Chapter 219 A Cry for Justice
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Lauren’s accusations weighed heavily on Brendan and Brielle, rendering their complexions even pater, their lips trembling.
Instinctively, they wanted to defend themselves, but the harsh truth blocked their words before they could speak.
Indeed, it was they who had orchestrated the actions that led to Lauren’s disabilities, Overwhelmed by guilt, the couple could only look at Lauren with eyes full of pleading, hoping she would give them another chance.
However, Lauren was unwilling to forgive those who had harmed her. No matter how eloquently they spoke, nothing could compensate for the hellish five years she endured in prison.
She was sitting here today, confronting the very people responsible for her suffering, not because Brendan and Brielle had shown her any mercy, but because of her own resilient will to survive.
She was not content to die wrongfully accused in prison.
She wanted the truth to be exposed for all to see and for all who had harmed her to pay a severe price.
She wanted to witness firsthand the remorse and despair of those who had protected Willow once they learned the truth.
Therefore, in the face of Brendan and Brielle’s tearful confessions, Lauren did not soften in the slightest.
She even slowly rolled up her pant leg to reveal her twisted, deformed leg for all to see.
“My leg was broken by inmates in the third year of my imprisonment, shattered with six batons. Can your hollow apologies restore my leg to how it was before?”
Lauren’s lower left leg was grotesquely twisted, with a hideous dark red scar like a fat centipede clinging to her limb, both ugly and terrifying.
“After my leg was broken, no one treated it. They left me lying on the ground, writhing in agony, while at crowd watched and mocked me. This leg took three agonizing months to heal without any medical care.”
As Lauren recounted her ordeal, Brendan and Brielle collapsed to the ground as if the rug had been pulled out from under them.
Proper medical treatment could have prevented her leg from deforming so severely.
Even to the naked eye, it was clear that the bones in her broken leg had not been properly set but were merely encased in layers of newly formed flesh.
“Lauren, we know we were wrong. We don’t ask for your forgiveness, just a chance to atone,” Brielle pleaded tearfully from the floor, bowing deeply. “Please, just give us a chance to make amends!”
Even Brendan, a strong man, had tears in his eyes.
Seeing the horrific scars on Lauren’s leg, Elaine burst into tears, unable to speak.
“Lauren, it’s all my fault. If it weren’t for me, you wouldn’t have ended up like this. I should be the one most sorry to you.”
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Lauren took a deep breath, suppressing the resentment that had festered in her heart for years.
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She turned to Elaine, “You are a victim too, I don’t blame you. I just want to know, what exactly happened at Willow’s graduation party? You were her best friend. Why did she want to harm you?”
As Elaine mentioned the past, her hands clenched tightly, filled with hatred for Willow and empathy for Lauren. She fought to control the rage bubbling inside her as she began to recount the events of that day five years ago at Willow’s party.
As she spoke, even Brendan and Brielle, who had already known the whole truth from Elaine, shook with
rage.
Felix, Kate, Anna, and Marilyn, who knew nothing of that day’s events, grew more and more shocked as they listened.
When Elaine finished, they were all seething with anger toward Willow and David.
Lauren stood frozen, knowing already that Willow and David had likely targeted her kidney.
But she had never imagined the truth would be even more horrifying than she had thought.
Initially, Willow and David’s plan wasn’t to push Elaine down the stairs but to stage an “accident” in broad daylight that would injure Lauren.
The plan was to rush her to the hospital and declare her brain dead, regardless of her actual condition.
Then, David, posing as her father, would openly sign an organ donation consent form, transferring both of Lauren’s kidneys to Willow.
Moreover, any other viable organs, like her heart, liver, and corneas, were also to be harvested.
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