Chapter 462 Shattered Illusions

Almost as soon as the thought crossed Taylor’s mind, Ashton stepped forward at James’s signal, a tablet in his hands.

His eyes glinted with icy mockery as he thrust it toward Bodger and Mergan.

“Open those dog eyes of yours and take a good look. See for yourselves—was it Lily who bullied Mathilda, or has this parasite been lying to you all along, treating you like fools?”

“Ashton!”

Bodger and Mergan roared in unison.

In the past, Ashton had at least spoken to them with some respect.

Neither of them had expected him to insult them so openly, to call their eyes “dog eyes,” or to call Mathilda a parasite.

They were about to explode when their gaze caught on the video playing across the tablet screen.

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In the recording, Lily lay beaten and helpless, dragged to a reeking, secluded ditch.

Mathilda loomed above her, lips curled in a cruel sneer, her expensive designer heels stepping closer and closer.

“Mom and Dad are mine. My brothers are mine. Dare to steal my family… Today I’ll make you, you stupid mutt, understand what it means to humiliate yourself, what it means to suffer for your own sins!”

She lifted her foot and ground the mud–stained heel into Lily’s face.

“Stupid mutt, doesn’t it feel good?”

As she stomped, she poured some foul substance over Lily’s face, laughing as the girl writhed in agony.

“Stupid mutt, this is only the beginning! You’ll learn what happens when you try to take what’s mine!”

“No… this is impossible!”

must be that Lily did something unforgivable first. Mathilda’s friends must have stepped in, forced her

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first, Bodger and Mergan clung to their

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Mathilda was their sister, the one they felt guilty toward, the one they

earlier video online- of her bullying Lily–was misleading, that her

them only a single clip, they might still have believed her

Ashton laid out nearly a hundred videos

the ditch, in hidden corners, in school bathrooms,

and others tortured and

last scraps of denial crumbled

of their beliefs collapsed in an

sister they thought was pure, kind, innocent, and fragile was, in

monster.

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one they had condemned–had

to suspect Mathilda’s lies, but even so,

had he dreamed her methods could be

I’m fine. It’s just a little

face,

Lily as a child, shoved down by mischievous classmates,

then, he had been furious, storming into her classroom to

cradled his foster sister afterward, soothing her with

protect you. I’ll never let anyone hurt you. If anyone dares lay a hand on you

the best, Taylor! I’ll always love

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