Chapter 367 No Mercy for the Merciless
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Willow looked anxious, but her mouth was still defiant. “Your family’s just a bunch of flashy upstarts. We Bennetts aren’t afraid of you.
Lauren’s smile turned colder, her voice sharper. “I’m guessing you don’t even know my last name yet. It’s Mavis–as in the Mavis family, one of the four major families of Balewood.”
Elliot and Willow froze, staring at her in disbelief.
Lauren didn’t care to waste another word on them. She needed to find her mom–if her mother came back with water and didn’t see her, she’d be worried sick.
Just as she turned to leave, the sound of approaching footsteps echoed in the stairwell.
The steps grew louder, then stopped right beside her.
Lauren turned and met the gaze of Felix–his dark eyes sharp and clear as stars. He reached for her hand and held it gently.
She felt a little awkward. “Felix… did you hear everything we just said?”
Felix nodded softly. “Letting the two of them off like this is too easy. They tried to frame you. They should pay for that.”
With that, he took her hand and calmly led her back up the stairs.
Elliot and Willow both looked up at him, their legs shaking under his cold, expressionless stare,
Felix was only ten, but the pressure he exuded was suffocating–his gaze held the chill of someone capable of anything.
Hand in hand with Lauren, he climbed the steps until they stood face to face with Elliot and Willow. Then he spoke.
“I’m ten. Not yet of legal age for criminal responsibility.”
Elliot’s pupils shrank. “What what do you mean by that?”
Felix suddenly smiled–but the smile never reached his eyes.
Without warning, he grabbed Elliot and, before he could react, shoved him down the stairs.
Elliot tumbled, landing hard beside the unconscious Corinth, his body twitching from the impact.
Then, Felix turned to Willow and kicked her down with a single sharp blow.
Spoiled and pampered her whole life, Willow let out a string of blood–curdling screams as she crashed down the steps, head bleeding, before finally blacking out.
Felix looked down at them with calm detachment. “I’m underage. So are you. We’re all beneath the threshold of criminal lability. That means the law can’t touch us. But since the law can’t handle you… I will. This is payback for Lauren”
He said it so easily–so lightly–but every word was ice cold.
Lauren stared at Felix, wide–eyed.
She wasn’t afraid. She didn’t find it cruel. In fact, she genuinely admired his courage to fight back.
If I had been brave like him in my last life, the Bennetts wouldn’t have been able to destroy me
Without thinking, she threw her arms around lum and hugged him tightly
Chapter 367 No Mercy for the Merciless
Right then the sound of footsteps echoed once again in the stairwell
Lauren let go and looked down.
And there stood Alice
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Her eyes narrowed Hill on that just perfecrt Just like her last life–Willow had shoved someone down the stairs, and Alice arved right after, just moments behind her.
Back then, Alive knew full well that Lauren had been standing at the bottoms, making it impossible for her to have pushed Elaine And still she chose to protect Willow and deleted the surveillance footage.
Let’s see how she reacts this time when she finds both her precious son and treasured faster daughter lying bloodied at the bottom of the
Lauren watched her curious.
But the expression on Alice’s face wasn’t what she expected. There was no heartbreak for Willow, no panic for Elliot.
Instead, as Alice looked at the two unconscious children–Willow and Corinth–and Elliot writhing in pain on the floor, her face twisted in agony
Images flashed violently through her mind.
“Mom, you knew it was Willow who pushed Elaine. Why did you protect her? You’re my mother! But to shield Willow, you deleted the surveillance that could’ve proven my innocence. Why were you so cruel to me? Officer, it wasn’t me! You’ve got the wrong person! It was Willow! You think giving birth to me lets you control me? Fine. You gave me life–I’ll repay you. Birth without love deserves nothing. One tinger for your so–called gift of life. You ruined me. You all ruined me! I don’t care about being innocent anymore–I just want you to die. Alice, your beloved husband gave your kidney to his mistress. That darling foster daughter you love! She’s the mistress’s child. This is your karma. It’s finally here.”
The scene in the stairwell mirrored the one from her past life exactly. And in that moment–Alice remembered everything.
