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.

for Arabella had already started to wane because of Miranda, and now with those affairs emerging, whatever feelings they might have still harbored were all but

long drag on his cigarette,

too. Thinking about how they'd treated their own sister made him want to slap himself. But even if he did, it

hoping for her forgiveness for a while now, even if he hadn't said

just like she said, we've been tied to her since what happened two years ago. If she goes out there and

steely, eyes

both men found themselves thinking back to Miranda's days with the Hawke family, remembering

in the small, dark

she'd cry softly. "I

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

paired with her

made her even more

then who did, Bella? Bella wouldn't

"Don't

real deal means you can kick Bella out and take everything for yourself? You want payback for Bella taking what's yours, don't you? Dream on. You can't take anything

"Your refusal to admit it

like these were

Miranda returned

Miranda was filthy, unworthy