The Heiress Nobody Saw Coming

Chapter 668 Pushed

Sue and Ann exchanged a glance, then ran forward, grabbing wooden poles and joining the fight.

"Go!" Una shouted, and the other girls quickly followed suit. "Go!"

The entire scene turned into chaos. The villagers had the advantage in numbers, but they fought clumsily and without coordination. In contrast, Natalie's group worked together seamlessly.

On top of that, the village women were visibly shaken. It wasn't long before the battle was over, and Natalie's side had won.

Maverick lay pinned under Marcus' foot, and his face was pressed against the dirt as he continued spewing curses.

Marcus pressed down harder, and soon enough, Maverick could no longer speak.

The other villagers had all been subdued. Natalie turned to the crowd, stepping under the red flag as she swept a cold gaze over all the villagers present.

"Anyone else not convinced?"

Her voice was cold as she continued, "If you're not convinced, step up. I'll beat you into submission myself. The days of you lot playing petty tyrants are over. Are girls' lives worth nothing to you?

"They are your daughters, not your enemies. What gives you the right to treat them like this? Do girls have to be born inferior? Do they deserve to be belittled and discarded?

"And you!" She pointed at the group of women in the crowd. "You've been through this suffering yourselves. So why would you force your daughters to endure it too?

"Instead of hoping for a better life for them, you're dragging them into the same pit of misery. Is that your idea of being a mother? Having mothers like you is the real tragedy in their lives."

"Natalie!" Maverick yelled. "Stop pretending to be so righteous! We all know you're just training them to be your maids in the future."

Natalie laughed out of anger. "My maids? Are you serious? Before I came, what kind of lives were they living? And since I arrived, what kind of life have they had?

"If not for Lynette and the other girls, do you think we would've stayed and helped your village? Scum like you don't deserve our help."

Her words were blunt and sharp-edged.

had warned her about this place long ago. He told her that the men here were selfish and arrogant. They treated women as nothing more than

too many girls were born, the younger ones would be thrown into the mountains

to show mercy to men like these. That was why she immediately used force to suppress them after their first negotiation

talking didn't work, a show of force did the

simply come

for nothing. At the very least, the girls here had learned something. They had

as

forge their own path

a kind man. He never sought anything in return

on. That every child he rescued would save themselves in

family. She knew better than anyone how hard it was to survive as

Natalie. "Thank you for saving us. We

isn't all bad! Why are you listening to outsiders and

you this. Was it

messed up and blamed me, and though you knew I

burning up

from the mountain and

across the face and yelled at me for breaking my leg, for ruining my ability to make money for the

treatment, helped me catch up on my lessons, and even gathered herbs himself to cover

you?" Lynette's tears fell

drops. "You said that since

my leg, I was

feed. You told me

burden, that

and that

to exist.

what you did