrs into an alliance.
She felt that since they had both had their families stolen by Sylvia Lancaster, lody Sumrs should be able to sympathize with her.
"lody Sumrs, untie ! I’m going to go settle the score with Sylvia Lancaster and Lily Adler! Do you have any idea what they did to ? They actually..."
As Clara Hayes spoke, she trailed off, her wide eyes filling with humiliation.
Hearing this, lody Sumrs didn’t offer the sympathy Clara Hayes hoped for. Instead, she scoffed. "Clara Hayes, didn’t you used to love finding people to bully girls you didn’t like? What, now that it’s your turn, you can’t take it?"
lody Sumrs rembered clearly. In her past life, the siblings Clara and Hugh Hayes had tried to drug her multiple tis. They even hired people to try and rape her, but she had managed to escape each ti.
The two siblings were accustod to using this tactic, and many girls had fallen victim to them.
But Clara and Hugh Hayes just thought of it as a ga. Not only that, they would even mock the girls who committed suicide because they couldn’t bear the humiliation: "We were just ssing around, why can’t you take a joke?"
Now that Clara Hayes was experiencing it herself, lody Sumrs felt it was nothing but sweet, sweet karma. She was getting what she deserved.
Clara Hayes glared at lody Sumrs, her voice trembling as she asked, "lody Sumrs, what do you an by that? Are you just here to watch suffer? Are you going to help or not? Hurry up and untie !"
Of course, lody Sumrs had no intention of helping Clara Hayes. For soone like Clara, it was a rcy that lody wasn’t kicking her while she was down.
If she didn’t want to keep Clara Hayes around to cause trouble for Sylvia Lancaster, lody Sumrs would have killed her on the spot and let her be reunited with Hugh Hayes in The Underworld!
lody Sumrs snorted coldly. "Of the two people outside, I killed one and tied up the other. You’re safe for now. I’m about to call the police, so just wait here for them to arrive!"
Clara Hayes’s eyes went wide. She said frantically, "No! Don’t call the police! No one can see like this! lody Sumrs, don’t call them! Untie first, and you can call the police after I’m gone!"
Seeing lody Sumrs’s unmoved expression, Clara Hayes burst into tears. "lody Sumrs, I’m begging you! If anyone sees like this, I’m finished!"
lody Sumrs watched Clara Hayes coldly, her voice low as she asked, "So you’re afraid of this too? I thought you didn’t care... Since you’re so afraid of being seen, why didn’t you ever think about this when you were bullying other people?!"
At these words, Clara Hayes finally broke down completely, crying as she spoke to lody Sumrs. "I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I was wrong! I really know I was wrong now! Please, just let go! I beg you, I promise I’ll never do it again!"
lody Sumrs watched Clara Hayes’s tear-streaked face with cold eyes, feeling not a shred of pity.
She didn’t care whether Clara Hayes’s apology was sincere. She felt that people like Clara didn’t deserve forgiveness; otherwise, it would be an insult to all the girls she had bullied.
lody Sumrs had originally planned to just walk away, but...
If the police arrived and found Clara Hayes tied up, she might be treated as a victim.
There was no way lody would let Clara get a lighter sentence because of that!
She felt the entire Hayes Family had to pay the price, every last one of them!
At this thought, lody Sumrs sneered. She said nothing more, simply tossing the dagger in her hand to the ground. "Here’s the knife. For everything else, figure it out yourself."
With that, she paid Clara Hayes no more mind and walked straight out the door.
After lody Sumrs left, Clara Hayes frantically propped herself up on her elbows, struggling and scraping against the ground as she painstakingly crawled toward the dagger.
Once she reached it, she turned her back, fumbled to position the blade, and began sawing at the ropes that bound her...
******
lody Sumrs wiped the blood from her face, stepped outside, and was about to call the police.
But as soon as she walked out the main door, she ran right into several bodyguards who had co looking for her!
The bodyguards breathed a collective sigh of relief when they saw her. "Miss Sumrs! We finally found you!"
lody Sumrs was taken aback. "Why did you follow in? Didn’t I tell you to wait for outside the alley?"
The bodyguards replied, a hint of lingering fear in their voices, "You were gone for so long, everyone was terrified. We had to go door-to-door to find you."
Hearing this, lody Sumrs gave them an apologetic smile. "I’m fine. Let’s get out of here first."
As she walked toward the alley entrance, lody Sumrs took out her phone and composed a ssage for Roman Rhodes.
She recounted the day’s events to him. "Officer Rhodes, I found Hector Hayes’s base for illegal organ harvesting..."
...
lody Sumrs walked out of the alley with the bodyguards, only to be surprised by the sight of Ronan Rhodes waiting at the entrance.
Ronan Rhodes had originally arranged for several bodyguards to pick up lody Sumrs and Sophie Thorne after the banquet.
But the thought that lody Sumrs might beco his aunt made Ronan Rhodes a little uneasy, so he canceled his work for the night and ca along himself.
He hadn’t expected, however, that lody Sumrs and Sophie Thorne had already left the event early.
When Ronan Rhodes arrived to pick them up, he saw Sophie Thorne looking frantic, waiting near a small alley with the bodyguards.
Upon learning that lody Sumrs had ignored all advice and insisted on taking a suspicious pregnant woman ho, Ronan Rhodes nearly had a heart attack and imdiately sent a group of bodyguards in to find her.
Now, seeing lody Sumrs walk out safe and sound, both Sophie Thorne and Ronan Rhodes finally let out a sigh of relief.
Sophie Thorne rushed forward and grabbed lody Sumrs’s arm. "You’re finally out! We were about to call the police..."
Then, Sophie Thorne’s words caught in her throat. Her eyes widened as she stared at the dark bloodstains on lody Sumrs’s gown, her face a mask of shock. "You... why are you covered in blood?!"
Ronan Rhodes also hurried forward. "Are you hurt? Should we go to the hospital?"
lody Sumrs glanced down. There was a patch of blackish-red blood on her dress, spattered in a way that almost looked like a dark red pattern.
She’d been sprayed with blood when she killed one of them. She had wiped her face clean, but there was nothing she could do about her clothes.
Sophie Thorne nervously pulled at lody Sumrs, looking her over, trying to find the wound.
lody Sumrs quickly reassured her. "It’s okay, it’s okay. It’s not my blood. Let’s get in the car first, I’ll tell you what happened on the way."
Back in the car, lody Sumrs omitted the part about the basent and told Sophie Thorne how she had turned the tables on Ms. Archer and Young.
"The pregnant woman was a fake. They use that trick to lure in passersby. I’m sure I wasn’t the first one to fall for it..."
"The ’Lily’ they ntioned is almost certainly Lily Adler! ... I just chewed out Lily Adler and Sylvia Lancaster in the banquet hall. I can’t believe they acted so fast..."
"But how did they dare to kidnap Clara Hayes? Aren’t they afraid of retaliation from Hector Hayes?"
Ronan Rhodes sat in the passenger seat, listening silently to lody Sumrs’s story, his heart pounding in secret shock.
He finally understood why his uncle had told him to bring a few extra bodyguards.
’lody Sumrs really has so nerve... She knew it was a trap, but she walked right into it!’
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