Chapter 295

Tessa had always considered Wendy nothing more than a petty clown-an online troll not worth her time or energy.

But things were different now.

Seline had been kidnapped. The emotional strain was pushing Tessa to her limits. She was exhausted both mentally and physically, living every day with her nerves stretched thin.

And now, at this critical moment, Wendy was spreading rumors, inciting cyberbullying, and encouraging her fans to attack her in real life. Using Seline's situation to deceive her was the last straw.

Crushing the Cox family's company was so trivial that she didn't even need to handle it herself. All she had to do was make her wishes known, and plenty of people would be eager to take down the Cox family's business just to win the favor of the Yates family's heiress.

That afternoon, she visited the hospital.

Marianne was still in low spirits. Her face was pale and haggard, and her eyes were sunken with dark circles beneath them.

Samuel had gone back to the company to deal with work, leaving only the caregiver in the room.

"Tess, is there any news about Seline?" Marianne's eyes turned red the moment she mentioned her younger daughter.

fell silent, then

down Marianne's cheeks. She

grief for Seline but forced herself to stay strong. She murmured a few words of comfort, but they did little to

take care of yourself. Don't worry too much. I'll come see you again tomorrow." With that,

she headed

case was complex, involving multiple perpetrators and cross-border crime. Capturing the suspects was difficult, but

left the police station and wandered the

vivid flashes from her nightmare returned to her

chair, and James doused her in

the kind of monstrous act

turned

the sidewalk suddenly rushed toward her to

else's boyfriend? Didn't your parents teach you any morals? Look at you-nothing but a cheap slut who gets off

flashed with fury, and her gaze turned sharp as a blade as she snapped, "Another one of Wendy's brain-dead fans? Do you believ@everything she says? I'm genuinely curious how someone brainless like you has managed to survive

with rage at Tessa's words. She spat back viciously, "Bitch! You're just a

words had even fully left her mouth, Tessa struck the woman across

expected this slim, fragile-looking woman to have the nerve to slap her,

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