Kiss My Revenge The Heiress Strikes Back

Chapter 230 The Hawke family.

Dorian stood by the window and lit a cigarette, his face shadowed and

unreadable.

Inside the room, Arabella's banging on the door and her angry cries created a chaotic background noise.

It took a while, but eventually, Arabella's voice faded into silence. Orion walked over to join him.

"We've put her in time-out. Lysander's trying to calm her down."

Despite his choice of words, Orion's tone was anything but soothing.

Two years ago, when Miranda was still with the Hawke family, similar words had been tossed around.

Back then, it wasn't Arabella being punished - it was Miranda. And Lysander's "calming down" was more about getting Arabella to shut up than offering any real comfort.

"I just talked to Nora and Theo," Orion said, his eyes also fixed coldly on the view outside. “Turns out, she's been playing us all along. She bullied Miranda at school and spread lies about her with the help of her biological parents. As for the stuff at home, much of it was probably her fabrications."

The four of them had always doted on Arabella since young, treating her like their own sister, partly because she pretended to be so sweet and kind-hearted when she was with them.

But now, they'd realized that Arabella was not what she seemed. She had been deceiving them, doing things that made their skin crawl.

and now with those affairs emerging, whatever feelings they might have still harbored were

long drag on his cigarette, muttering, "We were

in Orion's eyes too. Thinking about how they'd treated their own sister made him want to slap himself. But even

if he hadn't said it out loud, keeping it a secret from

tied to her since what happened

eyes downcast,

the moment, both men found themselves thinking back to Miranda's days

locked Miranda in the small, dark room as punishment. They forbade the staff from bringing her food, leaving

I didn't." she'd cry softly. "I didn't

all she could say, only able to cry, not even trying to argue

paired with her shabby air and gaunt,

even more detestable

you didn't do anything, then who did, Bella? Bella wouldn't lie, so it

added, "Don't

you're up to. You think being the real deal means you can kick Bella out and take everything for yourself? You

remarked, "Your refusal to admit it

like these were

returned to the

Miranda was filthy, unworthy of