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

as she gripped the armrest of her chair. Her heart hammered violently against her ribs, her face pale with

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

the hall, her steps brisk despite her

get to the pool faster

Jessica suffer anymore injustice and surely not from a second branch

after her. "What about Davis?" she asked quickly, her

a while now," Donald replied,

his shadow is nowhere in sight. I am sure that

give him a reasonable explanation." Lady Matilda said her tone was cold, but beneath

noticed

curiosity sharpened, hungry for scandal. Some beckoned

more than half the hall stirred into motion,

to control them, but the tide of intrigue was

softly. The echo carried across the restless

his tone steady but carefully measured. "We ask that you remain here while the matter is clarified. A

the interval to secure business deals while awaiting

others slipped away, chasing

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Davis arrived at the pool, his gaze cold

edge of the pool, his voice rang out "Cassandra, Bernice, how

struggles, neither could

he continued softly, almost taunting, "that you wished to see how a pregnant woman might suffer from respiratory distress. But I... I

silence of the night and

She tried to open them, but the irritation from the tainted water forced them shut again. Will I lose my sight tonight? Panic clawed through

imagine what he wanted to do, she blamed her mother

not being able to handle a simple task of inviting a naive countryside bumpkin

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

tone

thoughts spiraled. Deep in the irritating pool, already drowning, lungs full of poisoned water, and now

desperation and trepidation, she tried to swim away, but strong hands seized her arms. Her

in

swallowed by water, while just beyond the pool’s edge came the anguished cries of

found herself drifting in and out of consciousness as

her out of her thoughts, Lady

you are here?"

slightly,

she saw only Cassandra and

Jessica?"

her room," Davis

voice croaked from the water. "Grandma...

with rage. Her

old hag seek justice for

out your

had always coddled and adored her, had

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