The Lady Nun Vows Revenge by Caroline Rowland

The Silent 229

Chapter 229 Chapter 229

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Just as Adeline was frantically shaking her head, trying to deny everything and distance herself from the situation, Eliza's hand whipped through the air and landed hard across her cheek

The blow sent Adeline's makeup streaking and left her face burning red.

Clutching her cheek, she snapped her head us and glared at Eliza. "Are you insane?! This is the Imperial Palace-how dare you hit me again?!"

Eliza stared at her coldly, hatred burning in her eyes. "Don't say here. Even if the King and the Empress Dowager were standing right in front of us, this slap would still land on your face?

"You got everything you ever wanted, didn't you, Adeline? You married Mr. Nevill, lived a comfortable, high-and-mighty life for over a decade. But in all that time, have you ever once remembered the kindness my mother showed you? Ever once thought of her sacrifice?"

Adeline opened her mouth, trying to retort-but not a single word came out.

Eliza stared at her, bitterly disappointed. "So it's true. My mother really was blind to trust you."

The look in her eyes said the rest: ungrateful wretch.

Adeline was instantly enraged. "Ungrateful I never hurt her! I just didn't like her, is that a crime? She married my brother, and I was supposed to like her just because of that?"

Eliza's voice dropped, biting. "You didn't like my mother? Then why did you go begging her for help? She helped you, and you turned around and hated her for it? You brought her name up for years with nothing but venom. Tell me, Adeline- what right do you have to hate her? If anyone had a right to hate, it was her."

Her voice sharpened. "If she hadn't married your cold-blooded brother for the family's sake, she wouldn't have died under the weight of your schemes and those filthy calculations."

"What schemes? What are you even talking about Adeline looked at her like she'd gone mad. "You're talking nonsense!"

She hissed, "Don't forget, my brother is your father. If your mother hadn't married him, you wouldn't even exist"

"I'd rather have died, Eliza snapped, her voice like a knife. "If I had a choice, I would rather have died than be born Gabriel's daughter"

stared into Eliza's frost-laced eyes and-for

meant it when she renounced them. She meant it when she chose to

Eliza

bel would eventually come back-because

those eyes-once filled with silent deference, now cold as death-Adeline

that... Her voice trembled. "You're still my brother's daughter.

doesn't."

laugh escaped Eliza's lips.

away, suddenly terrified to be in the same rooms. "Enough, enough. I'm going to see Sophie. If you're not

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Chapter 229

along anymore. Honestly, if Gabriel hadn't ordered her here, the would ve

nothing. She simply

was when heavy, steady footsteps echoed from

up-only

Blood! There's so

Eliza earlier but hadn't been seen since. Now, here he was-covered head to toe in blood. It soaked

like he'd just stepped out of

walked forward, he casually wiped his bloodied hands with a white

taken lives more times than he could court-didn't even need acting. His eyes

he tossed the blood-soaked

Adeline screamed.

terror, tripping over her own dress and falling hard to

Her hairpins clattered across the

he's

maids were already scattering, shrieking in all

to her feet, turned, and tried to

by the arm. "Leaving so soon? Weren't you

thrashing. "Forget Sophie-I'm not going anywhere near