The Lady Nun Vows Revenge by Caroline Rowland

Chapter 171

"Father, did you already have proof? Matthew asked, his expression tense

Gabriel replied coolly. "I do not have hard evidence. But Sophie did something before she disappeared".

"What was it?" Matthew and Anthony asked, puzzled.

Gabriel closed his eyes for a moment, then said, "She sent a maid to bring Isabelle to the estate"

Back then. Sophie had assumed no one would find out. But Annie, the maid she sent, was actually someone Gabriel had arranged to keep an eye on her. Naturally, he knew exactly what Sophie had done.

"Isabelle?" The name had not been mentioned in so long that even Benedict and the others were momentarily caught off guard.

Matthew was the first to remember. His brows furrowed as he asked, "You mean the girl who pushed Eliza into the water?"

Gabriel nodded. "That's the one."

Benedict's face changed at once. His eyes lit up with rage. "What was Sophie thinking? Why would she bring Isabelle here?"

Back then, Isabelle had nearly killed Eliza. If someone had not found her in time, she might have drowned.

Just thinking about it made Benedict's concern for Sophie twist into anger. His disappointment ran deep.

He had tried to understand Sophie. Her secret background was exposed in public and she poisoned Matthew in a moment of panic. Those things, however outrageous, could still be explained.

been punished, confined to her quarters. But even while grounded, she had

even Matthew seemed to be struggling to make

Eliza being pushed into the water had caused a major uproar. By the time it happened. Sophie had already been in the household for a

Isabelle here?" Matthew asked after a long pause, searching for a justification. "What if news

them did meet. Not long after that,

room fell completely silent. Everyone had picked up on the implication. Clearly, Eliza's trip to Plutonville might not have been a

wonder the governor of Plutonville insisted on Eliza being the one to preside over the ceremony. Father, who is the governor over there? Does he have any ties to our estate or to Fletcher's

relative of someone from Fletcher's side,"

exhale slightly. As long as the connection was not with the Duke's estate, he could at

probably did not have much say in it. She must have been manipulated. That scheming illegitimate daughter, Isabelle, must

more he tried to give Sophie the benefit of the doubt, the

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he wondered. Plutonville was a disaster zone. If anything went wrong.

Yet Eliza had been pushed into

her heartless, unworthy of being the Holy Lady. She might have even lost the only

about it, the more his heart ached. "Sophie really went too far he said bitterly. "How could the set up

Anthony cut in, clearly impatient. He obviously felt that since Eliza was unharmed, there was no point digging up the past. Besides, Sophie was the

at all?" Benedict snapped, shooting his brother a glare. "Eliza is your sister, too, not your

with a cold snort. "But she sure treats us like

reeks of Isabelle's handiwork. She's the only one capable

underhanded. Sophie must've been tricked into