Forced Marriage: My Wife, My Redemption by Lilyheart

Chapter 378

Chapter 378: Verdict...

At that moment, the voices of the two women in quiet exchange boomed through the speakers.

The large LCD screen flickered, then lit up with a shaky, blurry video of a young lady whose expression was ferocious and twisted with malice.

The camera caught her face clearly, though the other woman was out of frame. From the angle, it was obvious that the recording had been made in secret by the other party.

"Of course. She may be comfortable with you returning to the Santiagos to reclaim what was never yours ...but I am definitely not."

"What if we did plan it?"

"What do you think you can do if by any chance you fall into this pool?"

"Do you think you can be found on time since all of the guests are just there in the banquet hall?"

"Do you think you can survive it with your pregnancy?"

"I heard pregnant women are prone to respiratory distress and dizziness in certain environmental conditions, what do you think?"

The dialogue rolled on, every venomous word playing over the speakers.

The hall fell into pin-drop silence. Guests stiffened in their seats, their gazes darting between the screen and one another, whispering with wide-eyed disbelief.

Davis, noting the ripple effect of the recording, rose without a word and left the hall. His face was unreadable, his eyes cold.

By the last sentence, the audience gasped as one, their murmurs swelling into a storm of shocked speculation.

"Is that not Bernice Santiago?"

"Isn’t that the Santiagos’ granddaughter under threat by a cousin?"

"Not just threatened but at the pool."

"Then...if they were at the pool...could it be she nearly drowned?"

"To think Lady Matilda, of all people, would be poisoned by a daughter she loves dearly..."

"She is wicked beyond words!"

"She deserves no mercy."

"Lady Matilda must seek justice for her granddaughter!"

"What a poor child! She only just returned home, only to be plotted against?"

"At least she was clever enough to record it!"

"Wait... did I hear that right? Pregnant?!"

"Pregnant? Then the Santiagos are expecting a great-grandchild?"

"Lady Matilda is blessed indeed..."

"But who is her husband? Surely not from a powerful family, otherwise why is he not present tonight?"

spread like

her chair. Her heart

sit idle. She dared not imagine the worst...not with

hall, her steps brisk

get to the pool faster and find out

Jessica suffer anymore injustice

Davis?"

haven’t seen him for a while now," Donald replied,

and his shadow

explanation." Lady Matilda said

guests noticed her

sharpened, hungry for scandal. Some beckoned a

the hall

to control them, but the tide

softly. The echo carried across the restless hall,

this mishap," he announced, his tone steady but carefully measured. "We ask that

to use the interval to secure business deals while awaiting the conclusion of

slipped away, chasing the drama at the

"

"

"

"

"

pool, his gaze cold and

out "Cassandra, Bernice, how do you think we can solve this problem?"

their struggles,

might suffer from respiratory distress. But I... I prefer to watch how a

voice was calm, almost casual, but the silence of the

open them, but the irritation from the tainted water forced them

wanted to do, she blamed her mother for not being discreet

being able to handle a simple task

slipped from her lungs, her body almost tinged blue. Yet before she could find breath, Davis’ voice

gaze sharpened, his tone cruel. "Wouldn’t it be merciful to let

full of

but strong

men in protective gear. Cold. Unyielding. Dipping her under, again and again. The sight left

just beyond the pool’s edge

found herself drifting in and out of consciousness as her

snapped her out of her thoughts,

you are

slightly,

when she saw only Cassandra and

Jessica?"

her room,"

the water. "Grandma... you must seek

with rage. Her

old hag

you living out your plot

the woman who had always

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