Chapter 4: Not A Chance In Hell

After Sephina hung up the call, Clara asked, "Is she coming, Mother?"

Sephina nodded. "Yes. Let's see who she has married."

"Grandma, I remember the name of her husband," Briena chimed in. "I searched for him, and there's no one special with that name. All are ordinary men. That means she didn't marry anyone significant but just a random man."

"That's better. This way, it will be easier to get our hands on the entire company."

"Ivan will be here as well."

"Why did you call him here?" Clara asked. "To maintain your good image, you shouldn't show our family conflicts to him."

"Mother, I want him to see how pathetic the woman he loves is and how she has been nothing but trouble to us."

"Do as you wish," Sephina encouraged.

Natalie arrived at the Ford residence in a cab. The moment she entered the huge iron gate, the servants spotted her and started gossiping in hushed voices, but she paid them no mind.

This house, if not for her mother's memories attached to it, would have been a place she would never step into again. These people had sent her away to a far-off place with the intention of making her suffer and live at their mercy. After her mother's death, this so-called family of hers saw her as nothing but an eyesore. The only reason she tolerated them was that she still thought of them as family.

Entering the drawing room, Natalie saw her family waiting for her.

her gaze shifting to

didn't come," Natalie replied, showing no

a cold, impatient gaze. "Didn't I tell you to bring

her calm, as if her grandmother's words could no longer affect her. The memory of how they had all wanted to throw her out last night, without considering where she would go in the dark, and without showing an ounce of trust or mercy, was still fresh in her mind. She had had

pathetic that you do

"You could say that."

They wouldn't trust her anyway. All

did, you have no shame, do you?" Sephina asked, standing up. "After sending you to a faraway place for years, I thought you'd

air surrounding her. "Are you just now realizing it, when it's already been two years

"I sent you there to rid you of this stubbornness, just like your mother's. But it seems five years weren't

a reminder of Carryn. This daughter and her mother shared an invisible, domineering strength that seemed to flow

asked, "What? Do

herself. Thanks to their neglect and lack of updates, she had escaped long ago and found a less dangerous place. Only she knew what

appeared in Sephina's eyes. "Do you

me," Natalie challenged, not

this how you talk to your grandma?" her father scolded. "It would have been better if you had

wondered if this man was truly her father, or if she was even a daughter of this family. They always favored Briena and treated her as if she were a thorn in their side. But she had no reason to doubt her parentage; her mother was not the type to have another man's child while

me to have manners? You should have kept me home to learn them, but then..." she chuckled mockingly, "What would I have learned at home? How to seduce a man who belongs to another

mother like that?" Briena

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