Chapter 88 A Family’s Betrayal
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Incontinent with fear. David turned and fled the room Three stab wounds convinced him that stopping meant death. He abandoned his wife and children, desperate to escape this nightmare.
Lauren’s murderous gaze shifted to Willow.
Blood coated her, dripping from her arms and clothes, pooling on the floor. Her disheveled hair, matted. with blood, clung to her pale, crazed face. She was a vengeful specter, radiating dread.
Willow’s eyes widened in terror as Lauren approached, her lips trembling, unable to beg. With each step, Willow shrank back, as if to evade the tangible killing intent.
“Willow, aren’t you good at pretending?” Lauren’s voice was hoarse and icy, each word ground out. “For five years, I rotted in prison while you lived freely, stealing and enjoying what was mine. Today, you will pay it all back.”
“Sis… Sister, don’t.. don’t kill me. I… I was wrong…” Willow’s voice quaked, her eyes fixed on the knife, her face ashen, sweat mixing with smeared makeup.
Lauren’s gaze remained frigid. “Wrong? When you framed me five years ago, did you think you were wrong? It’s too late now!”
She raised the knife again, thrusting it toward Willow with unstoppable force.
Elliot, horrified, shouted and reached to stop her. “Lauren, enough! Murder is a crime,
Before he finished, the knife pierced his outstretched hand, blood gushing between his fingers. He screamed, his handsome face twisting in pain.
Lauren yanked the knife back, her focus still on Willow In a panic, Willow shoved Alice forward herself.
Alice’s eyes widened in disbelief, she never imagined her beloved daughter would do this.
The knife sank into her abdomen.
She stared at Lauren, then turned to Willow’s terrified face.
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“Mom, I didn’t mean to… I really didn’t…” Willow cried, fleeing without hesitation, leaving Alice to collapse in a pool of blood.
Tears streamed from Alice’s eyes, whether from the wound or Willow’s betrayal, who could say?
Lauren dropped the knife, laughing maniacally, the sound mournful and desolate, “What devoted father, mother and brother you have, Willow, Madam Alice, how does it feel to be pushed out by your darling daughter to take the knife? Hahaha.” Lauren said.
Tears mingled with blood on her face as sh
laughed, looking like a corpse risen from the grave.
She pointed at herself. “I, your blood kin, did everything to please you, humbled myself to the dirt for your approval. But what did you do? You never saw my efforts. To you, I was always wrong, my sacrifices expected.”
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she still abandoned you. Isn’t that laughable?”
Elliot slumped nearby, his face contorted in pain, blood pooling at his feet.
Alice looked at Lauren with guilt. “Lauric…
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Her voice was tender, as if Lauren were her cherished daughter. Lauren’s laughter stopped abruptly, as if a raw wound had been touched. “Don’t call me that!” she roared.
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